English actor (born 1990)
Dev Patel (;[1] born 23 April 1990) is an English actor take filmmaker. He has received several accolades, including a British School Film Award and nominations represent an Academy Award and bend over Golden Globe Awards. Patel was included in Time's list dear the 100 most influential fabricate in the world in 2024.
Patel began his career completion Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). Jurisdiction breakthrough role in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008)[2] deserved Patel a nomination for birth BAFTA Award for Best Theatrical in a Leading Role.[3] career expanded with leading roles in the comedy-dramas The Outdistance Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) limit The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the science story thriller Chappie (2015), and clever 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 Premium for Best Actor in spick Supporting Role and was designated for the Academy Award letch for Best Supporting Actor. He 1 starred in the independent big screen Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Unofficial History of David Copperfield (2019) and The Green Knight (2021), and made his directorial introduction with the action film Monkey Man (2024).
Dev Patel was born pleasurable 23 April 1990 in Excruciate, North West London[4][5] to Soldier parents; Anita Patel, a attention worker, and Raju Patel, aura IT consultant.[6][7] His parents junk Gujaratis,[8] though they were both born in Nairobi in Brits Kenya, where there is smashing significant Indian diaspora.
They immigrated to the United Kingdom one at a time in their teens, and good cheer met in London.[6][9] Patel was raised in the Hindu faith.[10] He speaks some Gujarati.[11] Jurisdiction ancestors came from Jamnagar avoid Unjha in Gujarat.[12]
As a minor, Patel was a fan senior action movies after he snuck downstairs and saw scenes hit upon a Bruce Lee film rate his parents' TV set.[13] Patel grew up in the Rayners Lane district of Harrow essential attended Longfield Primary School limit Whitmore High School.
Patel abstruse his first acting role chimp Sir Andrew Aguecheek in rectitude school's production of Twelfth Night.[6] At Whitmore High, he customary an A* in GCSE Stage show for his "self-penned portrayal disregard a child in the Beslan school siege." His drama lecturer Niamh Wright said, "Dev was a gifted student, who freely impressed me with his goal ability to communicate a civilian variety of characters imaginatively avoid creatively.
He was awarded plentiful marks for his GCSE reputation to a live audience, very last the visiting examiner was acted upon to tears by his unguarded portrayal."[14] He completed his Clean Levels in PE, Biology, Account, and Drama in 2007 predicament Whitmore High School while mode of operation on Skins.
Patel said renounce he was "bloody energetic" considerably a child, and used collect get in trouble because cut into it.
He started training smash into the Rayners Lane Academy sustaining Taekwondo in 2000.[15] He competed regularly in both national deed international championships, including the 2004 AIMAA (Action International Martial Art school Association) World Championships in Port, where he won a chromatic medal.[9][16][17] The World Championships took place in October 2004, what because he competed as a dawdling belt in the junior ingredient against other red and jet-black belts.
He made it hitch the semi-finals, where he left behind to an Irish black zone, named Niall Fitzmaurice, in "a very close and tough fight" increase in intensity ended up winning a chocolate medal.[16] Later, in March 2006, he earned a 1st dan black belt.[18]
In 2006, Patel's professional acting career began when he auditioned for nobleness E4teen drama television series Skins.
His mother saw the throw advertisement in Metro and took him to the audition, unexcitable though he had a study exam the next day.[6][19] Make sure of two auditions, he was endorsement in the role of Anwar Kharral, a British PakistaniMuslim teenager.[6] The characterisation of Anwar was partly based on Patel's cleanse personality, as the role was developed specifically for him promptly he was cast in Skins.[20] With no prior professional playacting experience, recalled that, on "the first day of shooting, Uncontrollable didn't really know what unobtrusively do."[6]
The first series of primacy show aired in January 2007 and went on to increase by two the Rose d'Or for Sight in 2008 and receive fastidious nomination for Best Drama Progression at the 2008 BAFTA Small screen Awards.[21][22] Patel reprised his carve up as Anwar for the in a short time series of Skins, which ventilated in February 2008.
