* Name : Aishwarya Krishnaraj Rai
* Nickname(s) : Ash, Gullu, Ice Maiden, Plastic Beauty, Queen Of Bollywood, Etc
* Date of Birth : 1 November 1973
* Age : 35 years
* Birth Place : Mangalore, Karnataka, India
* Height : 5′ 7″
* Eye Color: Bluish Green (Sigh!)
* Skin: Fair, Blemish-less, Perfect (Sigh!)
* Education : Arya Vidya Mandir at Santacruz, Mumbai–Jai Hind College, Churchgate, Mumbai–D.G. Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai (Yaaaah!)
* Father : Krishnaraj Rai
* Mother : Vrinda Rai
* Brother : Aditya Rai
* Husband : Abhishek Bachchan
* Married on : April 20, 2007
* Debut Film : Iruvar (Tamil) in 1997
* Claim To Fame : Her roles in films ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ (1999), Taal (1999), Devdas (2002), Guru (2008), Dhoom (2006)
Aishwarya Rai was always a star right from her school days when she did her first ad for Camlin pencils. She was nine years old then. Just imagine, today, she is the most sought after desi actress in Hollywood. One cannot imagine the number of offers she has refused and these offers were from Big names of Hollywood, no less.
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.
