Ali Landry Biography

Birth Name: Ali Germaine Landry
Birth Place: Breaux Bridge, LA
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 07/21/1973, Cancer
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Profession: Actress, model

Ali Landry Relationships:
Alejandro Monteverde - Husband
Gena Landry - Sister
Gene Landry - Father
Mario Lopez - Ex-husband
Renella Landry - Mother
Ty Landry - Brother
Estela Ines Monteverde - Daughter
Marcelo Alejandro Monteverde - Son

Wherever Ali Landry pops up, there's water involved. She was born on July 21, 1973, in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, the Crawfish Capital of the World. Once she was all grown-up in an orange one-piece swimsuit, she paddled off with the Miss USA 1996 crown.

She has even done some laps on TV in what else other than Sunset Beach, and her tidal turn on the small screen took place in a laundromat. During last January's Super Bowl, she wiped out viewers in an ad for Doritos Puffs: Two cool dudes try to impress her with their prowess at catching the chips in their mouths, but Landry, who studied tap, ballet, and gymnastics for 15 years, outdoes them with a series of splits and leaps performed with a man-melting smile.

Her first foray into pageantry came in 1990 when she was crowned Miss Louisiana Teen USA. She represented Louisiana in the 1990 Miss Teen USA pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi in July 1990, where she placed first in the preliminary swimsuit and evening gown competitions, but was ranked seventh during the final competition and couldn't reach the final 6.
In 1995, Landry won the 1996 Miss Louisiana USA title, becoming the first former Miss Louisiana Teen USA to win the Miss crown. She went on to compete in the 1996 Miss USA pageant, which was broadcast live from South Padre Island, Texas in February 1996 — she placed third highest after the preliminary competition and second highest on average during the final Top 10 competition. She was the highest placed of the Top 6 finalists and eventually went on to win the 1996 title.

She is the first former Miss Teen USA delegate to actually win the Miss USA crown (her predecessor Shanna Moakler, previously Miss Rhode Island Teen USA, Miss New York USA and first runner-up to Miss USA Chelsi Smith, only inherited the title after Smith became Miss Universe).

Landry competed in the 1996 Miss Universe pageant held in Las Vegas in May that year. She placed first in the preliminary competition and was ranked second in the evening gown and interview events during the final competition. She was second going in to the next round of six delegates, but she was eliminated after the judges' questions.

Until 1999, Landry was the only former Miss Teen USA delegate to compete at Miss Universe. 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.

Following the success of the commercial campaign, Ali, who was crowned Miss USA 1996, made the transition from modeling to acting with a variety of film and television roles. Most recently, she co-starred in the feature film Bella (2006), which won the Toronto Film Festival Award in 2006, in addition to three seasons on the hit UPN Network series "Eve" (2003).

Ali Landry was Miss Louisiana before she was Miss USA... Landry married former Saved By the Bell star Mario Lopez in April of 2004; the couple separated the next month and divorced. She married Mexican director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde in April of 2006; he was her director on Bella. They have two children: son Marcelo Alejandro (b. 2011) and daughter Estela (b. 2007).