This document provides biographical information about several famous beauty queens from around the world, including their pageant titles and later accomplishments. Many went on to have successful careers in film, television and other entertainment industries. Some notable examples are Halle Berry, the first African American woman to win an Oscar for a leading role; Oprah Winfrey, a highly influential media mogul and philanthropist; Vanessa Williams, the first African American Miss America who went on to a singing career; and Aishwarya Rai and Lara Dutta, former Miss World and Miss Universe winners who became famous Bollywood actresses.

1. Famous Beauty Queens

2. Halle Berry
Teen All American 1985
American actress and former fashion
model. She won an Academy Award
for Best Actress in 2002 for her
performance in Monster's Ball,
becoming the first and, as of 2013, the
only woman of African-American
descent to win an Oscar for a leading
role. She is one of the highest paid
actresses in Hollywood and has been
involved in the production side of
several of the films in which she
performed. Berry is also a Revlon
spokesmodel.[

3. Lucy Lawless
Mrs. New Zealand 1989
Actress, activist and musician best
known for playing the title character of
the internationally successful
television series Xena: Warrior Princess
and for the role of Lucretia on the
television series Spartacus: Blood and
Sand, its prequel Spartacus: Gods of
the Arena, and its sequel Spartacus:
Vengeance.

4. Michelle Pfeiffer
Miss Orange County, CA 1978
American actress and singer. During
her career, Pfeiffer has won numerous
awards including the Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress as well as Best
Supporting Actress awards. She has
received three Academy Award
nominations to date: Best Supporting
Actress for Dangerous Liaisons (1988),
and Best Actress in The Fabulous Baker
Boys (1989) and Love Field (1992).

5. Diane Sawyer
America’s Junior Miss 1963
Diane is the current anchor of ABC
News. Previously, Sawyer had been coanchor of ABC News's morning news
program, Good Morning America
(GMA).

6. Sharon Stone
Miss Crawford County, PA 1976
American actress, film producer, and
former fashion model. She achieved
international recognition for her role
in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct by
Paul Verhoeven. She was nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Actress
and won a Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress in a Motion Picture
Drama for her performance in Casino.

7. Raquel Welch
Fairest of the Fair 1957
American actress and sex symbol. She
first won attention for her role in
Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which
she won a contract with 20th Century
Fox. They loaned her to a British studio
where she made One Million Years B.C.
(1966). Although she had only three
lines in the film, the doe-skin bikini she
wore became a best-selling poster that
turned her into an iconic sex symbol
and catapulted her to stardom. She
later starred in notable films like
Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968),
100 Rifles (1969) and Myra
Breckinridge (1970). She made several
television variety specials. Welch is, as
of 2013, a spokesperson for Foster
Grant.

8. Bridgette Wilson
Miss Teen USA 1990
American actress, singer and model.
Wilson holds several acting roles in
television and movies, including the
role of Veronica Vaughn in the movie
Billy Madison, the role of Elsa Shivers
in the movie I Know What You Did Last
Summer, and the role of Sonya Blade
in the movie Mortal Kombat.

9. Oprah Winfrey
Miss Black Tennessee 1971
American media proprietor, talk show
host, actress, producer, and
philanthropist Winfrey is best known
for her multi-award-winning talk show
The Oprah Winfrey Show which was
the highest-rated program of its kind
in history and was nationally
syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has
been ranked the richest AfricanAmerican of the 20th century The
greatest black philanthropist in
American history. She is currently
North America's only black billionaire.
She is also, according to some
assessments, the most influential
woman in the world. In 2013, Oprah
Winfrey was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by President Barack
Obama.

10. Delta Burke
Miss Florida 1974
American television, stage and film
actress, comedian, producer and
author.
Burke is best known for role as
Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS
comedy series Designing Women
(1986–1991), for which she was
nominated for two Emmy Awards for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy
Series. In subsequent years she
returned to television with a string of
short-lived sitcoms, such as Delta
(1992–1993), Women of the House
(1995) and DAG (2000–2001). She has
also produced and played roles in
made-for-TV movies, appeared in
movies, like What Women Want,
performed on Broadway productions
and guest starred on television series,
including Saturday Night Live, Boston
Legal and many more.

11. Tiffani Thiessan
Miss Junior America in 1987
American actress, best known for her
roles as Kelly Kapowski in Saved by the
Bell and as Valerie Malone in Beverly
Hills, 90210. She is also known for
starring in Fastlane as Wilhelmina
'Billie' Chambers, as well as for her
current role of Elizabeth Burke in the
USA Network television series White
Collar.

12. Vanessa Williams
Miss America in 1983
American singer, actress, producer and
former fashion model. In 1983, she
became the first African-American
woman crowned Miss America, but a
scandal arose when Penthouse
magazine bought and published nude
photographs of her. She relinquished
her title early and was succeeded by
the first runner-up, Suzette Charles of
New Jersey. Williams rebounded by
launching a career as an entertainer,
earning multiple Grammy, Emmy, and
Tony Award nominations. She is
arguably the most successful Miss
America winner in the field of
entertainment.

13. Vanessa Minnillo
Miss Teen USA 1998
American television personality,
television host, fashion model, and
actress. She has been a New Yorkbased correspondent for
Entertainment Tonight and hosted
Total Request Live on MTV.

14. Jeri Ryan
Miss Illinois 1989
American actress best known for her
roles as the liberated ("deassimilated") Borg, Seven of Nine, on
Star Trek: Voyager (1997–2001) and
Veronica "Ronnie" Cooke on Boston
Public (2001–04). She was a regular on
the science fiction series Dark Skies
(1997) and the legal drama series
Shark (2006–08). From 2011 to 2013,
she starred as Dr. Kate Murphy in the
ABC drama series Body of Proof and in
2009 she guest starred as Tara Cole on
Leverage.

15. Sarah Palin
Miss Wasilla 1984
American politician, commentator and
author who served as the ninth
Governor of Alaska, from 2006 to
2009. As the Republican Party
nominee for Vice President in the 2008
presidential election alongside Arizona
Senator John McCain, she was the first
Alaskan on the national ticket of a
major party and first Republican
woman nominated for the vice
presidency. Her book Going Rogue has
sold more than two million copies.
Since January 2010, she has provided
political commentary for Fox News,
and hosted a television show, Sarah
Palin's Alaska.

