Jacqueline Fernandez

Jacqueline Fernandez has one of the more genuinely cross-border stories in Indian cinema: born and raised in Bahrain, of Sri Lankan heritage, educated at the University of Sydney, and a former television reporter before modeling. I find that path more interesting than the usual star origin story. To pivot from journalism into beauty pageants and then claw your way into Bollywood as an outsider takes real nerve. At 177 cm she naturally commands the frame, but it is the easy adaptability of someone who has moved between cultures that comes through on screen. Breaking into that sheer volume of an industry from the outside earns my respect.

Name (English)

Jacqueline Fernandez

Name (Japanese)

ジャクリーン・フェルナンデス

Reading

じゃくりーん・ふぇるなんです

Born

August 11, 1985 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

Origin

Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain

Height

177 cm

Occupation

model / film actor / beauty pageant contestant / actor

University

University of Sydney

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jacquelienefernandez/
• Xhttps://x.com/Asli_Jacqueline
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline%20Fernandez
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2312801

Tags

• Capital Governorate
• model
• film actor
• beauty pageant contestant

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.