# Ash attended Arya Vidya Mandir high school in Santa Cruz, Jai Hind College at Churchgate and Ruparel College in Matunga and finished her HSC studies.
# She started studying architecture but gave up her education to pursue a full time career in modeling. She started modeling from her ninth grade with her first commercial for Camlin pencils and later appeared in ads like pepsi, Palmolive, Casio, Philips, Sheetal Diva, and Prudent before she was crowned Miss World 1994.
# Aishwarya at the age of seventeen participated and won the Ford Supermodel Contest in 1991. She also received the Tulips Miss Super Vivacious prize in the same contest.
# She graced the covers of Vogue magazine.
# Ash entered 1994 Miss India contest and stood second behind the former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen and was crowned Miss India World.
# She went on to win Miss World 1994 title and also named Miss Catwalk & Most Photogenic Face by the pageant's judges.
# Aishwarya Rai stayed in London for one year reigning as Miss World and then started her career as a professional model.
# Rai made her big-screen debut with a Tamil movie "Iruvar" in 1997 starring the Malayalam actor Mohanlal. This movie brought her huge commercial and critical success and won Aishwarya Best Film award at the Belgrade International Film Festival, two National Film Awards and two Filmfare Awards South.
# Aishwarya entered into bollywood with the movie "Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya" in 1997 alongside the bollywood actor Ashi Kapoor.
# Her third movie "Jeans" in the direction of S.Shankar was a huge commercial hit in 1998. Aishwarya's fabulous performance in the movie enacting dual role won her Filmfare Best Actress Award South.
# Ash shot to fame in bollywood with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" in 1999 starring famous bollywood actors Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan. Her outstanding performance in this triangular love story won her first Filmfare Best Actress Award.
# She performed the role of parvathi in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Devdas" in 2002 alongside Shahrukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit which won her a Filmfare Award. The film was specially screened at Cannes Film Festival and was recorded as the highest grossing film of the year both in India and overseas.
# The movie "Devdas" [2002] won 10 Filmfare Awards and Rai received her second Filmfare Best Actress Award for her fantastic performance.
# Later she acted in a number of blockbuster movies such as "Taal" [1999], "Mohabbatein" [2000], "Dhoom:2' [2006], "Bride & Prejudice" [2004], "Bunty Aur Babli" [2005], "Guru" [2007], "Jodhaa Akbar" [2008], "Sarkar Raj" [2008], "The Pink Panther 2" [2009], "Raavana" [2009] and many others.
# In 2009 Aishwarya Rai received Padma Shri award for her contributions to Indian cinema. She refused to accept the second-highest Order Of France, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres because of her fathers� serious illness.
# The gorgeous Aishwarya Rai is the fourth Indian Actress to be chosen for the Order Of France after Amitabh Bachchan, Nandita Das and Shahrukh Khan.
# Aishwarya participated in a world tour called the Magnificent Five in 1999 along with Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherji, Akshaye Khanna and Twinkle Khanna.
# The diva of beauty Aishwarya Rai is the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003.
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# She went to Siachen Glacier located n the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains in 2004 to boost up the team spirit of Indian soldiers for a special New Year episode on the NDTV show, Jai Jawan.
# In 2005 Ash became a brand ambassador of Government of India's Pulse Polio campaign. She also participated in HELP! Telethon Concert to help raise funds for the victims of 2004 tsunami earthquake.
# Rai laid foundation of a special school for underprivileged girls in the Daulatpur village in Uttar Pradesh in 2008.
# She world toured along with her husband and bolllywood actor Abhishek Bachchan, her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Ritesh Deshmukh and Shilpa Shetty on the 'Unforgettable'
# Aishwarya Rai married Abhishek Bachchan on April 20th, 2007 at the Bachchan residence Prateeksha in Juhu, Mumbai.
# The queen of commercial cinema Aishwarya Rai was the subject of a "60 Minutes" profile on January 2nd, 2005, which said that "at least according to thousands of Web sites, Internet polls and even Julia Roberts"; she was "The World's Most Beautiful Woman".
# Aishwarya Rai was the 6th Indian and the second Bollywood personality after her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan to have her wax figure on display in London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum in October 2004.
# She became a global brand ambassador of L'Oreal in 2005 alongside Andie Macdowell, Eva Longoria and Penelope Cruz.
# A special Tulip in Netherland was named "Aishwarya Rai" after her.
# Aishwarya Rai is the first Indian to appear on "Late Show with David Letterman" in 2005. She was the first Bollywood personality to appear on Oprah's "Women Across the Globe" segment.
# Harpers and Queen listed Ash as one among the 10 most beautiful women in the world.
# Aishwarya is the first Indian actress to have a celebrity Barbie doll modeled on her.
# She received four Filmfare Award nominations for "Guru" [2007], "Dhoom: 2" [2006], "Raincoat" [2004], "Mohabbatein" [2000] and "Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai" [2000].
# Aishwarya Rai won four Screen Weekly Awards for "Jodhaa Akbar" [2008], "Devdas" [2002], "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" [1999] & "Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya" [1997] and received four nominations for Best Actress in "Jodhaa Akbar" [2008], "Guru" [2007], "Dhoom:2" [2006] and "Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai" [2000].
# She also won three Zee Cine Awards for "Raincoat" [2004], "Devdas" [2002] and "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" [1999].
# Aishwarya loves collecting watches.
# She is the most photographed woman in India.
# Rai was #1 in BollySpice.com Magazine's list of "Top 10 Actresses of 2006".
# She is the second Indian actress to appear on the cover of TIME magazine in 2003.
# Ash is good friends with actress Preity Zinta and Madhuri Dixit.
# Her favorite film is Casablanca.
# Aishwarya Rai is the first actress from India to get signed on with the American Library Association and also have a poster made of her for schools and library's all across America.
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