Place of Birth: Manama, Bahrain
Date of Birth: 11 August 1985
Ethnicity:
*father – Sri Lankan Burgher, some Goan Indian
*mother – Canadian, Chinese-Malaysian
Jacqueline Fernandez is a Sri Lankan actress and former model who works in the Bollywood film industry. She was crowned Miss Universe Sri Lanka in 2006.
Jacqueline was born in Manama, Bahrain to an Eurasian family. Her father, Elroy Fernandez, is a Sri Lankan Burgher (Burghers are an Eurasian ethnic group of Sri Lanka) and her mother, Kim, was born in Malaysia to a Canadian father and a Chinese-Malaysian mother. Jacqueline and her parents are pictured here.
Jacqueline’s paternal great-grandparents were from Goa, India.
She has said, in an interview about her family :
My dad is Sri Lankan and my mom is Malaysian. I was born and brought up in Bahrain and did my schooling there and university in Australia. My mom’s dad is Canadian and my great grandparents were from Goa in India. People in Sri Lanka with a European ancestry are called ‘Burghers’. So ctually I am a cocktail who looks quite Malay and am a ‘Burgher Sri Lankan’.
Sources :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Fernandez
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/
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