Biography
Himesh Jitendra Patel is a British actor. He was born on 13 October 1990 in Cambridgeshire, England. He began his career playing Tamwar Masood in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2007–2016).
Patel has since appeared in the Channel 4 sitcom Damned (2016–2018), the film Yesterday (2019) as Jack Malik, Christopher Nolan's Tenet (2020) as Mahir, the HBO miniseries Station Eleven (2021) as Jeevan Chaudhary, and Don't Look Up (2021). He is also known for roles in Enola Holmes 2 (2022) and its sequel, The Assessment (2025), and The Odyssey (2026) as Eurylochus. His performance in Station Eleven earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
