Deepika Padukone (pronounced[d̪iːpɪkaː pəɖʊkoːɳ]; born 5 January 1986) is a Indianmovieactress 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 from Bangalore. 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 returned 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 movie debut by playing the titular protagonist in the Kannada movieAishwarya (2006). Her first Hindi movie 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 movie role in 2008 was as one of Ranbir Kapoor's love interests in Bachna Ae Haseeno.
Padukone's first movie 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 ₹1.2 billion (US$16million) worldwide, and garnered her a second Best Actress nomination at Filmfare. Padukone had five movie releases in 2010. Her second comedy movie in that year, Housefull was a commercial success, though her other four releases (Karthik Calling Karthik, Lafangey Parindey, Break Ke Baad, and Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey) that year failed at the box office. The series of poorly received movies 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 ₹1 billion (US$13million) in India. Among these were two of the highest-grossing Bollywood movies of all time—the 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 movie 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 movie 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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