EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actor Dev Patel (The Green Knight) has signed with CAA for representation. Patel found his breakout big-screen role in Danny Boyle’s 2008 drama Slumdog Millionaire, which won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.
The actor notched his first Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and won a BAFTA Award in 2017 for his starring turn opposite Nicole Kidman in Garth Davis’ Lion, and scored his first Emmy nom three years later for a guest part on Prime Video’s Modern Love.
Other notable credits for the actor include Hotel Mumbai, which he exec produced; David Lowery’s The Green Knight for A24; John Madden’s acclaimed dramedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Aaron Sorkin’s Emmy-winning HBO drama series The Newsroom; and Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, for which he garnered his second Golden Globe nomination.
Patel will next make his feature directorial debut with the Netflix action-thriller Monkey Man — also producing and starring in the pic, which he wrote.
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