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Freida Pinto Profile |
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Birth Date: October 18, 1984
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Birth Place: Bombay, Maharashtra, India
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Birth Name: Freida Pinto
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Freida Pinto is an Indian actress and professional model,
best known for her performance as Latika in her debut film
Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best
Picture in 2009. Pinto won a Screen Actors Guild Award for
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and
was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a
Supporting Role.
Freida Pinto was born in Mumbai to Sylvia Pinto, a principal
of St. John’s Universal High School (Goregaon), and
Frederick Pinto, a senior branch manager at the Bank of
Baroda. Freida Pinto's father is from Neerude and mother
from Derebail, both towns in Mangalore. Her elder sister
Sharon Pinto is an associate producer on the NDTV news
channel.
Pinto studied at Carmel of St. Joseph School in Malad and
completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English
Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She currently
resides in Malad, a suburb of Mumbai.
She is also trained in different forms of Indian classical
dance as well as Salsa.
Pinto met Rohan Antao while attending St Xavier's College in
Mumbai. The two began dating and got engaged in 2008, but
Pinto called off the engagement in January 2009. |
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Other
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Freida's parents are from Mangalore, a coastal town in
southern India. Her father is a banker, while her mother is
the principal of a High School. Her sister, Sharon, is a
producer with the Indian news channel, NDTV.
Trained in some forms of Indian classical dance as well as
Salsa.
Was engaged to her fiancé Rohan Antao from 2007 until
January 2009. They had been in a relationship since 2003. |
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since March 23, 2009