Dev Patel

Biography

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).

Known For

The Last Airbender
The Last Airbender
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
About Cherry
About Cherry
Chappie
Chappie
Poison
Poison
The Road Within
The Road Within
Rabbit Trap
Rabbit Trap
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Lion
Lion

Filmography

2025 Rabbit Trap
as Darcy Davenport
2025 Bondi Boy
as Himself
2024 Monkey Man
as Kid
2024 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston / Woods (archive footage)
2023 Poison
as Supervisor Woods
2023 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston
2021 The Green Knight Documentary
as Self
2021 The Green Knight
as Gawain
2020 India from Above
as Narrator
2019 The Personal History of David Copperfield
as David Copperfield
2019 Modern Love
as Joshua
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019 Hotel Mumbai
as Arjun
2019 The Wedding Guest
as Jay
2016 Lion
as Saroo Brierley
2016 The Man Who Knew Infinity
as Srinivasa Ramanujan
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015 Chappie
as Deon Wilson
2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Sonny Kapoor
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self