FrameThrower · Actors · Dev Patel
Dev Patel
8 films · 521 frames · top-billed in 8 · 2008–2024
Born 23 April 1990 · Harrow, Greater London, England, UK
Dev Patel is a British actor. He began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). His breakthrough came with the leading role of teenager Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Patel's career expanded with leading roles in the comedy-dramas The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the science fiction thriller Chappie (2015), and a supporting role in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 8 films · 521 frames · top-billed in 8 · 2008–2024
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role2017
How their films are shot
Measured across 521 frames from the 8 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dev takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 8 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Dev takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 521 frames from Dev Patel's 8 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.