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
She is very beautiful!
thy all lookalike
She’s fully Indian, let’s stop thinking fine features and beauty is always white. A good number of Indians particularly from the north are very Caucasoid (white) whether they have a tan or not.
It is not true at all
That’s true, I don’t know why your comment is getting negative thumbs down. I live in a part of California where it is mostly a beautiful Middle Eastern and Asian community, far different from my own culture. I’m ashamed to admit, but when I was younger (7-11 years-old) I was ignorant, and assumed everyone’s own ethncity, but always kept quiet about it. You might think everyone you see, where I live, is white, but no many of my classmates all the way from elementry to Highschool are of Middle Eastern and Asia (Persian, Pakistani, Afghan) blood. From that I learned that person of all ethnicity do not have a certain skin color, eyes, hair.
It’s apparent that she’s part Portuguese. Check out the history of her ethnic group and the region they come from. There was a heavy Portuguese (lineage) influence.
No. She’s fully Indian. Get over it.
she looks exactly what she is,fully indian.
She looks like she had some rhinoplasty.
She is naturally beautiful.