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Titleholders Halle Berry
Halle Berry's pageant titles include: Miss Teen All American, Miss Ohio-USA, first runner-up to Miss USA 1986, and 4th runner-up to Miss World 1986. S She is the first African-American woman ever to win an Academy Award for her performance in the film, Monster's ball in 2002.
2002 Academy
Award:
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Monster's Ball
Lindsay Bloom Delta Burke One of the best known "losers" at the Miss America Pageant, Delta competed as Miss Florida in the 1974 contest. She failed to make the top ten after performing her British dramatic recital about soon-to-be-executed Queen Anne Boleyn, with a Southern accent. Later, she trademarked the role of former beauty queen as Suzanne Sugarbaker on the hit series, Designing Women, and starred in Filthy Rich and Love and Curses and All That Jazz. Delta's other pageant titles included Miss Florida Flame, Miss Veteran's Day, Miss Orlando Action Princess, and Miss All-American Girl.
Carlson began her broadcasting career as a political
reporter for WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia. She then
served as a weekend anchor and reporter for KXAS-TV in
Dallas, TX, was an anchor and reporter at WOIO-TV in
Cleveland, OH, and for WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. She went
on to serve as a news correspondent for the CBS News and
co-anchor of the CBS Saturday Early Show.
Gretchen joined
FOX News (FNC) as an anchor in June 2005. She serves
as co-anchor of Fox's live morning show, "FOX
& Friends," which is rated as cable's number one
morning program.
Gretchen's work as a television journalist has been honored by three American Women in Radio and Television National Awards (Gracie Awards), including awards for her coverage of domestic violence, daycare security, and best network feature.
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Cornett, Miss America 1992, who was the first Miss Florida to win the
Miss America title, has appeared as a reporter on Entertainment Tonight,
co-hosted numerous shows including Lifetime Network's
New Attitudes, and starred in Barefoot in the Park.
Jamie Nicole Dudney Miss Tennessee 1993 now appears as Georgia in the daytime soap, As the World Turns.
Lara Dutta
Bobbie Eakes Eakes, who competed as Miss Georgia in the 1982 Miss America Pageant, won the role of Macy on The Bold and the Beautiful.
Mary Frann won the 1961 America's Junior Miss title before going on to star as Joanna Loudon on the hit sitcom Newhart. She attended Northwestern University and founded the America's Junior Miss Council in 1995. Frann died in 1998.
Phyllis George Phyllis, who won the 1971 Miss America title as Miss Texas, was the only winner to drop her crown on live television. She went on to become the first successful female sports anchor (NFL Today) and starred on Candid Camera, People, and CBS's The Morning News. She later served as First Lady of Kentucky with (now ex-) husband, John Y. Brown.
Kathie Lee Gifford Before rising
to TV fame as star of Live with Regis and Kathie Lee,
Kathie Lee Gifford represented Maryland in the America's Junior Miss Pageant.
Karen Morris was crowned America's Junior Miss of 1974. She graduated from the University of Wyoming and married Curt Gowdy Jr. Karen's career in acting has included playing Dr. Faith Coleridge for almost a decade on the Emmy-winning Ryan's Hope.
Mary Hart Famed for her insured legs and perennial perkiness, the anchor of Entertainment Tonight competed as Mary Johanna Harum, Miss South Dakota, in the 1970 Miss America Pageant. She made the top ten, but lost to Phyllis George. Hart later co-hosted PM Magazine and co-hosted with Regis Philbin before moving on to E.T. fame.
Cheryl Lynn Herring Cheryl, who competed as Miss Virginia and 4th runner-up in the 1977 Miss USA Pageant. She later appeared in the ABC soap opera, General Hospital, as Lucy Quartermaine Coe.
Laura Herring Laura, the first Latina to win the Miss USA title (1985), went on to marry a European count and star in the daytime television series, Sunset Beach, as Carla on General Hospital, and in the sexy film, The Forbidden Dance.
Kelly Hu Kelly Hu, the
former Miss Teen USA of Chinese-Hawaiian lineage, has achieved
success in the entertainment field, starring in Martial Law opposite
Sammo Hung.
