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Miss Angola Leila Lopes (Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes) named the 60th Miss Universe titleholder in the recently concluded Miss Universe 2011 pageant in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Born in Benguela, Angola on February 26, 1986, Lopes is a business management student in Great Britain where she was crowned Miss Angola UK on October 8, 2010 and became the official representative of the Angolan community in the United Kingdom to the 2011 Miss Angola pageant.

Lopes, who stands 1.79 m (5 ft 10.5 in) tall, competed as one of 21 finalists in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Angola, held in Luanda on December 18, 2010. Aside from the Miss Angola crown, she also received the Miss Photogenic Award and the right to represent Angola in Miss Universe 2011 where she recently declared as the winner.

This is the first Miss Universe crown for Angola since they joined the beauty pageant in 1998.

Leila Lopes