Deepika Padukone is an Indian supermodel turned actress who appears in Bollywood movies.

Padukone was born to Ujjala and Prakash Padukone on January 5, 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her family moved to Bangalore when she was only eleven months old. Her father Prakash Padukone is a badminton player of international repute, while her mother is a travel agent. Furthermore, Padukone has a younger sister, Anisha (b.1991), who is an aspiring golfer.

Padukone attended Sophia High School in Bangalore. She completed her studies from Mount Carmel College. While in high school she played badminton at the state level like her father and was a member of her father’s badminton club.However, she wasn’t keen on pursuing a career as a badminton player and abandoned it because of her ICSE exams

While pursuing her studies in college, she decided to pursue a career in modeling. Over the years, she has modeled for famous Indian brand names such as Liril, Dabur Lal powder, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca. She received many prestigious modeling offers, which included becoming the brand ambassadorship of the Jewels of India. Padukone hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their new international spokesperson.

At the 5th annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards she was awarded the title Model of the Year. Shortly afterward, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006 and won two trophies at the Idea Zee Fashion Awards: Female Model of the Year – (Commercial Assignments) and Fresh Face of the Year later that year. Padukone was also chosen as the brand ambassador of Kingfisher Airlines and most recently Levi Strauss and Tissot SA.

After pursuing a successful career in modeling, Padukone branched out into acting. She started by starring in the music video for the song Naam Hai Tera from the independent pop album Aap Kaa Surroor by Himesh Reshammiya.

In 2006, Padukone made her cinematic debut in the Kannada film, Aishwarya staring opposite actor Upendra. She later made a successful Bollywood debut in 2007 with Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om opposite Shahrukh Khan. The film went on to become the biggest hit of the year, both in India and abroad.The film featured her portraying Shantipriya – a 1970s superstar, and later as Sandy – a young woman who looks exactly like Shantipriya. Her performance was well received, earning the actress a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award as well as her first Filmfare Best Actress nomination. Taran Adarsh from indiaFM noted, “Deepika has all it takes to be a top star — the personality, the looks and yes, she’s supremely talented too. Standing in the same frame as SRK and getting it right is no small achievement. She comes as a whiff of fresh air!”

Padukone’s most recent film is Siddharth Anand’s Bachna Ae Haseeno, which released on August 15, 2008. As of August 2008, Padukone is currently working on Nikhil Advani’s Chandni Chowk To China opposite Akshay Kumar.

Films Done By Deepika Padukone

2006 Aishwarya Aishwarya Kannada film
2007 Om Shanti Om Shantipriya / Sandy Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
2008 Bachna Ae Haseeno Gayatri Jakhar
2009 Chandni Chowk to China Sakhi
2009 Billu Herself Special appearance in song “Love Mera Hit Hit”
2009 Love Aaj Kal Meera Pandit Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2009 Main Aurr Mrs Khanna Raina Special appearance
2010 Karthik Calling Karthik Shonali Mukherjee
2010 Housefull Saundarya Rao /Sandy
2010 Lafangey Parindey Pinky Palkar
2010 Break Ke Baad Aaliya Khan
2010 Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey Kalpana Datta
2011 Dum Maaro Dum — Special appearance in song “Dum Maro Dum”
2011 Aarakshan Poorvi Anand
2011 Desi Boyz Radhika Awasthi
2012 Cocktail Veronica Malaney Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2013 Race 2 Alina Malik
2013 Bombay Talkies Herself Special appearance in song “Apna Bombay Talkies”
2013 Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Naina Talwar
2013 Chennai Express Meenalochan
2013 Azhagusundaram Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2013 Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela Leela Sanera Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2014 Kochadaiiyaan Vadhana Devi Tamil film
2014 Finding Fanny Angelina ‘Angie’ Eucharistica English language film
2014 Happy New Year Mohini Joshi
2015 My Choice Herself Short film
2015 Piku Piku Banerjee Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2015 Tamasha Tara Maheshwari
2015 Bajirao Mastani Mastani Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2017 xXx: Return of Xander Cage Serena Unger American film
2017 Raabta — Special appearance in song “Raabta”
2018 Padmaavat Rani Padmavati Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actress
2018 Zero Herself Special appearance
2020 Chhapaak Malti Also producer
2020 83 The film has not yet been released Romi Bhatia Filming; also producer

Music videos Done By Deepika Padukone

“Naam Hai Tera” 2005 — Himesh Reshammiya Aap Kaa Surroor
“Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara” 2010 Herself Various
“Bolydude Ganeshan” 2012 — Ganesh Hegde Let’s Party