Freida Pinto

Freida Selena Pinto is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films. She was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and decided when young she would become an actress. As a student at St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, she took part in amateur plays. After graduation, she briefly worked as a model and then as a television presenter.

Pinto was born onOctober 1984 in Bombay , into a family of Mangalorean Catholics, a community originating in the former Portuguese colony of Goa. Her mother Sylvia was the principal of St. Johns Universal School in Goregaon, Mumbai, and her father Frederick was a senior branch manager for the Bank of Baroda. Her elder sister, Sharon, works for NDTV.

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