While in school, played state-level baseball and basketball, and national-level badminton.
Made her acting debut with the Kannada movie Aishwarya (2006).
Performed as a dancer in Himesh Reshammiya's music video "Naam Hai Tera."
Entered Bollywood with Om Shanti Om (2007), the highest grossing movie of that year.
Collaborated with Van Heusen to launch her own limited edition clothing collection in 2011.
The anxiety and depression she faced in 2014 motivated her to set up Live Love Laugh Foundation in 2015, an initiative to help people with mental health issues.
In 2015, launched her own fashion brand All About You on the online shopping website Myntra in 2015.
Made a grand debut on Forbes's 2016 list of the World's Highest-Paid Actresses; she was ranked tenth in the list.
On Oct 3, 2016, emerged as Asia's most followed woman on Twitter with a whopping 16 million followers.
About a fortnight after the release of the first trailer of her Hollywood debut movie xXx: Return Of Xander Cage, she made it to the magazine Vanity Fair's list of Hollywood's next-generation stars. She grabbed the second spot on the list.
Is one of the brand ambassadors for the Swiss watch making company Tissot.
Deepika Padukone
January 5, 1986 (age 40)
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bio
While in school, played state-level baseball and basketball, and national-level badminton.
Made her acting debut with the Kannada movie Aishwarya (2006).
Performed as a dancer in Himesh Reshammiya's music video "Naam Hai Tera."
Entered Bollywood with Om Shanti Om (2007), the highest grossing movie of that year.
Collaborated with Van Heusen to launch her own limited edition clothing collection in 2011.
The anxiety and depression she faced in 2014 motivated her to set up Live Love Laugh Foundation in 2015, an initiative to help people with mental health issues.
In 2015, launched her own fashion brand All About You on the online shopping website Myntra in 2015.
Made a grand debut on Forbes's 2016 list of the World's Highest-Paid Actresses; she was ranked tenth in the list.
On Oct 3, 2016, emerged as Asia's most followed woman on Twitter with a whopping 16 million followers.
About a fortnight after the release of the first trailer of her Hollywood debut movie xXx: Return Of Xander Cage, she made it to the magazine Vanity Fair's list of Hollywood's next-generation stars. She grabbed the second spot on the list.
Is one of the brand ambassadors for the Swiss watch making company Tissot.