
Age: 35
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Himesh Jitendra Patel (born 13 October 1990) is a British actor. He began his career portraying Tamwar Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2007–2016). This was followed by roles in the Channel 4 sitcom Damned (2016–2018) and the films Yesterday (2019) and Tenet (2020). In 2021, Patel starred in the HBO miniseries Station Eleven, earning a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, and appeared in Adam McKay's Netflix film Don't Look Up. He then starred in the films Good Grief (2023), Greedy People (2024), The Assessment (2024) and Bubble & Squeak (2025). Description above from the Wikipedia article Himesh Patel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

In the mountain-locked kingdom of Virelle, the crown does not pass by birthright — it chooses. For centuries, the ruling bloodline has obeyed the ancient rite of inheritance: when the reigning monarch weakens, the Crown of Saint Aerem awakens, selecting the next sovereign with a whisper no one hears but the chosen. It is an honor. It is a curse. And it always costs more than it gives. When the current king descends into madness and the heir dies mysteriously, the crown falls not on a noble’s head, but on Elian, an orphaned scribe with no claim and strange dreams. As Elian is dragged into the palace's suffocating world of ritual, decay, and shadows-that-move-wrong, they begin to uncover a horrific truth: the crown is a prison for something ancient. Something that feeds. And it is waking faster this time. With war on the horizon and whispers in the walls, Elian must choose between breaking the cycle — or becoming its next vessel.
