| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born | Candace Elizabeth Smith[1] February 1, 1977 [2] Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Title(s) | Miss Ohio USA 2003 |
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Miss USA 2003 |
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Candace Smith (born February 1, 1977)[2] is an American, lawyer, actress, model, and beauty queen from Dayton, Ohio.
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Candace won the title of Miss Ohio USA 2003 in Portsmouth, Ohio.[1] Smith went on to represent Ohio in the Miss USA 2003 in San Antonio, Texas. As Miss Ohio USA 2003, Candace dedicated her time to several charities including the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Artemis House (women’s shelter) and the USO.
She was one of "Barker's Beauties" on The Price is Right game show.[3] She went on to have roles on Fox's Method and Red, HBO's Entourage and NBC's Joey. In 2006 she had a memorable role in the Broken Lizard comedy Beerfest. She worked with Broken Lizard again in The Slammin' Salmon in which she plays the sister of Michael Clark Duncan and in The Babymakers. Her breakout role is in David Ayers' End of Watch as a distressed mother who receives help from Jake Gyllenhaal. She has also been featured in several national commercial and print campaigns including Diddy’s Ciroc Vodka commercials, Coors Light and Marshalls.
Candace Smith attended the University of Dayton on a full academic scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Communications. During this time, she completed a Communications and Marketing program at the University of London. Candace attended law school at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. After passing the Ohio Bar exam in 2002,[1][3] Candace began practicing commercial real estate law at the largest law firm in Ohio. It was during this time, she won the title of Miss Ohio USA. Although she relocated to Los Angeles to pursue acting and modeling, she continued to use her law degeree non-traditionally as a consultant for the W.I.N. Project and manager of the Turks and Caicos Film Festival.
Candace appeared as a contestant on Survivor: Tocantins, the eighteenth season of reality show Survivor, where she was the second person to be voted out.
| Preceded by Kimberly Mullen |
Miss Ohio USA 2003 |
Succeeded by Lauren Kelsey Hall |
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