16. Marilyn Monroe
Miss Artichoke Queen in Castroville,
CA. 1947
American actress, model, and singer,
who became a major sex symbol,
starring in a number of commercially
successful motion pictures during the
1950s and early 1960s. Her dramatic
performance in Bus Stop (1956) was
hailed by critics and garnered a Golden
Globe nomination. Her production
company, Marilyn Monroe
Productions, released The Prince and
the Showgirl (1957), for which she
received a BAFTA Award nomination
and won a David di Donatello award.
She received a Golden Globe Award
for her performance in Some Like It
Hot (1959). In 1999, Monroe was
ranked as the sixth-greatest female
star of all time by the American Film
Institute.

17. Cybil Shepard
Miss Teenage Memphis 1966
American actress, singer and former
model. Her better known roles include
starring as Jacy in The Last Picture
Show (1971), as Kelly in The
Heartbreak Kid (1972), as Betsy in Taxi
Driver (1976), as Maddie Hayes in
Moonlighting (1985–1989), as Cybill
Sheridan in Cybill (1995–1998), as
Phyllis Kroll in The L Word (2007–2009)
and as Madeleine Spencer in Psych
(2008–2013).

18. Robin Meade
Miss Ohio 1993
Lead news anchor for HLN's morning
show Morning Express with Robin
Meade

19. Gretchen Carlson
Miss America 1989
American television personality who
hosts the Fox News daytime show The
Real Story with Gretchen Carlson
weekdays. Previously Carlson was the
co-host of the Fox News morning show
Fox & Friends along with Steve Doocy
and Brian Kilmeade.

20. Eva Longoria
Miss Corpus Christie, FL
American television and film actress.
She has received two Screen Actors
Guild Awards and was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award. Longoria
promotes humanitarian causes and
was named Philanthropist of the year.
Longoria is known for her roles as
Isabella Braña on the CBS soap opera
The Young and the Restless from 2001
to 2003, and as Gabrielle Solis on the
ABC television series Desperate
Housewives. For her work on
Desperate Housewives, she received a
Golden Globe Award nomination.

21. Lee Ann Meriwether
Miss America 1955
She is perhaps best known for her role
as Betty Jones, Buddy Ebsen's
secretary and daughter-in-law in the
long-running 1970s crime drama,
Barnaby Jones. The role earned her
two Golden Globe Award nominations
in 1975 and 1976, and an Emmy Award
nomination in 1977. She is also known
for her role as John Schuck's longhaired wife, Lily Munster, in the 1980s
sitcom The Munsters Today, as well as
for her portrayal of Catwoman in the
1966 film version of Batman.
Meriwether had a recurring role as
Ruth Martin on the daytime soap
opera All My Children until the end of
the series in September 2011.

22. Claudia Jordan
Miss Rhode Island Teen USA 1990 and
Miss Rhode Island USA 1997
American television and radio
personality. She is primarily known for
appearing as a model on the U.S.
version of Deal or No Deal, and for
competing on Seasons 2 and 6 of
Celebrity Apprentice.

23. Kellye Cash-Sheppard
Miss America 1987
Kellye Cash is the great-niece of
Johnny Cash. Following her reign as
Miss America, Cash toured with Bob
Hope’s USO Show, and has appeared
on The David Letterman Show, The
Today Show, Good Morning America,
among others.[2]
She has performed with numerous
musical artists including Vince Gill, Lee
Greenwood, and Billy Joel, and
appeared in many regional theatrical
productions around the country. Cash
was chosen for the lead part of
country music legend Patsy Cline, in
Always...Patsy Cline and has
performed the musical on numerous
occasions. Cash has released six music
CDs: four Christian and two country,
including Living by the Word, and Real
Life.

24. Lynda Carter
Miss World 1972
American actress and singer, Best
Known as the star of the DC Comics TV
series Wonder Woman, which lasted
from 1975 to 1979. Carter has
appeared in a string of television
movies and series, recorded albums
and been a celebrity promotional
model for Maybelline cosmetics . In
1978, Carter was voted "The Most
Beautiful Woman in the World" by The
International Academy of Beauty and
The British Press Organization.
In May 2007, Carter began touring the
U.S. with her one-woman musical
cabaret show, An Evening with Lynda
Carter. In June 2011, Carter released
her third album, Crazy Little Things,
which she describes as a delightful mix
of standards, country, and pop tunes

25. Anita Bryant
Miss Oklahoma 1958
She scored four Top 40 hits in the
United States in the late 1950s and
early 1960s, including "Paper Roses,"
which reached #5. She later became
known for her strong opposition to
homosexuality and for her
campaigning in 1977 to repeal a local
ordinance in Dade County, Florida,
that prohibited discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation, an
involvement that significantly
damaged her popularity and career in
show business.

26. Nancy Stafford
Miss Florida 1976
American actress, speaker and author,
known for her roles in television. She
came to prominence in the 1980s as
Ben Matlock's (played by Andy Griffith)
law partner and friend, Michelle
Thomas, on Matlock. She hosted a
syndicated TV series called Main Floor
(1995–2005), a show about fashion
and beauty.

27. Marla Maples
Contestant in Hawaiian Tropic 1995
American actress, television
personality, and socialite, best known
for her marriage to businessman
celebrity Donald Trump.

28. Mary Frann
American Junior Miss 1961
American actress best known for her
role as Bob Newhart's wife, Joanna
Loudon, on the television series
Newhart.

