Leyla Milani (born Leyla Razzari on April 2, 1982, in Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian born Iranian (Persian) model, actress and noted fashion designer. Leyla was raised in Canada and resides in Beverly Hills, California.

Milani has appeared on the following:

World Wrestling Entertainment Diva Search 2005, Deal or No Deal, Sleeper Cell, Las Vegas, Attack of the Show!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Stacked, Desire, Wanted and on the film WrestleManiac. Maxim magazine features Milani and her fellow Deal or No Deal briefcase models in their online Girls of Maxim gallery

Wrestling

Milani was a contestant in World Wrestling Entertainment's 2005 RAW Diva Search, finishing second out of 8000 contestants world-wide. Following that, she made an appearance at PWG After School Special.

She later appeared on one of the USA Network's Raw Fan Nation commercials, which are a series commercials advertising WWE Raw, featuring people from a stockbroker to Snoop Dogg.

She appeared in a national Budweiser Beer Commercial which ran during the 2006 Super Bowl. She played a rapper's girlfriend.

Other appearances

Milani can be seen as a model on NBC's hit game show Deal or No Deal. She is namely known for her "lioness-like" mane, which she has confirmed is all hers. She holds case #13 since the beginning of the show. Although 13 is usually considered the unluckiest of numbers, she is often referred to on the show as "Lucky Leyla" or "Lucky 13" as many times her case had contained 6 digit amounts and in eight instances contained the $1,000,000 top prize. Nonetheless, NBC once opened the show noting that by holding all the large amounts and not being picked at the beginning, case #13 was very unlucky during most of the first season. On at least one occasion during the second season, case #13 contained a seven-figure prize.[2]

Leyla's past reputation (and also maybe her striking looks) has caused many contestants to recognize her on the show.

Milani has made multiple appearances on the Fox News' conservative satire show The Half Hour News Hour, as a celebrity looking for a charity to support. She hosted FOX Sport Net's Celebrity Golf tournament. Milani recently made a cameo appearance on LOGO channel series Noah's Arc as a woman applying for a job. She has also appeared on MTV's True Life: I'm A TV Star, and My Fair Brady.

She has appeared in music videos for 50 Cent, The Pharcyde and Jennifer Lopez, and as a rapper's girl named Monday in a Bud Light Super-Bowl Commercial.

She is in the indie horror film Wrestlemaniac,[3] and the indie comedy The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down.

She also made an appearance on an episode of NBC's Last Comic Standing and Phenomenon. She was one of a handful of models chosen to make a special appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah picked Leyla's case (number 8 for this show). Oprah later chanted Leyla's name as her dog's name is also "Leyla."


Notes

1. ^ Girls of Maxim. Maxim magazine online.
2. ^ (September 29, 2006) Episode 2.7. GameShowNews.com. Accessed 2007-05-15.
3. ^ "Bio" (2007). LeylaMilani.com. Accessed 2007-06-25.


* Leyla Milani Exclusive Interview (2007)
* NBC.com's Deal or No Deal Model Profile on Leyla
* Leyla Milani at the Internet Movie Database
* Leyla at MySpace