Her mother, Sylvia, is a principal of St John’s Universal High School (Goregaon), and her father, Frederick, is a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda. Pinto was also featured in several television and print advertisements for products such as Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, Skoda, Vodafone India, Airtel, and DeBeers. Pinto made her feature film debut in 2008 in Slumdog Millionaire playing the role of Latika, the girl with whom Jamal (Dev Patel) is in love. At the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, the movie won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award. Pinto appeared in the 2011 science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a reboot of the Planet of the Apes series, opposite James Franco. She is the only Indian actress to have participated in their annual fund raiser titled, “The 15th Grand Slam for Children”, that aims at raising funds for education of underprivileged children. Pinto is featured in People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People List”, and “List of World’s Best Dressed Women”.
