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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.

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).

From Harrow, Greater London, England, UK

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Acting

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2025 Rabbit Trap as Darcy Davenport Executive Producer

2025 Chippendales as Steve Banerjee

2025 The Peasant Director, Writer

2025 It's All Going Very Well No Problems at All Producer

2025 The Journeyman

2025 Companion Executive Producer

2025 Bondi Boy as Himself

2024 Monkey Man as Kid Story, Screenplay, Director, Producer

2024 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston / Woods (archive footage)

2023 To Kill a Tiger Executive Producer

2023 Poison as Supervisor Woods

2023 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston

2021 The Green Knight as Gawain

2020 Roborovski Director, Producer, Writer

2019 The Personal History of David Copperfield as David Copperfield

2019 Hotel Mumbai as Arjun Executive Producer

2019 The Wedding Guest as Jay Producer

2018 Home Shopper Director

2016 Lion as Saroo Brierley

2016 The Man Who Knew Infinity as Srinivasa Ramanujan

2015 Chappie as Deon Wilson

2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Sonny Kapoor

2014 The Road Within as Alex

2012 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as Sonny Kapoor

2012 About Cherry as Andrew

2010 The Commuter as The Commuter

2010 The Last Airbender as Prince Zuko

2008 Slumdog Millionaire as Older Jamal

Genres

7.73 Romance 1

7.48 Documentary 1

7.32 History 2

7.09 Comedy 8

6.90 Drama 12

6.78 Crime 1

6.78 Science Fiction 1

6.74 Thriller 4

6.26 Action 5

6.16 Adventure 3

6.16 Fantasy 3