FULL
NAME: Aishwarya
Rai Bachchan
BIRTHDATE: 1st November 1973
SPOUSE: Abhishek Bachchan (2007
- present)
BIRTH PLACE: Mangalore, Karnataka,
India
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan or lovingly known as
Ash, is an internationally renowned Indian actress.
Before starting her acting career, she worked
as a model, and gained fame after winning the
Miss World contest in 1994.
Often
acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the
world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's
Tamil film, Iruvar (1997). She had
her first commercial success in the Tamil movie
Jeans (1998), and came to the attention
of Bollywood in the Hindi movie, Hum Dil
De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay
Leela Bhansali. Her performance in the film
won her first Filmfare Best Actress Award, and
she successfully performed in Bhansali's next
project, Devdas (2002), for which she
won her second Best Actress Award at the Filmfare.
Since then, she has acted in over forty movies
in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English, including
the international productions, Bride &
Prejudice (2003), Mistress of Spices
(2006) and The Last Legion (2007) in
English.
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