Deepika Padukone
Profile
- Alias
- Deepika
- Age
- 40 years
- Birth Place
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- City
- Mumbai
- Occupation
- Actress
- Languages
- Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
- Height
- 5' 8"
- Weight
- kg
- Eye Color
- Black
- Hair Color
- Black
- Education
- Sophia High School, Bangalore, Completed her pre-university studies at Mo
- Parents
- Prakash Padukone, Ujjala Padukone
- Sisters
- Anisha padukone
- Favourite Actors
- Anisha padukone
- Favourite Actresses
- Anisha padukone
Summary
Deepika Padukone (born 5 January 1986) is an Indian actress and model. She appears mostly in Bollywood films. Born to badminton player Prakash Padukone, she chose to become an actress. In 2006, Padukone made her acting debut through the Kannada film Aishwarya. The following year, she made her Hindi film debut in Om Shanti Om, for which she earned the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. It remains her biggest commercial success. She subsequently appeared in Love Aaj Kal (2009) and Housefull (2010). While the former earned her a Filmfare nomination in the Best Actress category, the latter emerged as a commercial success. Soon after, Padukone featured in Homi Adajania's commercially successful dramedy, Cocktail (2012) and earned unanimous critical appreciation for her performance. In addition to acting, Padukone is also the ambassador of prominent brands such as Tissot, Sony Cybershot, Yamaha, Nescafe and Kingfisher Airlines
Biography
As part of NDTV's Greenathon Campaign, Padukone adopted Ambegaon, a village in Maharashtra, that was facing a major electricity crisis. In the media In 2009, Padukone started writing weekly columns for HT City, the lifestyle supplement of Hindustan Times. These columns appear online on social network, Desimartini. She appeared on the cover of lifestyle magazine Vogue on May 2010 and 2011. She also walked the red carpet at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. On November 2010, she appeared on Koffee With Karan, a popular chat show along with Sonam Kapoor. Her comments on ex-boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor led to a lot of controversy among Bollywood inner-circles.
