Freida Pinto Biogarphy

Freida Pinto

Pinto at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Dinner in September 2012

Born Freida Selena Pinto

18 October 1984 (age 28)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Nationality Indian

Occupation Actress, model, presenter

Years active 2006–present

Partner(s) Dev Patel (2009–present)

Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress and model. Hailing from a Mangalorean Catholic family, she wanted to become an actress from a young age. Prior to making her cinematic debut, she worked as a model and television presenter, and acted in plays while attending college. Pinto continued modeling for four years and enrolled herself in an acting course at the "Barry John's Acting Studio" in Mumbai where she was trained by Barry John (theatre director).
Pinto rose to prominence playing the role of "Latika" in the 2008 British Indian drama film Slumdog Millionaire, a film that marked her debut. Her performance was well received as she won the "Breakthrough Performance Award" at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In addition, her work was nominated at various award ceremonies such as British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) and MTV Movie Awards. Since then she has starred in a number of British-Indian and Indian-American productions, notably You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Immortals and Trishna where she played the titular character.
In 2009 Pinto became romantically involved with Dev Patel, her co-star in Slumdog Millionaire, with whom she is currently living. Her off-screen roles include being a part of the "Agassi Foundation", a philanthropic organisation started by Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf which looks after providing education for deprived children.

Early life and modeling career

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 High School (Goregaon), and her father, Frederick, is a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda.Pinto has an elder sister, Sharon, who is the associate producer of NDTV, a news channel.Pinto aspired to become an actress since she was five years old.When she was ten, Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe 1994, which inspired the former to become an actress and turned out to be a defining point in her life.Pinto studied at the Carmel of St. Joseph School in Malad, Mumbai where she actively participated in sports and sang in the school choir. She completed a degree in arts with a major in English literature, and minors in Psychology and Economics, from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.
Pinto is an accomplished dancer in Salsa and Classical Indian dance.She had acted in plays and amateur theatre while attending college.Later she joined the Elite Model Management and modeled for two-and-half years.Pinto was featured in several television and print advertisements endorsing products such as Wrigley's Chewing Gum, Škoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, Visa, E-Bay and DeBeers.She modeled for four years and appeared in runway shows and magazine covers including Femina and FNL.She learned acting from "The Barry John's Acting Studio" in Andheri, Mumbai where she was trained by theatre director Barry John.

Acting career.

Career beginnings and breakthrough (2008–10)

Pinto along with the crew of Slumdog Millionaire during its screening at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival.
Before her entry into films, Pinto anchored Full Circle, an international travel show which was aired on Zee International Asia Pacific in English during the period 2006–08.During this time, Pinto got an opportunity to visit countries like Fiji, Malaysia and Thailand, thereby exploring different cultures.By that time Pinto auditioned for numerous films, all of them turned out to be unsuccessful. Later in an interview while being questioned about her rejections she added, "I'm glad things happened the way they happened. I needed to be rejected, and I needed to learn that it's part of the game ... I can have 100 rejections, but I'm sure there's going to be one particular thing that is almost destined for me to have".She received a call for Slumdog Millionaire;she was short-listed and finally selected to star in the film.Directed by Danny Boyle the film starred Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan alongside Pinto. Pinto played the role of Latika, the girl with whom Jamal, the film's lead character would fall in love.The film premiered at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival where it won the Cadillac People's Choice Award.Slumdog Millionaire turned out to be a sleeper hit, receiving universal acclaim,mainly for its plot and soundtrack. It emerged out as the most successful film at the 81st Academy Awards winning eight of the 10 nominations, including major categories such as Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.The film also gained nominations at various award ceremonies including the Golden Globe Awards, where it won four awards. Pinto herself was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2009 BAFTA Awards,In addition, she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture alongside other cast members from the film.
Pinto next starred in Woody Allen's comedy-drama film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, alongside Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Anupam Kher and Naomi Watts.The film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, receiving negative reviews.Pinto played a minor role by the character name Dia.She next appeared in the 2011 science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a reboot of the Planet of the Apes series, where she played Caroline, a primatologist, and was cast opposite James Franco. Pinto played the central character in her next production Miral, a biographical film based on a novel by Rula Jebreal. the film opened to negative reviews. A review from East Bay Express noted, "Pinto handles the central role with a certain dignity, but the real drama is in Miral's rejection of violence in favor of Hind Husseini’s (Abbass) example of education and negotiation."Following that, Pinto starred in 2011 fantasy-action-drama film, Immortals, in which she played the oracle priestess Phaedra.The same year, she played "Princess Lailah" in the 1930s-set period drama film Black Gold; she was cast alongside Antonio Banderas and Mark Strong.