29. Imelda Romualdez Marcos
Miss Manila 1953
The widow of Philippine President Ferdinand
Marcos and forms half of their so-called
conjugal dictatorship. She is remembered as
a symbol of the extravagance due to her
collection of more than a thousand pairs of
shoes.
Imelda held positions in government that
allowed her to travel the world and
accumulate artwork and property. The couple
consolidated their power allowing them to
transport funds from the Philippine treasury
into offshore accounts, such as those in
banks in Switzerland. Her husband and their
family was forced out of office as a result of
the People Power Revolution but was later
given amnesty after her husband's death.
After an exile in Hawaii, she was elected in
the House of Representatives in 1996 for
Leyte and again in 2010 for Ilocos Norte.
Despite facing numerous cases involving
alleged corruption, she has yet to be
imprisoned and she continues to wield
power. She remains one of the most
enigmatic figures of both the 20th and 21st
centuries. Her qualities of grace and beauty
along with her ability to survive upheavals
has led her to be called the "Iron Butterfly".

30. Mary Ann Mobley
Miss America 1959
After serving her reign as Miss America
1959, Mobley embarked on a career in
both film and television.
Mobley joined her husband, Gary
Collins, as co-host of the 1989 Miss
America pageant.

31. Shelley Hennig
Miss Teen USA 2004
She played Stephanie Johnson in Days
of our Lives and starred in the CW
series The Secret Circle as Diana
Meade.

32. Mary Hart
Miss South Dakota 1970
American television personality and
was the long-running host of the
syndicated gossip and entertainment
round-up program Entertainment
Tonight from 1982 to 2011, which is
the longest running entertainment
magazine show of all time.

33. Maria Menounos
Miss Massachusetts Teen USA
American actress, journalist, television
presenter and occasional professional
wrestler. She is known in the United
States for her appearances as a
correspondent for Today, Access
Hollywood, Extra, and abroad for cohosting the Eurovision Song Contest
2006 in Athens, Greece.

34. Shanna Moakler
Miss USA 1995
She was married to Blink 182's
drummer Travis Barker and has a
daughter whose father is boxer Oscar
de la Hoya. She has appeared on
Dancing With The Stars

35. Phyllis George
Miss America 1971
Is an accomplished television
broadcaster, author,
businesswoman/entrepreneur and
award-winning humanitarian

36. Aishwarya Rai
Miss World 1994
Went on to become a famous
Bollywood actress.

37. Lara Dutta
Miss Universe 2000
Successful Bollywood actress

38. Marian McKnight Conway
Miss America i1957…she appeared on
network television shows, in
commercials, and served as a
spokesperson for companies like
Revlon and Philco. She helped found
the Amie Karen Cancer Center for
Children at Cedar-Sinai in CA. She &
her husband Gary Carmody Conway
own a vineyard & winery, Carmody
McKnight Estate Wines, on the Central
Coast of California. As a sustainable
winery with rare soil, the vineyard and
its wines have won numerous
recognitions.

39. Terry Lynn Huntingdon
Miss USA 1959
Huntingdon had a brief career in
television & film, appearing on a
comedy show "You Bet Your Life" & in
the feature flick, "The Three Stooges
Meet Hercules." She later moved to
Washington D.C., becoming a
freelance photographer for the federal
government and working as a
scheduler for Senator Gary Hart’s
presidential campaign. During her time
in government, she met and married
US Senator, Joseph Tydings.

40. Vanna White
Participated in the 1978 Miss Georgia
pageant. Though she didn't walk away
with a win, White became an iconic
television personality thanks to her
role as the hostess of "Wheel of
Fortune." White & Pat Sajak have
hosted the game show since 1982, and
though the former beauty queen has
had several cameos in movies and
television shows, her claim to fame
continues to be her nightly "Wheel of
Fortune" appearance. White even got
her own star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame.

41. ALYSSA CAMPANELLA
Miss USA 2011
Many Commercials and print ads

42. Karen Morris
America's Junior Miss 1974
Best known for her role as Dr. Faith
Coleridge Desmond on Ryan's Hope, a
role she played from 1978 to 1984 and
again in 1989.

43. Julie Bryan Moran
America's Junior Miss 1980
She was a correspondent
Entertainment Tonight from 1994–
2001. Before joining ET, she co-hosted
NBA Inside Stuff with Ahmad Rashad
and later replaced Frank Gifford as
host of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
While at ABC Sports, she covered such
events as the Super Bowl, figure
skating, horse racing including the
Triple Crown, and the Goodwill Games.
In 1994, she was named one of People
magazine's "50 Most Beautiful
People."

44. Leanza Cornett
Miss America 1993
As Miss America, she became the first beauty
queen to adopt AIDS prevention as her
platform. She has also served as a host for
several television shows, including
Entertainment Tonight (1994–1995), New
Attitudes (1998), and Who Wants to Marry a
Multi-Millionaire? (2000), and made
television guest appearances in television
shows such as Melrose Place, The Tick, and
Fear Factor. In addition, she serves as a
reporter for Animal Planet's coverage of the
Eukanuba AKC National Dog Show programs
and hosts the "On The Block" show on DIY
Network. Her stage credits include: Barefoot
in the Park, Godspell, The Best Little
Whorehouse in Texas, Bye Bye Birdie, and
Voyage of the Little Mermaid. Married to
Entertainment Tonight correspondent Mark
Steines, Cornett is the mother of two. They
live in Los Angeles, California. She was the
first actress to play a live-action version of
Ariel, the title character from The Little
Mermaid, at the "Voyage of The Little
Mermaid" show at Disney's Hollywood
Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in 1991.
She sang "A New Life" for her talent in the
Miss America pageant.

45. Debra Maffett
Miss America 1983
Debra is an Emmy nominated
broadcast veteran who has hosted,
written and produced thousands of
hours of network, cable and
syndicated programming. Debra’s
creative abilities in television and
music landed her in Nashville, where
she has written and produced several
albums and enjoyed a high profile
career in the country music arena.

46. Debra Messing
Rhode Island's Junior Miss 1986
American actress. She is known for her
television roles in Will & Grace, The
Starter Wife and Smash. Throughout
her career she has been nominated for
a total of six Emmy Awards, eight
Golden Globe Awards and eight Screen
Actors Guild Award. In 2003 she won
the Primetime Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy
Series for her performance on Will &
Grace.