Jayne Kennedy The former NFL Today co-host broke racial barriers when she competed as Miss Ohio in the 1970 Miss USA Pageant.
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen Thiessen parlayed her titles, Miss Junior America and winner of the 'Teen Magazine Model Search, into a successful television career. The actresses roles include Saved by the Bell and Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills 90210 (She replaced Shannen Doherty).
Gina Tolleson
Marilyn Van Derbur Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America 1958, remains one the most respected Miss Americas ever. Her road to the national crown was serendipity, according to the book Miss America: In Pursuit of the Crown". According to the book, Marilyn Van Derbur was literally drafted into the Miss University of Colorado Pageant by her sorority sisters when she was called out of a meeting for a long distance phone call. Marilyn nearly panicked.
Raquel Welch
Her film credits include the memorable role of prehistoric babe in One Million B.C. Her career break came when she appeared with Mae West in the film, Myra Breckinridge. On Broadway, she starred in Woman of the Year and in Victor/Victoria. Her business acumen has been demonstrated through her highly successful line of Raquel Welch wigs.
1974
Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical
or Comedy for The
Three Musketeers
Bridgette
Wilson-Sampras Bridgette went into acting and appeared on Saved By The Bell, Billy Madison, the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Last Action Hero, Mortal Kombat, Love Stinks, Shop Girl, I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Wedding Planner. In 2000, she married tennis star Pete Sampras, with whom she has two sons, Christian and Ryan. See Bridgette Wilson movies
Vanessa Williams
Sadly, she was asked to resign when Penthouse magazine published sexually-explicit photos she had posed for earlier.
She has conquered Broadway, starring as the lead in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and films. In 1996 she starred opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action film, Eraser. In
2006, she added television stardom to her repertoire when she was signed
to play Wilhelmina Slater on the ABC hit,
Ugly Betty.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah began her career in broadcasting at Nashville's radio-WVOL while she was in high school. At age, she became the youngest person and the first African-American woman to anchor the news at Nashville's WTVF-TV. In 1985, the A.M. Chicago Show which she hosted, was re-named The Oprah Winfrey Show - which became the highest rated talk show in television history. That year, she made her acting debut as "Sofia" in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple. She was nominated for both Academy Awardฎ and Golden Globe honors.
In 2000, Oprah and Hearst Magazines launched O, The Oprah Magazine, a monthly women's lifestyle magazine. In 2006, she fulfilled her dream of founding an elite private educational program for impoverished African girls when she founded The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy.
Michelle Yeoh Named,
Miss Malaysia in 1983, most Americans know
her as Pierce Brosnan's sidekick, Chinese secret agent Wai Lin,
in the James Bond flick, Tomorrow Never Dies. But the
former Miss Malaysia (1983) is known throughout Asia as a kung-fu
queen who has starred in nine movies including the mega-hit,
Police Story III: Supercop. And, yes, she performs her
own dangerous stunts.
Paula Zahn
She now anchors the
CNN news program Paul Zahn Now, which focusing
on exposing intolerance and social injustice.
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Karen
Morris Gowdy 
MacGraw's
film career has including playing the leading lady
to some of Hollywood's greatest actors. MacGraw
starred in Goodbye, Columbus (1969) for which she won
a Golden Globe award
for "New Female Star of the Year",
The Getaway (1972) with Steve McQueen,
Convoy (1978 with Earnest Borgnine, Players
(1979), China Rose (1983) with George C.
Scott, and The Winds of War (1983) with Robert
Mitchum.
ulie Bryan Moran was named America's Junior Miss 1980 before graduating
magna cum laude from the University of Georgia with a degree in
journalism.
Aishwarya
Rai
Chosen
as America's Junior Miss 1963, Diane used her pageant scholarship
money to attend Wellesley College, worked as a weathergirl, then
press aide to Richard Nixon during his presidency and after his
Watergate resignation. 
Before becoming
an Emmy Award-winning television talk show host, Oprah Winfrey
won the 1971 Miss Fire Prevention and Miss Black Tennessee titles.
When asked what she would do with a million dollars, Winfrey
delighted the judges when she blurted out, "I'd be a spending
fool!" She competed in the Miss Black America Pageant, but
failed to make the finals.
