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).

Filmography

• 2027It's All Going Very Well No Problems at All — Producer
• 2025Companion — Executive Producer
• 2025Rabbit Trap — Darcy Davenport, Executive Producer
• 2024Monkey Man — Kid, Story, Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 2024The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More — Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston / Woods (archive footage)
• 2023Poison — Supervisor Woods
• 2023The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar — Dr. Chatterjee / John Winston
• 2023To Kill a Tiger — Executive Producer
• 2021The Green Knight — Gawain
• India from Above — Narrator
• 2020Roborovski — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2019Hotel Mumbai — Arjun, Executive Producer
• Modern Love — Joshua
• 2019The Personal History of David Copperfield — David Copperfield
• 2019The Wedding Guest — Jay, Producer
• 2018Home Shopper — Director
• 2016Lion — Saroo Brierley
• 2016The Man Who Knew Infinity — Srinivasa Ramanujan
• 2015Chappie — Deon Wilson
• 2015The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — Sonny Kapoor
• 2014The Road Within — Alex
• 2012About Cherry — Andrew
• 2012The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — Sonny Kapoor
• The Newsroom — Neelamani Sampat
• 2010The Commuter — The Commuter
• 2010The Last Airbender — Prince Zuko
• Mister Eleven — Hotel Waiter
• 2008Slumdog Millionaire — Older Jamal
• Skins — Anwar Kharral
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• The Journeyman
• The Peasant — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2025Bondi Boy — Himself
• 2021The Green Knight Documentary — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
• Raw — Self (archive footage)