Lara Dutta is an Indian actress UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and the 2000 Miss Universe.Dutta was born on April 16 1978 in Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh India. Her father is Wing Commander L.K. Dutta (retired) and her mother is Jennifer Dutta. She also has two older sisters one of whom serves in the Indian Air Force and a well known younger sister. Famed composer and DJ Nitin Sawhney is Duttas cousin. The Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from St.Francis Xavier Girl's High School. Lara graduated in economics with a minor in communications from Mumbai University. She was crowned Miss Universe in 2000 which led to her appointment as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.Dutta won the annual Gladrags modelling competition in her native India, thus winning the right to be the first Indian representative at the 1997 Miss Intercontinental pageant in which she took first place. Later she was crowned Femina Miss India Universe and Miss Universe in 2000.At Miss Universe 2000 in Cyprus, Dutta was the clear favourite ahead of fierce competition from Venezuela Spain USA and Canada. Her finalist interview score was the highest individual score in any category in the history of the Miss Universe contest, as her perfect interview saw a majority of the judges giving her the maximum 9.99 mark. After her final question, in which Dutta delivered a passionate defense of the Miss Universe contest she became the second Indian Miss Universe.
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