Deepika Padukone was born in 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark. When she was 11 months old, her family shifted to Bangalore.
Deepika is a relative of yesteryear famous actor and filmmaker Guru Dutt. Whose real name was Vasanth Padukone.
Deepika was first seen by Farah Khan in Himesh Reshammiya's song Naam Tera Tera and made up her mind to cast her in the film.
Deepika has also been a state level baseball player.
His voice was not used in his debut film Om Shanti Om. His voice was dubbed.
Deepika was earlier supposed to debut in Bollywood with Priyadarshan's film. In which she was to play the role of a member of a rock band. But this film never got made.
After that she was about to debut with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Saawariya. But after Sanjay, adopting the Star Kids formula, Anil Kapoor's daughter was signed.
Deepika's sister Anisha is a golf champion.
Before joining the film industry, she was in a relationship with Nihar Pandya, whom Deepika left after meeting Ranbir Kapoor.
Deepika had never worked with Salman Khan. It is believed that the closeness with Shahrukh Khan is the reason for this.
Deepika was not Rohit Shetty's first choice for Chennai Express. Rohit wanted to sign Kareena Kapoor.