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Deepika Padukone is the daughter of former badminton champion Prakash Padukone and Ujjala, a travel agent. She also has a younger sister, Anisha. The model-turned-actress did her schooling from Sophia High School, Bangalore and completed her graduation at Mount Carmel College.
Deepika started her career by modelling in television advertising campaigns for Liril soap, Close-Up and Limca.
Deepika hit the international scene when Maybelline made her their new international cover face.
At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, she was awarded the title 'Model of the Year'.
Shortly Deepika was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar-2006, thus cementing her reputation as a supermodel.
Deepika gave her debut performance by starring in the music video Naam Hai Tera from the pop album Aap Ka Suroor by Himesh Reshammiya.
Deepika made her cinematic debut in a Kannada film, Aishwarya in 2006, directed by Indrajit Lankesh co-starring Upendra.
The actress literally exploded into Bollywood in Om Shanti Om (2007) opposite King Khan.For the same film, Deepika Padukone was honoured with the Filmfare award for Sony Fresh Face of the year. She also won the Filmfare award for the best female debutante for the year 2007.