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
Lisa Ray is another good EthniCeleb. Thanks for the comment.
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@ayan ,she must of thought that because in the article it reads that her “fore-father’s” were Portugese. But she states she’s pure Indian so dont worry>
@Athena: Where on earth did you get that her father is Portuguese? If he were, how the hell would she end up looking like THAT? Eurasians look like Norah Jones or Lisa Ray.
She was quoted in article saying she is 100% Indian.
Her father is Portoguese!!!
ur fucking stupid!
Having a Portugese last name doesn’t mean she has Portugese blood. Many Indians have Portugese surnames especially in the Goa region. A lot of these people are also Christians. Long ago, the Portugese came to India and I guess some Indians converted to Christianity willingly or unwillingly and changed their names.