Sushmita Sen is a well-known Bollywood actress and model. Sushmita was born on November 19 1975 in a Bengali family to Shubeer Sen a former Indian Air Force Wing Commander and Subhra Sen who worked as a fashion artist and jewellry designer and She is a former beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1994.She has a brother Rajeev Sen and a sister Neelam Sen. She was born St.Theresas hospital Hyderabad and grew up in New Delhi. She attended school at Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute studying English and had career plans in journalism. She passed out her graduation from Maitreyi College Delhi. In 2000, she adopted a daughter named Renee.In 1994 at the age of eighteen Sushmita won the title of Femina Miss India beating out Aishwarya Rai who was the runner up. Sen represented India at the 1994 Miss Universe Pageant held in Manila Philippines and won.At Miss Universe Sushmita ranked third overall in the preliminaries right behind preliminary winner Miss Colombia Carolina Gómez and Miss Greece Rea Totounzi who ranked second but won the preliminary swimsuit and evening gown competitions. Sushmita went on to place second fifth and third in the swimsuit interview and evening gown semi-final competitions respectively, placing third place behind Miss Colombia and Miss Venezuela Minorka Mercado. All three women went on to be the final three contestants. In the end the judges placed their votes on Sushmita making her the first woman from India to become Miss Universe.
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