Nadine Ames

Nadine Alexandra Dewi Ames (born 23 May 1991) is an Indonesian actress, model, philanthropist and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Puteri Indonesia 2010 and represented her country in the Miss Universe 2011 pageant held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011.

Early life, education and advocacy
Ames was born in Winchester, England - Great Britain, to an English father Clive Robbin Ames and Javanese mother Noer Hayati Dewi who hailed from Surakarta, Central Java - Indonesia. Her family moved to Jakarta when she was two months old, she spent most of her childhood in Jakarta.

Ames attending the North Jakarta International School and Gandhi Memorial International School, she also took modelling course at the OQ Modelling School, in Kelapa Gading which lead to her appearance in the Indonesian soap opera Inikah Cinta. In 2013, Ames holds a Bachelor degree of Fine Arts (BFA) in Filmmaking and Television from Bath Spa University in Bath, Somerset, England.

Ames is a polyglot, she fluently speaks in English, French and Indonesian. Since 2010, Ames involved in wildlife conservation for protected species of Orangutan together with an Indonesian non-profit non-governmental organization Borneo Orangutan Survival founded by Dr.Willie Smits.

Puteri Indonesia 2010 and Miss Universe 2011
Ames, who stands 1.74m, competed as the representative of Jakarta SCR 4, winning Indonesia's's national beauty pageant, Puteri Indonesia 2010, in Jakarta on 8 October 2010. Ames represented Indonesia in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, in São Paulo, Brazil on 12 September 2011, but was unplaced.