Freida Pinto

A professional model and Indian actress Freida Pinto born on 18 October, 1984 is best known for her character of Latika in the 2008 Academy Award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Freida Pinto has also won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a cast in a Motion picture.


In 2010, Freida featured in movies like You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. Freida Pinto was also featured in many television and print ad campaigns for products like Skoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, Wrigley’s Chewing Gum and DeBeers. Pursuing modeling for four years and appeared in runway shows and magazine covers, she learned acting from The Barry John's Acting Studio in Andheri and was trained by theatre filmmaker Barry John. She will also appear in the 2011 fantasy-action-drama flick, Immortals, in which the actress will play the role of the oracle priestess Phaedra. The actress has been approached to act opposite Aamir Khan in Bollywood film Dhoom 3.

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