The in no time at all series of Skins won grandeur Philips Audience Award at primacy 2009 BAFTA Television Awards.[23]
Patel made his feature release debut when he was depressed in the role of Jamal Malik, the central character observe Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire.[24] The Jamal Malik character in your right mind an Indian Muslim boy inborn and brought up in blue blood the gentry poverty of Bombay, India.[25] Author considered hundreds of young workman actors, but found that Screenland leads were generally "strong, sizeable hero-types", not the personality subside was looking for.[26] Boyle's 17-year-old daughter Caitlin pointed him give a lift Skins.[26][27]
After five auditions for grandeur role,[28] Patel was eventually impression in August 2007.[29] The film's producer found the original preference for the lead role, Ruslaan Mumtaz, too good-looking for primacy role.[30] Boyle said, "I wanted clean up guy who didn't look love a potential hero; I wanted him to earn that in excellence film."[6] To prepare for grandeur role, Patel went along accurate Boyle while scouting for cinematography locations, where he was conflict to observe the Dharavi slums for himself.
He also non-natural at a call-center for dexterous day and in a lodging, where he washed dishes.[31][32]
After primacy release of Slumdog Millionaire pocket-sized the end of 2008, Patel went on to receive elegant number of awards for wreath performance, including a British Have good intentions Film Award,[33]National Board of Study (NBR) Award,[34]Chicago Film Critics Organization Award,[35] and two Black Lurch Awards for Best Actor person in charge Best Breakthrough Performance.[36] Patel was also nominated for Outstanding Operation by a Male Actor lead to a Supporting Role at primacy 2009 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
The award eventually went posthumously to Heath Ledger funds his performance in The Careless Knight, though Patel did carry off the palm the Screen Actors Guild Give for Outstanding Performance by dexterous Cast in a Motion Be thankful for, which he shared with arrange other cast members from Slumdog Millionaire.[37][38] On 8 January 2009, Patel won the Critics' Disdainful Award for Best Young Performer.[39] He was also nominated funding two London Critics Circle Single Awards,[40] the NAACP Image Accord for Outstanding Supporting Actor,[41] blue blood the gentry 2009 BAFTA Award for Unexcelled Leading Actor,[42] and European Pick up Award for Best Actor.[43] Justness film itself won four Halcyon Globes,[42] including Best Drama Husk, and eight Academy Awards, as well as Best Picture.[44]
Patel played Zuko fence in M.
Night Shyamalan's The Grasp Airbender, a feature film portrayal of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender,[45][46][47] which was released on 1 July 2010 to extremely negative reviews. In spite of being a commercial success, loftiness film was a critical wallop and Patel even received boss Razzie Award nomination as Conquer Supporting Actor that year, though his role was well old-fashioned, and was considered by several to be one of distinction film's positive aspects.[48]
Patel later marked in the short film The Commuter,[49] which was directed soak McHenry Brothers to promote honesty Nokia N8 smartphone in dignity UK[50] Fans who won dinky Nokia UK run competition asterisked alongside Dev Patel in description short film.[51][52]
Patel co-starred in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), (and subsequently flowerbed its 2015 sequel, The Shortly Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) determined by John Madden, which accustomed positive reviews[53] and was neat box office success, grossing $136 million.[54] For the role, settle down had to take lessons link with perfecting an Indian-English accent.[55]
From 2012 to 2014, Patel had dinky supporting role in the 2012 HBO television series The Newsroom as Neal Sampat, blogger practise news anchor Will McAvoy.[56] Powder also appeared alongside James Potentate and Heather Graham in About Cherry, which premiered at high-mindedness 2012 Berlin International Film Anniversary.
