Elegant Woman - Anja Saranovic, Miss Serbia 2010

Anja Šaranović (born September 12, 1989 in Kraljevo, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian beauty queen who represented her country in Miss International 2010 and will participate in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant.

Šaranović studied law at University of Belgrade's Law School. She speaks English, Russian, Italian and Latin in addition to her native Serbian, and is actively engaged in athletics and swimming. For seven years she attended acting school in Belgrade and started her modeling career at seventeen, participating in Belgrade Fashion Week.

Anja was one of fourteen finalist of Competition in Oratory which was held on January 27, 2011 at the Belgrade Law School.

Elegant Woman - Carey Mulligan, English actress

Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She made her film debut as Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005). She had roles in numerous British programmes and, in 2007, made her Broadway debut in The Seagull to critical acclaim. In 2009, she gained widespread recognition for playing the lead role of Jenny in An Education, winning a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Additionally, Mulligan was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her performance. She appeared in the dramatic films The Greatest and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, as well as Never Let Me Go, all in 2010.

Mulligan was born in Westminster, London, England Her father, Stephen, was originally from Liverpool, and her mother, Nano (née Booth), a college lecturer, came from Llandeilo in West Wales. Her paternal great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland. Mulligan has one sibling; an elder brother. At the age of 3, she moved with her family from England to Germany after her father accepted the job of managing the European arm of Intercontinental Hotels. Due to her father's job, her family lived in expensive hotels for 8 years. She was "quite shy" during her childhood and a tomboy until the age of 15. She was also "quite straight-laced" and very academic until age 14, having then become more interested in acting.

Her interest in acting sparked from watching her brother perform in a school production of The King and I (she would later participate in plays at her school) and attending Broadway plays as a teen. Before acting professionally, she had once secretly applied to and been rejected by three drama schools specified on her UCAS application form. After failing an audition, the rejections made her question whether to pursue an acting career and go through what she called a "confusing time". Aside from rejection, she had also questioned being an actress due to her parents' disapproval of pursuing a job in entertainment. They insisted she attend university and believed Mulligan's desire would wear off. Around this time, she had a brief job as a barmaid at a local pub. She later said that those negative experiences had a positive effect on her because it made her know how much she wanted to act.

Elegant Woman - Sarah Brandner, Bastian Schweinsteiger's girlfriend

Sarah Brandner (born 12 December 1988 in Munich, West Germany) is a German model, and is the girlfriend of footballer Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Brandner was featured in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Body Painting Issue, along with Abbey Clancy, Bethany Dempsey, and Melissa Satta. She has also done notable work for German magazine Bild, and GQ Germany.

Her first modeling job was advertising photos for Stadtwerke München.

 

Elegant Woman - Lena Gercke, Sami Khedira's girlfriend

Lena Johanna Gercke, better known as Lena Gercke (born February 29, 1988 in Marburg, Germany), is a German fashion model and television host. She was winner of the first cycle of Germany's Next Top Model.

Gercke was born in Marburg and grew up in Cloppenburg where she attended the Liebfrauenschule Cloppenburg (ULF), a Roman Catholic gymnasium, completing her abitur in 2007. She has a sister and two half-sisters, who are her father's daughters.

Gercke dated US5-boyband member Jay Khan until December 2009. Since 2011 her boyfriend is Real Madrid footballer Sami Khedira. She lives in Berlin and New York. Her boyfriend posed with her in a tuxedo while she was stark-naked, with his hands covering her breasts (New York Times, March 9, 2012).

Elegant Woman - Katrina Bowden, American actress

Katrina Bowden (born September 19, 1988) is an American actress. She is known for her short role as Britney Jennings on One Life to Live (2006) and for her role as Cerie in 30 Rock (2006–present).

Bowden attended the now-defunct Saint Thomas More School in Midland Park, New Jersey, for her grammar and middle school education. She later attended Immaculate Heart Academy in Township of Washington, Bergen County, New Jersey.

In 2006 she signed on in a two episode-arc on the ABC daytime soap opera television series One Life to Live as Britney. She guest starred in an episode of Law & Order: SVU. She was also in Fall Out Boy's music video for "Dance, Dance".

In 2006 Bowden signed on in the NBC sitcom television series 30 Rock. She portrays the laid back, sexy assistant, Cerie. The series premiered October 11, 2006 and stars Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan. She signed on as a series regular in the second season.

