Rafah Nanjeba Torsa (born 9 September 1998) is a Bangladeshi actress, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World Bangladesh 2019. She represented Bangladesh at

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Biography

Torsa's father, Sheikh Morshed, was a lawyer and her mother, Sharmina Akter, is a housewife. Her father died in 2014. She has a younger brother. Torsa is an artist; a trained

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and

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dancer; a theatre artist, mime artist, reciter, and singer. From the age of 11, she's been working as a volunteer in the

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as a "LEO." She received the first prize in folk dancing in the Bangabandhu Shishu Kishor Competition 2009 from Bangladeshi Prime Minister

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. She also won a government grant to visit

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, but could not attend as she was representing

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in a miming competition in

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. Torsa won a gold medal for bharatanatyam in the National Youth Competition 2010. She was the first runner up of

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's Marks All Rounder Competition in 2010. She won the first prize in Chittagong divisional competition of the National Science Competition 2015. She also acted in a 2017 Bangladeshi film, '' Haldaa'', which was directed by

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. She is a third year graduate student of the International Relations Department of

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. Rafah Nanjeba Torsa is also the founder of a non-profit organization named " The Smile Foundation " which started its journey in 2019.

Pageantry

Miss World Bangladesh 2019

* Torsa was crowned as Miss World Bangladesh 2019 on 11 October 2019. She was crowned by the outgoing titleholder

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, Miss World Bangladesh 2018.

Miss World 2019

Torsa represented

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. She was able to win the first head to head challenge against four countries

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Torsa, Rafah Nanjeba Bangladeshi beauty pageant winners Bangladeshi female models Living people Miss World 2019 delegates People from Chittagong District Bangladeshi film actresses Bangladeshi television presenters Bangladeshi women television presenters 1998 births Chittagong Cantonment Public College alumni