Deepika Padukone Age 2026: How Old Is Deepika Padukone?

Last updated: November 2, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Deepika Padukone is 40 years old. She was born on 5 January 1986 in Copenhagen, Denmark, turned 40 on 5 January 2026, and turns 41 on 5 January 2027. The arithmetic is simple — 2026 minus 1986 is 40 — and the birthday has already passed this year, so there is no rounding and no “almost” about it. As this article publishes on 2 November 2026, she has 64 days left as a 40-year-old.

That single number sits on top of a career that now spans two decades, a marriage of nearly eight years, and a family that grew twice in the last two years: a first daughter, Dua, born in September 2024, and a second daughter, Devi, born in September 2026 and named in public on Dussehra, 20 October 2026. The year she turned 40 also brought the biggest institutional honour of her career so far — a place in the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2026, announced by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce — and two high-profile film exits that kept her in the headlines for reasons that had nothing to do with a release date.

Search results for her age are full of stale pages. Some still say 39, because they were written before January 2026 and never updated. One says 37, contradicting itself in its own text. One birth-chart page gives 6 January instead of 5 January. This article separates those errors from the record, gives the age at every stage of her life and career, and dates every figure it uses.

The Short Answer: How Old Is Deepika Padukone?

Deepika Padukone is 40 years old as of 2 November 2026. She was born on 5 January 1986, which makes her a Capricorn, and she will turn 41 on 5 January 2027 — 64 days from the publication date of this article. Anyone who finds a page calling her 39 is reading a page last updated before her January 2026 birthday. Anyone who finds a page calling her 37 is reading a page that was wrong when it was written; the same page lists her correct birth date a few lines away from its own wrong age.

The confusion is understandable, because her public image has barely changed across the years when the number changed. She debuted at 21, headlined her first string of blockbusters at 27, married at 32, became a mother at 38, and became a mother again at 40. The number moved. The workload did not slow to match it.

Born in Copenhagen, Raised in Bengaluru

Deepika Padukone was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 5 January 1986, while her father, Prakash Padukone, was training there. Prakash Padukone was one of India’s finest badminton players — the first Indian to win the All England Open, in 1980 — and her mother, Ujjala Padukone, worked as a travel agent. The family moved to Bengaluru, India, when Deepika was eleven months old, and she grew up there, in a household where sport was the family trade.

Her younger sister, Anisha Padukone, also pursued sport, playing golf at a competitive level before moving into other work. Deepika herself played badminton at national level as a schoolgirl, following her father’s path, before modelling pulled her in a different direction. That sporting background shows up in the way she has talked about discipline and training ever since: the early mornings, the coaching, the acceptance that progress is measured in years.

From Badminton Courts to the Camera

Deepika left competitive badminton for modelling while still a teenager, and the move paid off fast. She worked as a model in Bengaluru, appeared in advertising campaigns, and built a profile that took her to Mumbai. Her screen debut came in Kannada cinema, in Aishwarya (2006), when she was 20 years old. A year later, at 21, she made her Hindi film debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om (2007), playing a double role in a film that became a major commercial success and made her an overnight star.

The debut mattered for a specific reason. Hindi cinema in 2007 had a clear hierarchy of leading actresses, and a newcomer arriving opposite its biggest star, in a film built around the industry itself, was either going to be absorbed by the occasion or use it as a launchpad. Deepika used it as a launchpad. She won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for the performance, and the next decade never really let her leave the top tier.

The Twenties: Building a Filmography, Film by Film

Her twenties were a run of commercial films mixed with performances that showed range. Bachna Ae Haseeno followed in 2008, when she was 22, and Love Aaj Kal in 2009, when she was 23. Cocktail in 2012, when she was 26, gave her one of her most discussed performances of that period, playing a character whose choices the film refused to tidy up.

Then came 2013, the year that reset her standing. She was 27 when three films arrived in a single calendar year: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Chennai Express, and Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela. Each one was a commercial success; together they made her the defining female star of that year in Hindi cinema. The Ram-Leela shoot also changed her personal life — it was where she met Ranveer Singh, the actor she would marry five years later.

Age 28 to 32: Piku, Bajirao Mastani, and Marriage

At 28, she starred in Happy New Year (2014). At 29, she delivered the two performances most often cited when critics rank her work: Piku (2015), as a daughter managing an aging, difficult father, and Bajirao Mastani (2015), as Mastani in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s historical epic. Both films were commercial and critical successes, and the Piku performance won her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

At 29 she also founded the Live Love Laugh Foundation in 2015, after speaking publicly about her own experience with depression. The foundation works on mental health awareness in India, and it remains the part of her public life she returns to most consistently outside film. At 31, she made her Hollywood debut in xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and in March 2017 she was named a global ambassador for L’Oréal Paris. At 32, she starred in Padmaavat (2018), married Ranveer Singh in November 2018 at Lake Como in Italy — in Konkani and Sindhi ceremonies across 14 and 15 November — and was named to the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people.

