Dev Patel (/ˈdɛvpəˈtɛl/;[1] born 23 April 1990) is a British actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Patel was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
Patel began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). His breakthrough role in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008)[2] earned Patel a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.[3] His career expanded with leading roles in the comedy-dramas The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the science fiction thriller Chappie (2015), and a supporting role in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014).
For his performance as Saroo Brierley in the drama Lion (2016), Patel won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently starred in the independent films Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and The Green Knight (2021), and made his directorial debut with the action film Monkey Man (2024).
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DevPatel (/ˈdɛvpəˈtɛl/; born 23 April 1990) is a British actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award...
British actor DevPatel made his screen debut as Anwar Kharral in the first two seasons of the British television teen drama Skins (2007–08), landing...
Mumbai attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India. The film stars DevPatel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Jason...
directed by Bryn Chainey in his full-length feature debut, and starring DevPatel and Rosy McEwen. It is produced by Bankside Films with SpectreVision....
Cricket Club, the Venceremos FC, and the HT Tennis Club.[citation needed] DevPatel is a BAFTA award-winning internationally renowned British actor who grew...
based on the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It stars DevPatel as the title character, along with Aneurin Barnard, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd...
based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. The film stars DevPatel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up...
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, DevPatel, Ben Kingsley, Richard Ayoade, and Rupert Friend, all playing different...
is a fictional character in the television series Skins portrayed by DevPatel. Anwar is portrayed as a boy of Pakistani origin. Raised in an Islamic...
adapted into the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Lion, starring Sunny Pawar and DevPatel as Saroo, David Wenham as his adoptive father, John Brierley, and Nicole...
role of Latika, the love interest of the main character Jamal, played by DevPatel. During the post-production phase, she attended an acting course at the...
story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. Starring DevPatel in his film debut as Jamal, and filmed in India, it was directed by Danny...
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novelist Deborah Moggach, and features an ensemble cast consisting of DevPatel, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Maggie Smith, Tom...
Lorelei Lee. It stars Ashley Hinshaw, James Franco, Heather Graham, and DevPatel. The project was filmed in San Francisco and premièred at the 2012 Berlin...
Sharma met DevPatel on the set of Hotel Mumbai and stayed in touch with the film's producer who called him for an audition with Patel for Monkey Man...
make his English-language debut in the 2024 film Monkey Man, directed by DevPatel. Circus (1989) Devta as Suraj (1996) Filmi Chakkar as Papa Natekar (1994)...
2016, and Craig Gillespie in 2017, in a film that would have starred DevPatel. The true story of Chippendales has also been the subject of several episodes...
re-release on February 9, 2024. In August 2023, Creators Faire reported that DevPatel and Mindy Kaling signed on as executive producers; other executive producers...
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