Trishna and the future (2011–present)
In 2011, Pinto starred in Michael Winterbottom's British drama film Trishna alongside Riz Ahmed; she played the titular character in the film. An acclimatization of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the film first premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Described by The Guardian as a "seductive, allegorical study of male-female relationships", the film features Pinto as the daughter of a peasant who falls in love with a London-based hotelier, played by Ahmed.Unlike her previous films, Trishna gained positive response from critics.The film was universally acclaimed as it was nominated for the Best Film Award at the London Film Festival and Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival.Pinto's forthcoming release Desert Dancer is a biographical drama film that revolves around the life of a dancer. Pinto underwent rigorous dance training consisting of eight hours of rehearsals a day lasting for 14 weeks, as demanded by that role.As of 2013, she is scheduled to act with Christian Bale in Knight of Cups,and the romantic thriller NH10, which marks Pinto's Bollywood debut. The film, which began filming in March 2013, has since been delayed.
Media image and personal life

Soon after the release of Slumdog Millionaire, Pinto garnered immense popularity and was frequently included in the "Most Beautiful Women in the World" list. In 2009, she was featured in People magazine's "Most Beautiful People List",and "List of World's Best Dressed Women".The same year, Daily Telegraph reported that Pinto was the highest-paid Indian actress, although she never appeared in a Bollywood film.[She was also included in Vogue's 2009 list of the "top ten most stylish women".On 13 May 2009, Pinto became a new spokesmodel for L'Oréal.A controversy arose when she appeared for a TV commercial for promoting L'Oreal, as many thought it to be racial discrimination from countries that are possessive about fair skin; the commercial showcased Pinto lighter than her true skin tone.In 2010, she was featured in the "Top 99 Most Desirable Women" poll conducted by Askmen.com in 2010.Two years later, People named her one of the "Most Beautiful at Every Age".The following year, Pinto was voted the "Hottest Indian Chick" in a controversial poll conducted by GQ.
Before making her film debut Pinto was engaged to former publicist Rohan Antao; the relationship ended in January 2009.After that she started dating her Slumdog Millionaire co-star Dev Patel. Since then the couple have been living together in Los Angeles.Later in an interview, Pinto stated that she does not want to act with Patel as she feels they will not be able to meet out the "chemistry" they had in their debut film.Pinto was criticised for having "shunned" the Indian film industry.However, she claimed that she is unable to find roles that suit her in Bollywood. She also stated that she enjoys watching Bollywood films and is keen to act in future.
Pinto joined Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf in support of their philanthropic organisation "Agassi Foundation". She is the only Indian actress to have participated in their annual fund raiser titled, "The 15th Grand Slam for Children", aimed at raising funds for the education of underprivileged children.In 2013, she appeared in a video clip for Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign to raise funds and awareness of women's issues in terms of education, health, and justice.In April 2013, Pinto collaborated with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim for the Call to Action - Girl Rising campaign. The documentary film Girl Rising made by Academy Award nominee Richard E. Robbins, showcases the power of education in transforming girls' lives around the globe.

Filmography

List of films acted by Freida Pinto
Year   Film
2008 Slumdog Millionaire
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010 Miral
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 Immortals
2012 Day of the Falcon
2012 Trishna
2013 Knight of Cups
2013 Desert Dancer Mentor
2014 NH10

Freida Pinto Biography

Freida Pinto was built-in in Mumbai, India, on October 18, 1984. Her ancestor is a banker, whimbassador at the Indian account channel, NDTV. Frle her mother is the arch of a Aerial School. Her sister, Sharon, is a aeida becoming a bachelor’s amount in English at the St. Xavier’s Academy in Mumbai, and got recruited by the Elite archetypal bureau in India at age 20. She has afresh done campaigns for such companies as Chanel, Visa and eBay.

In 2006-2007, she anchored the TV biking appearance Full Circle, and visited several Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Fiji, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
Freida consistently knew she capital to be an actress, able or not. Though with the aerial standards of India’s acknowledgment to Hollywood – Bollywood – it’s actual difficult to get ahead. As Freida put it: “You accept to be a adolescent of an abecedarian or actress, or accept a godfather.”

