Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone was born January 5, 1986 is an Indian super modelturned actress who appears Bollywood movies. Padukone was born to Ujjala and Prakash padukone on January 5, 1986, in copenhagen , Denmark. Her family moved to Bangalore,india when she was only eleven months old. Her parents hail from Padukone village in Kundara paluk of Udupi district Karnataka India Her father, Prakash padukone, is a badminton player of international repute, and her mother is a travel agent. Deepika has a younger sister, Anisha, born in 1991, who is an aspiring golfer Padukone attended Sophia high school in Bangalore. She completed her pre universities studies at Mount Carmel College in Bangalor, india 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 to concentrate on her ICSE exams While pursuing her studies in college, she decided to pursue a career in modeling Over the years, she has modeled for well-known Indian brand names such as Liril Dabur Lal powder, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca. She received many prestigious modeling offers, which included brand ambassador for the Jewels of India retail jewellery show. Padukone hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their 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 Swim suit calender 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 status 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 Ka Suroor by Himesh Reshammiya In 2006, Padukone made her cinematic debut in the Kannada film Aishwarya starring 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 Filmfaire 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 was released on August 15, 2008. As of August 2008, Padukone is currently working on Nikhil Advani s Chandni Chowk To China opposite Akshay Kumar.
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