47. Demi Lovato
Texas State Miniature Miss 2000
American singer, songwriter,
philanthropist, and actress. She made
her debut as a child actress in Barney
& Friends. In 2008, she came to
prominence as a starring cast member
in the television film Camp Rock. She
signed to Hollywood Records the same
year, and released her debut studio
album, Don't Forget, in September
2008. In 2009, Lovato commissioned
her own television series, Sonny with a
Chance. Lovato served as a judge and
mentor on the American version of
The X Factor from 2012 to 2013. Her
work has additionally earned several
accolades, including one MTV Video
Music Award, twenty five Teen Choice
Awards nominations, eleven of which
she has won, four People's Choice
Awards, one ALMA award, a Billboard
Touring Award and several others.

48. Gal Gadot
Miss Israel 2004
Israeli actress and fashion model. She
is the leading fashion model for the
clothing company Castro. Gadot is
known for her role as Gisele Harabo in
The Fast and the Furious film series.
On December 4, 2013, Warner Bros.
revealed that Gadot had won the role
of Wonder Woman in the sequel to
Man of Steel starring Henry Cavill and
Ben Affleck

49. Michelle Yeoh
Miss Malaysia 1983
She is best known in the Western
world for her roles in the 1997 James
Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies,
playing Wai Lin, and the multiple
Academy Award-winning Chineselanguage martial arts film Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which she
was nominated the BAFTA in 2000, for
Best Actress. In 2008, the film critic
website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her
the greatest action heroine of all
time.[4] In 2009, she was listed by
People magazine – as the only Asian
actress – as one of the "35 All-Time
Screen Beauties".

50. Sophia Loren
Runner Up Miss Italy 1949
Loren won the Academy Award for Best
Actress in 1962 for her performance
which made Loren the first artist to win
an Oscar for a foreign-language
performance. Later notable films include
El Cid; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow;
Marriage Italian-Style (for which she was
nominated for a second Oscar);
Sunflower; and The Voyage. After starting
a family in the early 1970s, Loren spent
less time on her acting career and chose
to make only occasional film
appearances. In later years, she has
appeared in American blockbusters such
as Grumpier Old Men and Nine. Loren
has also been awarded a Grammy Award,
five special Golden Globes, a BAFTA
Award, a Laurel Award as well as the
Honorary Academy Award in 1991. In
1995, she received the Cecil B. DeMille
Award for lifetime achievements, one of
many such awards.

51. Deborah Norville
Georgia’s Junior Miss 1976
American television anchor and
journalist. Since 1995 she has been
host of the syndicated American
television program Inside Edition. She
earlier hosted Today on NBC,
substitute-anchored both the NBC
Nightly News and the weekend CBS
Evening News, and was a host and
correspondent for two CBS News
magazine programs.

52. Lindsey Bloom
Miss USA in the Miss International
Pageant 1973
Bloom was cast as detective Mike
Hammer's secretary Velda in Mickey
Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New
Mike Hammer. Both television series
starred Stacy Keach as the title
character.

53. Nancy O’Dell
Miss South Carolina 1987
American television host and
entertainment journalist, who
currently is the co-anchor of the
syndicated entertainment news show
Entertainment Tonight since 2011. She
joined the show on January 3, 2011.

54. Jamie Dudney
Miss Tennessee 1993
Actress. Appeared in the soap opera,
As the World Turns.

55. Bobbie Eakes
Miss Georgia 1982
American actress and singer. She is
known for her role as Macy Alexander
on The Bold and the Beautiful (1989–
2000, 2001, 2002–2003.) and for her
role as Krystal Carey on All My Children
(2003–2011).

56. Marilyn Van Derbur
Miss America 1958
As a result of a history of sexual abuse
by her father, she founded the
American Coalition for Abuse
Awareness and One Voice and
authored "Miss America By Day:
Lessons Learned from Ultimate
Betrayals and Unconditional Love".

57. Paula Zahn
Miss Teenage America 1973
American journalist and newscaster
who has been an anchor at ABC News,
CBS News, Fox News, and CNN. She
currently produces and hosts the true
crime documentary series On the Case
with Paula Zahn on the Investigation
Discovery channel.

58. Kathy Lee Gifford
Maryland’s Junior Miss
American television host, singer,
songwriter, comedian, and actress, best
known for her 15-year run (1985–2000)
on the talk show Live! with Regis and
Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted with
Regis Philbin. She has received 11
Daytime Emmy nominations and won her
first Daytime Emmy in 2010 as part of the
Today team.
Before her long stint in talk shows,
Gifford's first television exposure was that
of Tom Kennedy's singer/sidekick on
Name That Tune, from 1974 to 1978.
She also appeared in television
advertisements for Carnival Cruise Lines
beginning in 1984.
On April 7, 2008, Gifford began cohosting the fourth hour of NBC's Today,
alongside Hoda Kotb.

59. Cloris Leachman
Miss Chicago 1946
American actress of stage, film and
television. She has won eight Primetime
Emmy Awards (more than any other
performer) and one Daytime Emmy Award.
She co-starred in the 1971 film The Last
Picture Show for which she won the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Leachman's longest running role was the
nosy, self-centered and manipulative
landlady Phyllis Lindstrom on the 1970s TV
series Mary Tyler Moore, and later on the
spinoff series, Phyllis. She also appeared in
three Mel Brooks films, including Young
Frankenstein. She had a regular role on the
last two seasons of The Facts of Life
portraying the character Beverly Ann Stickle.
In recent years, she had a recurring role as
Lois's mother Ida Gorski on Malcolm in the
Middle. She also starred in the roast of Bob
Saget in 2008. Leachman was a contestant on
Season 7 (2008) of Dancing with the Stars,
paired with Corky Ballas. At the age of 82,
she is the oldest contestant to have danced
on the series. She currently stars as Maw
Maw in the television comedy Raising Hope.

60. Ali MacGraw
Prettiest Waitress Pageant 1957
American actress. She first gained
attention for her role in Goodbye,
Columbus in 1969, for which she won
a Golden Globe Award, followed by
Love Story in 1970, for which she
received an Academy Award
nomination and won a second Golden
Globe. She married actor Steve
McQueen in 1973, after appearing
with him in the 1972 film The
Getaway.

