Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone  was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her family moved to Bangalore, Karnataka, India, when she was eleven months old.  Deepika is of Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin origin, and her mother tongue is Konkani.  Her father, Prakash Padukone, is a retired badminton player of international repute, and her mother is a travel agent. Padukone also has a younger sister, Anisha, born on February 2, 1991.  Padukone attended Sophia High School in Bangalore, and completed her pre-university studies at Mount Carmel College Bangalore. While in high school she played badminton at the state level. However, she was not keen on pursuing a career as a badminton player. Deepika Padukone  is an Indian actress and a former model. Padukone made her acting debut in the 2006 Kannada film Aishwarya.

Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone

While in college, Padukone pursued a career in modeling.  She was spotted in a ramp competition in NLS, Bangalore.  Over the years, she has modeled for such Indian brand names as Liril, Dabur Lal powder, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, and has been "brand ambassador" for the Jewels of India retail jewelry show. The cosmetics company Maybelline made her its international spokesperson. In 2006, Padukone made her cinematic debut in the Kannada film Aishwarya opposite actor Upendra. She later made a successful Bollywood debut in 2007 with Farah Khan's blockbuster Om Shanti Om opposite Shahrukh Khan.  Her performance was well received, earning the actress a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award as well as her first Filmfare Best Actress nomination.  She comes as a whiff of fresh air!" Padukone was then seen in Siddharth Anand's romantic comedy Bachna Ae Haseeno opposite Ranbir Kapoor and alongside Bipasha Basu and Minissha Lamba. The film, which released on 15 August 2008, performed reasonably well at the box office. Her next film Chandni Chowk To China, released on 16 January 2009, and was a critical and commercial disaster. Padukone's fourth release Love Aaj Kal, released on 31 July 2009 and proved to be one of the biggest hits of 2009. Her first release in 2010 was Excel Entertainment’s Karthik Calling Karthik opposite Farhan Akhtar.

Deepika Padukone

In 2009, Deepika started writing weekly columns for HT City, the lifestyle supplement of Hindustan Times. These columns appear online on social network, Desimartini. In March 2008, Padukone began dating Ranbir Kapoor, her co-star from the film Bachna Ae Haseeno 2008. The couple broke up in November 2009.