Freida Pinto
Pinto in 2011, photo by Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Freida Selena Pinto
Place of Birth: Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Date of Birth: 18 October, 1984
Ethnicity: Konkani Indian [Mangalorean]
Freida Pinto is an Indian actress and model. She rose to fame as Latika in her debut film, Slumdog Millionaire. She has also had leading roles in the films Miral, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Trishna, Immortals (2011), Desert Dancer, Love Sonia, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Hillbilly Elegy, and Mr. Malcolm’s List, and television’s Guerilla. She supports humanitarian causes, and has been a global ambasador for Plan International’s Because I am a Girl, and part of non-profit We Do It Together.
Freida is the daughter of Sylvia, principal of St. John’s Universal School in Goregaon, and Frederick Pinto, a senior branch manager for the Bank of Baroda in Bandra, both in West Bombay. She had a middle class upbringing in Malad, North Bombay.
Freida was quoted in an article saying that she is of 100% Indian descent, of Mangalorean Catholic origin. Mangalorean Catholics are also known as Konkani people. Freida’s surname is Portuguese. Many Indians took Portuguese surnames from missionaries who converted them to Christianity.
Freida is married to American photographer Cory Tran, with whom she has a son.
Source: http://www.audreymagazine.com
It´s not entirely impossible for her to have some portugese ancestry, in southern India and Bangladesh there were portugese christian pepople who stayed there. If her forefathers are portugese you wouldn’t see Freida having light eyes. Yes, I do think she must have some kind of mix, she has a very western face (small nose), compared to most of the actresses in Bollywood.
she’s attractive and all I guess but I don’t see any exotic features.
Frieda Pinto is beautiful and 100% Indian.
i thought she was born in london
Indian people from India are some of the most beautiful women in the world! Especially the dark ones!
her last name is Portuguese or Spanish, but she makes no mention of being anything but Indian…
Christians Konkanis adopted Portuguese names when the Portuguese arrived. This may explain her surname.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_people
Never trust Wikipedia.
so why is it when an indian person with a portuguese surname is not seen as having portuguese ancestry, (most of the time) but when a filipino has a spanish name they are quick to say they are effing ‘spanish’? no their not, they just claim to be spanish because they want to be exotic its been said that only 3% of the population actually have spanish ancestry, and all of them just happen to be celebrities and everyday people (sarcasm)
and even if they were spanish they would actually look european, they all look asian/malay. or if they were half spanish they would look like enrique iglesias’ mother who actually looks asian and european
Indian\European isn’t “Eurasian”, that is East Asian/European. Indians and Europeans are Caucasians and most Indians and most Europeans are Indo-European.
Actually, the term ‘Eurasian’ was originally coined to mean what are now known as Anglo Indians-people of Indian and paternal European ancestry. But you are right, both Europeans and Indians are caucasian.
(it might help to know that the word Asian in the UK refers to South Asians and in the U.S. and many other countries Asian refers the East Asian.)