Deepika Padukone was born on 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to former badminton champion Prakash Padukone and Ujjala Padukone; the family moved to Bangalore (Bengaluru) when she was about a year old. Her younger sister Anisha is a professional golfer.
She studied at Sophia High School and Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, and enrolled for a sociology degree through IGNOU but did not complete it. She played badminton in national-level championships before switching to modelling, appearing in a Liril soap advertisement, debuting at Lakmé Fashion Week (2005) and featuring in the Kingfisher Calendar (2006).
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