Jacqueline Fernandez (born 11 August 1985) is a Sri Lankan actress, former model, and the winner of the Miss Sri Lanka Universe pageant of 2006. She is known for appearing in Bollywood films. After graduating in Mass communication and working as a journalist in Sri Lanka, she accepted offers to join the modeling industry. She was crowned the Miss Sri Lanka Universe 2006, and represented her country at Miss Universe 2006 held in Los Angeles.
While on a modelling assignment in India in 2009, Fernandez got an offer to join Hindi film industry, thus making her acting debut in Sujoy Ghosh's fantasy drama Aladin, a commercial failure. For the film, she won an IIFA Award for Best Female-Debut. Fernandez gained recognition with her appearance in Mohit Suri's erotic-thriller Murder 2 (2011), which emerged as her first commercial success and followed it with glamorous roles in the ensemble-comedy Housefull 2 (2012) and the action-thriller Race 2 (2013) both of which were major box-office successes. In 2014, Fernandez portrayed the leading lady in Sajid Nadiadwala's Kick, which emerged as one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all-time.
Fernandez made her acting debut in the 2009 Bollywood fantasy movie
Aladin playing a character inspired by the Disney Princess character of Jasmine.
For her performance, Fernandez received mixed reviews, with Anupama Chopra of NDTV calling her a "plastic debutant".
However, Taran Adarsh of BollywoodHungama complimented her more on her
looks, rather than her performance by saying, "Jacqueline Fernandez gets
no scope, but she looks gorgeous nonetheless.
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