Miss Island Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir, a 21-year-old anthropology and law student
was crowned Miss World 2005 and became the third Miss World from Iceland. Unnur
who describes herself as an 'organised, ambitious and good-humoured'
person, won the hearts and minds of the judges at the 55th Miss World contest,
held for a record third time in the southern
Hainan province in China. She beat
beauty queens from other 101 countries.
A student cum part-time policewoman,
Unnur, was born in the Capital
Reykjavik but grew up in a small town called Seltjarnarnes. The dark-haired
and hazel eyed Unnur is not
the first Miss Iceland in her family, her mother Unnur Steinsson won the title
in 1983 and went on to be one of the top five in Miss World 1983.
Her hobbies include Acting, singing, all types
of dancing, snow-boarding, hiking, camping,
horsemanship and has a special talent for choreography and playing
the piano and her favourite motto is 'You are what you do' or
'You
are what you make'.
