Nerdy Actors That Turned Out To Be Total Heartthrobs

Dev Patel

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If you’ve ever watched the British teen drama Skins, then you’ve seen Dev Patel as Anwar Kharral, a Pakistani Muslim teenager who was loosely based off Patel’s own personality after he was cast. Patel’s breakout role and introduction to global audiences came when he was cast as the lead in 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire as Jamal Malik, a down-and-out Indian teen whose incredible journey to India’s Who Want’s to Be a Millionaire? Fast forward to 2016 and you can see Patel in his latest film Lion for which he was given an Oscar nomination. There’s another Oscar-nominated actor coming up that you wouldn’t have expected to be on this list!