Dev Patel

Actor, Producer, Director

Birthdate: April 23, 1990 (36 Years Old)

Birthplace: Harrow, London, England, UK

Dev Patel is a British-Indian actor who first burst on the movie screen in his award-winning lead performance in Slumdog Millionaire (2008), directed by Danny Boyle, and co-starring Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, and Irrfan Khan, and won eight Oscars (including best picture, director, and screenplay), and grossed an astounding $378.4 million globally on a $15 million budget. Patel’s follow-up performance was co-starring with Noah Ringer and Nicola Peltz in M. Night Shyamalan’s fantasy adventure The Last Airbender (2010). The film earned $319.7 million worldwide (on $150 million costs) for Paramount, which halted a planned franchise series after the disappointing commercial returns. Patel co-starred with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Tom Wilkinson, and Maggie Smith in the John Madden-directed The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), providing a major hit for Fox Searchlight with a $137 million gross on $10 million expenses. Patel played a supporting role in debuting director/writer Stephen Elliott’s drama, About Cherry (2012), co-starring Ashley Hinshaw, Lili Taylor, James Franco, and Heather Graham, and was released by IFC Films after premiering at the Berlin Film Festival. Dev Patel co-starred with Robert Sheehan, Zoë Kravitz, Robert Patrick, and Kyra Sedgwick in the American indie movie, The Road Within (2014), directed and written by Gren Wells and released by Well Go USA Entertainment. Patel co-starred in the successful sequel, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), reuniting the original director and cast with new cast members David Strathairn and Richard Gere, and earning $86 million for Fox Searchlight. Patel joined filmmaker Neill Blomkamp for a co-starring role in the sci-fi action movie, Chappie (2015), with Sharlto Copley, Sigourney Weaver, and Hugh Jackman, earning $102 million for distributor Sony Pictures Releasing/Columbia Pictures. Patel portrayed acclaimed Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in writer-director Matthew Brown’s biopic, The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015), based on Robert Kanigel’s biography, with the supporting cast of Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Northam, and Dhritiman Chatterjee, and backed by producer Ed Pressman. Dev Patel’s first voice performance in an animated movie was in the English dub of Isao Takahata’s Studio Ghibli drama Only Yesterday, released by GKIDS on the movie’s 25^th anniversary in 2016. Patel starred in his second Oscar-nominated movie in the Garth Davis-directed Lion (2016), for The Weinstein Company, and co-starred Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, grossing a strong $140.3 million worldwide after nabbing six Oscar nominations (including Patel’s first for supporting actor, as well as best picture, supporting actress, and best-adapted screenplay). Patel starred in the intense true-life drama-thriller, Hotel Mumbai (2018), directed by Anthony Maras, with Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, and Jason Isaacs, and released to poor box office by Bleecker Street after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Patel starred in one of his best lead performances in writer/director Michael Winterbottom’s highly-charged international thriller, The Wedding Guest (2018), with Radhika Apte and Jim Sarbh, and was released by IFC Films. Dev Patel starred in the title role of Armando Iannucci’s Dickens adaptation, The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019), co-starring Aneurin Barnard, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd Clark, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw, and released by Searchlight Pictures after a Toronto film festival premiere. Patel’s second English-dub voice performance for an animated feature was in French animator Jérémy Clapin’s adult fantasy, I Lost My Body/J’ai perdu mon corps (2019), for which Patel performed along with Alia Shawkat, George Wendt, and Sarah Lynn Dawson, and which premiered at the Cannes film festival. Patel showed off his big-screen star power as The Green Knight (2021), writer-director David Lowery’s acclaimed Canadian-American adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with a cast including Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, and Sean Harris, and released by A24. After appearing in various roles in multiple shorts in Wes Anderson’s shorts series, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023 and 2024), Patel made his feature debut as a director and writer, while also starring, in Monkey Man (2024), which Jordan Peele arranged to be theatrically released via Universal Pictures. Dev Patel starred in and was an executive producer on director/writer Bryn Chainey’s 1973 Wales-based horror movie, Rabbit Trap (date to be announced), and co-starred Rosy McEwen. Patel co-starred opposite Olivia Colman in the British seaside village tale, Wicker (date to be announced), co-directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson and co-written by Fischer, Ursula Wills-Jones, and Wilson. In addition to his acting credits, Patel has also served as an executive producer (with Mindy Kaling) on director/writer Nisha Pahuja’s Indian rural crime drama To Kill A Tiger (2022) and the Raghuvir Joshi-directed Australian-set drama Companion (2023).

