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Dev Patel
Dev Patel is a British actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Patel was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
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entertainment · English actor (born 1990) · actor · taekwondo athlete · film actor · television actor · film director · screenwriter · also Dev Patel, Deema, Patel
Born 23 April 1990 · Q245075
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: Rabbit Trap review – feral child lends eerie magic to Dev Patel fairy folk rock horror
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Rabbit Trap review – Dev Patel gets lost in the woods in messy folk horror
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2024· 4 entries
The Guardian: From Anna Kendrick to Dev Patel – how easy is it for actors to direct themselves?
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The Guardian: Monkey Man review – Dev Patel directs and stars in a bloody revenge thriller
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The Guardian: Monkey Man review – Dev Patel goes wild in ultraviolent Mumbai revenge flick
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The Guardian: Monkey Man review – Dev Patel’s directorial debut is a gory descent into darkness
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2023· 1 entry
Patel appeared in Wes Anderson's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, an adaptation of a short story by Roald Dahl, starring opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, and Ben Kingsley
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Dev Patel breaks up fight in South Australia in which man was stabbed
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2021· 1 entry
Patel starred in The Green Knight, based on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, directed by David Lowery
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2019· 1 entry
Patel starred as the titular character in Armando Iannucci's adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Personal History of David Copperfield, for which he received a nomination for the 2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – M
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2018· 1 entry
Patel starred in the action-thriller Hotel Mumbai and The Wedding Guest
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Lion (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Patel starred as Saroo Brierley in the biographical 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 Fil
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2015· 1 entry
Patel acted in Chappie as an engineer who helps design police robots and as the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the biopic The Man Who Knew Infinity
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2014· 1 entry
Patel starred alongside Robert Sheehan and Zoë Kravitz in the film, The Road Within, about three unlikely friends with various disabilities who go on a road trip
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2008· 1 entry
And receive a nomination for Best Drama Series at the 2008 BAFTA Television Awards
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2007· 1 entry
At Whitmore High School while working on Skins
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2006· 1 entry
Patel's professional acting career began when he auditioned for the E4 teen drama television series Skins
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1990· 1 entry
Born 1990-04-23.
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