Madrid: Actress Freida Pinto will make her debut at the International Indian Film Academy awards this weekend to pick up the International Icon gong.
The three-day awards event, which will begin on Thursday, will be held in Madrid, Spain, and is the 17th edition of what’s known as Bollywood’s Oscars. The US-based Indian actress has appeared in films including Slumdog Millionaire, Miral, Day of the Falcon, Immortals, Desert Dancer and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and is also known for her social work on the Girl Rising campaign.
After attending the awards ceremony on Saturday, Pinto will fly to Monrovia, Liberia, to join US First Lady Michelle Obama for Let Girls Learn — a government initiative aimed at helping girls obtain quality education.
Obama, her daughters Sasha and Malia and their grandmother Marian Robinson will travel to Liberia, Morocco and Spain at the end of June and early July as part of the initiative.
