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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).
"Stella loves math and solving puzzles, but she does not like being touched. She has a high functioning form of autism that makes her sensitive to touch, smells, and sounds, and it causes her to be obsessive over her work. When Stella decides to overcome her fear through practice with a male escort, she analyzes the selection of men and chooses Michael. Michael is a handsome man with emotional scars and expensive bills to pay for his family, and he has never had a connection with a client- until Stella. The Kiss Quotient is the story of Stella and Michael learning to overcome their insecurities and discovering that the little things are what make you special. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella love is the best kind of logic…"
