Diana Hayden

Diana Hayden

Beauty pageant titleholder
Hayden at Wake and Walk event in 2016
Born	(1973-05-01) 1 May 1973 Hyderabad, India
Occupation	Model, Actress
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)
Title(s)	Femina Miss India World 1997 Miss World 1997
Major competition(s)	Femina Miss India 1997 (Winner) (Femina Miss World India) Miss World 1997 (Winner) (Miss World Asia & Oceania) (Miss Photogenic) (Spectacular Swimwear)
Spouse	Collin Dick (m. 2013)

Diana Hayden (born 1 May 1973) is an Indian actress, model, and beauty queen. She won the Femina Miss India contest in 1997 and was crowned Miss World 1997. She was a contestant in the Indian reality show Bigg Boss.

Early life

Diana was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, in an Anglo-Indian Christian family.^[1] She attended St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad^[2] and studied Acting and Drama at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, UK. She starred in the Bollywood movie 'Ab Bass' and the Indian TV show Bigg Boss 2.

Before she began modeling, she worked for an event management company called Encore. She then worked as a Public Relations Officer at BMG Crescendo, where she assisted in managing the careers of singers Anaida and Mehnaz Hoosein. On Anaida's recommendation, she entered herself into the Miss India contest in 1997.^[2]

Career

Diana Hayden won the Femina Miss India World crown in 1997 and then went on to win the Miss World crown in the same year. By doing so, she became the third Indian or part-Indian woman to win the Miss World pageant, after Reita Faria in 1966 and Aishwarya Rai in 1994.

Diana walks for Manish Malhotra & Shaina NC's show

Following her tenure as the global representative for the Miss World organization, Hayden moved to the UK and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.^[3] She also studied at the Drama Studio London, where she concentrated on the works of Shakespeare and earned a Best Actress nomination from the studio.^[3] In 2001, she made her screen debut in the film version of Shakespeare's Othello in South Africa. In 2002, she hosted Miss Europe 2002 in Lebanon along with Miss Lebanon 1997 and Julien Lepers. Diana was signed by the Avalon Academy in 2006 as the face of the Academy and currently serves as a celebrity Guest Lecturer for airline personnel training programs.^[3]

In 2008, Diana Hayden became a wild card entry on the second season of the popular Indian TV show Bigg Boss. She was voted off Bigg Boss during Week 13; the episode was aired on 7 November 2008.

Diana Hayden at the finale of Bigg Boss Season 02

She wrote a book called A Beautiful Guide which is an "encyclopedia on grooming and also deals with personality development and confidence building". She took two years to complete the book which was released on 6 August 2012.^[4][5]

Diana launches her own book A Beautiful Truth

Personal life

Diana Hayden married Collin Dick from Las Vegas, United States on 13 September 2013.^[6][7] Collin has been working in Mumbai for an international NGO.^[8]

Filmography

• Othello: A South African Tale (2006)
• Ab Bas (2004)
• Tehzeeb (2003)
• Holby City (TV Series) (2003)
• Lorie/the loving doll (2012)

Diana Hayden in the promotion of her film Ab Bas

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Diana Hayden.

• Diana Hayden at the Internet Movie Database

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Irene Skliva	Miss World 1997	Succeeded by Linor Abargil
Preceded by Rani Jeyraj	Miss World Asia & Oceania 1997	Succeeded by Lina Teoh
Preceded by Ana Cepinska	Miss World Photogenic 1997	Succeeded by Adriana Reis
Preceded by Rani Jeyraj	Femina Miss India World 1997	Succeeded by Annie Thomas

Miss India winners in the Big Four international beauty pageants
Miss World	Reita Faria (1966) Aishwarya Rai (1994) Diana Hayden (1997) Yukta Mookhey (1999) Priyanka Chopra (2000)
Miss Universe	Sushmita Sen (1994) Lara Dutta (2000)
Miss Earth	Nicole Faria (2010)
Miss International	-
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