Deepika Padukone

Great Actress and so Pretty!

Deepika Padukone (born 5 January 1986) is an Indian actress and a former model. She appears mostly in Hindi films, as well as Tamil and Kannada language films. Born to badminton player Prakash Padukone , she chose to become an actress and not pursue a career in sports.^[1]
In 2006, Padukone made her acting debut through the Kannada film Aishwarya ^[2] The following year, she made her Hindi film debut in Om Shanti Om , for which she earned the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award . It also remains her biggest commercial success so far. She subsequently appeared in films such as 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.^[3] Soon after, Padukone featured alongside Saif Ali Khan and Diana Penty in the critically and commercially successful Cocktail (2012), which was directed by Homi Adajania .^[4][5]
In addition to acting, Padukone is also the ambassador of prominent brands such as Tissot , Sony Cybershot , Yamaha ^[6] Nescafe and Kingfisher Airlines .^[7]

Early life and backgroundPadukone was born in Copenhagen , Denmark . Her father, Prakash Padukone , is a former badminton player of international repute, and her mother is a travel agent. Her father was then training in Denmark in the sport and when she was eleven months old, her family moved to Bangalore , Karnataka , India.^[8] Padukone also has a younger sister, Anisha, born on 2 February 1991.^[9]
Padukone attended Sophia High School in Bangalore , and completed her pre-university studies at Mount Carmel College Bangalore .^[10] While in high school she played badminton at the state level.^[11] However, she was not keen on pursuing a career as a badminton player.^[12] During the time of her film debut she was enrolled with the Indira Gandhi National Open University in Bachelors of Arts ( Sociology ).^[13][14]

She shouldda stick to Badminton :  :blank:

OR a travel tour guide ....

Like Dad and Mom ...... :tongue:

In Om Shanti Om

love aaj kaal

I am starting to get this feeling that :

all dem coolie gyals look de same in Bollywood ... :lipsrsealed:

in Desi Boyz with John Abraham

I went to a birthday hang for my daughter on Saturday nite :

Outdoor , under Tents in the back yard :

ALL her Indo girl friends would be a look_alike of that gyal  ::redcard::