Dev Patel Biography
Dev Patel is an English actor best known for his appearance in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire in 2008 and in the British television teen drama Skins from 2007 to 2008
Dev Patel Age
He was born on 23 April 1990 in Harrow, United Kingdom. He is 29 years old as of 2019
Dev Patel Family
He is the son of Anita, a care worker, and Raj, an IT consultant. His parents are Gujarati Indian Hindus and were both born in Nairobi, Kenya. They emigrated to England separately in their teens, and first met in London. His ancestors came from Jamnagar and Unjha in Gujarat
Dev Patel Wife
He is dating his girlfriend Tilda Cobham-Hervey. The couple’s relationship became public in March 2017. They met on the set of Hotel Mumbai in 2016. Before his current relationship, he was dating his Slumdog Millionaire co-star Freida Pinto in 2009. The couple announced that they had split on 10 December 2014.
Dev Patel Height, Weight and Body Measurements
Height: 1.87meters or 6’ 2”
Weight: 68 kgs or 149 lbs
Body Measurements: 36, 30, 1
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Black
Dev Patel Net Worth
He has made his fortune through acting. He has an estimated net worth of around $10 million
Dev Patel Lion
Patel was cast as adult Saroo Brierley in the 2016 biographical drama film Lion
Dev Patel Oscars | Dev Patel Awards
His depiction of Neal Sampat on the HBO TV arrangement The Newsroom from 2012to 2014 earned him an NAACP Image Award assignment for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In 2015, Patel featured as the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the biopic The Man Who Knew Infinity, and the next year he played Saroo Brierley in the dramatization Lion in 2016. For the last mentioned, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor and was named for an Academy Award, Golden Globe and SAG Award.
Dev Patel Zuko | Dev Patel The Last Airbender
Patel was cast as Prince Zuko, sixteen years old and a Fire Nation prince who travels with his Uncle Iroh in the 2010 American action-adventure fantasy film The Last Airbender. The previous beneficiary to the royal position, he was ousted by his dad, Fire Lord Ozai, who caused him a facial scar following a fight with him and requested to catch the Avatar (who had not been seen in just about a century, making the task a totally pointless pursuit) so as to recapture his lost respect.
Dev Patel The Wedding Guest
Patel was cast as Jay, a Muslim man who goes on a journey across Pakistan and India in the 2018 British-American action thriller film The Wedding Guest.
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Dev Patel Interview
Dev Patel: ‘I’m just this guy from Rayners Lane – how the hell did this happen?’
Congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination for Lion. Is Saroo the most demanding role you’ve played?
I’m 26 and, like most actors my age, hungry to show emotional range. This role enabled me to play a character suffering real pain, a change from the scripts that want you as a funny sidekick. It took eight months to prepare. I wanted to commit every fibre of my being to getting it right. I had to bulk up, grow my hair, learn the accent. At my last audition, where I met the director Garth Davis, I’d been in The Man Who Knew Infinity and was skinny, with a buzzcut. I had to get myself a personal trainer and started eating like a glutton – downing the protein shakes.
It is a movie about mothers and sons. What did your mother make of it?
I brought my mum, father, sister, and grandparents to the London film festival premiere in Leicester Square. It was a beautiful, full-circle moment. Ten years previously I’d stood outside that cinema at the Hancock premiere waiting, for three hours, for Will Smith. I got a picture of his forehead and remember thinking: wow, this is so incredible. Now my goofy mug is on these pictures and I’m standing next to Nicole Kidman. My mum was very proud and torn to pieces by the film.
Wasn’t your mother responsible for getting you into acting in the first place?
She is a big inspiration. She is a social butterfly, jovial, a real character. I’m far more introverted. She is the one made to go on screen, not me. The reason I’m in the industry is because of her. She saw an advert for the Skins audition in Metro, tore it out and dragged me along to the National Youth Theatre in London. I had to bunk off school.
You had lots of energy as a boy. Do you still?
It’s different now – I’d call it to drive. When I was younger I was hyperactive. I did martial arts. When my friends saw me at the martial arts academy, they’d say: “This is a different Dev: you’re so calm and disciplined.” That is a big part of acting too. Part of the prep with Garth was trying to find stillness. Saroo is split in two – the child [Sunny Pawar] reacts to a harsh city and uses street-smartness to survive. The Australian adult is more inward, battling demons, trawling through pixels on his laptop, trying to find his mother.
How did the real Saroo contribute?
He is a generous, confident young man. We’ve become close friends. He told me that when he first came to Australia as a child, he’d go to bed, his heart would race and he’d feel himself coming out of his body, hovering over India. He felt himself materialize on the streets, he’d find his mother and brother and tell them he was OK. He’d do that every night and wake in the morning sweating and exhausted.
Do you keep discovering new aspects of India with each film you make there?
India is a constant source of inspiration. I’m on my fifth film – The Hotel Mumbai – about the attacks on the Taj hotel in 2008, another Australian/Indian co-production. For Lion, I traveled across India on trains and felt the isolation – partly because of not speaking the language. At each stop, I’d hear a different dialect as the landscape slowly changed…
You used to worry that the roles on offer for you were limited – do you still?
Yes and no. There should not be any limitation to playing my culture. I’m a British Asian, it is part of the fabric of who I am. My grandparents are from India and Nairobi. So what I’m trying to say is that Lion and Marigold and The Man Who Knew Infinity are completely different. Journalists sometimes label them as “Indian guys” as if this were an umbrella term.
Source: theguardian.com
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