Chloè Mortaud (born 19 September 1989,

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) is a French actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss France 2009. She represented the Albigeois Midi Pyrénées, a southwest region of

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, and became the first winner of the

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beauty pageant to have dual citizenship, French and American. Mortaud received US citizenship through her mother, an African American who emigrated from

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, and has a grandmother who lives in

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. Her father is French and she has a younger brother Grégoire Mortaud.

Miss Universe 2009

Mortaud represented

at the

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pageant and finished in 6th place overall barely missing the top 5 by a mere one-fifth of a point (0.219). This pageant was won by Venezuelan Stefanía Fernández.

Miss World 2009

Mortaud became a finalist at

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(3rd runner-up) finals on 12 December 2009. She also placed 3rd runner up at the

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competition and placed among the top 12 in the

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competition. Out of seven delegates who competed at

and

, only Chloé and Miss South Africa

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made the finals in both pageants.

After Miss France

In 2017, Chloé joined journalist Christophe Roux as the French commentators for

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in the Philippines, which aired live in France on

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References

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