Sri Lankan Bollywood Actress Jacqueline Fernandez

After completing the entire shooting of his film "Diary of a Butterfly" director Vinod Mukhi recently did an ad shoot for winter brand called Rage with Sri Lankan actress Jacqueline Fernandes at Film City,Goregaon, Mumbai.The ad was shot over 2 days and talking about the experience of working with Jacky, Vinod Mukhi said, "Working with Jacqueline was an awesome experience and her professionalism was appreciated by everyone. Her punctuality saved the energy of the unit since it was very hot and we were shooting under the sun for a winter wear brand! I hope to work with Jacky again because she is very professional and very beautiful. Priyanka Chopra,Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy has done shoot for this brand."

Jacqueline Fernandez (Sinhala:ජැකෝලයින් ෆර්නැන්ඩස්) is a Sri Lankan actress and model, currently working in Bollywood (Hindi film industry in Bombay, now Mumbai). 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. Born in Colombo, Western Province Fernandez comes from a Sinhalese family in Sri Lanka. Her parents are both Sinhalese, her father from Negombo, who has now migrated to Malaysia, and her mother from Kandy. At the age of three her family moved to Bahrain as a guest worker. In Bahrain, she studied at the Sacred Heart School . While schooling she participated in many co-curricular activities including ballet, drama and athletics. After graduating from the Murrey 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.

In March 2006, Fernandez was crowned the Miss Sri Lanka for Miss Universe 2006. She also competed in Miss Universe 2006, but was not a finalist.

After competing at Miss Universe, she worked as an anchor on Lanka Business Report and wrote a weekly column for The Daily Mirror while modeling in India. Fernandez also has a non-profit organization in Sri Lanka focusing on empowering the underprivileged.

Fernandez made her acting debut in the 2009 Bollywood fantasy movie Aladin directed by Sujoy Gosh alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, and Ritesh Deshmukh. She played the character of Jasmine, the new girl in college who has come from America.

2010 saw her once again appearing alongside Ritesh Deshmukh again in the romantic comedy Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai. (Sri Lanka se aur kaha se?)

She also had a cameo appearance in Sajid Khan's Housefull, starring Akshay Kumar in the lead role while Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Arjun Rampal featured in supporting roles. She is currently working in the Tamil film Mankatha in a special role alongside Ajith Kumar, Nagarjuna, Trisha Krishnan, Manoj Manchu, Vedhika Kumar and Lakshmi Rai. Fernandez has two films set to release in 2011; Murder 2 and Milap Zaveri's next directorial venture.