Deepika Padukone

**Deepika Padukone** (; born 5 January 1986) is a Indian movie actress and model. She is one of the highest-paid Indian celebrities; she has established a career in Bollywood movies, and is the recipient of two Filmfare Awards. Times named her 100 most influential people in the world in the year 2018.

## Early life
Deepika Padukone was born on 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark to Konkani-speaking parents. Her father, Prakash, is a former badminton player of international repute, and her mother, Ujjala, is a travel agent. Her younger sister, Anisha, is a golfer. Her paternal grandfather, Ramesh, was a secretary of the Mysore Badminton Association. 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 for a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, but later quit it due to scheduling conflicts with her modelling career.

## Career
Padukone's first screen appearance was in Himesh Reshammiya's music video "Naam Hai Tera" in 2005. Padukone made her film debut by playing the titular protagonist in the Kannada film  *Aishwarya* (2006). Her first Hindi film release came the following year with Farah Khan's melodrama *Om Shanti Om*, in which she played dual roles opposite Shah Rukh Khan. For her performance, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut and also received a Best Actress nomination at the same ceremony. Her sole film role in 2008 was as one of Ranbir Kapoor's love interests in *Bachna Ae Haseeno*.

Padukone's first film release of 2009, the kung fu comedy  *Chandni Chowk to China* opposite Akshay Kumar, proved to be a box office flop. However, her next release, Imtiaz Ali's romance *Love Aaj Kal* grossed  worldwide, and garnered her a second Best Actress nomination at Filmfare. Padukone had five film releases in 2010. Her second comedy film in that year, *Housefull* was a commercial success, The series of poorly received films continued with both her 2011 releases, the drama *Aarakshan* and the comedy *Desi Boyz*.

The role of an impulsive party-girl in Homi Adajania's *Cocktail* (2012) proved to be a breakthrough for Padukone. Critics praised her performance and she received several acting nominations for it. The year 2013 was key for Padukone; three of her four releases that year earned over  in India. Among these were two of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all timethe romantic comedy *Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani* and the action-comedy *Chennai Express*. She also won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for portraying Leela, a character based on Juliet, in *Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela* (2013). In 2014, Padukone appeared in *Kochadaiiyaan*, an animation film in Tamil, which was shot using motion capture technology. Also that year, she played a young widow in Adajania's *Finding Fanny* and a bar dancer in the ensemble heist film *Happy New Year*. The following year, Padukone starred alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan in Shoojit Sircar's critically acclaimed comedy-drama *Piku* (2015).

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