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Personal life

Dev Patel was born and raised in London, England, by parents Raj (IT developer) and Anita Patel (caregiver). Patel’s parents are Indian Gujarati Hindus who are originally from Nairobi, Kenya and raised their children in the Hindu faith. Patel has an older sister. Patel attended and graduated from Longfield Middle School and Whitmore High School in London’s Harrow neighborhood, where he first performed on stage. Patel was in a relationship with actor Freida Pinto from 2009 to 2014; Patel was later in a relationship with actor Tilda Cobham-Hervey from 2017 to 2022. Patel’s height is 6’ 1 ½ ”. Patel’s estimated net worth is $10 million.

Known For

Rabbit Trap

Darcy Davenport (2025)

Monkey Man

Director (2024)

The Green Knight

Gawain (2021)

The Personal History of David Copperfield

David Copperfield (2020)

Lion

Saroo Brierley (2016)

Awards

Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards (2017); Nominee, Best Younger Actor, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Awards (2009); Winner, Best Supporting Actor, BAFTA Awards (2017); Winner, Most Promising Newcomer, British Independent Film Awards (2008); Nominee, Best Guest Actor—Comedy Series, Emmy Awards (2020); Nominee, Best European Actor, European Film Awards (2009); Two-time Nominee, Best Supporting Actor/Best Actor—Musical or Comedy, Golden Globe Awards (2017, 2021); Two-time Nominee, Best Supporting Actor/Best Supporting Actor—Drama Series, NAACP Image Awards (2009, 2013); Two-time Nominee, Best Breakthrough Male Performance/Best Kiss, MTV Movie + TV Awards (2009); Winner, Breakthrough Performance, National Board of Review Awards (2008); Winner, Virtuoso Award, Santa Barbara Film Festival Awards (2017); Winner, Best Cast, Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009); Three-time Nominee, Best Supporting Actor/Best Cast, Screen Actors Guild Awards (2009, 2013, 2017); Winner, Audience Award—Headliners, South by Southwest Film Festival Awards (2024).

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Dev Patel Movies

Actor

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2025 |
Rabbit Trap
Rabbit Trap
2025
Horror, Mystery
Married couple Daphne and Darcy Davenport are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality.
asDarcy Davenport
2024 |
Monkey Man
Monkey Man
2024
Action, Crime, Thriller
An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless.
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asKid
2021 |
The Green Knight
The Green Knight
2021
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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asGawain
2020 |
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2020
Comedy, Drama
A modern take on Charles Dickens's classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles.
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asDavid Copperfield
2019 |
Hotel Mumbai
Hotel Mumbai
2019
Action, Drama, History, Thriller
The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.
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asArjun
2019 |
The Wedding Guest
The Wedding Guest
2019
Action, Thriller
A story centered on a mysterious British Muslim man (Dev Patel) on his journey across Pakistan and India.
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asJay
2016 |
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016
Biography, Drama
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
asS. Ramanujan
2016 |
Lion
Lion
2016
Biography, Drama
A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
asSaroo Brierley
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Chappieas Deon Wilson
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotelas Sonny Kapoor
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Slumdog Millionaireas Older Jamal
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The Last Airbenderas Prince Zuko

Director

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2024 |
Monkey Man
Monkey Man
2024
Action, Crime, Thriller
An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless.
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Producer

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2019 |
The Wedding Guest
The Wedding Guest
2019
Action, Thriller
A story centered on a mysterious British Muslim man (Dev Patel) on his journey across Pakistan and India.
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Writer

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2024 |
Monkey Man
Monkey Man
2024
Action, Crime, Thriller
An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless.
More Info

Facts About Dev Patel

Martial Artist: Dev Patel has a black belt in the Korean martial art, Tae Kwan Do, in which he trained for eight years. Tone-Deaf: Patel claims that he is tone-deaf, and can’t sing or dance.

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