61. Vera Miles
Miss Kansas 1948
American actress who worked closely
with Alfred Hitchcock, most notably as
Lila Crane in the classic masterpiece
Psycho, reprising the role in the 1983
sequel, Psycho II. Her other popular
films include The Wrong Man, The
Searchers, Follow Me Boys! and The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

62. Shawn Weatherly
Miss Universe 1980
She is best known for her work as Jill
Riley on the television show Baywatch
and for the early reality show
Oceanquest, which had Weatherly
swimming with sharks. She played a
small part on a Dukes of Hazzard
episode, "Coy vs. Vance," and in
various other shows. She also had a
main role in the 1986 comedy film
Police Academy 3: Back in Training

63. Susan Anton
Miss California 1969
In 1978, ABC gave her and country
singer Mel Tillis a summertime variety
series, Mel and Susan Together. She
later starred in her own variety show,
Presenting Susan Anton, Stop Susan
Williams (one of three serials in the
Cliffhangers series), and in the films
Goldengirl, Spring Fever, and
Cannonball Run II. She also recorded
music. Anton was the host of the
successful "Great Radio City Music Hall
Spectacular" show at the Flamingo
Hilton in Las Vegas for over 5,000
performances until July 31, 2000. She
also appeared in the Las Vegas
company of the musical Hairspray and
on Broadway in The Will Rogers Follies,
Hurlyburly, and All Shook Up.

64. Jayne Kennedy
Miss Ohio 1970
In 1978, she was one of the first women
to infiltrate the male-dominated world of
sports announcing with a role on The NFL
Today. She has been on the cover of
Ebony and Jet magazines numerous
times.
In the early 1980s she produced exercise
videos, at the same time, she also had a
contract with both Coca-Cola's Tab and
Diet Coke. She won the NAACP Image
Award for Outstanding Actress in a
Motion Picture award for 1981's Body
and Soul.
Since the 1990s, Kennedy has remained
busy away from the limelight, spending
more time with her family. For many
years, she worked for the Children's
Miracle Network, where she raised
millions of dollars for hospitals. She
occasionally appears on various Christian
Television Network shows.

65. Loni Anderson
Miss Roseville, MN
American actress who is known for
having played the role of Jennifer
Marlowe on the CBS sitcom WKRP in
Cincinnati and for playing Jayne
Mansfield and Thelma Todd in
television movies.

66. Cheryl Lynn Herring
Miss Virginia 1977
Actress; In the ABC soap opera General
Hospital.

67. Laura Harring
Miss USA 1985
American actress. In 1985, Harring
became the first Latina woman
crowned Miss USA. She later began
her acting career in television and film.
She is best known for her role as Rita
in the 2001 cult neo-noir film
Mulholland Drive. She is also known
for her roles in films, including The
Forbidden Dance (1990), John Q
(2002), Willard (2003), The Punisher
(2004), The King (2005), and Love in
the Time of Cholera (2007).

68. Terry Lynn Huntingdon
Miss USA 1959
Huntingdon also made occasional
television and film appearances. In her
first television role in 1959 she
appeared on Perry Mason as
defendant Kitty Wynne in "The Case of
the Bartered Bikini." She was a
contestant on the television quiz show
You Bet Your Life in 1960, hosted by
Groucho Marx. She also appeared as
Hecuba in the Three Stooges feature
film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.

69. Alicia Jacobs
Miss Nevada USA 1985
Alicia began covering Entertainment
News at Las Vegas' ABC affiliate, and
she joined KVBC News in November of
2003. She is featured on the 4 o'clock
and 11 o'clock newscasts, as well as
"News 3 Today," "Wake-up with the
Wagners," & the 10:00PM news on the
CW Network. Proclaimed "Queen of
Celebrity Scoop" by "Vegas Magazine”.

70. Ali Landry
Miss USA 1996
Model and actress. She is perhaps best
known as the Doritos Girl from her
1998 Super Bowl commercial, and for
her portrayal of Rita Lefleur on the
UPN sitcom Eve. In 1998, she was
named by People magazine as one of
50 most beautiful people in the world

71. Suzette Charles
Miss America 1983
She won her preliminary talent night and
finished first runner-up to Vanessa Lynn
Williams, who became the first AfricanAmerican to wear the crown and title of
Miss America. When Williams was forced
to relinquish the title amid a scandal
triggered by Williams' posing for nude
photographs published in Penthouse
magazine, Charles was crowned in
Williams' place and served the remaining
seven weeks of Williams' reign.
Charles, who already had many credits in
advertising and educational television,
has gone on to a career as a singer,
entertainer, and television personality.
She has acted on the CBS television series
Frank's Place and performed on This
Morning, a British talk show. She narrated
the motion picture, Beyond The Dream,
and has appeared on stage with Stevie
Wonder, Alan King, Joel Grey and Lou
Rawls.

72. Tamara Walker
Miss Oklahoma USA 1988
In 1999, she signed with Curb Records.
Releasing her debut album, Angel
Eyes, and charting three singles on the
Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary
Tracks chart. The title track of her
debut album was the theme song to
the 2001 Jennifer Lopez film, Angel
Eyes.

73. Bobbi Jean Brown
Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1987
She is best known for her appearance
in the video for Warrant's glam metal
anthem "Cherry Pie" and the cover of
the album of the same name.
Brown won the spokesperson
competition on Star Search a record 13
times and has also appeared in TV
shows such as Married... with Children
(three episodes) and films such as
1993's Last Action Hero.

74. Katherine Shindle
Miss America 1998
She has numerous recording and
Broadway theater credits including
Wonderland, Legally Blonde, Cabaret,
Jekyll & Hyde, and Oliver!

75. Hope Allen
Miss Georgia Teen USA 1987
She has numerous acting credits and
most recently appeared in the pilot
episode of the hit television series Pan
Am.

76. Carole Gist
Miss USA 1990
The first African American to capture
the crown of Miss USA. Carole cohosted a show on the WORD gospel
network.

77. Charlotte Lopez Ayanna
Miss Teen USA 1993
She is an actress and has appeared in
many films including playing Ethan
Hawke's wife in the movie Training
Day. She also appeared in the Ricky
Martin video "She's All I Ever Had".
She was a foster child the wrote the
book "Lost in the System".

