Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto's Biography

Birth Name : Freida Selena Pinto

Birth Date : 18 October 1984

Birth Place : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Zodiac Sign : Libra

Freida Pinto Measurement : 32B-23-33

Nationality : Indian

Occupation : Actress, model

Years active : 2006–present

Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress and model best known for her portrayal of Latika in the 2008 Academy Award winning 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.

Early life

Pinto was born into a Mangalorean Catholic family in Mumbai.Her surname is of Portuguese origin as the result of her ancestors' conversion to Catholicism by missionaries. 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. Pinto dreamed of becoming an actress since she was five years old. When Freida was ten, Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe 1994, which turned out to be a defining point in Freida's life. 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. She had also acted in plays and amateur theatre while attending St. Xavier's. She later joined Elite Model Management and modelled for two and a half years.

Pinto was engaged to her former publicist Rohan Antao, before ending that relationship in January 2009. She lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, Slumdog Millionaire co-star Dev Patel.

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