Ushoshi Sengupta

Ushoshi Sengupta is an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of I Am She – Miss Universe India and represented India in Miss Universe 2010 held at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, on 23 August 2010.^[2]

Ushoshi Sengupta
Ushoshi Sengupta
Born	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[1]
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	I AM She 2010
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Brown
Major competition(s)	I AM She 2010 (Winner) Miss Universe 2010 unplaced

Early life

Born in Kolkata, Sengupta is the daughter of an official in the Indian Air Force.^[3] She graduated from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballygunje, Kolkata, where she excelled at mathematics and was offered a scholarship to an engineering college, but decided to pursue liberal arts and professional modeling. She has a bachelor's degree in Humanities from the St. Xavier's College, Kolkata of the University of Calcutta, and worked as a model^[4] before becoming Miss Universe India. Sengupta made her debut in the Bengali movie industry with Egoler Chokh which was released in August 2016 and was directed by Arindam Sil.^[5]

Filmography

Film career

Year	Name	Language	Director	Co-cast	Character
2012	Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen	Hindi	Sajid Khan	Akshay Kumar, Asin, John Abraham, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez	Cameo
2013	Goodbye December	Malayalam	Sajeed A.	Nandini Rai
2016	Eagoler Chokh	Bengali	Arindam Sil	Saswata Chatterjee, Joya Ahsan, Payel Sarkar, Anirban Bhattacharya, Gaurav Chakraborty, Arunima Ghosh, June Malia	Shyamangi

Miss Universe 2010

Ushoshi won the first edition of I am She - Miss Universe India, a national pageant organized by Tantra Entertainment Private limited, in collaboration with former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen. As the official representative of her country to the 2010 Miss Universe pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada on 23 August 2010, she participated as one of the 83 delegates who vied for the crown of eventual winner, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico.