This section contains the bio of famous Hollywood Actress Ali Landry.

Ali Landry Biography :

Ali Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a model and actress best known as Miss USA 1996. Landry has done much modeling for photographers and magazines, and she specializes in swimsuit and lingerie modeling. As a spokeswoman for the Doritos chips company, she appeared in celebrated TV commercials airing during the 1998 and 1999 Super Bowl football games. She was named by "People" magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1998.

Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, in the southwestern part of the state, and is of Cajun and Choctaw Indian descent. She graduated from Cecilia High School in Breaux Bridge in 1991. She later studied at the University of Louisiana where she was a member of the Kappa Delta Sorority. Her first foray into pageantry came in 1990 when she was crowned Miss Louisiana Teen USA, becoming the first representative from Louisiana directed by RPM Productions. She represented Louisiana in the Miss Teen USA 1990 pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi in July 1990, where she place seventh.

In 1995 Landry won the Miss Louisiana USA 1996 title, becoming the first former Miss Louisiana Teen USA to win the Miss title. She went on to compete in the Miss USA 1996 pageant broadcast live from South Padre Island, Texas in February 1996, where she placed third highest after the preliminary competition and second highest on average during the final event. She was the highest placed of the finalists and eventually went on to win the Miss USA 1996 title, the first former Miss Teen USA delegate to win the title (although her predeccessor Shanna Moakler, previously Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1992, had inherited the Miss USA title from Chelsi Smith the year before.

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