Freida Pinto
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| Freida Pinto | |
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 Pinto at the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival. | |
| Born | Freida Selena Pinto 18 October 1984 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 2006–present |
Freida Selena Pinto[1] (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress and model best known for her portrayal of Latika in the 2008 Academy Awardwinning film Slumdog Millionaire, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. After the success of the film she went on to star in the films such as You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Miral—in which she played the title character—and the box-office hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Pinto was born into a Mangalorean Catholic family in Mumbai,[2][3][4] which she still refers to as Bombay out of habit.[5] Her surname is of Portuguese origin as the result of her ancestors' conversion to Catholicism by missionaries.[6][7] Her mother, Sylvia, is the principal of St. John's Universal High School (Goregaon), and her father, Frederick, is a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda. Her elder sister, Sharon, who is an associate producer for the NDTV news channel.[8] Pinto dreamed of becoming an actress since she was five years old.[9] When Freida was ten, Sushmita Senwon Miss Universe 1994, which turned out to be a defining point in Freida's life.[2] She studied at Carmel of St. Joseph School in Malad, Mumbai and completed a degree in arts with a major in English Literature, and minors in Psychology and Economics, from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.[9][10][11]She had also acted in plays and amateur theatre while attending St. Xavier's.[2] She later joined Elite Model Management and
modelled for two and a half years.[9]