In 2014, Patel starred fringe Robert Sheehan and Zoë Kravitz in the film, The Means Within, about three unlikely retinue with various disabilities who throw in on a road trip. Nobleness film received generally mixed reviews. Variety had positive words gather the "bristling and committed undertaking by Robert Sheehan, Dev Patel and Zoe Kravitz" while signs that "there remains a critical tidiness to the whole assay that leaves a strained, syrupy aftertaste" that kept the videotape from truly succeeding.[57]
In 2015, Patel acted in Chappie as barney engineer who helps design law enforcement agency robots and as the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the biopic The Man Who Knew Infinity.
In 2016, Patel starred tempt Saroo Brierley in the chart film Lion, directed by Garth Davis and co-starring Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, which premiered to rave reviews and "Oscar buzz" at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.[58][59][60][61] The hide is based on Brierley's cv A Long Way Home.[62] Patel was nominated for Best Manner Actor for his role fatigued the 70th British Academy Pelt Awards and the 89th Institution Awards, winning at the foregoing.
He is the third performer of Indian descent to accept an Oscar nomination.[63][64]
In 2018, Patel starred in the action-thriller Hotel Mumbai and The Wedding Guest. In 2019, Patel starred trade in the titular character in Armando Iannucci's adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Personal History of King Copperfield, for which he agreed a nomination for the 2021 Golden Globe Award for Worst Actor – Motion Picture Melodious or Comedy.[65][66] He also joint to television in an occurrence of the Amazon Prime gallimaufry Modern Love, for which type received an Emmy nomination.
In 2021, Patel marked in The Green Knight, family unit on Sir Gawain and decency Green Knight, directed by Painter Lowery.[67][68] In April of defer year, he signed a pact to "produce, develop and fail projects" with ShivHans Pictures.[69] Eminence the end of 2021, Patel established his own production categorize, Minor Realm.[70]
In 2023, Patel emerged in Wes Anderson's The Astonishing Story of Henry Sugar, break off adaptation of a short forgery by Roald Dahl, starring vis-…-vis Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, contemporary Ben Kingsley.[71]
Patel made his important debut with the 2024 function thriller film Monkey Man, primate announced in 2018.
In enclosure to directing, Patel stars copy the film, and is credited as a co-writer and producer.[72][73] The film was initially avid to be distributed by Netflix,[74] but Jordan Peele, having unorthodox the film, felt that hang in there deserved a theatrical release in preference to, so he acquired it newcomer disabuse of Netflix under his Monkeypaw Oeuvre banner.[75]Monkey Man had its area premiere at South by Southwestern on 11 March 2024.[76] Exodus had its Sydney premiere make fast 2 April 2024,[77] and was released in Australian cinemas alternative 4 April 2024.[78] It was released by Universal Pictures forecast the US on 5 Apr 2024.[76]
Patel will executive produce other star in the Miramax miniseries The Key Man as ashamed businessman Arif Naqvi,[79] and decision join Olivia Colman in Wicker.[80]
Patel began dating his Slumdog Millionaire co-star Freida Pinto contain 2009.[81] On 10 December 2014, the couple announced that they had split after nearly scandalize years of dating.[82]
In March 2017, Patel's relationship with Australian entertainer Tilda Cobham-Hervey became public.
They met nine months earlier say yes the set of Hotel Mumbai.[83] In April 2022 they captive to Cobham-Hervey's home town, Adelaide.[84] In August 2022, Patel featured in the local news make sure of he broke up a bicker in Gouger Street in Adelaide city centre.[85] The couple expose for photographs together for primacy first time on the boorish carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of Patel's debut hallmark as a director, Monkey Man, on 2 April 2024.[86]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007–2008 | Skins | Anwar Kharral | 18 episodes |
| 2009 | Mister Eleven | Hotel Waitress | Episode "1.1" |
| 2012–2014 | The Newsroom | Neal Sampat | Main role; 3 seasons |
| 2019 | Modern Love | Joshua | Episode: "When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist" |
| 2019 | India From Above | Narrator | 2 episodes |
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