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 Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Skins

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Graham Norton Show

Raw

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

All Movies (23)

• Rabbit Trap2025 · as Darcy Davenport
• Bondi Boy2025 · as Himself
• Monkey Man2024 · as Kid
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More2024 · as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston / Woods (archive footage)
• Poison2023 · as Supervisor Woods
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar2023 · as Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston
• The Green Knight Documentary2021 · as Self
• The Green Knight2021 · as Gawain
• The Personal History of David Copperfield2019 · as David Copperfield
• Hotel Mumbai2019 · as Arjun
• The Wedding Guest2019 · as Jay
• Lion2016 · as Saroo Brierley
• The Man Who Knew Infinity2016 · as Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Chappie2015 · as Deon Wilson
• The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel2015 · as Sonny Kapoor
• The Road Within2014 · as Alex
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel2012 · as Sonny Kapoor
• About Cherry2012 · as Andrew
• The Commuter2010 · as The Commuter
• The Last Airbender2010 · as Prince Zuko
• Slumdog Millionaire2008 · as Older Jamal
• The Journeyman—
• The Peasant—

All TV Shows (16)

• India from Above2020 · as Narrator
• Modern Love2019 · as Joshua
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Newsroom2012 · as Neelamani Sampat
• Mister Eleven2009 · as Hotel Waiter
• Live from Studio Five2009 · as Self
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• Skins2007 · as Anwar Kharral
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross2001 · as Self - Guest
• Raw1993 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992