Freida to move to New York

Freida Pinto, who has struck gold thanks to "Slumdog Millionaire", says she is keen to move to New York because the city, “just feel like home.”
Everytime the 24-year-old actress would travel all over to promote the movie, she would feel homesick. She likes relaxing in NY, as that’s where she can gather her thoughts, a website quoted her as saying.
She said, “There’s something about New York. It’s quite a lot like Mumbai in many ways, but it’s (Mumbai) not as organised as this city and obviously not as cool as New York. Everyone keeps asking me why not LA, but the thing is, I don’t want to feel really homesick. New York just feels like home.”

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Freida Pinto Wins Elle Style's Best Actress Award

Model-turned-actor” Freida Pinto” has continued the winning streak for her debut movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' by bagging the best actress prize at the Elle Style Awards.

“Freida Pinto” was born in Mumbai to Sylvia Pinto, now a principal of St. John’s Universal High School (Goregaon), and Frederick Pinto, a senior branch manager at the Bank of Baroda. Her family has their roots in Goa (former Portuguese overseas province in India) and hails from the Mangalorean Catholic community, a Christian community in Bombay. Her elder sister Sharon Pinto is an associate producer on the NDTV news channel.Her father is from mangalore (neerude) Pinto completed her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She currently resides in the Malad suburb of Mumbai.