Her one in a activity time-chance came with Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, which was to be filmed in the burghal of Mumbai, India. Aback Boyle saw Freida’s band he anon asked for her to appear to the audition. But aback she had no acting experience, they put her through an absolute action of auditioning for six months. “The aboriginal time I apprehend with the casting administrator and the additional time on it was with


Danny Boyle. I would go in apparently already a month, sometimes alert a ages and every time I’d go in for an admirers Danny would say ‘Fantastic. I’ll see you again’. So every time he said that I’d say, ‘Okay, maybe in three days’. 30 days! He’d aloof accumulate me cat-and-mouse for 30 days. I anticipate every time I went in was fun. I’m not accusatory because I anticipate it was actually like activity to an acting academy and I anticipate it was all-important because aback I had actually no acting acquaintance besides the abecedarian theatre that I’d done.”


Boyle followed his gut activity and Freida was casting as Latika, the long-lost adulation absorption of the movie’s capital character, Jamal (played by the accomplished Dev Patel). “I put 23 years of analysis into this film, not alive I was activity to comedy this part”, Freida said. Aback Slumdog Millionaire premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Blur Anniversary in September 2008, the cine and its stars accustomed babble reviews. Viewers accept declared the cine with words as “a masterpiece” and “one in a million”. And it absolutely is.

Already at the 2008 Toronto International Blur Festival, Freida accustomed the “People’s Choice” award, and has aback afresh been accustomed with a “Breakthrough Performance” accolade at the 2009 Palm Springs International Blur Anniversary Awards as able-bodied as a BAFTA choice for “Best Supporting Actress”. Slumdog Millionaire itself was nominated for about every above accolade at every ceremony, and won Golden Globes for “Best Motion Picture – Drama”, “Best Director”, “Best Original Screenplay” and “Best Adapted Screenplay”. The Oscar fizz connected to beleaguer the cine as it won all the above awards at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Writers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards and the U.K. based BAFTA Awards. So on Oscar-night, February 22 2009, it was no abruptness to see it win eight of the ten awards it was nominated for. Among them was Best Movie, Best Director, Best Screenplay and more.

Not alone the cine itself was the hot affair during accolade season, but the accord amid Freida Pinto and co-star Dev Patel as well. Were they dating or not? During dussins of interviews they both said “only friends”. But it was afterwards to be accepted that they were, indeed, in adulation as the brace accepted the rumors to be accurate by accessory several contest captivation easily and kissing. Freida and Dev are still activity strong, with Freida adage “Well, like I say, there’s Skype, but we additionally apperceive that to accomplish it assignment we accept to accommodated in the middle. If one of us has time off, they’ll fly over and accomplish the best of it. It’s an alibi to see fresh places all the time.” about their long-distance relationship.


On the night of the Oscars Freida appear that she would brilliant in a cine directed and accounting by Woody Allen. The movie, later revealed to be titled You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, was filmed in London, England during the summertime of 2009. Additionally starring are Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Lucy Punch and Gemma Jones. The cine premiered to mostly acceptable reviews at the Cannes Blur

Anniversary on May 15, 2010. Due to filming commitments Freida wasn’t able to appear the apple acclaimed blur festival, but she did advance the cine at the Toronto Blur Anniversary in September. Aback talking about aback she met Allen, Freida said “I would call my affair with Woody Allen as ‘different’. He’s a shy and bashful administrator but one with a admirable vision. It’s a dream-come-true aback I was a abstract apprentice and I advised Woody Allen’s plays aback in college.”

Freida kept active the absolute bounce of 2009 as well, as she filmed the cine Miral in Jerusalem. The blur is directed by Julian Schnabel and centers about Hind Husseini’s accomplishment to authorize an abode in Jerusalem afterwards the 1948 allotment of Palestine and the conception of the accompaniment of Israel. Freida Pinto portrays the appellation appearance of Miral. The cine premiered at the Venice Blur Anniversary on September 2, 2011. Miral is about Hind Husseini who comes beyond 55 orphaned accouchement in the street. She takes them home to accord them aliment and shelter. Within six months, 55 had developed to about 2000, and the Dar Al-Tifel Institute was born. Then, at the ag

e of 7, Miral is beatific to the Institute by her ancestor afterward her mother’s death. Brought up cautiously central the Institute’s walls, she is naïve to the troubles that beleaguer her. Then, at 17, she is assigned to advise at a refugee affected area she is alive to the absoluteness of her people’s struggle. Aback she avalanche for political activist, Hani, she finds herself broken amid the action for the approaching of her bodies and Mama Hind’s acceptance that apprenticeship is the alley to peace. On what drew her to the movie, Freida said
“The moment I apprehend the script, I fell in adulation with the story, because it wasn’t aloof a news about four women; it was a news of the bodies of Israel and Palestine. I acquainted if there were any way I could be allotment of this peacemaking action by lending a animal blow to the character, I capital to be involved. I ambition bodies would [remember]that there are accouchement and soldiers dying on both sides. You can’t avoid the politics, but hopefully that won’t become the focus of the film.”


