Angelika Jakubowska is the winner of Miss Polonia 2009 and her country’s representative to the Miss Universe 2009 pageant, to be held at the Atlantis Paradise Island, in Nassau, the Bahamas on 23 August 2009.
Laura Valenti (born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy) is the winner of the Miss Universo Italia 2009 pageant that was held at the Palariccione in Riccione, Emilia-Romagna on May 24, 2009. She will represent Italy at the Miss Universe 2009 pageant at the Atlantis Paradise Island, in Nassau, Bahamas on August 23. Were she to advance to the semifinals, it would mark the fifth time that two Italian delegates managed to make the first cut back to back: in 2008, Claudia Ferraris ended up 9th at the end of the competition. It previously only happened in 1953/54, 1956/57, 1963/64 and 1982/83.
Zsuzsa Budai finished as first runner-up to Orsolya Serdült in the A Királynő 2009 (The Queen of 2009) pageant held at the capital city of Budapest. The towering 181 beauty is just 21 years old and hails from Budapest. Zsuzsa, who is a top favorite, will represent Hungary in Miss Universe 2009 contest to be held in the Bahamas in August 2009.
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Denisa Mendrejova a 23 year old student of Economics was crowned as the new Miss Universe Slovakia (Slovak Republic) 2009 in a beauty pageant held at Bratislava last March 29.
Denisa is also a model and stands 1.75m tall. She will represent her country at the Miss Universe 2009 Contest to be held on August 23 at Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas.
Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an English actress. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn “Evy” Carnahan-O’Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. In 2001, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in the hit About a Boy and continued to garner leading roles in Hollywood productions. Her performance in The Constant Gardener (2005) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with other major motion picture awards.
Helen Svedin (born October 22, 1976 in Solleftea, Sweden) is a Swedish model.
The face of H&M, she is married to Portuguese footballer Luís Figo. They met in 1996 at a Joaquín Cortés show in Barcelona. They have three daughters: Daniela (born 1999), Martina (born 2002), and Stella (born 2004) and they’re expecting a fourth child. They presently live in Milan, Italy where Figo currently plays for local football team F.C. Internazionale Milano.
Federica Ridolfi was born on March 2, 1974, in Rome, Italy. Her father is actor Gianni Ridolfi, who appeared alongside screen legends Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in various films.
Studying dance since her early teens, Ridolfi began her career in the world of entertainment as a professional dancer when she was 17. She appeared in Bagaglino in 1991, and between 1993 and 1997 she appeared in a few Italian variety and talk shows, including Beato tra le donne and Furore.
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