78. Brandi Sherwood
She was Miss USA 1997 and (at age 18)
Miss Teen USA 1989 and was a
frequent rotating Barker's Beauty
model on the US daytime television
game show The Price Is Right from
2002-2009.

79. Jennifer Gareis
Miss New York USA 1994
American actress and former beauty
queen. She is best known for her roles
as Grace Turner on The Young and the
Restless and as Donna Logan on The
Bold and the Beautiful.

80. Irene Saez
Miss Universe 1981
Venezuelan politician and a former
Miss Universe. She has been a model,
was the mayor of Chacao (a
municipality of Caracas), Governor of
the state of Nueva Esparta and a
former presidential candidate.

81. Stormi Bree Henley
Miss Teen USA in 2009
She recently auditioned for American
Idol and made it to the Hollywood
round.

82. Linda Thompson
Miss Mid-South Fair at Memphis,
Tennessee 1970
American actress, lyricist and beauty
pageant winner who rose to international
fame as Elvis Presley's longtime girlfriend
after he separated from his wife from July
1972 to November 1976. In 1977,
Thompson became a regular on the TV
series Hee Haw, wherein she was in the
cornfields until 1992. The Internet Movie
database lists 19 acting credits for her,
mostly small, one-episode parts in
television shows such as Starsky and
Hutch, Vega$, Fantasy Island, The Fall
Guy, and Beverly Hills, 90210.
She began her musical career as a lyricist
with the Kenny Rogers . In addition to her
Emmy win for "Aren't They All Our
Children" in 2003, Thompson has also
won a BMI Film & TV Award in 1994 for
Most Performed Song from a Film ("I
Have Nothing"), composed by Thompson
and David Foster for the soundtrack for
The Bodyguard.

83. Danni Boatwright
Miss Kansas Teen USA 1991
Miss Kansas USA 1996
Model and Winner of “Survivor
Guatemala”

84. Dayanara Torres
Miss Universe 1993
After the 1994 Miss Universe pageant,
Torres landed several movie roles, made
television appearances, and received
offers to endorse products. She became a
celebrity in the Philippines and lived in
the country for five years. She also
appeared in more than 10 movies. Torres
returned to Puerto Rico in 1998 and
released her only album called Antifaz. It
reached the top of Billboard charts in
Latin America and the Philippines. She
also starred in several theater
productions on the island. That same
year, a "Dayanara" doll was released and
sold out in both Puerto Rico and the
Philippines.
On September 1, 2005, Torres debuted in
an American soap opera, playing a small
role on The Young and the Restless. She
was once married to latin singer Marc
Anthony.

85. Kelly Hu
Miss Teen USA 1985
American actress and former fashion
model. Hu is best known for her role as
Dr. Rae Chang on the American
television soap opera Sunset Beach
(1997). She has since starred in
numerous TV shows and films
including Nash Bridges (1997–1998),
The Scorpion King (2002), Cradle 2 the
Grave (2003), X-Men 2 as Yuriko
Oyama/Lady Deathstrike (2003),
Underclassman (2005), The
Tournament (2009), The Vampire
Diaries (2010–2011) and White Frog
(2012). She currently stars as China
White on the CW series Arrow (2012–
present) and Abigail Cho on the SyFy
Network series Warehouse 13 (2013–
present).

86. Patsy Ramsey
Miss West Virginia 1977
Mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-yearold American beauty pageant
contestant who was murdered on
December 25, 1996..

87. Shandi Finnessey
Miss USA 2004
In 2002, Finnessey authored an awardwinning children’s book, The Furrtails,
on individuality and disabilities. In the
mid-2000s, she was Chuck Woolery's
co-host for the game show Lingo on
the Game Show Network. Finessey has
also hosted PlayMania as well as
quiznation and has served as a sideline
reporter for the CBS tournament
blackjack series Ultimate Blackjack
Tour.

88. Debbye Turner
Miss America 1990
Turner's first hosting job came at St.
Louis' NBC affiliate KSDK, on a show
called Show Me St. Louis in 1995. Six
years later, Turner joined CBS News as
a feature correspondent then became
their "resident veterinarian" and a fillin anchor. Turner was also a fill-in
anchor on the CBS Morning News.
Turner left CBS in 2012. She's currently
the host of Arise America, on AriseTV.
She has also appeared on Animal
Planet's Cats 101 and Dogs 101 series.

89. Carrie Underwood
1st runner up in the 2004 Miss
Northeastern State University pageant in
Oklahoma.
American country music singer,
songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame
as the winner of the fourth season of
American Idol in 2005. Underwood has
since become a multi-platinum selling
recording artist, a winner of six Grammy
Awards, sixteen Billboard Music Awards,
seven American Music Awards and ten
Academy of Country Music Awards,
among several others. As a songwriter,
she has been nominated for a Golden
Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Underwood is also a two-time winner of
the Academy of Country Music
Entertainer of the Year award and the
first woman to win such an award twice
(2009/10). Underwood was inducted into
and became a member of the Grand Ole
Opry in 2008. She was also inducted into
the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in 2009

90. Nina Davuluri
Miss America 2014
She is the first Indian American to be
chosen as Miss America and the first
to perform a Bollywood dance on the
Miss America stage.

91. Tara Conner
Miss USA 2006
n late 2006, Conner became the center
of a public scandal when news reports
claimed she had been drinking
underage, tested positive for the use
of cocaine, heroin and crystal meth,
and kissed Miss Teen USA Katie Blair,
among other things. She was allowed
to retain her title, provided she enter a
drug rehabilitation program.
Conner appeared on the 2007 MTV
reality show Pageant Place.
She was a contestant on the third
season of CMT's Gone Country, which
premiered in January 2009. She hosted
the first season of MTV's The Girls of
Hedsor Hall, which premiered in
February 2009.
Conner currently co-hosts Kaboom, a
web video show dedicated to showing
things getting blown up

92. Katie Blair
Miss Teen USA 2006
Blair starred in Donald Trump's MTV
reality show Pageant Place along with
Rachel Smith, Hilary Cruz and Riyo
Mori.

