Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto

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Freida Pinto Profile

  • Name:
  • Freida Pinto
  • Born:
  • October 18, 1984
  • Father:
  • Frederick Pinto
  • Mother:
  • Sylvia Pinto
  • Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in English literature

  • Awards:
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

    Palm Springs International Film Festival – Breakthrough Performance Award

Freida Pinto Biography

Freida Selena Pinto is an Indian film actress and model. She came to limelight after her performance in the award winning film Slumdog Millionaire. She got chances to perform in many mega hits following the success of that film.

 

Freida was born on 18th October 1984 in a Catholic Christian family in Mumbai. Her father’s name is Frederick and her mother’s name is Sylvia. Her father is working as a senior branch manager at Bank of Baroda and her mother is the principal of the St. John’s Universal High School in Goregaon. She has one elder sister named Sharon who works as an associate producer for NDTV news channel.

 

Pinto completed her schooling at Carmel of St. Joseph School in Malad in Mumbai and completed her Bachelor’s degree in English literature from St. Xavier’s College at Mumbai. It was her childhood dream to become an actress and has performed in some plays during her school days. She started her modeling career with Elite Model Manangement after completing her studies. She was engaged to Rohan Antao but the engagement was short lived and broke off. She lives with her boyfriend Dev Patel, the co-star of the film Slumdog Millionaire in Los Angeles.

 

Before she was casted in Slumdog Millionaire, she was anchoring the travel show from 2006 to 2008 titled Full Circle on Zee International Asia Pacific. She has done modeling for various products such as Skoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, DeBeers and Wrigley’s Chewing Gum. She has been portrayed in many magazine covers.

 

She played the role of Latika in the film Slumdog Millionaire filmed in 2008. It won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She got a place in the People’s magazine of 2009 in the Most Beautiful People List and List of World’s Best Dressed Women.

 

She acted in the comedy drama, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. It was screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. She also acted in the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She was featured in the Top 99 Most Desirable Women poll conducted by Askmen.com in 2010. She supports the philanthropic organization Agassi Foundation that raises funds for education of the underprivileged.

 

She is starred in the movie Trishna which is based on the novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. This film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Some of the films in her career are You will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Miral, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Trishna, Immortals, Black Gold, etc.

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Updated: July 08, 2018

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