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Jacqueline Fernandez is a beauty queen from Sri Lanka who won Miss Sri Lanka 2006.

Biography

Jacqueline Fernandez is a former Miss Sri Lanka and a Bollywood Sinhalese actress from Sri Lanka. She was born on 2nd June, 1985. She has three siblings, two brothers and an older sister. She is the cousin of Frederica Jansz. She is half Malaysian and half Sri-Lankan. In Bahrain in Sacred Heart School where she had most of her schooling, where she was motivated to do well and excelled in events such as Athletics, Drama and many other fields, she especially enjoyed Track and Field.

Having a passion for cultures and languages she also joined the Berlitz school of languages, where she learned to speak Spanish and improve her French and Arabic, she also picked up Horse Riding.

According to her: "Being independent and accomplished was imperative to me and I always demanded the best of myself. Perfectionism is my strongest asset."

Having the ambition to do something for her country, she competed in Miss Universe 2006. She has worked as an anchorwoman on one of Sri Lanka's business programs called "Lanka Business Report". She also writes a weekly column for a national newspaper, the "Daily mirror". Jackie also has a non-profit organisation in Sri Lanka focusing on empowering the underprivileged. She has come in a VIP ad with Shahid Kapoor.

Acting

She^[1] has started her acting debut from the Hindi movie Aladin (2009 film) in 2009 directed by Sujoy Gosh along with well known Indian stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, and Ritesh Deshmukh. She plays the character of Jasmine in the movie, the new girl in college who has come from America. ^[2]

Filmography

References

Sri Lankan Model Jacqueline Fernandez

External links

• On jacqueline, Missosology.org
• Jacqueline, Sri Lankan newspaper