Name : Aishwarya Rai
Birth Name : Aishwarya Krishnaraj Rai
Nickname(s) : Ash, Gullu, The Queen of Bollywood
Sex : Female
Birth Date : 1 November 1973
Birth Place : Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Height : 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Profession : Actress, Model
Education : Arya Vidya Mandir at Santacruz, Mumbai; Jai Hind College, Churchgate, Mumbai; Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai
Father : Krishnaraj Rai
Mother : Vrinda Rai
Brother : Aditya Rai
Spouse : Abhishek Bachchan (Actor), married on April 20, 2007
Relationships : Salman Khan (Actor), Vivek Oberoi (Actor)
Debut Film : Iruvar (Tamil) in 1997
Claim To Fame : Her roles in films 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam' (1999) and Taal (1999), Devdas (2002)
Biography: Aishwarya Rai was born on 1st Nov 1973 in Manglore, Karnatka, India. She was younger of the two siblings, her brother being 3 yrs elder. When she was about 4 years old her family moved to Bombay permanatly.The celestial beauty Aishwarya, won Miss World Title at Sun City in 1994 and has since then become the hottest property of Bollywood. Her stupendous success as Miss World was followed by an equally matchless accomplishments in the film world. Aishwarya, who came into Bollywood by default, as she was flooded with offers after being crowned in Sun City, has now become the undisputed monarch of the tinsel territory. Buoyed by her success she is now looking westwards. Soon she will be appearing in ‘Bride and Prejudice’ a re-working of the Jane Austin classic opposite actor Martin Henderson (The Ring), directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham). How this movie fares at the box office remains to be seen but it has definitely given a fillip to her career as she has got many offers from the Hollywood.
Born to a marine engineer father and a teacher mother at Manglore, Aishwarya has spent most of her life in Mumbai. She did her matriculation from Arya Vidya Mandir and later joined Jai Hind College. She did her twelfth standard from Ruparel College. Having scored well in her exams, she landed in the Rachana Institute. Aishwarya had initially wanted to become an architect. She was into studying contours of buildings at the Rachna College, when destiny willed otherwise and she landed in South Africa, for the Miss World contest where the contours of body mattered more.After her crowning as the most beautiful woman on the planet, she has soared height after height. Films came as a natural choice for this model turned actress and she has done over a score of Hindi Films till date quite a number of them being blockbusters. The most famous one being Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s musical melodrama Devdas, co-starred by Sharukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit. Devdas became the first Hindi Commercial Film to be screened at Cannes Film festival. This year incidentally she earned the distinction of being the first Indian Actress on the jury of the same festival.