Acting credits
36
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Dev Patel
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.8
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Movies: 25Series: 15Crew credits: 9
TMDB ID: 76788
IMDb ID: nm2353862
Known for: Acting
Born: April 23, 1990
Age: 36
Place of birth: Harrow, Greater London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1992 - 2025
Years active: 34
Average TMDB rating: 6.61
Wikidata: Q245075
Also known as
देव पटेल • دِو پَتِل
Other jobs
Executive Producer (4)Director (3)Producer (1)Story (1)
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Dev Patel.
Rabbit Trap
as Darcy Davenport
2025 Movie
Companion
Executive Producer
2025 Movie
Bondi Boy
as Himself
2025 Movie
Monkey Man
as Kid
2024 Movie
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston / Woods (archive footage)
2024 Movie
To Kill a Tiger
Executive Producer
2023 Movie
Poison
as Supervisor Woods
2023 Movie
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston
2023 Movie
The Green Knight Documentary
as Self
2021 Movie
The Green Knight
as Gawain
2021 Movie
Roborovski
Director
2020 Movie
The Personal History of David Copperfield
as David Copperfield
2019 Movie
Hotel Mumbai
as Arjun
2019 Movie
The Wedding Guest
as Jay
2019 Movie
Home Shopper
Director
2018 Movie
Lion
as Saroo Brierley
2016 Movie
The Man Who Knew Infinity
as Srinivasa Ramanujan
2016 Movie
Chappie
as Deon Wilson
2015 Movie
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Sonny Kapoor
2015 Movie
The Road Within
as Alex
2014 Movie
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
as Sonny Kapoor
2012 Movie
About Cherry
as Andrew
2012 Movie
The Last Airbender
as Prince Zuko
2010 Movie
Slumdog Millionaire
as Older Jamal
2008 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Dev Patel.
India from Above
as Narrator • 2 eps
2020 Series
Modern Love
as Joshua • 1 eps
2019 Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2014 Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2014 Series
The Newsroom
as Neelamani Sampat • 25 eps
2012 Series
Live from Studio Five
as Self • 1 eps
2009 Series
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 3 eps
2007 Series
Skins
as Anwar Kharral • 19 eps
2007 Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self • 1 eps
2003 Series
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2001 Series
Raw
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
1993 Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 eps
1992 Series