Dev Patel 1990 35
Dev Patel 1990 35
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).
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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