Ali Landry

Name: Ali Landry

Height: 5′ 8”

Nationality: American

Birth Date: July 21, 1973

Birth Place: Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA

Profession: actress, model

Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Landry is of French (Cajun) and Spanish descent. She graduated from Cecilia High School in 1991. She attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) (now University of Louisiana-Lafayette (ULL)) and was majoring in Mass Communications. Her first foray into pageantry came in 1990 when she was crowned Miss Louisiana Teen USA. The pageant is directed by RPM Productions. She represented Louisiana in the Miss Teen USA 1990 pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi in July 1990, where she placed 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,in Texas in February 1996 — 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.

Landry went on to compete in the 1996 Miss Universe pageant held in Las Vegas in May that year.She placed highest on average after the presentation show, and was ranked second in the evening gown and interview events during the final competition. She however, only placed seventh in the swimsuit competition. She was second going in to the final round of six delegates, but fell to sixth after the judge’s panel questions. Her record at all three pageants was not surpassed until 2000 when Miss USA 2000, Lynnette Cole made the top 5 at all three pageants. Landry has participated in the show Fear Factor, and was runner up. She is an avid athlete and also participated in the Boston Marathon. Landry met actor/TV personality Mario Lopez when he emceed the 1998 Miss Teen USA pageant and she was a commentator. They were engaged during the summer of 2003 and married on April 24, 2004, but two weeks later she had the marriage annulled over alleged infidelities committed by Lopez during the relationship. She had previously been engaged to high school sweetheart Sean Fluharty.

She married film director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde on April 8, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende,
Mexico.[6][7] Their daughter Estela Ines Monteverde was born on July 11, 2007. Askmen.com has named her one of the 50 Most Beautiful Women and 99 Most Desirable Women in the World. In 2002, she hosted the second season of the hidden-camera series Spy TV. From 2003 to 2006, she was a
regular cast member of the UPN sitcom Eve.

Filmography

Bella (2006)
Who’s Your Daddy? (2003) (V)
Outta Time (2002)
Repli-Kate (2002)
Soulkeeper (2001)
Beautiful (2000)
[edit] Television
Eve playing Rita (2003-2006) (TV series) (UPN)
Beach Week (Travel Channel)
Will You Marry Me? (2003) (TV)
Spy TV (2001) (TV series, host of second season) (2002)
Full Frontal Fashion (host)
Fastlane (recurring role)
Farmclub.com (2001) (TV series)
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (co-host)
Fear Factor
Felicity
Inside Schwartz
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
Popular
Significant Others
Bold and the Beautiful
Clueless
Dorito’s commercials
Pensacola: Wings of Gold (?1999) (TV series, regular guest star)
America’s Greatest Pets (1998) (host) (TV series)
Sunset Beach (1997) (TV series)