Dev Patel

At 34 years old, Dev Patel has this physical status:

Career

Patel began his acting career in 2006 when he auditioned for the E4 teenage drama television series Skins. Despite having a science exam the next day, Patel's mother saw the casting advertisement in Metro and led him to the audition. He was cast in the role of Anwar Kharral, a British Pakistani Muslim teenager, at two auditions. After being cast in Skins, the characterization of Anwar was partially based on Patel's personality and the fact that his role was written specifically for him. On "the first day of shooting" Patel, who had no training in acting, said she didn't know what to do.

The first season of the program premiered in January 2007 and went on to win the Rose d'Or for Drama in 2008 and receive a nomination for Best Drama Series at the 2008 BAFTA Television Awards. For the second season of Skins, Patel reprised his role as Anwar. At the 2009 BAFTA Television Awards, Skins II received the Philips Audience Award.

When Patel was cast in the role of Jamal Malik, the central protagonist in Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire, he made his debut in the role. The Jamal Malik character is an Indian Muslim boy who was born and raised in Bombay, India's poverty. Boyle considered hundreds of young male actors, but discovered that Bollywood leads were mainly "strong, handsome hero types," not the one he was looking for. Caitlin, Boyle's 17-year-old daughter, directed him to Skins.

The actor was eventually cast in August 2007, after five auditions for the role. Ruslaan Mumtaz, the film's director, was the original choice for the lead role, but it was too bad-looking for the role. "I wanted a guy who didn't look like a potential hero," Boyle said, "I wanted him to earn that in the film." Patel and Boyle were scouting for filming locations, where he was able to see the Dharavi slums for himself to prepare for the role. He spent a day in a call center and a hotel, where he washed dishes.

Since the debut of Slumdog Millionaire in 2008, Patel went on to win a number of awards for his work, including a British Independent Film Award, National Board of Review (NBR) Award, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, and two Black Reel Awards for Best Actor and Best Breakthrough Performance. At the 2009 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, Patel was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Heath Ledger was given the award for his role in The Dark Knight, but Patel was given the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Cast in a Motion Picture, which he shared with ten other cast members of Slumdog Millionaire. Patel received the Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Performer on January 8, 2009. He was also selected for two London Critics Circle Film Awards, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Actor. The film itself received four Golden Globes, including Best Drama Film and eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

In M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, a film version of the animated film Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was released on July 2010 to scathing responses. Despite being a commercial success, the film was also considered a bad choice by many and Patel himself received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor that year.

Patel appeared in the short film The Commuter, which was produced by McHenry Brothers to advertise the Nokia N8 smartphone in the United Kingdom. Fans of a Nokia UK run competition also starred Dev Patel.

Patel co-starred in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) (and later in its 2015 sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), which received rave reviews and was a box office hit, grossing $136 million. He had to take lessons in perfecting an Indian-English accent for the role.

Patel played a supporting role in the 2012 HBO television series The Newsroom as Neal Sampat, blogger for news anchor Will McAvoy from 2012 to 2014. In Around Cherry, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, he appeared alongside James Franco and Heather Graham.

Patel appeared in The Road Within, a film about three strange friends with different disabilities who embark on a road trip in 2014. The film received mainly mixed feedback. While recognizing that "there remains a nagging tidiness to the whole project that has prevented the film from truly succeeding," Variety had promising words for Robert Sheehan, Dev Patel, and Zoe Kravitz's "bristling and committed role."

In the biopic In 2015, Patel starred in Chappie as an engineer who helps design police robots and as the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In 2016, Patel appeared in "Saroo Brierley," 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. The film is based on Brierley's memoir A Long Way Home. Patel was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 70th British Academy Film Awards and the 89th Academy Awards, the former was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role at the 70th British Academy Film Awards and the 89th Academy Awards, winning at the time. He is the third actor of Indian descent to be nominated for an Academy Award. Patel later appeared in The Wedding Guest and an action-thriller Hotel Mumbai in 2018.

David Copperfield appeared in Armando Iannucci's adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Personal History of David Copperfield, for which he was given a prize for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2019. Patel appeared in The Green Knight, directed by David Lowery, in 2021. He and ShivHans Pictures in April of this year agreed to "produce, design, and produce projects."

In 2018, it was revealed that he would make his directorial debut with Monkey Man, an action thriller film. Patel plays Patel in the film, as a co-writer and producer in addition to directing. The film was shot in 2021 and is expected to be released by Netflix.

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