Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Name Riza Santos Weight 116 lb (53 kg) Role Actress | Hair color Black Eye color Brown | |
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Full Name Riza Raquel Buenaventura Santos Majorcompetition(s) Miss Earth Canada 2006(Winner)Miss Earth 2006(Miss Photogenic)Miss World Canada 2011(Winner)Miss World 2011(Top 31)Miss Universe Canada 2013(Winner)Miss Universe 2013(Unplaced) Movies Dobol Trobol: Lets Get Redi 2 Rambol!, Road Raiders Parents Dina Buenaventura, Ruel Santos Similar People Denise Garrido, Tanya Garcia, Dolphy, Vic Sotto, Hil Hernandez Profiles | ||
Miss universe canada 2013 riza santos
Riza Raquel Santos (born August 31, 1986) is a Canadian actress, TV Host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Earth Canada 2006, Miss World Canada 2011 and Miss Universe Canada 2013.
Contents
- Miss universe canada 2013 riza santos
- Riza santos october 2007
- Personal life
- Television experience and honours
- Miss Universe Canada 2013
- Previous pageant experience
- Filmography
- References
Riza santos october 2007
Personal life
Santos was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. Her parents immigrated to Canada in the 1970s. Santos is of mixed heritage: Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese.
As an advocate for environmental protection, Santos worked with the Canadian International Development Agency upon graduating high school. She also attended Rocky Mountain Bible and the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering.
Television experience and honour(s)
During her participation with Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2, she played for Bantay Bata, ABS-CBN Foundation's charitable institution. On Day 84, she was proclaimed the second-place winner of the show. In 2008 and 2009, she hosted the Asian Poker Tour. She has made several other television and film appearances.
She also landed at #18 in the "FHM's 100 Sexiest Women" in the Philippines in 2008.
Miss Universe Canada 2013
Santos competed at the 2013 edition of Miss Universe Canada held in Toronto where she was hailed 1st Runner up to Denise Garrido. 24 hours later, it was later revealed that she originally won due to a typo error in the ratings of the Top 5 entries, which afterwards, significantly impacted the final results of the competition. A week later, she was officially crowned as the new Miss Universe Canada 2013 in her hometown, Calgary, Alberta. This is the first instance of this type of error in the 11 years that Beauties of Canada (BOC) has produced the Miss Universe Canada pageant. Garrido has actually ranked as third runner-up.
Previous pageant experience
She is a Triple National Pageant winner, having gone on to compete in three of the Big Four international beauty pageants. She competed and won Miss Earth Canada 2006, Miss World Canada 2011 and most recently Miss Universe Canada 2013. She competed in the Miss Earth 2006 pageant, in which she was given the Miss Earth Photogenic 2006, Miss Earth Talent 2006 Finalist, 5 Special Awards. She also competed in Miss World 2011 contest, where she placed 30th out of 120 contestants and she also placed 4th in the Sport Talent competition. . She later represented Canada at the Miss Universe 2013 competition in Moscow, Russia but failed to place.