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Dev Patel

Dev Patel[1] (born 23 April 1990) is an English film and television actor as well as a martial artist. As an actor, he 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[2] and Screen Actors Guild Award,[3] and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.[4] As a martial artist, he is a black belt in Taekwondo and was a bronze medallist at the 2004 AIMAA World Championships in Dublin.