Dev Patel is an English actor and film producer of Indian descent, best known for his films Slumdog Millionaire, Skins, Lord of the Elements and others.
Biography
Dev Patel was born on 23 April 1990 to Anita and Raj Gujariti Indians in the London Borough of Harrow, England. The cast had moved from the sizable Indian community of Nairobi and stayed in London, where they met by chance. The family was far from creative activity: the mother was a care worker, and the father worked as an IT consultant.
As a child, parents insisted on a passion for martial arts in order to find a way out of the child's turbulent energy and redirect it to a more peaceful channel. Patel began training at the Rayners Lane Academy of Taekwondo in 2000 and has grown to become a professional athlete. Regularly improving his skills, he won prizes in competitions, and now he is the owner of a black belt in taekwondo.
The future actor was brought up in the Hindu faith, he speaks English and the Gujarati language, which is widespread in the state of Gujarat, which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-European language family. He grew up in Harrow's Rainers Lane and completed his secondary education at Longfield Middle School, where he landed his first role as Sir Andrew Aguken in Twelfth Night. He was given the Best Actor Award for his performance. Later, Patel attended Whitmore High School, and graduated with excellent marks in the certificate for his "self-composed" image of a child under siege of the Beslan school. His teacher Niam Wright stated, "Dev was a talented student who quickly impressed me with his innate ability to adapt creatively to the right character for the stage."
Personal life
On the set of Slumdog Millionaire, Dev Patel met Frida Pinto, who was 6 years older. Frida is an American and Indian artist, feeling a lot in common, and was carried away by her young colleague. Joint photos of this couple decorated various covers and even appeared on the pages of the actors' social networks. So the romance of Frida and Patel began, but it never came to the wedding. In 2014, after a 6-year romance, they broke up.
In March 2017, information appeared about the relationship of the already famous actor with Tilda Cobham-Hervey, an Australian actress from Adelaide. Apparently, a spark between them broke out on the set of the drama "Hotel Mumbai", where they starred.
Career
Dev Patel began his professional career with the television series "Skins", where he got to thanks to his mother. Anita Patel saw an advertisement for the casting on the subway and took him to the audition the next day, despite her son's strict training schedule. After a couple of auditions, he was cast as Anwar Harral, a British-Pakistani Muslim teenager. The writers had to rewrite some parts of the script to make the episodes more emotional, and the creator of the series noted that they did not even dream of such an actor. The first episodes of the show aired in January 2007 on E4. In 2008, the series was nominated for a BAFTA and won The Rose d'Or.
In 2008, the emerging actor made his debut in the feature film Slumdog Millionaire, which brought him worldwide fame and a collection of awards: British Independent Film Award, Critics Choice Award, CFCA Award, NBR Award and PFCS Award ". In Danny Boyle and Lavlyn's film, Tandan Dev portrays a young, uneducated boy named Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old orphan from a slum in Mumbai who is just one step away from winning the "Kaun Banega Crorepati" TV game and winning 20 million rupees. The role was played brilliantly, although it required extensive preparations at the start, since the actor had to get acquainted with India and its peculiarities again.
The runaway success is followed by the failure of The Last Airbender. It was a screen version of the animated story series "Avatar", which was directed by M. Night Shyamalan and appeared on the screens on July 1, 2010. Despite the commercial success, the film was a critical failure in terms of casting. Dev Patel received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor, although his role was well received and considered one of the positive aspects of the film.
Next up in his career is working with a McHenry Brothers advertising staging to promote the Nokia 8 smartphone in the UK. Fans who passed the company's proposed tests co-starred with Patel in the short film Suburb. The actor actively received a large number of various offers, the next of which was a feature film, a tragicomedy by the British director "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". To participate, he had to take lessons to improve the Indian-English accent, as his native English was very prominent.
From 2012 to 2014, Dev Patel played a supporting role in the television series The Newsroom, appeared alongside James Franco and Heather Graham in the drama About Cherry, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2014, the actor co-starred with Robert Sheehan and Zoë Kravitz in The Road Within, about three friends united by life situations.