The cine was faced with some boxy reviews due to it’s bad-
tempered accountable about the battle amid Israel and Palestine. Administrator Julian Schnabel had a adamantine time angry for a the appraisement he anticipation the cine deserved, as MPAA capital to accord it an R-rating. Afterwards a lot of struggling, the cine assuredly got the PG-13 Schnabel wanted. Miral wasn’t alike accustomed a adventitious with the admirers as it never went into a added absolution than 29 theaters. Despite this, Miral has been accustomed some babble reviews as well, abnormally from abecedarian Johnny Depp who said “Julian Schnabel’s blur is a altered and adventuresome glimpse into one woman’s aching journey. It is an ballsy peom ambiguous on the dge of a dagger. See it an adjudge to yourself.” Abecedarian Javier Bardem was additionally one of the fighters for the movie, adage “The adorableness of Julian Schnabel, he creates art that inspires altercation for apple leaders & additionally touches the blow of us bald bodies on a actual animal and archaic level.”

In February 2010 Variety appear that Freida were to booty allotment in yet addition movie; War of the Gods. She plays Phaedra, an answer priestess who charge accompany Theseus (played by Henry Cavill) on his adventure to anticipate the adverse war amid the gods from erupting. This project, directed by Tarsem Singh, started filming in April in Montreal, Canada. The blur would afterwards be renamed Immortals and accept casting associates such as Mickey Rourke, Isabel Lucas, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans, Kellan Lutz and more. Immortals is appointed for a absolution on November 11, 2011.

But this wasn’t abundant for Freida, as she’s contnued beeline from the sets of Immortals to alpha filming the prequel to Planet of the Apes, alleged Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She portrays the primatologist Caroline in the “origin news set in present day San Francisco, area man’s own abstracts with abiogenetic engineering advance to the development of intelligence in apes and the access of a war for supremacy”. The cine additionally stars James Franco, John Lithgow, Brian Cox and Andy Serkins. Rise of the Apes will be appear on August 5, 2011.

Another activity set to be appear in the abreast approaching is Black Gold, set in the 1930s Arab states at the aurora of the oil boom, about a adolescent Arab prince broken amid adherence to his bourgeois ancestor and modern, advanced father-in-law. In the movie, Freida portrays angel Lallah alongside Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Tahir Rahim and Riz Ahmed. The cine was filmed in Tunisia during the civilian war, with Freida anecdotic the filming as “Terrifying. Bodies were afire bottomward shops and malls; there was killing and bloodshed. I was ashore in this massive auberge with 354 apartment and alone six guests. The lights kept shutting down, and there was a 5:00 P.M. curfew. But I wasn’t there by myself: Dev came bottomward to see me. I was so animated I had company.” Black Gold is set to premiere at the 2011 Doha International Blur Anniversary afterwards this year.


Freida’s additionally starring in the fresh cine Trishna, already afresh acting adjoin Riz Ahmed. Trishna is the news of the adverse accord amid the son (Riz Ahmed) of a acreage developer and the babe (Freida Pinto as Trishna) of an auto barrow owner. Look advanced to this cine in 2012.

Freida’s blossom cine career isn’t all she’s got activity for her; during the ’09 accolade division Miss Pinto emerged as a style-icon, accepting the best raved and talked-about apparel of the season. In March 2009 she was arrive to sit advanced row at the Fashion Week in Paris and Milan. But her fashion-related career didn’t stop there, as she was appear as a fresh spokesmodel for L’Oreal Paris afterwards in 2009. “I am actual confused to be abutting the abundant L’Oreal Paris ancestors and all these personalities: a ancestors I am now appreciative to be a allotment of”, Freida said of abutting the common adorableness brand. Aback afresh she’s appeared in several altered campaigns common for L’Oreal, including the ‘Renewal Lash Serum’ mascara, ‘Go 360˚ Clean’ face-wash, ‘Elvive Nutri-Gloss’ absterge and more. In 2011 Freida co-hosted the brand’s anniversary Cinema Adjoin AIDS Gala during the Cannes Blur Festival.

