Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto (born October 18, 1984) is an Indian actress and model. She made her film debut in Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire," for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was featured... [more]

Freida Pinto (born October 18, 1984) is an Indian actress and model. She made her film debut in Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire," for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was featured as one of People Magazine's "Most Beautiful People," and is one of Zimbio's best dressed celebrities of 2009.

 
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Slumdog Millionaire Directors:
Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan
Writing Credits:
Vikas Swarup (wrote the novel) and Simon Beaufoy (wrote the screenplay)
Movie Plot:
This is the story of how an impoverished Indian teen named Jamal Malik becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?".  His hope isn't to win prize money, but instead to show his love for his friend Latika, who is an ardent fan of the TV show.
Slumdog Millionaire Cast:
 Dev Patel ... Jamal Malik
 Anil Kapoor ... Prem Kumar
 Saurabh Shukla ... Sergeant Srinivas
 Rajendranath Zutshi ... Director (as Raj Zutshi)
 Jeneva Talwar ... Vision Mixer
 Freida Pinto ... Latika
 Irfan Khan ... Police Inspector
 Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail ... Youngest Salim
 Ayush Mahesh Khedekar ... Youngest Jamal
 Sunil Kumar Agrawal ... Mr Chi (as Sunil Aggarwal)
 Jira Banjara ... Airport Security Guard #1
 Sheikh Wali ... Airport Security Guard #2
 Mahesh Manjrekar ... Javed
 Sanchita Couhdary ... Jamal's Mother
 Himanshu Tyagi ... Mr Nanda

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Freida Pinto is an Indian actress who starred as Latika in Danny Boyle’s 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire. She broke into acting by way of modeling, after earning a degree at Mumbai’s St. Xavier College. As the host of more than fifty episodes of Full Circle, a television travel show in Southeast Asia, she introduced viewers to exotic locales, but her big acting break came when she was cast opposite English actor Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire. Before being selected for Slumdog Millionaire, Freida anchored the international travel show, Full Circle on Zee International Asia Pacific in English between 2006-07. Besides this, she also featured ... Read Full Story
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What has not come to this girl’s feet? Angelina Jolie asked her to chin up and enjoy the moment, when the two met at an awards bash party early this year in January. Photographers, fashion moghuls,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story
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Multiple Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" couple Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are avoiding being photographed together. Following a romantic dinner in a New York restaurant, the stars left for their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story
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Multiple Oscar-winning "Slumdog Millionaire" couple Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are avoiding being photographed together.Following a romantic dinner in a New York restaurant, the stars left for their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full Story
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When well known movie producer Danny Boyle cam to choose the face of his newest feature film, Slumdog Millionaire, he looked for an unknown element that fans would be able to relate to.   He eventually discovered Freida Pinto, Mumbai born model and part time actress, and she since won the hearts of o growing legion of fans.   Before this movie, Freida did many advertisements with well-known companies such as Hutch, Airtel, Skoda, Ebay, Visa and many more.   She received many opportunities to work with international companies due to her striking features and exotic looks, and benefited from the opportunity to explore ... Read Full Story
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Freida Pinto was born on 18 October, 1984. Her 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. She 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.   Freida Pinto was engaged to her fiancé Rohan Antao from 2007 until January 2009. They had been in a relationship since 2003 and after her success; she broke up with Rohan ... Read Full Story
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Freida Pinto gained an immense popularity and big fans following the success of Slumdog Millionaire. She won a ton of awards for the role of Latika in the movie, which includes prestigious Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Palm Springs International Film Festival – Breakthrough Performance Award. She was also nominated for ‘Best Actress in a Supporting Role’ in BAFTA awards and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role . Since then there has been no stop for her. Freida Pinto became somewhat of an icon on the red carpet and soon was ... Read Full Story
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Busy as a bee Neither is she hot on the web like Katrina Kaif nor as beautiful as Ex Miss World Aishwarya Rai then too Slumdog Millionaire girl Freida Pinto is one such actress for whom Bollywood craves  ...more  
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Mumbai: India's international beauty Freida Pinto shoots for an L'Oreal ad. Being an Indian, Freida's sudden rise to international fame made her the new face of L'Oreal Paris. Yes, she is not the spokeswoman for L'Oreal India but Paris. Now the ...  
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