Dev Patel
Dev Patel
Dev Patel is a British actor. The son of Kenyan-born Indian immigrants, Patel began acting as a child in school theater productions and had his first acting role as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in his school's production of Twelfth Night, for which he was named Best Actor. He went on to attend Whitmore High School, where he was praised by his drama teachers as "a gifted student". As a child, he also participated in martial arts and won a bronze medal...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth23 April 1990
CityLondon, England
The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.
But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!
I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.
I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.
I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.
I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.
Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.
Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.
Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?
I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.