Career
Due to her very high placement in the Mission Universe Pageant, she has long been revered as "putting Sri Lanka on the map" and being an ambassador to her country, Sri Lanka. Hingert was born on January 9, 1937 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her father was a bank clerk.
The family lived in one of a row of small tenement houses on Lorensz Road, Bambalapitiya, Colombo.
Hingert attended school at the Holy Family Convent in Colombo until she was eighteen
In 1955, Hingert was crowned Mission Ceylon in her country and subsequently selected as a contestant in the 1955 Mission Universe pageant. Following the contest, Hingert was put under contract to Universal International Studios and 20th Century Fox.
Some of the movies she appeared in include: The King and I, Fort Bowie, Gun Fever, The Adventures of Hiram Holiday, Moroccan Halk Moth, Pillars of the Sky, Dangerous Search, Gunman from Laredo, The Rawhide Trail and the British television Series Captain David Grief. She was also a dancer and gave solo performances at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and other major Los Angeles venues.
Mario Armond Zamparelli was an American artist and designer, best known for his connection with Howard Hughes.
Foreign 18 years, Zamparelli was Chief Executive Designer of Hughes’ empire, and also designed airplane interiors for Trans World Airlines, the airline then owned by Hughes.