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Freida Pinto
Freida Selena Pinto is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films. Born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra, she resolved at a young age to become an actress. As a student at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai she took part in amateur plays. After graduation, she briefly worked as a model and then as a television presenter.
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entertainment · Indian actress (born 1984) · actor · model · television presenter · film actor · television actor · also Freida Pinto, Freida Selena Pinto, Pinto
Born 18 October 1984 · Q188744
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 7,472 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 1,863, with 0 article edits.
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2022· 2 entries
The Guardian: Freida Pinto: ‘I was a sweaty, dancing Teletubby’
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The Guardian: Post your questions for Freida Pinto
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: The best TV shows this week: Idris Elba and Freida Pinto join the resistance in Guerrilla
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2015· 1 entry
Pinto worked on Andy Serkis' Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, a motion capture adventure fantasy film based on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
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2013· 2 entries
Pinto appeared in a video clip for Gucci's "Chime for Change" campaign to raise funds and awareness of women's issues in terms of education, health, and justice
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Appeared in the music video for Bruno Mars' single "Gorilla"
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2012· 2 entries
The Guardian: Freida Pinto and the rise of the 'pan-ethnic' star
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The Guardian: Freida Pinto on being Tess
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2011· 2 entries
Pinto was included as the only Indian celebrity among the "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film", a list compiled by Los Angeles Times Magazine
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Was playing Princess Lailah in the poorly received independent film Day of the Falcon, a period drama set in the 1930s Middle East, where she was cast alongside Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong and Liya Kebede
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2010· 1 entry
Pinto joined Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf in support of their philanthropic organisation, the Agassi Foundation
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Slumdog Millionaire (2009).
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Pinto was made a spokeswoman for L'Oréal Paris
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2007· 1 entry
Pinto's modeling agency selected her and six other models to audition for the female lead in Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire (2008) after a request by its casting director
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2005· 1 entry
Pinto began a modeling career and joined Elite Model Management India, with whom she worked for two and a half years
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1984· 1 entry
Born 1984-10-18.
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