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Dev Patel

Actor

Dev Patel

Born April 23, 1990 in Harrow, Greater London, England, UK20 films

Dev Patel (born 23 April 1990) is a British actor. He began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). His breakthrough came with the leading role of teenager Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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Patel's 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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Lion posterFirst watchLion20168.0as Saroo BrierleyA five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Slumdog Millionaire poster7.7Slumdog Millionaire2008Chappie poster6.8Chappie2015Hotel Mumbai poster7.5Hotel Mumbai2019The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar poster7.3The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar2023The Man Who Knew Infinity poster7.2The Man Who Knew Infinity2016The Green Knight poster6.6The Green Knight2021The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel poster7.0The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel2012Monkey Man poster6.9Monkey Man2024

Filmography

20 films as actor
  1. TBAThe Journeyman
  2. TBAThe Peasant
  3. 2025Rabbit TrapDarcy Davenport
  4. 2024Monkey ManKid
  5. 2023PoisonSupervisor Woods
  6. 2023The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarDr. Chatterjee / John Winston
  7. 2021The Green KnightGawain
  8. 2019The Personal History of David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield
  9. 2019Hotel MumbaiArjun
  10. 2019The Wedding GuestJay
  11. 2016LionSaroo Brierley
  12. 2016The Man Who Knew InfinitySrinivasa Ramanujan
  13. 2015ChappieDeon Wilson
  14. 2015The Second Best Exotic Marigold HotelSonny Kapoor
  15. 2014The Road WithinAlex
  16. 2012The Best Exotic Marigold HotelSonny Kapoor
  17. 2012About CherryAndrew
  18. 2010The CommuterThe Commuter
  19. 2010The Last AirbenderPrince Zuko
  20. 2008Slumdog MillionaireOlder Jamal