Short Biography

Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. She is recognized as the Doritos Girl from her popular 1998 Super Bowl commercial. In 1998, she was named by People magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world.

Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. This southern region of Louisiana is referred to as "Acadiana", or Cajun country. Landry is of Spanish, French (Cajun) and Creole descent. She graduated from Cecilia High School in 1991. She attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then called the University of Southwestern Louisiana) and was majoring in mass communications. She is an alumna of Kappa Delta Sorority.

Landry met actor–TV personality Mario Lopez when he MC`d 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. Their daughter Estela Ines Monteverde was born on July 11, 2007. Landry and her husband Alejandro Monteverde made the film Bella together.

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