Erica Fernandes is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu language films. Prior to her film career, she took part in the beauty pageant Miss India 2012, finishing in the top ten. Erica Fernandes was born in Mangalore and brought up in Mumbai, and her parents, Ralph Fernandes, a model and interior designer, and Lavina,had originated from Mangalore, Karnataka. She did her schooling from Holy Cross High School and completed her college from SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce, Sion. For further studies, she pursued her Bachelors in Arts from St. Andrew's College, Mumbai but dropped out to pursue her modelling career. Since 2010, she has taken part in pageants and notably won Pantaloons Femina Miss Maharashtra 2011 amongst other titles.