Dev Patel

British Indian Dev Patel in his years achieved what his peers can only dream of. The young actor was nominated for the most prestigious awards in the world film industry: Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Saturn. Virgo's collection includes works in the films of world famous director Danny Boyle and his talented colleague Garth Davis.

The parents of the Slumdog Millionaire star are Indian people who grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. As teenagers, they moved to Britain, where they met and got married. The son of Dev Patel was born in April 1990 in the northwest area of ​​London - Harrow. Virgo's father, Raj Patel, is a programmer and IT consultant. Anita, the actor's mother, worked as a nurse. The parents raised their son and eldest daughter Komal in Hindu traditions, but young Patel did not have a close connection with his historical homeland.

At the age of 10, the boy first visited India, at the wedding of a relative. During a week on the banks of the sacred Ganges, the heat and ubiquitous mosquitoes tormented the Virgo so much that he promised never to return here. Virgo Patel spent her childhood and adolescence in the suburb of Harrow - Rainers Lane. The future artist studied at Longfield Middle School. Interest in theater was awakened in high school: Dev stepped onto the stage of school theater in the image of Sir Andrew from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". According to him, then for the first time I thought about the career of an actor.

Dev Patel solidified his desire to be a play actor when he moved to Whitmore High School. The teachers involved the young artist in amateur productions and were amazed at his acting skills. When Patel's name thundered after the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, school drama teacher Niamh Wright admitted that the teenager, while still in school, impressed him with his innate talent to convey a wide range of characters.

But Dev Patel gladly went on the stage and on the tatami. Mom took her 10-year-old son to the taekwondo section, wanting to channel the boy's explosive energy into a safe direction. Soon, Patel became so interested in martial arts that three years later he participated in national taekwondo competitions. In Dublin, at the International Martial Arts Championship, the athlete was awarded a bronze medal in the younger age group. At that time, Virgo had a red belt.

In the spring of 2006, 16-year-old Patel got a black belt, and Dev was not going to stop there. But mother Anita believed that although martial arts took away extra energy from her son, but not all. Therefore, the persistent woman, having seen the announcement of the casting for the youth series, took the reluctant Virgo to the studio. The woman remembered the recommendation of the jury, which awarded the boy the Best Actor award for his role in a Shakespearean play: authoritative teachers then strongly advised the boy to think about an acting career.

The 17-year-old Indian auditioned for the role. Thus began the cinematic biography of Deva Patel.

In 2007 the youth sitcom "Skins" was released. The drama television series, which premiered on UK's E4 in January, chronicled the lives of Bristol teenagers. Dev got the role of Anwar Kharral, a guy with a problematic character and a strange sense of humor. Anwar, despite his adherence to Islam, is not averse to drinking. He uses drugs and shocks others with stupid antics and explosive energy.

Hannah Murray and Mike Bailey, who starred with Dev, told reporters that the characters of Kharral and Patel are somewhat similar, so the hero turned out to be so "real". Dev Patel starred in two seasons of the popular project. Filming took place in Bristol. In 2008, the tape was nominated for a BAFTA. The series won The Rose d'Or award.

The role of a troubled teenager opened the door for a talented Indian to the film industry. The cult director Danny Boyle, who became famous after the release of the crime comedy Trainspotting, took on a new project - the adaptation of the Indian writer Vikas Swarup's novel Question and Answer, translated into 40 languages. It remained to find an actor for the role of the Indian boy Jamal Malik, who grew up in the Bombay slums. But hundreds of adolescents who came to the casting were “weeded out”, and the director could not find the right “nature”.

Boyle was helped by the 17-year-old daughter Caitlin, who remembered the Virgin Patel from her favorite sitcom "Skins". The director gave the actor a strict exam: after five auditions, Patel was approved.

To better get used to the image of Malik, Dev Patel traveled to India, in the Mumbai slums of Dharavi: a huge dump, spread over 215 hectares and sheltering a million poor Indians. Here Danny Boyle filmed scenes of the crime melodrama Slumdog Millionaire.

