Joyce Giraud Biography
Joyce Giraud is a model, actress, philanthropist, and film and television producer from Puerto Rico. First, in 1994, she competed in Miss World but did not make the top ten and lost to Miss India, Aishwarya Rai.
Joyce Giraud Age
Giraud is 47 years old as of 2022. She was born Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica on 4 April 1975 in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico.
Joyce Giraud Height
Giraud stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches(1.73 m).
Joyce Giraud Family
Giraud has not shared any information regarding her loving parents, in 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as quickly as possible.
Joyce Giraud Husband and Children
Giraud is married to Oscar nominee producer Michael Ohoven. Leonardo Alexander Michael Mario Benjamin Giraud de Ohoven, born in 2010, and Michael Valentino Mario Arthur Benjamin Giraud de Ohoven, born in 2011, are their two children.
Joyce Giraud Education
Giraud graduated at the age of 16 and immediately began modeling. Giraud studied at Puerto Rico’s Interamerican University. She holds two bachelor’s degrees, one in social work and one in special education. After graduation, she worked in Puerto Rico with underprivileged children and public housing projects.
Joyce Giraud Salary
Giraud has been very secretive with her annual pay scale as of now, 2021. However, there is no doubt that she has been accustomed to good pay in terms of salary as she has been able to work with profound films. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more information on the same from our trusted sources.
Joyce Giraud Net Worth
Giraud has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Joyce Giraud Pageant and modeling
Giraud is one of the few Puerto Rican supermodels who has appeared on magazine covers and in international campaigns. Giraud competed in a number of beauty pageants in her early career, becoming a titleholder multiple times before winning the Miss Universe 1998 pageant and finishing as second runner-up. She has previously represented Puerto Rico at Miss World 1994 and is a two-time Miss Puerto Rico. Giraud was crowned Miss World Puerto Rico in 1994, and she also received the titles of Most Beautiful Hair, Most Beautiful Smile, Most Beautiful Face, and Best Runway. Later, she represented Puerto Rico in the Queen of the Atlantics International in Spain, where she was crowned Queen of the Atlantics in 1995.
In 1997, she represented Puerto Rico in the Miss Venus International pageant in Jacksonville, Florida, and won the title for her hometown. Giraud was crowned Miss Aguas Buenas in 1998 and Miss Universe Puerto Rico the following year. She also received awards for Most Beautiful Hair, Most Beautiful Face, Best Body, and Miss Photogenic.
Despite a scandal that nearly cost her the crown due to some sexy modeling shots, Giraud was cleared by Donald Trump to compete in the Miss Universe 1998 pageant in Hawaii, where she was a crowd favorite and finished as second runner-up behind Venezuela’s Veruska Ramrez and Trinidad and Tobago’s winner Wendy Fitzwilliam. Later that year, she published “Joyce, Dreams and Realities,” a book based on her Miss Universe experiences. Giraud was the only unbeaten model to win every episode of Star Search aka Destination Stardom in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2000.
Joyce Giraud Career
Giraud began modeling to help her mother pay for her mother’s university studies and quickly rose to become one of Puerto Rico’s top models. She has appeared in a number of national and international advertisements. She describes being discovered while working at a KFC restaurant’s drive-thru.
Giraud discovered her love of acting after winning Miss Universe Puerto Rico when director Vicente Castro cast her as the lead in his Coralito Tiene Dos Maridos, a remake of Sonia Braga’s Dona Flor y Sus Dos Maridos. She received such positive feedback that she discovered a new passion in life. Giraud moved to Miami, Florida after doing many minor roles in her native Puerto Rico, where she continued her successful modeling career. After becoming the unbeaten model of Star Search in 2001, she decided to relocate to Los Angeles, where she has appeared in numerous films and television shows.
Giraud has appeared in David Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as well as Dude, Where’s My Car?, Miss Castaway, and Slayer. She has appeared in television shows such as Baywatch, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Heist, and Joey. She starred as “Angel” in Tyler Perry’s House of Payne for the first two seasons beginning in 2007, and she was a lead in NBC’s Siberia in 2013. She joined the fourth season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills in 2013, becoming the show’s first Latina housewife.
During her time on the show, she received the “Loveliest Locks” award from Bravo’s The Real Housewives Awards. Giraud is credited as a co-producer on the upcoming film Back Roads, which is based on the bestselling novel. Giraud founded the annual international beauty pageant Queen of the Universe in 2012 to benefit the UNESCO Foundation for Children in Need programs. She has since produced and directed the annual event. Giraud founded the YOU Foundation for Children in Need in Senegal, Africa, in 2014.
She co-created and serves as executive producer of the Spanish-language reality show Rica, Famosa, Latina in 2014. She also created the companion talk show Rica la Noche in 2015, serving as both host and executive producer.
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