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Dev Patel
Dev Patel’s screen credits include Saroo Brierley in Lion, Deon Wilson in Chappie, and Older Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire.
Born April 23, 1990 Harrow, Greater London, England, UK3 movies on MoviHero
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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).
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- 2027It's All Going Very Well No Problems at AllProducerUpcoming
- 2025Rabbit TrapProducer · Darcy Davenport
- 2025CompanionProducer
- 2025Bondi BoyHimself
- 2024Monkey ManWriter · Director · Producer · Kid
- 2024The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three MoreDr. Chatterjee / John Winston / Woods (archive footage)
- 2023To Kill a TigerProducer
- 2023PoisonSupervisor Woods
- 2023The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarDr. Chatterjee / John Winston
- 2021The Green Knight DocumentarySelf
- 2021The Green KnightGawain
- 2020RoborovskiDirector · Writer · Producer
- 2019The Personal History of David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield
- 2019Hotel MumbaiProducer · Arjun
- 2019The Wedding GuestProducer · Jay
- 2018Home ShopperDirector
- 2016The Man Who Knew InfinitySrinivasa Ramanujan
- 2015The Second Best Exotic Marigold HotelSonny Kapoor
- 2014The Road WithinAlex
- 2012The Best Exotic Marigold HotelSonny Kapoor
- 2012About CherryAndrew
- 2010The CommuterThe Commuter
- 2010The Last AirbenderPrince Zuko
- The JourneymanActor
- The PeasantActor · Director · Writer
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Older Jamal
Slumdog Millionaire
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Lion
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Chappie
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