Aishwarya Rai is one of Bollywood's pre-eminent leading ladies. She simply known as Ash and she was born on 1st Nov 1973 in Manglore, Karnatka, India.
Aishwarya Rai born in a traditional Indian family in the south of Mangalore Her father Krishnaraj Rai is a marine engineer and her mother Vrinda Rai is a teacher.
Aishwarya speaks English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and French.
When she was about 4 years old her family moved to Bombay (present Mumbai) permanatly. Aishwarya has spent most of her life in Mumbai. She did her matriculation from Arya Vidya Mandir and later joined Jai Hind College. She did her twelfth standard from Ruparel College. Having scored well in her exams, she landed in the Rachana Institute.
Ash, prior to her life as a model and her debut into the Bollywood, was a first class pupil of architecture while in college and was so unhappy to leave it when forced to oblige to the demands for her participation in Miss Word competition which she strode ahead to win in the end and so the pride for India.
After her crowning as the most beautiful woman on the planet, she has soared height after height. Films came as a natural choice for this model turned actress and she has done over a score of Hindi Films till date quite a number of them being blockbusters.
Besides Bollywood films, Aishwarya has starred in a few south Indian movies and Hollywood movies too.
On the personal front Aishwarya’s life has been eclipsed by an unhappy affair with the ill-tempered Salman Khan. With all kinds of negative rumours rife about them, she moved out of the relationship in 2001. Both of them have since declared since that they don’t have anything to do with each other.
For 2004, Ash is set to star in "Chaos" opposite Meryl Streep for French Director Coline Serreau, "Singularity" opposite Brendan Fraser for director Roland Joffe and "I Know a Place" for Director/Writer Barton Randall and will end the year with "Mistress of Spices" once again with Director Gurinder Chadha.
In 2003 Aishwarya became the first Indian actor to be a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Ash is also the latest member of the elite L'Oreal Dream Team, joining beauties Catherine Deneuve & Andie MacDowell as their international ambassador. She graced the covers of India Today and the prestigious TIME Magazine. Ash was listed on Rolling Stone Magazine's annual "Hot List".
Aishwarya Rai is married Abhishek Bachchan who is son of Big B Amitabh Bachchan. Before her marriage she was dating with Bollywood actors Vivek Obrai and Salman Khan.