According to Dev Patel, on his second visit to his historic homeland, he learned and fell in love with India. The film about the Mumbai orphan Jamal Malik brought the actor incredible success, turning him into a world-class star. The premiere of the drama took place in August 2008 in Toronto and was showered with prestigious awards, as if from a cornucopia: 8 Oscars, 7 BAFTAs and 4 Golden Globes. And these are just the biggest awards.

From that moment on, Dev Patel regularly receives offers from directors and does not know what is easy to shoot. In 2010, two projects were released with the participation of a young Indian-British star. The artist appeared in the short film "Passenger" and the adventure fantasy "The Lord of the Elements". But luck seems to have turned away from Virgo: for his work in the film "The Lord of the Elements" he was awarded the anti-award "Golden Raspberry". Critics and viewers alike were very cool about the fantasy and the game of Patel, who appeared in the form of Prince Zuko.

Dev Patel managed to rehabilitate himself in 2012, playing the hotel manager Sonny Kapoor in John Madden's comedy film Hotel Marigold. The best of the exotic. " The world premiere of a tragicomedy about elderly people living in an elite hotel took place in Sorrento. In Glasgow, the painting won the main prize. For the role of Sonny Dev, he learned to speak with an Indian accent.

In the same year, the drama series "News" by Aaron Sorkin and the drama "Cherry" were released, where the audience saw Patel in the title role - Andrew. "Cherry" was shown at the international festival in Berlin.

In 2014, the Briton delighted his fans with his work in the dramatic comedy Touched, where he appeared in the company of Zoe Kravitz and Robert Sheehan. In Russia, the film was seen in March 2016. This is a "black" comedy about an eccentric trinity - Vincent, Marie and Alex, from whose crazy antics the parents were so tired that they sent their children to a mental hospital. But the three escaped from there and set off on a journey. Dev Patel played Alex.

2015 was marked for the actor by the release of three notable projects. The sequel to the comedy “Hotel Marigold. Check-in continues ”, where viewers again saw the Virgo in the form of Sonny Kapoor. Less success, despite the stellar cast (Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver), enjoyed the thriller "The Robot Called Chappy." But the biographical drama "The Man Who Knew Infinity" about the Indian self-taught mathematician received positive reviews from film critics. Dev Patel played a mathematician. Together with him, Jeremy Irons and Stephen Fry appeared in the film.

On the set of the stellar film "Slumdog Millionaire" Dev met his 6-year-old colleague Frida Pinto. Frida is an American and Indian artist who, like Patel, became famous after the release of Danny Boyle's crime melodrama.

The Indian beauty was so carried away by her young colleague that she left her fiancé Rohan Antao for him, to whom she was engaged. The tall Patel (1.87 meters tall) and the fragile Pinto looked great together. Their joint photos adorned the covers of tabloids, flaunted on Frida's page on Instagram. In 2009, Anita Patel confirmed rumors about her son's romance leaked to the press, but the matter never came to a wedding. In 2014, after a 6-year romance, Dev and Frida broke up.

In 2016, Garth Davis's drama The Lion was released, where Patel got the main role. Together with him, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara appeared in the project. In the US, the picture was shown in November 2016, and in Australia at the beginning of 2017.

The drama "Lion" was warmly received by viewers and received a high (87%) rating on the specialized website Rotten Tomatoes. Film critics noted the film with six Oscar nominations.

2007 - Skins 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire 2009 - Mister Eleventh 2010 - Lord of the Elements 2010 - Passenger 2012 - Hotel Marigold. The Best Exotic "2012 -" Cherry "2012 -" News "2014 -" Touched "2015 -" Hotel Marigold. Settlement continues "2015 -" A robot named Chappy "2015 -" The man who knew infinity "2016 -" Lion "

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Dev Patel Net Worth 2021

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Dev Patel Net Worth 2020

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Dev Patel Net Worth 2019

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Dev Patel Net Worth 2018

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Dev Patel Net Worth 2017

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Dev Patel Net Worth 2016

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Dev Patel Net Worth 2015

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