Age 33 to 38: Producer, Entrepreneur, and First-Time Mother

Her thirties added two job titles to the actress credit. In 2017, at 31, she set up KA Enterprises LLP to manage her investments. Through her production company, Ka Productions, she produced and starred in Chhapaak (2020), released when she was 34, playing an acid-attack survivor in a film based on a real case. At 35, she starred in 83 (2021), playing Romi Dev opposite Ranveer Singh’s Kapil Dev. At 36, in November 2022, she launched her skincare brand, 82°E, moving from endorsing other companies’ products to selling her own.

The box-office peak of this period came at 37. Pathaan (2023) and Jawan (2023) both became enormous commercial successes, each built around a male superstar — Shah Rukh Khan in both cases — with Deepika in a central role rather than a supporting one. At 38, in 2024, she appeared in Fighter, Kalki 2898 AD and Singham Again, and on 8 September 2024 she gave birth to her first child, Dua Padukone Singh, at the age of 38. The couple revealed the baby’s name in November 2024, explaining that Dua means prayer.

Deepika Padukone’s Age at Every Milestone

Family at 40: Ranveer Singh, Dua, and Devi

Deepika Padukone married Ranveer Singh on 14–15 November 2018 at Lake Como, Italy. Ranveer was born on 6 July 1985, so he is 41 years old in 2026 — about five to six months older than Deepika, as the Daily Jagran age-gap reporting put it in April 2026. The couple will mark eight years of marriage on 14 November 2026, twelve days after this article publishes.

Their first daughter, Dua Padukone Singh, was born on 8 September 2024, when Deepika was 38 and Ranveer was 39. Dua turned 2 on 8 September 2026. Their second daughter was born on 19 September 2026, when Deepika was 40 and Ranveer was 41. The couple announced the birth the same day with a joint post reading “Welcome Baby Girl! 19|9|2026”, and on Dussehra, 20 October 2026, they announced her name: Devi Padukone Singh. The second pregnancy itself had been announced on 19 April 2026, with a photo of Dua holding a pregnancy test. The couple has kept both children’s faces largely private, sharing family photos on festivals rather than in regular posts.

Age 40 in 2026: The Walk of Fame, King, and Two Exits

Deepika turned 40 on 5 January 2026, and Indian entertainment outlets marked the milestone with birthday features tracing her two decades in cinema. The honour that defined the year, though, had been announced months earlier. In June 2025, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced that she would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the Class of 2026, in the Motion Pictures category. She is the first Indian actress to be selected, and the only Indian in the class, alongside names including Emily Blunt, Timothée Chalamet, Rami Malek, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci and Demi Moore.

One correction belongs here, because much of the coverage skipped it. She is the first Indian actress with a star, not the first Indian: actor Sabu Dastagir received a star in 1960. The selection also comes with a clock. Recipients have two years to schedule the unveiling ceremony, and the sponsorship fee is reported at $85,000, per the Walk of Fame’s own site as quoted by News18. The ceremony date had not been announced as of November 2026.

On screen, her most discussed 2026 project is King, directed by Siddharth Anand and starring Shah Rukh Khan, which would be her sixth film with Khan. Bollywood Life reported in July 2026 that the film was entering its final phase of production, with a last international schedule planned. No release date is stated here, because none has been officially locked in the reporting reviewed for this article.

Two exits shaped the other half of her 2025–2026 story. On 18 September 2025, Vyjayanthi Movies announced that Deepika would not be part of the sequel to Kalki 2898 AD, saying the makers and the actress had been unable to find a partnership for a film that demanded greater commitment. She had earlier left Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Spirit in May 2025 and was replaced by Triptii Dimri. In August 2026, the film’s producer Pranay Reddy Vanga told NTV that the exit followed disagreements over shooting schedules and a reported request for 10% of the film’s post-release profits, and claimed that story details discussed internally had been leaked. Deepika has not responded to those claims, and this article reports them as the producer’s account, not as an established record of the negotiation.

How Tall Is Deepika Padukone?

Deepika Padukone is listed at 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), the figure repeated across Filmibeat-style profiles and height listings. That height has been part of her screen identity since her modelling years — she is among the tallest leading actresses in Hindi cinema, and it shaped the casting conversations around her early career, when she was routinely paired with taller leading men. No official self-measurement has been published, so the figure is presented here as the standard listing, not as a measured fact. It sits alongside the age figure in almost every search for her, which is why the two questions are answered together on this page.

