Aishwarya Rai
AGE: 33
OCCUPATION: Actress
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 1
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 1
PRO: By all accounts one of the most beautiful women in the world, and an immensely popular and critically acclaimed Bollywood actress. The Web contains over 18,000 sites devoted to her.
CON: She's getting older, and just got married — the latter a factor that has undone many a Bollywood actress's career. And despite much fanfare and heavy promotion, her non-Bollywood career has yet to take off.