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Freida Pinto

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Freida Pinto
Freida Pinto is sitting with her legs crossed and looking towards her left
Pinto in 2014
BornFreida Selena Pinto
18 October 1984 (age 31)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
ResidenceLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Mumbai
OccupationActress, model, presenter
Years active2005–present
ReligionCatholicism
Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in American and British films. She was born and raised in Mumbai and determined to become an actress from a young age. As a student at the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, she took part in amateur plays. After graduation, she worked as a model for four years and then briefly as a television presenter.
Pinto rose to prominence as the leading lady in the 2008 British drama film Slumdog Millionaire. This was her first appearance in a film. Her performance was well received from critics and she won the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. She was also nominated for various awards at the British Academy Film Awards, MTV Movie Awards, and Teen Choice Awards. Pinto has subsequently appeared in a number of British and American productions including You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Immortals (2011), and Trishna (2011).
Although the Indian media credited Pinto with breaking the stereotypical image of an Indian woman in foreign films, it criticised her for not acting in Indian films. Alongside her acting career, she has taken part in philanthropic activities and promotes humanitarian causes which include duties as a global ambassador of the Because I Am a Girl campaign.

Early life and background[edit]

Pinto was born on 18 October 1984[1] in Bombay (now Mumbai), into a Mangalorean Catholic, a community originating in the former Portuguese colony of Goa, household.[2][3][4] Her mother, Sylvia, was the principal of St. John's Universal School in Goregaon, Mumbai, and her father, Frederick, was a senior branch manager for the Bank of Baroda.[5] Her elder sister, Sharon, works as an associate producer for NDTV.[6] Pinto had a middle class upbringing in the suburb of Malad.[7][8] She first wanted to be an actress when she was five years old;[9] she dressed up at home and imitated television actors.[10] Pinto studied at the Carmel of St. Joseph School in the locality, where she played sports and performed in the school choir. In a 2010 interview, she recalled being inspired by Sushmita Sen's victory in the 1994 Miss Universe competition.[11] She studied at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and graduated in 2005, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her major was inEnglish literature, with minors in psychology and economics.[10][12] She participated in plays and amateur theatre during her time at college.[13]
After graduation, Pinto joined Elite Model Management, with whom she worked as a model for two-and-half years.[10] She was featured in several television and print advertisements for products such as Wrigley's Chewing Gum, Škoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, Visa,eBay, and De Beers.[5][14] She continued modelling for four years and appeared in runway shows and magazines.[5][6] In a 2015 interview with Daily Mirror, she said that she had wanted to become a barmaid, calling it her "dream job". She became an entertainer at children's birthday parties, however, on the insistence of her mother, who considered such work more "respectable" than that of a barmaid.[15] Between 2006 and 2008, Pinto anchored Full Circle, an international travel show which was aired on Zee International Asia Pacific. This took her to countries, including Afghanistan, Fiji, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.[5][13]
Starting in 2006, Pinto auditioned for numerous cinematic roles, including the part of Camille Montes in Marc Forster's Quantum of Solace (2008). However, her attempts were unsuccessful.[13] In a later interview, when questioned about her rejections she said that she was "glad things happened the way they happened. I needed to be rejected, and I needed to learn that it's part of the game... I can have 100 rejections, but I'm sure there's going to be one particular thing that is almost destined for me to have."[16]

Acting career[edit]

Beginnings and breakthrough (2008–10)[edit]

Pinto with the crew of Slumdog Millionaire
Pinto with the crew of Slumdog Millionaire during its screening at the2008 Toronto International Film Festival
In 2007, Pinto was shortlisted by the Elite Model Management as one among the seven models to audition for the female lead in Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire.[9][12] After undergoing six months of extensive auditions, she landed the lead role.[17] Pinto was cast as Latika, the love interest of the lead character Jamal, played by Dev Patel.[18][19] During the post-production phase, she attended an acting course at the Barry John Acting Studio in Mumbai.[6] Slumdog Millionaire received acclaim particularly for its plot and soundtrack, and emerged as a sleeper hit.[20][21] The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Cadillac People's Choice Award.[22] It was then the most successful film at the 81st Academy Awards (2009): it was nominated for ten awards and won eight of them, including the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay awards.[23] The film gained several other nominations, including at the Golden Globe Awards (2009), where it won four awards.[24] Pinto herself was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the BAFTA Awards (2009).[25] She won the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, alongside other cast members from the film.[26][27][28] The film was instrumental in launching Pinto's career in Hollywood.[19][29]
Freida Pinto and Rula Jebreal
Pinto (left) and Rula Jebreal (right) attend the screening of Miral at 18th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2010.
Pinto's next film appearance was in a supporting role in Woody Allen's comedy-drama You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,[30] where she appeared alongside Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Anupam Kher and Naomi Watts.[31] The film made its premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and received negative reviews upon release.[32] She then played the central character in Miral, a biographical film based on the novel of the same name by Rula Jebreal. In the film, set in the backdrop of war-ridden Jerusalem, she played an orphaned Palestinian woman who grew up in a refugee camp.[33] The film received negative reviews, although Pinto's performance received a positive response from critics.[34][35] A review from The Los Angeles Times noted that "although she doesn't share Miral's background, Pinto found her own way of relating to the character's situation."[36] Geoffrey Macnab ofThe Independent wrote "Miral herself is played very engagingly by Freida Pinto as a mischievous and idealistic teenager with an acute sense of natural justice."[37]

2011–present[edit]

Pinto's next part was in the 2011 science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a reboot of the Planet of the Apes series.[38] She played Caroline Aranha, a primatologist,[39] and was cast opposite James Franco.[33] To prepare for her role, she watched the videos of the English anthropologist Jane Goodall.[40] The film was commercially successful, grossing US$453 million worldwide.[41][42] The performances of the lead actors were criticised, however.[43] A review from Slant Magazine said that the lead characters—played by Franco and Pinto—are "stand-ins for moral platitudes" while Sarah Deen of Metro called Pinto's character a "tad one-dimensional".[44][45]Pinto's second appearance of 2011 was in Trishna, a British drama film produced by Michael Winterbottom, in which she played the titular character. Trishna was an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles and premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. The film features Pinto as the daughter of a peasant who falls in love with a London-based hotelier, played by Riz Ahmed.[46] It was described by The Guardian as a "seductive, allegorical study of male-female relationships".[47] Unlike some of Pinto's previous films, Trishna gained a positive response from critics.[48] The film was nominated for the Best Film Award at the 55th BFI London Film Festival and Grand Prix at the 24th Tokyo International Film Festival.[49][50] The same year, Pinto played Princess Lailah in Day of the Falcon,[a] a period drama set in the 1930s, where she was cast alongside Banderas and Mark Strong.[51] Her final appearance of 2011 was in the fantasy-action film Immortals, in which she played the oracle priestess Phaedra.[52] She said that the film's extensive usage of CGI enabled her to prepare for her role in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.[b][29]
In September 2013, Pinto appeared in the music video for Bruno Mars' single "Gorilla". She was criticised by the Indian media for a sequence which involved her shedding her clothes and becoming physically intimate with Mars.[53] However, James Montgomery ofMTV described the act as "one gloriously cinematic scene" and praised Pinto's "wattage".[54] The same year, she provided the voice-over for the documentary film Girl Rising, on behalf of the campaign of the same name. The film depicted the power of education in transforming girls' lives around the world.[55] Pinto's only cinematic appearance of 2014 was in the biographical drama Desert Dancer. The film revolves around the life of Iranian choreographer Afshin Ghaffarian.[56] The role required her to do dance training consisting of eight hours of rehearsals a day for 14 weeks.[57]
Pinto's first film of 2015 Knight of Cups, in which she acted alongside Christian Bale, was screened in the competition section at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.[58][59] The film is scheduled to be released in March 2016 in the United States.[60] She was as one of the narrators of Unity (2015), a documentary that explores the relationships between Earth's species.[61] Her next film Blunt Force Trauma, a Colombian production where she acts alongside Mickey Rourke premiered at the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival.[62]As of October 2015, Pinto is working on Andy Serkis' Jungle Book: Origins, a live action adventure fantasy film based on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.[63]

Personal life[edit]

Before her appearance in Slumdog Millionaire, Pinto was engaged to Rohan Antao, who had at one point been her publicist. She ended their relationship in January 2009.[64] After that she began dating Patel, her Slumdog Millionaire co-star, who is six years her junior.[65] In a later interview, Pinto stated that she did not want to act with Patel again as she felt that they would not have been able to present the "chemistry" they had in their debut film.[66] After being in a relationship for almost six years, the couple separated in December 2014.[67] Following that, Pinto relocated to Los Angeles from London.[68]
In 2010, Pinto joined Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf in support of their philanthropic organisation, the "Agassi Foundation". She was the only Indian actress to participate in their annual fund raiser, "The 15th Grand Slam for Children". This was aimed at providing education for the underprivileged children.[69] Two years later, she was appointed as the global ambassador of Plan International's Because I am a Girl, a campaign that promotes gender equality with the aim of lifting millions of girls out of poverty. Following that, she 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 in 2013.[70] In July 2014, she spoke at the "Girls' rights summit" in London, where she called for more progress toward the end of female genital mutilation and child marriage.[71] The following year, she spoke out against the Indian government's ban on India's Daughter, Leslee Udwin's documentary on the 2012 Delhi gang rape.[72] During its premier at the United States she said the film needs to reach the public as it is not a "shame-India documentary".[73]

Media image[edit]

Freida Pinto is seen smiling at the camera.
Pinto (pictured in 2010)attending the 41st International Film Festival of India in Goa
From a relatively unknown model, Pinto gained widespread popularity soon after the release of Slumdog Millionaire; she was frequently included in magazine polls.[74][75] In 2009, she was featured in People magazine's "World's Most Beautiful People 2009" and its "World's Best Dressed Women" lists.[76][77] That year, The Daily Telegraph reported Pinto as the highest-paid Indian actress,[78] although she had not appeared in a Bollywood film.[79] She was also included in Vogue's 2009 list of the "top ten most stylish women".[80] In May 2009, Pinto became the first Asian "spokeswoman" for L'Oréal.[81] A controversy arose when she appeared in a TV commercial promoting a L'Oreal product; it showed Pinto in what many perceived to be a lighter skin tone due to make-up or editing.[82][83] In 2011, Pinto was included as the only Indian celebrity among the "50 Most Beautiful Women in Film", a list compiled by Los Angeles Times Magazine.[84] The following year, People named her one of the "Most Beautiful at Every Age".[85] She was featured in the "Top 99 Most Desirable Women" poll conducted by AskMen, from 2010 to 2012.[86][87][88]
As an Indian woman, Pinto is credited by the media with breaking stereotypes of a leading lady in Hollywood.[33][89] In a 2012 interview with Hindustan Times, she said she was consciously avoiding roles that depicted stereotypes.[90]However, the Indian media criticised her for having "shunned" the Indian film industry.[91] In response, Pinto claimed that she was unable to find roles that suited her in Bollywood, while stating that she enjoyed watching Bollywood films and was keen to work in the industry in future.[92]

Filmography[edit]

Key
Upcoming seriesDenotes upcoming films
YearTitleDirectorRoleNotes
2008Slumdog MillionaireDanny BoyleLatikaScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Palm Springs International Film Festival – Breakthrough Performance Award
Nominated—Central Ohio Film Critics Association – Best Ensemble[93]
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role[94]
Nominated—Black Reel Awards of 2008 – Best Ensemble[94]
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Female Breakthrough Performance[94]
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared nomination with Dev Patel)[94]
Nominated—2009 Teen Choice Awards – Choice Movie Actress: Drama[95]
Nominated—2009 Teen Choice Awards – Choice Movie Fresh Face: Female[95]
Nominated—2009 Teen Choice Awards – Choice Movie: Liplock (shared nomination with Dev Patel)[95]
2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark StrangerWoody AllenDia
2010MiralJulian SchnabelMiral
2011Rise of the Planet of the ApesRupert WyattCaroline Aranha
2011TrishnaMichael WinterbottomTrishna
2011Day of the Falcon[a]Jean-Jacques AnnaudPrincess Leyla
2011ImmortalsTarsem SinghPhaedra
2013Girl RisingRichard E. RobbinsNarratorDocumentary
2014Desert DancerRichard RaymondElaheh
2015Knight of CupsTerrence MalickHelen
2015UnityShaun MonsonNarratorDocumentary
2015Blunt Force TraumaKen SanzelColt
2015Yamasong: March of the HollowsSam Koji HaleVoiceover
Animated film
Post-production[96]
2017Jungle Book: OriginsAndy SerkisFilming

Music video appearances[edit]

YearShowPerformer(s)Album
2013"Gorilla"Bruno MarsUnorthodox Jukebox

Television[edit]

YearShowRoleChannel
2006Full CircleHostZee International Asia Pacific[13]
2015The Mindy ProjectHerselfHulu[97]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b Day of the Falcon is also known as Black Gold and Or noir.
  2. Jump up^ The filming of Immortals was done before that of Rise of the Planet of the Apes; however, the latter was released first.
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