I don’t remember when it was that I watched Planet of the Apes, but it was ages ago. Pinto said of that role, "I auditioned for it without reading the entire script. In 2011 she will appear in the fantasy-action-drama, Immortals, in which she will play the oracle priestess Phaedra, and will also portray Caroline, a primatologist, in the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, opposite James Franco. In 2010 she co-starred in Woody Allen's comedy-drama You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger with Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Anupam Kher and Naomi Watts, and as the title character in Miral. Pinto only began taking acting classes after completing her feature film debut, when she attended veteran theatre director Barry John's Acting Studio in Andheri. She also modeled with Elite Model Management and featured in several television and print advertisements for products such as Wrigley's Chewing Gum, Škoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, and DeBeers.Īfter six months of auditions, director Danny Boyle picked her out to play the female lead, Latika, for his movie Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which the cast won a Screen Actors Guild Award. She anchored the travel show, Full Circle, on Zee International Asia Pacific between 2006-08, visiting Afghanistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Fiji among other countries. Freida acted in plays and amateur theater while completing her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English Literature at St. Her sister Sharon is a producer with Indian news channel, NDTV. Pinto was born in Mumbai to Mangalorean Catholic parents Sylvia and Frederick (the surname "Pinto" is Portuguese - the first European settlers in India). Actress Freida Pinto plays the role of Caroline Aranha in the 2011 movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
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