Jacqueline Fernandez New Collection
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Born 2 June 1985 (age 26)[citation needed] Colombo, Sri Lanka Nationality Sri Lankan Occupation Actress, Model Years active 2006–Present Relatives Frederica Jansz (Cousin)
Jacqueline Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress and model who works in Bollywood films. She is a former beauty queen who won the Miss Sri Lanka Universe in 2006. She has received an International Indian Film Academy Award and Stardust Award for Best Female Debut in 2010, for her role in the Indian film Aladin.
Fernandez was born to a Sinhalese Sri Lankan father and a Malay Sri Lankan mother in Colombo. At the age of three her family moved to Bahrain. There, she studied at the The Sacred Heart School. While schooling she participated in many co-curricular activities including ballet, drama and athletics. After graduating from the Monash 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.