Net Worth at 40: What She Has Built by 2026

An age article still has to answer the money question, because readers ask it in the same breath. Deepika Padukone’s net worth in 2026 is reported at about $60 million, approximately ₹500 crore, with the wider reported band running to ₹500–650 crore. The figure comes from entertainment trackers — Scintillating Stars, IndustryWired, Jobaaj and Swagsy all land near ₹500 crore — and it is an estimate built from reported income, not from audited accounts. Treat it that way.

The reported building blocks are consistent across those trackers. Her film fee is reported at ₹15–30 crore per film. Her endorsement fee is reported at ₹7–10 crore per brand, with a 2026 brand list running through Louis Vuitton, Cartier, L’Oréal Paris, Levi’s, Tanishq, Pepsi, Dyson and Hilton, and a reported Instagram following of 80.3 million. Her own business, 82°E, launched in November 2022, sits alongside her investment vehicle KA Enterprises LLP, which has backed startups including Epigamia, BluSmart and Bellatrix Aerospace according to investment reporting. Property reports — a Bandra home reported at ₹119 crore, co-owned with Ranveer Singh, and a Worli apartment reported at ₹42 crore — are carried here as reported, not verified against property records.

The honest way to read the ₹500 crore figure is as a midpoint of a range, not a bank balance. Film fees, endorsement deals and business valuations all move, and none of them are disclosed in full by the people involved. The range, ₹500–650 crore, reflects that uncertainty instead of hiding it.

Deepika Padukone’s Age Compared With Her Family

The age gap between Deepika and Ranveer is small enough that it rarely comes up — about five to six months — and the couple’s own timeline tells the story more clearly than the gap does. They met on a film set in 2013, married in 2018, and became parents in 2024 and 2026. Deepika was 27 when she met her future husband, 32 when she married him, 38 when their first child arrived, and 40 when their second did.

What Other Age Pages Get Wrong

Three errors recur across competitor pages, and each one has a clear cause. First, pages saying 39 were written before 5 January 2026 and never updated; the number was right when written and is wrong now. Second, one biography page says 37 while listing the correct 5 January 1986 birth date in the same profile — an editing failure, not a competing claim. Third, one birth-chart site prints 6 January 1986, a single-day slip against the consensus of Wikipedia, Filmibeat and the January 2026 birthday reporting. None of these are rival theories about her age. They are stale pages and typos, and the consensus date resolves all three.

A subtler error is the Walk of Fame shorthand. Headlines calling her “the first Indian” on the Walk of Fame drop the word “actress”, and the dropped word changes the fact. Sabu Dastagir’s 1960 star means she is the first Indian actress and the second Indian overall. This article keeps the qualifier in place.

Sources & Reporting

Birth date and age: Simple Wikipedia infobox (born 5 January 1986, age 40); Filmibeat celebrity profile (5 January 1986, Copenhagen, age 40 in 2026); Bollywood Hungama, Bharat Horizon and Cine Storytellers birthday reporting for 5 January 2026; Daily Jagran age-gap reporting, April 2026 (Ranveer Singh born 6 July 1985). Career: Om Shanti Om (2007), Aishwarya (2006), the 2013 film run, Piku and Bajirao Mastani (2015), xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017), Padmaavat (2018), Pathaan and Jawan (2023), Kalki 2898 AD (2024) — film records as carried by the outlets above and by standard film databases. Business: KA Enterprises LLP (2017), Ka Productions and Chhapaak (2020), 82°E launch (November 2022) per Dainik Jagran and IndustryWired reporting. Family: marriage at Lake Como, November 2018; Dua born 8 September 2024; second pregnancy announced 19 April 2026 (Filmfare); second daughter born 19 September 2026 and named Devi Padukone Singh on Dussehra, 20 October 2026 (Bollywood Hungama, Pinkvilla, Cinema Express, Manifest). Walk of Fame: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Class of 2026 announcement, June 2025, via Bollywood Hungama, Asian Voice and Education Post; two-year ceremony window and $85,000 fee via the Walk of Fame site as quoted by News18. Exits: Vyjayanthi Movies statement, 18 September 2025; Hollywood Reporter India and Cinema Express on Pranay Reddy Vanga’s August 2026 NTV interview. Money: Scintillating Stars, IndustryWired, Jobaaj, Swagsy and Tring 2026 tracker reporting (₹500–650 crore band, ₹15–30 crore film fee, ₹7–10 crore endorsement fee, property reports). Where sources disagreed — the 6 January typo, the stale 37 figure, the net worth band — this article published the range and named the reason. Figures are estimates where labeled as estimates; no private financial records were accessed. Corrections: contact us via the About page if you spot an error — figures are updated when new reporting emerges.

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