Dev Patel
Also Known As: 데브 파텔, דב פאטל, देव पटेल, دِو پَتِل
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).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Harrow, Greater London, England, UK
Birthday: April 23, 1990
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Gender: Male
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The Last Airbender
Overview: The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-30
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Overview: A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-20
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Overview: British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-23
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About Cherry
Overview: A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-14
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Chappie
Overview: Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.
Genres: Crime Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-04
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Poison
Overview: When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-29
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The Road Within
Overview: A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-24
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Rabbit Trap
Overview: When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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Wicker
Overview: On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Overview: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-26
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Lion
Overview: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Overview: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-08
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
Overview: Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-14
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Hotel Mumbai
Overview: Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.
Genres: Thriller History Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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The Commuter
Overview: Dev battles a killer Traffic Warden, a blind ninja, parkour bankers and comes face-to-face with Pamela Anderson before getting stuck in a lift with Ed Westwick and stealing a Lotus...will he make it in time?
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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The Wedding Guest
Overview: Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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Chippendales
Overview: Several partners turn an idea for a male strip revue catering to ladies into a wildly successful venture and deal with the crazy consequences of it all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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The Personal History of David Copperfield
Overview: A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David’s journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-07
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Monkey Man
Overview: Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-03
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Slumdog Millionaire
Overview: A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-12
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Flash Crash
Overview: Navinder Singh Sarao, described as a brilliant outsider and a man who found a way to beat the stock market, making millions working from a bedroom in his parents’ small suburban home on the outskirts of London. When his focus on outsmarting the corporations coincided with a $1 trillion market drop, he found himself in the crosshairs of a group of U.S. government agents. As the net closed in, Sarao would find himself facing a lifetime in jail in America unless he could find a way to play the system one last time and make himself indispensable to a government intent on making an example of him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Green Knight
Overview: An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-29
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The Journeyman
Overview: A struggling pro tennis player is lured into an illegal match-fixing ring to support his family and finds himself trapped in a ruthless world of corruption and violence he may never escape.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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Bondi Boy
Overview: Radhesh, a high school student in Sydney’s affluent Bondi, betrays close relationships and his own self worth in order to claw his way up the social ladder.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-20
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