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Maureen Hingert | |
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| Born | Maureen Neliya Hingert (1937-01-09) 9 January 1937 Colombo, Sri Lanka (Formerly Ceylon) |
| Spouse(s) | Mario Armond Zamparelli (m. 1958) |
| Children | Gina Zamparelli and 2 other daughters |
Maureen Neliya Hingert (born 9 January 1937) is a Sri Lankan dancer, model and actress. She is the only Sri Lankan representative to win an award at a Miss Universe pageant after finishing as the runner-up at the 1955 event.[citation needed]
She was heralded a favorite for the world beauty crown together with “Miss Sweden”, “Miss USA”, “Miss England”, “Miss Philippines” and “Miss El Salvador.”
Due to her very high placement in the Miss Universe Pageant, she has long been revered as "putting Sri Lanka on the map" and being an ambassador to her country, Sri Lanka.[citation needed]
Hingert was born on 9 January 1937 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her father was the President of the Bank of Ceylon Sri Lanka and also an owner of real estate and tea plantations. The family lived in a well-known mansion on Lorensz Road, Bambalapitiya, Colombo.[citation needed]
Hingert was born in Ceylon, Sri Lanka and both Hingert and her parents are of Dutch Burgher ancestry.
Hingert attended school at the Holy Family Convent in Colombo until she was eighteen and continued her college education in Los Angeles, CA.
In 1955, Hingert was crowned Miss Ceylon in her country and subsequently selected as a contestant in the 1955 Miss Universe pageant.[citation needed]
Following the contest, Hingert was put under contract to Universal International Studios and 20th Century Fox.[citation needed]
Some of the movies she appeared in include: The King and I, Fort Bowie, Gun Fever, The Adventures of Hiram Holiday, Moroccan Halk Moth, Pillars of the Sky, Dangerous Search, Gunmen from Laredo, The Rawhide Trail and the British TV Series Captain David Grief. She was sometimes billed in films as Jana Davi.
She was also a dancer and gave solo performances at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and other major Los Angeles venues.
She married designer/artist, Mario Armond Zamparelli in 1958. Zamparelli was an American artist and designer, best known for his connection with Howard Hughes. For 18 years, Zamparelli was Chief Executive Designer of Hughes’ empire,[citation needed]
They had three daughters, one of whom, Gina Zamparelli (died on 2018), who achieved fame in the arts and entertainment and was active in the field of historic preservation.
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Maureen Hingert on IMDb
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