Age: 36
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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).
Centuries after humanity's uplift of spiders into sentience, the galaxy faces a new existential threat. Portia, the evolved spider collective, has established a thriving civilization on Kern, but their world is shattered when an ancient, hostile intelligence awakens—a force that predates human spacefaring and hungers to consume all evolved life. Humanity's remnants, led by the pragmatic Lain and others, must navigate fragile alliances with the spiders and other uplifted species to survive. As the threat spreads across worlds, characters grapple with questions of identity, cooperation across species boundaries, and whether evolution itself is a curse or salvation. The narrative weaves between multiple perspectives and timelines, exploring how different civilizations respond to annihilation. Themes of parenthood, legacy, and the responsibility of creators toward their creations drive the emotional core, while hard science fiction concepts ground the cosmic horror. The story expands the universe established in its predecessor, deepening the philosophical implications of uplifting and the costs of survival in a hostile cosmos.