93. Riyo Mori
Miss Universe 2007
Mori starred in Donald Trump's MTV
reality show Pageant Place along with
Rachel Smith, Katie Blair (former Miss
Teen USA 2006) and Hilary Cruz (Miss
Teen USA 2007). The show started
airing on October 10, 2007 and ran for
eight episodes. Mori appeared in
Jessica Simpson's VH1 reality show The
Price of Beauty in 2010 to showcase
the standards of beauty in her home
country, Japan.

94. Rachel Smith
Miss USA 2007
Smith starred in Donald Trump's MTV
reality show Pageant Place. She
worked as a reporter for E!, but
currently co-hosts ABC's nationallysyndicated entertainment show
OnTheRedCarpet. Currently, every
Saturday, in 2012, she is also the
reporter for the "POP NEWS" segment
at 45 minutes into the one hour
broadcast of Good Morning America
ON ABC.

95. Erica Dunlap
Miss America 2004
In 2009, Dunlap and her husband Brian
participated on 15th season of "The
Amazing Race," placing third overall.

96. Lauren Nelson
Miss America 2007
On January 17, 2008, Nelson appeared
on Are You Smarter Than a 5th
Grader? playing for the Miss America
Organization. She won $175,000
before "dropping out". On August 2,
2010 Nelson joined CBS affiliate KWTV
in Oklahoma City as a co-anchor of the
station's 4 p.m. newscast, which was
reformatted on that date from a
traditional newscast to a lifestyleoriented newscast.

97. Joyce Giraud
Miss Puerto Rico 1998
Giraud was featured in episodes of
Baywatch, and in the film Dude,
Where's My Car?. More recently, she
has starred in TV shows like House of
Payne and Joey. She has joined the
cast of the upcoming fourth season of
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

98. Hilary Cruz
Miss Teen USA 2007
Cruz starred in Donald Trump's new
MTV reality show Pageant Place along
with Rachel Smith, Riyo Mori and Katie
Blair (former Miss Teen USA 2006).

99. Rita Verreos
Contestant in the Miss Venezuela 1988
Contestant on Survivor: Fiji, the 14th
season of the series. She currently
works as a free-lance Special
Events/Red Carpet correspondent for
the International news network
cybereport.com.

100. Nicole Johnson
Miss America 1999
Prior to winning the Miss America title
she had worked for the Christian
Broadcasting Network in addition to
her diabetes advocacy. In March 2005,
Johnson became the anchor of dLife, a
weekly TV series about diabetes that
airs on CNBC. She has written four
books: three cookbooks with Mr. Food
and her autobiography Living with
Diabetes. She works full time as a
diabetes advocate and patient care
expert.

101. Shawnae Jebbia
Miss USA 1998
Though Jebbia had a brief stint as a
television personality following her
1998 win, Meniere was left with
hearing loss at the age of 27. She
began using a Siemens Pure 700
hearing aid, eventually traveling the
world as the company's spokesperson.

102. Erika Harold
Miss America 2003
On June 4, 2013, Harold announced
she will run against Rep. Rodney L.
Davis, R-Ill. in the 2014 Republican
primary for Illinois's 13th
congressional district.

103. Dustin-Leigh KonzelmanSeltzer
Miss California America 2005
Appeared on "Amazing Racing" season
10 and 11 with another beauty
pageant contestant from New YorkKandice Pelletier.

104. Kandice Pelletier
Miss New York 2005
Appeared on "Amazing Race" season
10 and 11 with fellow beauty
contestant Dustin-Leigh KonzelmanSeltzer from California.

105. Caitlin Upton
Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2007
Became an Internet meme for her
rambling and unstructured response to
a pageant question.

106. Terry Meeuwsen
Miss America 1973
Permanent co-host on The 700 Club,
joining Pat Robertson on the program,
which is broadcast daily from the
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN)
studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia. An
equally talented author, Meeuwsen
has also written several books.

107. Tawny Godin
Miss America 1976
In 1977 she became a general
assignment reporter at KABC-TV. She
has co-hosted a number of popular
television shows including "AM Los
Angeles", "Eye on LA", "Hollywood
Close-up" and "The Love Report."
Tawny was also a guest host on the
national television program, "Good
Morning America" with David
Hartman. Tawny is known to her
viewing audiences as Tawny Little. She
is currently co-anchoring the UPN/13
nightly news in Los Angeles at 7:30
and 10:00 p.m.

108. Dorothy Benham
Miss America 1977
Dorothy is a lyric-coloratura soprano
who made her Broadway debut as an
original cast member of "Jerome
Robbins" Broadway". She has been a
guest artist with Symphony Orchestras
throughout the country and sang the
role of Sonia in the Connecticut
Opera's production of The Merry
Widow. She has now released 4 CD
recordings entitled "The Lord Is My
Light," "Christmas," "From The Heart,"
and "The Crystal Cathedral Collection."

109. Susan Powell
Miss America 1981
Susan Powell is currently the host of
Home Matters, her own one-hour
series on The Discovery Channel,
recently completing its ninth season.

110. Sharlene Wells
Miss America 1985
In 1987, Sharlene became one of the
first women to work on-air for ESPN,
and for 15 years she covered such
world-class events as World Cup
Soccer, World Cup Skiing, the Kentucky
Derby, America's Cup, World Alpine
Championships, the French Open and
College Football. Her work at ESPN
earned her national recognition
including an Emmy nomination and
the Miller Lite Women's Sports
Journalism award.

111. Elizabeth Ward
Miss America 1982
She made her professional feature film
debut in 'Three For The Road' with
Charlie Sheen. Her film credits also
include a featured role in 'Marked For
Death' opposite Steven Segal, 'Pass
The Ammo' with Tim Curry, and the
CBS feature '83 Hours Till Dawn' with
Peter Strauss and Robert Urich.
Elizabeth also starred in 'Lower Level'
and 'Discretion Assured' with Michael
York. She has also appeared in many
TV series.

