Freida Selena Pinto was born on 18 October 1984 and is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films.
40 Facts About Freida Pinto
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Freida Pinto portrayed Cretan princess Phaedra in the epic fantasy action film Immortals, narrated the documentary Girl Rising, and starred in the biographical drama Desert Dancer, for which she received critical acclaim.
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Freida Pinto was born on 18 October 1984 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Western India to Mangalorean Catholic parents from Mangalore, Karnataka, South India.
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Freida Pinto's mother, Sylvia Pinto, was the principal of St John's Universal School in Goregaon, West Mumbai, and her father, Frederick Pinto, was a senior branch manager for the Bank of Baroda in Bandra, West Mumbai.
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Freida Pinto had a middle class upbringing in the suburb of Malad, North Mumbai.
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Freida Pinto first wanted to be an actress when she was five years old, often dressing up and imitating television actors during her childhood.
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Freida Pinto later recalled being inspired by Sushmita Sen's victory in the 1994 Miss Universe competition, explaining that "the country was really proud of her, and I was like, one day, I want to do the same".
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Freida Pinto attended the Carmel of St Joseph School in Malad, North Mumbai and then studied at St Xavier's College, Mumbai in Fort, South Mumbai.
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Freida Pinto's major was in English literature, with minors in psychology and economics.
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Freida Pinto was featured in several television and print advertisements for products such as Wrigley's Chewing Gum, Skoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, Visa, eBay, and De Beers.
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Around the same time, Freida Pinto began going to auditions for films and television shows.
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Freida Pinto was chosen to host Full Circle, an international travel show that aired on Zee International Asia Pacific between 2006 and 2008.
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Freida Pinto won the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, along with other cast members from the film.
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Freida Pinto was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the BAFTA Awards.
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Freida Pinto played a "mystery woman" who draws the attention of the character played by Brolin.
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Freida Pinto then starred in Julian Schnabel's Miral, based on a semi-biographical novel by Rula Jebreal, playing an orphaned Palestinian woman who grew up in a refugee camp in Israel.
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Freida Pinto stated that she could relate to her character's experiences because of her knowledge about her relatives' experiences during the partition of India in the 1940s.
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Freida Pinto played the role of Caroline Aranha, a primatologist who falls in love with the main character, played by James Franco.
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The film, based on Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, gave Freida Pinto the role of a teenage Rajasthani peasant, who leaves her family to work for a British-born Indian hotelier, played by Riz Ahmed.
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In contrast, Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that Freida Pinto is "one of [the film's] loveliest attractions, but she and her director haven't been able to give Trishna a pulse".
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Freida Pinto was criticised by the Indian media for appearing in the video; The Times of India and Hindustan Times dismissed it as little more than "dirty dancing".
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Freida Pinto played the heroin-addicted Elaheh, the love interest of the lead character played by Reece Ritchie.
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Freida Pinto attended a few sessions at rehabilitation centres in the United States to prepare for her role.
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Freida Pinto played Helen, a model with whom Bale embarks on a "dalliance".
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Freida Pinto was among the 100 narrators of Unity, a documentary that explores the relationships between Earth's species.
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Freida Pinto portrays Mowgli's adoptive mother, Messua, in the film.
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In January 2021, it was announced that Freida Pinto was to play the lead in a biopic of the SOE agent Noor Inayat Khan, based on the book Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu.
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Freida Pinto ended the relationship in January 2009 and began dating her Slumdog Millionaire co-star Dev Patel.
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Freida Pinto became engaged to photographer Cory Tran in November 2019, and they married in 2020 at the Honda Center.
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Freida Pinto gave birth to their son in November 2021.
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Alongside her acting career, Freida Pinto has been actively involved with several humanitarian causes, and is vocal about the uplifting of women and underprivileged children.
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Freida Pinto has cited Angelina Jolie and Malala Yousafzai as "massive" inspirations in this regard.
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In 2010, Freida Pinto joined Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf in support of their philanthropic organisation, the Agassi Foundation.
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In 2013, Freida Pinto 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.
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In February 2016, Freida Pinto announced that she would be a part of a nonprofit organisation called "We Do It Together", which provides financing for feature films, documentaries, and television shows that focus on women's empowerment.
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Freida Pinto has been frequently included in beauty and fashion polls conducted by various magazines.
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Freida Pinto was featured in People magazine's annual lists of "World's Most Beautiful People" and "World's Best Dressed Women" in 2009.
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In 2011, Freida Pinto was included as the only Indian celebrity among the "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film", a list compiled by Los Angeles Times Magazine.
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Freida Pinto was featured in the "Top 99 Most Desirable Women" poll conducted by AskMen, consecutively from 2010 to 2012.
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In 2009, Freida Pinto was made a spokeswoman for L'Oreal Paris.