The Best-known Indian Actress in the World

Aishwarya Rai born November 1, 1973, is an award-winning South Indian actress. Rai, who won the 1994 Miss World title, made her film debut in Mani Ratnam's Iruvar and had her first critical and commercial success with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, with whom she repeated this success with Devdas. Since then, she has acted in approximately forty Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and English films. Today, she is considered to be one of the most popular actresses in India and the best-known Indian actress in the world. Rai is married to Indian actor Abhishek Bachchan and is daughter-in-law to Jaya Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan.