Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen is one of those figures whose single historic moment could have eclipsed everything after it, yet didn't. Winning Miss Universe 1994 as the first Indian woman to do so would have been legacy enough, but what impresses me is how she refused to coast on the crown. She built a real acting career, earned a Filmfare Award, and moved into business on her own terms. I read her as someone who treated beauty as a door rather than a destination.

Name (English)

Sushmita Sen

Name (Japanese)

サスミタ・セン

Reading

さすみた・せん

Born

November 19, 1975 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Origin

Hyderabad, Hyderabad district, India

Height

173 cm

Occupation

actor / model / beauty pageant contestant / film actor / businessperson

High school

St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad

University

Mithibai College

Awards & achievements

• Filmfare Awards
• 1994 Femina Miss India
• Miss Universe 1994

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sushmitasen47/
• Xhttps://x.com/thesushmitasen
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushmita%20Sen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%9F%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q255076

Tags

• Hyderabad district
• actor
• model
• beauty pageant contestant

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.