In 2008 she starred in Summit Entertainment's Sex Drive in a supporting role as "Ms. Tasty", and had a supporting role in the 2009 horror movie The Shortcut. Bowden starred as the lead female role in the comedy-horror film Tucker & Dale vs Evil. In 2010 she guest starred in an episode of the ABC series Ugly Betty portraying Heather.

 

Elegant Woman - Paola Turbay Gómez, American actress

Paola Turbay Gómez (born November 29, 1970 in Houston, USA) is an American actress, model, and television presenter.

Turbay represented Bogotá in the Miss Colombia beauty pageant, which she won in 1991. She was the first runner-up in the 1992 Miss Universe competition.

After finishing her studies in psychology at the Universidad de los Andes, Turbay focused on her career as a model and presenter in entertainment news segments on Noticias QAP and Noticiero C newscasts, as well as an actress, with shows like Hola Paola ("Hello Paola") during the 1990s. In 2005 she was the official presenter, with Miguel Varoni, of the National Beauty Pageant. She has also made cameo appearances in several Colombian series like O todos en la cama, Ecomoda (sequel to Betty la fea) and Leche ("Milk").

After studying acting in Hollywood, Florida, Turbay became the main character of the RCN TV comedy Noticias calientes ("Hot News") in 2002. Two years later she would star the telenovela Las noches de Luciana ("The Nights of Luciana") and in 2006 would present the Colombian version of Dancing with the Stars, Bailando por un Sueño. Paola has also made brief appearances in films such as Lenny the Wonder Dog and Love in the Time of Cholera.

In 2007, Turbay played Isabel Vega on the CBS series Cane, which was canceled in May 2008 after only one season. In 2008 she has been participating as a recurring guest star on the ABC series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She also guested on the Showtime series Californication (Season 2, ep. 8, "Going Down and Out in Beverly Hills") and had a recurring role as an LAPD detective during the fifth season of TNT's The Closer.

On Jan. 6, 2010, she played the role of Beatriz on the CBS series The Mentalist (Season 3, ep. 11, "Bloodsport").

Paola has been cast on the role of Antonia Gavilán for the fourth season of the HBO series True Blood airing in 2011.

 

Elegant Woman - Minka Kelly, American actress

Minka Dumont Kelly (born Minka Dumont Dufay; June 24, 1980) is an American actress. She starred in the NBC series Friday Night Lights as Lyla Garrity, the 2011 film The Roommate, and a reboot of the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels. She made several appearances in the first two seasons of Parenthood.

Kelly was born in Los Angele. She is the only child of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and Maureen Dumont Kelly, an exotic dancer and single mother, and the granddaughter of actor and investment advisor Richard Ney. Kelly and her mother often moved to different communities, before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico by the time Kelly was in junior high school .During a Craig Ferguson interview, she stated that she is of French descent on her father's side and Irish descent on her mother's side.

Elegant Woman - Michelle Williams (American actress)

Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. After starting her career with television guest appearances in the early 1990s, Williams achieved recognition for her role as Jen Lindley on the WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek, from 1998 to 2003. Williams graduated to full-length features including Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, her first mainstream film, Dick (1999), a comedy, and Prozac Nation (2001), a biographical film adaption.

Since the 2000s, the actress mostly appeared in dramatic independent films. A career highlight for Williams was starring in 2005's controversial movie Brokeback Mountain, about a homosexual relationship in the 1960s. One of its eight Academy Award nominations was a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Williams. Brokeback Mountain was followed with I'm Not There (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010). Williams's performance as a drifter in 2008's Wendy and Lucy earned her critical praise and her work opposite Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine (2010) led to the actress receiving another Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress. Upcoming films for Williams included playing Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011) and the 2013 3-D Oz: The Great and Powerful.

Her relationship with actor and Brokeback Mountain co-star Heath Ledger remains the most high-profile of Williams's relationships since the 1990s. Before breaking up in 2007, they had one child together: a daughter named Matilda Rose, born October 28, 2005. After his death in January 2008, the media paid close attention to Williams and her daughter; the two were also frequently followed by paparazzi.

Williams was born on September 9, 1980, in Kalispell, Montana, the daughter of Carla Ingrid (née Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, an author and stock and commodities trader. He was also a two-time Republican candidate for the United States senate. She is of Norwegian descent. Since a child, Williams kept to herself and was self-sufficient; as she has said, "I was really secretive with my parents and I think I sort of continued that... I found that by keeping to myself I got on OK. I don't know why." When Williams was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California, and, at an early age, she became interested in acting.