“After this success, I still accede myself to be a approved Mumbai girl. I’m aloof one that has been acutely blessed.” Not alive what the approaching holds for her, Freida afresh active with one of the arch aptitude agencies in the apple – CAA. She dreams of one day brilliant be able to assignment with acclimatized actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp. “I anticipate they are artlessly absurd and so versatile. I would adulation to do a aphotic adventurous blur with Johnny Depp.” I anticipate it’s safe to say that this brilliant isn’t done ascent yet.

Freida Pinto Biography

Frieda Pinto was just another face in the modeling circuit until she bagged the role of a lifetime in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. Today, Frieda Pinto is a known name worldwide.

Frieda was born in Mumbai to Sylvia Pinto, principal of a high school, and Frederick Pinto, a senior branch manager at the Bank Of Baroda. Freida's stint with the showbiz started when she enrolled herself with modelling agency Elite Model Management.

Freida Pinto acted as host for the international travel show 'Full Circle' on Zee International Asia Pacific in English. Besides this, she has done many television and print commercials for products such as Wrigleys Chewing Gum, Skoda, Hutch, Airtel, and De Beers.

Surprisingly, Freida, who studied at Mumbai's St.Xaviers College, only began taking acting classes after completing her debut film - when she attended a three-month workshop by Barry John, the veteran theatre guru, who has even trained Shahrukh Khan. She is even trained in some forms of Indian classical dance as well as Salsa.

She modeled for two years and spent six months giving auditions for films before she got a call for 'Slumdog Millionaire'. She was short-listed and finally selected for the movie, which took her to the Golden Globes, and to the Oscars.

Freida Pinto Biography

Freida Pinto 

Frieda Pinto was just another experience in the modelling routine until she packaged the part of a life-time in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Wealthy. These days, Frieda Pinto is a known name globally.

Frieda was created in Mumbai to Sylvia Pinto, major of a secondary university, and David Pinto, a mature division administrator at the Financial institution Of Baroda. Freida’s stint with the showbiz began when she registered herself with performing organization Top level Design Control.

Freida Pinto served as variety for the globally journey display ‘Full Circle’ on Zee International Japan Ocean in British. Besides this, she has done many tv and create advertisements for items such as Wrigleys Eating Gum, Skoda, Hutch, Airtel, and De Drinks.

Surprisingly, Freida, who analyzed at Mumbai’s St.Xaviers Higher education, only began getting performing sessions after finishing her first appearance film – when she joined a three-month class by Robert David, the expert cinema expert, who has even qualified Shahrukh Khan. She is even qualified in some types of Native indian traditional dancing as well as Salsa.

She patterned for two years and invested six several weeks providing tryouts for movies before she got a contact for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. She was short-listed and lastly chosen for the film, which took her to the Fantastic Bulbs, and to the Academy awards.

About Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto was born on 18 October 1984 in Mumbai to a wealthy Mangalorean Catholic family, is an Indian actress and professional model best known for her portrayal of Latika in the 2009 Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Pinto also won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Her mother, Sylvia, is a principal of St John’s Universal High School (Goregaon), and her father, Frederick, is a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda. Her older sister Sharon is an associate producer for the NDTV news channel. Pinto dreamed of becoming an actress since she was five years old. At the age of ten, she was influenced by Indian actress and model Sushmita Sen winning Miss Universe 1994, which turned out to be a defining point in her life. Pinto studied at Carmel of St. Joseph School in Malad, Mumbai and completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) with a major in English Literature, and minors in Psychology and Economics, from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. She also acted in plays and amateur theater while attending St. Xavier’s. She later joined Elite Model Management and modeled for two and a half years.

Before starring in Slumdog Millionaire, Pinto anchored the international travel show, Full Circle, on Zee International Asia Pacific in English between 2006-08. Pinto was also featured in several television and print advertisements for products such as Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, Škoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, and DeBeers. Pinto modeled for four years and appeared in runway shows and magazine covers. She learned acting from The Barry John’s Acting Studio in Andheri and was trained by theatre director Barry John. After six months of auditions, she received a call to audition for Slumdog Millionaire. Pinto auditioned for Danny Boyle and was short-listed and finally selected to star in Slumdog Millionaire.

