Pictures: 10 Unknown facts about Birthday Girl Deepika Padukone

Sexy, stylish and suave Deepika Padukone made her Bollywood debut in Om Shanti Om opposite superstar Shahrukh Khan, for which she earned the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award.

Deepika Padukone was a very successful model before entering into films. But she become a well known face when she appeared in Himesh Reshammiya famous song 'Naam Hai Tera'. At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards, she was awarded the title "Model of the Year". Not only this, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006 and won two trophies at the Idea Zee Fashion Awards - "Female Model of the Year" and "Fresh Face of the Year".

Apart from films, Deepika is also very famous for her affairs. During her modelling days, she dated model Nihar Pandya. But she later left him for Ranbir Kapoor. After breaking up with Ranbir, her name was linked to Vijay Mallaya's son Siddharth Mallaya.

Here are some unknown facts about Birthday girl Deepika Padukone

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Deepika was born in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1986 to famous badminton player Prakash Padukone.

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Deepika also played badminton regularly till her tenth standard.

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Deepika Padukone learned dance from Shaimak Davar.

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Her first film was a Kannada flick titled Aishwarya.

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Farah Khan signed Deepika for Happy New Year but later cancelled HNY and chose her for Om Shanti Om.

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Her favourite star is Shahrukh Khan.

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Deepika's first dialogue in OSO was 'Kutte, kameene! Bhagwan ke liye mujhe chhod de!'

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Madhuri Dixit, Sri Devi and Kajol are her favourite actresses.

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Deepika loves to watch Matrix and Charlie's Angels a lot.

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Deepika never wanted to be an actress in her childhood days.