Jacqueline fernandez

Jacqueline Fernandez Biography:

Jacqueline Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress and model. She is a former beauty queen who won Miss Sri Lanka Universe in 2006. She is currently working in Bollywood. She has received an International Indian Film Academy Award and Stardust Award for Best Female Debut in 2010,^[1] for her role in the Indian film Aladin.

Contents [hide] 1 Early Life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Awards 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Early Life

Born in Colombo, Western Province Fernandez comes from a Sinhalese family in Sri Lanka. Her parents are both Sinhalese, her father from Negombo, who has now migrated to Malaysia, and her mother from Kandy. At the age of three her family moved to Bahrain as a guest worker. In Bahrain, she studied at the Holy Crest Girls' School, Manama. While schooling she participated in many co-curricular activities including ballet, drama and athletics. After graduating from the Murrey University in Melbourne, Australia with a degree for mass media studies, she chose modelling as her profession, providing her service to a number of fashion designers in Australia, Singapore, Dubai and Sri Lanka.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Career

Jacqueline at the IIFA Awards 2010, where she won the Star Debut Award for Aladin.

In March 2006, Fernandez was crowned the Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Universe 2006 in March, 2006 and also competed in Miss Universe 2006, but was not a finalist.
After competing at Miss Universe, she worked as an anchor on Lanka Business Report and wrote a weekly column for The Daily Mirror while modeling in India. Fernandez also has a non-profit organization in Sri Lanka focusing on empowering the underprivileged.
Fernandez^[2] made her acting debut in the 2009 Bollywood fantasy movie Aladin directed by Sujoy Gosh alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, and Ritesh Deshmukh. She played the character of Jasmine, the new girl in college who has come from America.^[3]
2010 saw her once again appearing alongside Ritesh Deshmukh again in the romantic comedy Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai. She also had a cameo appearance in Sajid Khan's Housefull, starring Akshay Kumar in the lead role while Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Arjun Rampal feature in supporting roles. Now she is acting in a Tamil movie called Mankatha. She is doing a special role and she is acting with Ajith kumar,Nagarjuna, Trisha Krishnan, Manoj Manchu, Vedhika Kumar and Lakshmi Rai.Jacqueline has two films coming up in 2011; Murder 2 and Milap Zaveri's (her Director from JKSAH) latest]]
According to her: "Being independent and accomplished was imperative to me and I always demanded the best of myself. Perfectionism is my strongest asset."

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language	Notes
2009	Aladin	Jasmine	Hindi	Winner, IIFA Award for Best Debut Actress
2010	Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai[4]	Tara	Hindi
	Housefull	Dhanno	Hindi	Special Appearance in song 'Aapka Kya Hoga'
2011	Mankatha		Tamil	Special Appearance
	Murder 2		Hindi
2012	Housefull 2		Hindi	Announced