Dev Patel Birth Horoscope - Slumdog Millionaire

Name : Dev Patel
Full Name : Dev Raj Patel
Date of Birth : 23 April 1990
Time Zone : +05:30
Birth Place : Brent, Greater London, England,
Birth Number of Dev Patel : 5
Sun sign of Dev Patel : Taurus
Chinese Zodiac of Dev Patel : Horse

Dev Patel is born 23rd April 1990, His mother Anita Patel is a carer and his father Raj Patel an IT consultant. Dev is a British film and television actor as well as a martial artist. As an actor, Dev Patel is known for his performances as Anwar Kharral in the teen drama series Skins and as main protagonist, Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's critically acclaimed and multiple Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel won a number of awards, including a Critics' Choice Award and Screen Actors Guild Award, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. As a martial artist, he is a black belt in Taekwondo and was a bronze medalist at the 2004 AIMAA World Championships in Dublin.

Patel began his acting career in late 2006, when he auditioned for the E4 TV teen drama series Skins. After two auditions, he was cast in the role of Anwar Kharral, a British Pakistani Muslim teenager. According to fellow actors Mike Bailey (who played Sid Jenkins) and Hannah Murray (who played Cassie Ainsworth), the characterization of Anwar was partly based on the personality of Dev Patel and the role was written specifically for him after he was cast in Skins. The first series of the show aired in early 2007 and went on to receive two nominations at the BAFTA Television Awards. Patel resumed his role as Anwar for the second series of Skins, which aired in early 2008.


Dev went on to receive a number of awards for his performance, including a British Independent Film Award, National Board of Review (NBR) Award, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, and two Black Reel Awards for Best Actor and Best Breakthrough Performance. On 18 December 2008, it was announced that Patel was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. The award eventually went posthumously to the late Heath Ledger for his performance in The Dark Knight, though Dev Patel did win the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, which he shared with ten other cast members from Slumdog Millionaire. On 8 January 2009, Dev Patel was honoured with the Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Performer.