Biography
Jacqueline Fernandez is a Bahraini-Sri Lankan actress, former model, and the winner of the 2006 Miss Universe Sri Lanka pageant. She was born in Manama, Bahrain, and was raised in a multi-ethnic family. Her father, who was a musician in Sri Lanka, moved to Bahrain in the 1980's to escape civil unrest between the Tamils and Sinhalese and subsequently met her mother who was an air hostess. She is the youngest of four children with one elder sister and two elder brothers.
As Miss Universe Sri Lanka she represented her country at the 2006 world Miss Universe pageant. She graduated with a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Sydney, and worked as a television reporter in Sri Lanka. She hosted television shows in Bahrain at the age of fourteen. She also attended the Berlitz school of languages, where she learnt Spanish and improved her French and Arabic.
She always aspired to become an actress at a young age and fantasized about becoming a Hollywood movie star. She received some training at the John School of Acting. Although, she was a television reporter, she accepted offers in the modeling industry, which came as a result of her pageant success. In 2006, she was crowned the winner of the Miss Universe Sri Lanka pageant and represented Sri Lanka at the world Miss Universe 2006 pageant held in Los Angeles.