Pinto co-starred in Woody Allen’s comedy-drama film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, with Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Anupam Kher and Naomi Watts, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Pinto is due to appear in the 2011 science fiction film Rise of the Apes, the prequel to the Planet of the Apes (2001), opposite James Franco. She will portray the role of Caroline, a primatologist, who studies primates in the film. She will also appear in the 2011 fantasy-action-drama film, Immortals, in which she will play the role of the oracle priestess Phaedra.

Pinto has joined hands with Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf to support their philanthropic organisation “Agassi Foundation”. She is the only Indian actress to have been roped in by the tennis couple to participate in their annual fund raiser titled, “The 15th Grand Slam for Children”, that aims at raising funds for education of underprivileged children.

Pinto is featured in People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People List”, and “List of World’s Best Dressed Women”. She was also featured in the “Top 99 Most Desirable Women” poll conducted by Askmen.com in 2010. According to The Daily Telegraph, she is currently the highest paid actress in Bollywood. She has also been listed in the top ten list of the fashion magazine Vogue’s 2009 annual list of the most stylish women. On 13 May 2009, Pinto became a new spokesmodel for L’Oréal.

Pinto was engaged to her former publicist and boyfriend of five years, Rohan Antao. In January 2009, Pinto called off her engagement to Rohan and started dating her Slumdog Millionaire co-star Dev Patel.

Pinto is trained in different forms of Indian classical dance as well as Salsa. She currently resides in the Orlem locality of the Malad suburb of Mumbai.

Fride Pinto Biography

• Freida Pinto is 27 years old
• Born: 18 October 1984
• Birthplace: Mumbai, India
• Best known as:
• The love interest in the filmSlumdog Millionaire

Freida Pinto, Date of Birth: October 18, 1984, Height: 168 cm, Weight: 54 kg, Occupation: Actress. Freida, though born in Bombay, India (now Mumbai), but her parents were Portuguese immigrants. Father of future celebrity was managing the bank of Baroda. Mother was the director of the school, St. John's Universal High School, Freida completed matriculation from this school. After receiving the matriculation Freida Pinto arrived at the St. Xavier College in his hometown. There, she received a bachelor's degree in English literature. Along with teaching Freida attended dance lessons, so beautifully danced classical dances, such as salsa.

Freida's dancing skills have helped her get a job in the international theater show Full Circle, which has traveled the length and breadth of South-East Asia. In this project, Freida has worked since 2006 and until 2008. In parallel, she appeared on Indian television. She has appeared as a model in commercials such companies as Skoda, Wrigley's Chewing Gum, Airtel, Hutch and DeBeers.

In early 2008, she was a student of the Bari Jones is representative of the talent agency The Barry John's Acting Studio. Freida Pinto decided to try his hand at the casting for the role of Latika in the melodramatic film Slumdog Millionaire, Lavlin Tandan and Danny Boyle. It’s not surprising that such a gifted girl was able to get the role. Here is what she remembers that time. In 2007, the casting director film Slumdog Millionaire, Lavlin Tandon came to Mumbai, he immediately started calling different agencies and search for the girls and guys on the main roles.

The work in the film Slumdog Millionaire, was for Freida Pinto not only the first, but also stellar. The film was incredibly successful. He brought the creators of the giant fees, as well as won the prestigious award "Oscar". This was followed by awards such as the People's Choice Award and Golden Globe Awards. In the popular film starring played by Saurabh Shukla, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Anil Kapoor and Dev Patel. The drama was described eighteen-year history of orphans living in the slums of Mumbai, on behalf of Jamal Malik. In the tape in the best traditions of Indian cinema is "the love, the tears, and the life." A year later, Frieda Pinto for Best Supporting Actor nominated for BAFTA. Besides the newly formed actress received the award for outstanding performance in the movie Screen Actors Guild Award.

And in 2010, rolling out the picture "Black Gold" and "Rise of the Apes" which also played Freida Pinto. Then the actress played the role of the prophetess in fiction drama famous ancient Greek myths "War of the Gods." The film follows the adventures of these us son of Poseidon and the winner Procreates and the Minotaur played Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz, John Hurt and Henry Cavill.

Freida Pinto is dancing professionally. The girl is interested in not only traditional Indian dances, but also Latin American, for example, salsa. In 2001, before the peak of his popularity and to the slightest hint of a celebrity, Freida met mumbaiskim marketer Rohan Antao. They met during his training at the university. The pair broke up just after take-off acting career Freida in 2009. Freida Pinto now lives in New York.