Freida Pinto

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Freida Pinto (2012)

Freida Pinto (born October 18, 1984 in Mumbai ) is an Indian actress , presenter and model . She became known to a wide audience through the female lead in the film Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

biography

Freida Pinto was born as the second daughter of bank manager Frederick Pinto Neerude and school principal Sylvia Pinto Derebail, both of whom came from Mangalore . Her name is of Portuguese origin and her family was originally Catholic. Pinto's sister is employed as a producer for an Indian news channel. Pinto completed her English studies degree at St. Xavier's College in Mumbai with the Bachelor of Arts from. She has been a model since 2005. During this time she appeared in campaigns for India Today , Škoda , De Beers , eBay , VisaCard , Wrigley and on various front pages and fashion shows. From 2006 to 2007 Pinto worked as a presenter for the English-language travel magazine Full Circle . In 52 episodes she traveled to destinations such as Afghanistan , the Fiji Islands , India , Malaysia , Singapore and Thailand as part of the show .

Freida Pinto (2010)

From 2007 Pinto tried to gain a foothold as an actress in the Indian film industry. She played the lead female role in the feature film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). In the film, she plays the great love of the six-year-old Dev Patel , who is a candidate for the game show in the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? reaches for the main prize and remembers his childhood in the poor areas. In 2009 the film won eight Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award , and Pinto himself received a nomination for the British Academy Film Award .

After the success of her first film role, Pinto took acting classes. In 2010 she starred in Woody Allen's comedy I See the Man of Your Dreams alongside Anthony Hopkins , Naomi Watts , Antonio Banderas and Josh Brolin, a music student who cancels her imminent wedding due to a liaison with a neighbor. She got another role in Julian Schnabel's drama Miral (2010), which tells of the attempts of a woman (played by Hiam Abbass ) to open an orphanage in Jerusalem in the late 1940s .

From 2008 to 2014 she was in a relationship with Dev Patel , her partner from Slumdog Millionaire .

At the end of April 2009, Pinto, who counts actors like Kate Winslet , Leonardo DiCaprio , Aamir Khan and Shahid Kapoor among her role models, was voted one of the 100 most beautiful people in the world by the US magazine People . Two weeks later, she was introduced as the new face of L'Oréal .

Freida Pinto has been an ambassador for the “Because I am a Girl” campaign of the children's aid organization Plan International since 2012 .

Filmography

Awards

Freida Pinto (2008)

Black Reel Award

  • 2008: nominated in the category Best Acting Ensemble for Slumdog Millionaire

British Academy Film Award

  • 2009 : Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Slumdog Millionaire

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • 2008: Breakthrough Performance Award for Slumdog Millionaire

Screen Actors Guild Awards

  • 2009: Best Acting Company for Slumdog Millionaire

Web links

Commons : Freida Pinto  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Interview ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at mangalorean.com, September 24, 2008 (English; accessed September 5, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mangalorean.com
  2. ↑ a b cf. Biography in the Internet Movie Database (accessed December 5, 2008)
  3. ↑ a b cf. Moore, Booth: Gazing Beyond India . In: Los Angeles Times , February 15, 2009, Features Desk, Part P, p. 4
  4. ↑ cf. Biography on the official website (accessed December 5, 2008)
  5. ↑ cf. Wloszczyna, Susan: Perfect for 'Slumdog Millionaire' . In: USA Today , November 10, 2008, LIFE, p. 3D
  6. ↑ cf. Macnab, Geoffrey: Oliver Twisted as Boyle goes 'Trainspotting' in modern Mumbai express . In: The Independent , October 31, 2008, p. 16
  7. ↑ cf. Sengupta, Somini: Extreme Mumbai, Without Bollywood's Filtered Lens . In: The New York Times , November 16, 2008, Arts and Leisure Desk, p. 14
  8. ↑ cf. Ebert, Roger : 'Millionaire' a rich tale of a vibrant new India . In: Chicago Sun-Times, November 12, 2008, p. 40
  9. ↑ cf. "People": Michelle Obama is one of the most beautiful people in the world . Agence France-Presse , April 29, 2008
  10. ↑ cf. Freida Pinto becomes the new face of L'Oreal Paris . In: Hindustan Times, May 13, 2009 (accessed December 22, 2009 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
personal data
SURNAME Pinto, Freida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay , India