Freida Pinto (born October 18, 1984) is an Indian actress and professional model, best known for her performance as Latika in her debut film Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2009. Pinto won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Freida Pinto was born in Mumbai to Sylvia Pinto, a principal of St. John's Universal High School (Goregaon), and Frederick Pinto, a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda
Pinto studied at Carmel of St. Joseph School in Malad and completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
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She is also trained in different forms of Indian classical dance as well as Salsa.
She was engaged to her former publicist and boyfriend of eight years, Rohan Antao but she called off the engagement in early 2009 soon after she achieved stardom.
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She is currently dating her "Slumdog Millionaire" co-star, Dev Patel, who is six years younger than she.She is also featured in People Magazine's "Most Beautiful People List", and "List of World's Best Dressed Women".
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