How famous is Aishwarya Rai?

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Aishwarya Rai has acted in over forty movies in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, and English. She has acted in International Productions Bride & Prejudice (2003), Mistress of Spices (2005), and The Last Legion (2007) in English. In the 1994 Miss India Contest, she won the second place (behind Sushmita Sen), and went on to win the Miss World title the same year, where she also won the Miss Photogenic award. Rai has been a regular at the Cannes Film Festival since 2002, and was a member of the Jury at Cannes in the year 2003. In October 2004, a wax figure of Rai was put on display in London's Madame Tussaud's wax museum. She was chosen by Time magazine in 2004 as one of the World's "100 Most Influential People", and appeared on the cover of Time magazine, Asia Edition (TIMEasia) in 2003. She was the subject of a 60 Minutes profile on 2 January. A month later she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. She was also featured on Oprah's "Women Across the Globe" segment. In 2005, Rai signed a three-year contract with L'Oréal, as a spokesmodel for the cosmetics company.