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Dev Patel (born 23 April 1990) 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). For his performance as Saroo Brierley in the drama Lion (2016), Patel won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently starred in the independent films Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and The Green Knight (2021), and made his directorial debut with the action film Monkey Man (2024).
In the year 2055, Nova City pulses with neon light and relentless surveillance — a sprawling metropolis where tech giants reign and privacy is obsolete. Ray Blake, a reclusive former street racer turned precision getaway driver, lives by one rule: stay disconnected. But when he’s hired to extract a rogue hacker named Lia from a corporate black site, his rules shatter. Pursued by KORVEX’s AI enforcers and racing through a city controlled by machines, Ray and Lia uncover Project OVERRIDE — a plan to hijack the minds of the entire population through their neural implants. As they form an uneasy alliance with the underground resistance, Ray must confront his own past and make the ultimate sacrifice to stop a future where choice is just a program. "NEON" is a pulse-pounding cyberpunk thriller about redemption, rebellion, and the price of freedom in a world that forgot what it means.
