Ali Landry
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Ali Landry
Ali Landry (born July 21, 1973) is an actress best known as a spokesperson for Doritos, for whom she appeared in celebrated commercials aired during the 1998 and 1999 Super Bowls. A trained gymnast, she still required hours of takes to get the seconds of footage doing acrobatic stunts for the commercials. She got national fame after winning the 1996 Miss USA pageant, as the contestant from Louisiana. In later years she has hosted the pageant.
Ali Landry grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana and is of Cajun descent.
She has participated in the show Fear Factor, and was runner up. An avid athlete, she also participated in the Boston Marathon.
Starting in 2003 she played in the UPN sitcom Eve.
She married longtime boyfriend Mario Lopez in 2004, and two weeks after marriage, filed for divorce because she claims that he cheated on her during his bachelor party.
Engaged to director Alejandro Monteverde on Memorial Day, 2005.
Facts & Stats
Full Name: Ali Landry
Height: 5' 8"
Measurements: 36C-24-34
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Miss Louisiana Teen USA (1990)
Miss Teen USA Semi-finalist (1990)
Miss Louisiana USA (1996)
Miss USA (1996)
Miss Universe Top 6 Finalist (1996)
Named by "People" magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world (1998)
She is from the southwestern region of Louisiana, also referred to as "Acadiana," the heart of Cajun country
Quotes
"Sex outdoors is great. I'm not an exhibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see."
"I didn't know what my goal was, but I knew I had to get out and do something exciting."
"I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers."
Filmography
Eve (2003) (TV series)
Who's Your Daddy? (2003) (V)
Will You Marry Me? (2003) (TV)
Spy TV (2001) (TV series) (2002)
Outta Time (2002)
Repli-Kate (2002)
Soulkeeper (2001)
Farmclub.com (2001) (TV series)
Beautiful (2000)
America's Greatest Pets (1998) (TV series)
Sunset Beach (1997) (TV series)
Ali Landry Favorite Faumous Quotes
- I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'
- Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
- Art is a man's nature nature is God's art.
- The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
- The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
- Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.
- Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
- One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- As thou hast sown, so shall thou reap.
Frank Moore