Miss Ohio USA Miss Ohio USA The Miss Ohio USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Ohio in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by that winner. It has previously been known as Miss Ohio Universe. Two Ohio representatives, Sue Downey in 1965 and Kim Seelbrede in 1981, have won the Miss USA title and competed in the Miss Universe pageant. The pageant is currently held in Springfield and has previously been hosted by Mentor, Steubenville and Portsmouth. The most notable Miss Ohio USA is actress and Oscar winner Halle Berry, who
Mary-Jean O'Doherty artist performing in Raymond Gubbay's "Classical Spectacular". In March 2015, it was announced that O'Doherty would be a member of the Armenian group Genealogy in their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. Along with the other foreign members of Genealogy, she received an Armenian passport from President Serzh Sargsyan on 28 April 2015. Mary-Jean O'Doherty Mary-Jean Anaïs O'Doherty is an American coloratura soprano. She was the first prize winner in the 2013 Paris Opera Awards. O'Doherty was born in Houston, Texas, to an Australian father and an Armenian mother, Eliza Basmadjian, from Greece. She was educated at North Carolina