Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in India. she was born on 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, in a Saraswat Brahmin family to Konkani-speaking parents. Her father Prakash Padukone is a former professional badminton player and her mother, Ujjala, is a travel agent. Her younger sister, Anisha, is a golfer. The family relocated to Bangalore, India when Padukone was a year old. She was educated at Bangalore’s Sophia High School and completed her pre-university education at Mount Carmel College. She subsequently enrolled at the Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Deepika Padukone is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films.
She is one of the highest-paid actresses in India.
She Features in listing of the Nation’s most popular Personalities.
She is considered as on of the most Influencial people in the world in 2018 and 2022.
Padukone, the daughter of the badminton player Prakash Padukone, was born in Copenhagen and raised in Bangalore.
She is hailing from Saraswat Brahmin family to Konkani.
When she was a child she used to play Badminton at National Level Championship but she left her career in the sports to Become a Fashion Model.
She soon received offers for film roles and made her acting debut in 2006 as the title character of the Kannada film Aishwarya.
she was born on 5 January 1986 and she is 36 years old.
She was educated at Bangalore’s Sophia High School and completed her pre-university education at Mount Carmel College.
She is being called by her Nickname like deepz, Deepi.
Padukone played a dual role opposite Shah Rukh Khan in her first Bollywood release, the romance Om Shanti Om 2007.
She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
She received praise for her starring role in the romance Love Aaj Kal (2009).
The romantic comedy Cocktail (2012) marked a turning point in her career, and she gained further success with starring roles in the romantic comedies Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Chennai Express (both 2013).
She also received critical acclaim for playing a character based on Juliet in Bhansali’s tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013).
She is the founder of the Live Love Laugh Foundation, which creates awareness on mental health in India.
Early in her career, She gained recognition with a television commercial for the soap Liril and modelled for various other brands and products.
In 2005 she made her runway debut at the Lakme Fashion Week for designer Suneet Varma and won the “Model of the Year” award at the Kingfisher Fashion Awards.
Deepika fame increased when she appeared in a highly popular print campaign for the 2006 Kingfisher Calendar.
At the age of 21, Padukone relocated to Mumbai and stayed at her aunt’s home.
she gained wider recognition by featuring in the music video for Himesh Reshammiya’s song “Naam Hai Tera”
Her first release of 2009 came alongside Akshay Kumar in Nikhil Advani’s kung fu comedy Chandni Chowk To China she portrayed dual roles of Indian-Chinese twin sisters and it had one of the widest international releases given to an Indian film.
In 2018, Padukone portrayed Rani Padmavati, a Rajput queen who commits jauhar to protect herself from the Muslim invader Alauddin Khilji, in the period drama Padmaavat, it marked her third collaboration with Bhansali and Singh.