Jacqueline Fernandez
Date of Birth: 2 June 1985 Colombo , Sri Lanka
Birth Name: Jacqueline
Fernandez
Height: 5' 7" (1.7
m)
Jacqueline's father
Elroy Fernansez is a Sri Lankan and mother Kim is a Malaysian. She has two
brothers and an older sister. Her parents moved to Bahrain when she was extremely
young.
After her schooling in Bahrain , she was awarded a
Scholarship to learn at the University of Sydney , where she pursued a
degree in Media and Infrastructure in Sydney , Australia . Having a passion for
cultures and languages she also connected the Berlitz school of languages,
where she educated to speak Spanish and improve her French and Arabic.
In 2006, she was crowned
the Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Universe 2006 in March, 2006 and also competed in
Miss Universe 2006. After winning Miss Sri Lanka title in 2006, she entered the
world of television and anchored a show on Sri Lanka 's business called Lanka
Business Report.
She came to Mumbai on a
modeling contract and landed a role in Bollywood movie Aladin(2009) directed by
Sujoy Ghosh along with well known Indian stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay
Dutt, and Ritesh Deshmukh. After the success of her first film, she got signed
on by Milap Zaveri for his managerial debut movie Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai
(2010) in which she drama the part of an alien who comes to earth in search of
love. Her co-star from her first movie, Ritesh Deshmukh was her male lead once
more. The director optional her to well-known director Farah Khan who
guest-starred in this movie. She made a cameo look (in a song) in the movie
Housefull (2010) which was heading for by Farah Khan's younger brother, Sajid
Khan