Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai  born 1st November 1973 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. she is an Indian actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and won the Miss World title in 1994. Rai has acted in over 40 movies in Hindi, English, Tamil, and Bengali, including a few international productions.

Often cited by the media as the most beautiful woman in the world, Rai made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997), and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She gained the attention of Bollywood through the film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Her performance won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. In 2002 she appeared in Bhansali's Devdas, for which she won her second Filmfare Best Actress Award.

After a setback in her career during 2003–2005, she appeared in Dhoom 2 (2006), which was her biggest commercial success in India. She later appeared in films like Guru (2007), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), and Enthiran (2010), which were commercially and critically successful. Rai has established herself as one of the leading actresses in Bollywood.

Rai's off-screen roles include her being appointed as the brand ambassador for the Eye Bank Association of India's campaign to promote eye donation in India, and for Pulse Polio, a campaign established to eradicate polio in India. In 2009 she was appointed as the first Goodwill Ambassador of Smile Train, an international charity. She is married to actor Abhishek Bachchan. In 2009 she was honoured with Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award given by the Government of India.

In 2009 Rai was appointed as the first Goodwill Ambassador of Smile Train, an international charity that provides free Cleft lip and palate surgery to children in need.   Her work with Smile Train will focus not only on India, but on 76 different developing countries around the world.

In March 2011 Rai was honoured by Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa at World Kannada Meet (Vishwa Kannada Sammelana) for her contributions to the arts. Later that month she was presented with the "Decade of Global Achievement Honour" by FICCI. She attended the 83rd Academy Awards, along with her husband, Abhishek.