112. Heather Whitestone
Miss America 1995
She had been a spokesperson for the
Audible Hearing Aid company of The
Starkey Hearing Aid Foundation for 14
years as well as The Cochlear Implant
Company for 5 years. She also wrote
four books entitled, Listening with My
Heart, Believing the Promise, Let God
Surprise You, and Heavenly Crowns.

113. Katie Harman
Miss America 2002
After her performance on the Miss
America stage in 2001, she was invited
to sing with the famed Boston Pops
Orchestra under the direction of Keith
Lockhart, the Shreveport Symphony,
the Oregon Symphony, the US Army
Band, the USO, and at many other
concert events across the nation. In
2007, Katie debuted her first solo
album, Soul of Love.

114. Tara Dawn Holland
Miss America 1997
She has been featured as a vocal
soloist with the Kansas City Symphony,
the U.S. Air Force Band, and the NATO
Band in Italy. Tara also was a featured
vocalist in the nationally televised
Boston Pops July 4 th Celebration and
the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Her self-titled debut CD has been
released, as well as an abstinence song
she wrote, entitled "I Saved Myself for
You."

115. Rima Fakih
Miss USA 2010
She competed on the fifth season of
WWE Tough Enough but was
eliminated from the show on the
fourth episode.

116. Angela Perez-Baraquio
Miss America 2001
Angie was the spokesperson for First
Hawaiian Bank from 2002-2005, and
was a Host/Writer/Producer on a
statewide TV show in Hawaii, Living
Local with the Baraquios, which has
won numerous Telly Awards.

117. Chelsea Cooley
Miss USA 2005
Just prior to giving up her crown in
April 2006, Cooley competed on NBC's
Celebrity Cooking Showdown, where
she beat Tony Gonzalez and "Big
Kenny" (Half of Country Music Duo Big
& Rich) by a narrow margin. Since
2012 she is a member of the BQ Girls
pop/R&B group.

118. Susie Castillo
Miss USA 2003
Castillo was formerly a regular Music
Television (MTV) VJ and host of TRL,
and helped with the launch of Mi TRL
on MTV Tr3s in September 2006. She is
now pursuing acting full-time. She also
played the role of Mercedes
Hernandez in the TBS show Tyler
Perry's House of Payne in a select
number of episodes in season 5. In
2007, Castillo became a spokeswoman
for Neutrogena.

119. Frances Louise Parker
Miss USA 1994
Lu Parker is currently anchoring the
KTLA Morning News Weekend edition
alongside Chris Burrous in Los Angelos.

120. Lynnette Cole
Miss USA 2000
Since winning Miss USA, Cole has
become a television host for NBC,
CMT, ESPN, MTV, VH-1 and made
many appearances on As the World
Turns. Along with her hosting career,
she has appeared in numerous print
advertising campaigns and
commercials.

121. Kenya Moore
Miss USA 1993
In 2012, Moore joined the season five
cast of The Real Housewives of
Atlanta. In 2013, she released a
workout DVD titled Kenya Moore:
Booty Boot Camp.

122. Kimberly Pressler
Miss USA 1999
Currently on ESPN covering the
Professional Bowlers Association
(PBA), and in June 2013 was seen sideline reporting the Red Bull X Fighters
series on FUEL TV from Osaka, Japan.
Miss Pressler has been featured in
People Magazine, TIME, and voted one
of Stuff Magazine’s “101 Sexiest
Women in the World.

123. Kelli McCarty
Miss USA 1991
American model, actress and adult
film performer. In 2008 she signed
with adult entertainment company
Vivid Entertainment.

124. Gretchen Polhemus
Miss USA 1989
In 1993, Jensen appeared in a madefor-TV-movie (Bonanza: The Return at
the Internet Movie Database) with Ben
Johnson and Michael Landon Jr., and
worked as a sports correspondent for
ESPN and for a CBS affiliate as a news
correspondent. She currently is a cohost of KTVX-tv's "Good Things Utah".

125. Courtney Gibbs
Miss USA 1988
Portrayed Assistant District Attorney
Galen Henderson on All My Children.

126. Jineane Ford
Miss USA 1980
She joined Phoenix, Arizona based
KPNX 12 News in 1991 and had coanchored 12 News Today and 12 News
Midday.

127. Terri Utley
Miss USA 1982
She then became a spokeswoman for
Mazda. Amos then worked as a news
anchor on Movietime television (now
known as E!), which gave her the
opportunity to cover such events as
the Academy Awards and the Cannes
Film Festival. She is the award-winning
author of "The Enlightened Mom,"
voted Best Spiritual Book of 2011.

128. Julie Hayek
Miss USA 1983
Hayek is now a trained actress and has
starred in successful shows such as
Dallas, Twin Peaks and As the World
Turns. In addition, she served as cohost on the 1985 revival of Break the
Bank.

129. Deborah Shelton
Miss USA 1970
Her most notable television
performance is the role of Mandy
Winger, one of J. R. Ewing's more
memorable mistresses in Dallas for
three seasons.

130. Arlene Howell
Miss USA 1958
Howell was cast as the secretary,
Melody Lee Mercer, in the
ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama,
Bourbon Street Beat. Howell appeared
as Cindy Lou Brown in the ABC/WB
western series, Maverick and many
other cameo appearances on TV
series.

131. Charlotte Sheffield
Miss USA 1957
In 1958, Miss Sheffield starred
alongside Bret Morrison in a science
fiction radio drama "The Adventure of
the Beauty Queen", as a part of the
Exploring Tomorrow radio series.

132. Myrna Hansen
Miss USA 1953
In December 1955 Hansen made her
television debut on the The Burns and
Allen Show show, which starred
George Burns and Gracie Allen. She
appeared on the screen for eight
minutes of the CBS-TV show. This was
longer than her total time on screen in
the fifteen movies she had made.

133. Jackie Loughery
Miss USA 1952
In 1957 and 1958 she made five guest
appearances on The George Burns and
Gracie Allen Show; three as Joyce
Collins and the other two as Vicki
Donovan. In 1963 she appeared on
Perry Mason as Nell Grimes. She
married singer Guy Mitchell in October
1953. That marriage ended and she
remarried, to actor Jack Webb. She
divorced Webb in March 1964.