Freida Pinto Biography, Wiki, Age, Height, Career, Photos

Freida Pinto Biography & Career

• Freida Selena Pinto was born on October 18, 1984, in the Indian city of Mumbai, at that time known as Bombay, into a middle-class Mangalorean Catholic family.
• Her father, Frederick Pinto, was a senior officer in the Bank of Baroda. Her mother, Sylvia Pinto, a school teacher, retired as the principal of St. John’s Universal School, Mumbai. Her elder sister, Sharon, is a producer at the Indian news channel, NDTV.
• Freida was raised in Malad, a middle-class neighborhood in North Mumbai. For her schooling, she was sent to Carmel of St. Joseph School, located in the same neighborhood. A lively young child, she took great interest in sports and also participated in school programs as a chorus singer.
• In spite of her middle-class upbringing, she developed a passion for acting early in her childhood and decided to become an actress by the age of five. As a child, she often imitated television actors and dressed like them.
• In 1994, when Susmita Sen became the first Indian woman to win the Miss Universe beauty pageant, ten-year-old Freida was very much excited. In Sen, Freida found her role model and decided to be like her someday.
• After completing her school education Freida entered St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. In college, she had English as her major and psychology and economics as her minors.
• While studying in college, she took part in theatre. But until 2004, she was not sure about taking up acting as her profession. But when she saw ‘Monster’ a biographical crime drama film written and directed by Patty Jenkins, she knew that she wanted to do something like that.

Pinto rose to prominence with her film debut in the drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), which is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress – Drama, and won the Palm Springs International Film Festival Award for Breakthrough Performance for Slumdog Millionaire. Her biggest commercial success came with the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). Her performance as the title character in Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna (2011) garnered her widespread recognition and praise.

Pinto portrayed Cretan princess Phaedra in the epic fantasy action film Immortals (2011), narrated the documentary Girl Rising (2013), and starred in the biographical drama Desert Dancer (2014), for which she received critical acclaim. The film Miral features a teenage Pinto as a Palestinian girl raised partly in an orphanage and on weekends by her father after her mother drowns herself. In 2017, she starred in the Showtime miniseries Guerrilla, and in 2018 she had starring roles in the Indian drama Love Sonia and the fantasy adventure film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. In 2020, she starred in the drama Hillbilly Elegy.

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