She made her acting debut in Bollywood with Sujoy Ghosh's Aladin, for which she had won an International Indian Film Academy Award for Best Female Debut.

Jacqueline was born on August 11, 1985 in Bahrain. She was brought up in Sri Lanka and studied at The Sacred Heart School.

She has three siblings, two brothers and a sister.

Jacqueline started to host TV shows at the age of 14. She completed her graduation in Mass Communications from Australia and after returning back to Sri Lanka, became a political reporter.

From the age of 8 years she had aspired to become an actress. She continued with modelling along with her career and in 2006 she was crowned the Miss Sri Lanka Universe.

Later, in 2007 she appeared for the very first time in a commercial music video of Sri Lanka and in 2009, she was seen in Bollywood fiction movie 'Aladin'.

The actress was seen opposite Salman Khan in the movie 'Kick'. She was seen in a double role in Roy movie.

Jacqueline Fernandez was the anchor of Lanka Business Report and also used to write for The Daily Mirror.

She used to do modelling in India and made her debut with the film Aladin opposite Riteish Deskhmukh. Later, she appeared in famous sequels like Murder 2, Housefull 2 and Race 2.

According to the sources, Jacqueline started dating director Sajid Khan and soon broke off. Rumours also suggests that Jacqueline is dating Arjun Kapoor after the two were spotted together at many places. However Jacqueline denied it and said that Arjun and she are good friends.