---
name: "Himesh Patel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/himesh-patel"
fi1m_id: "himesh-patel"
imdb_id: "nm2797744"
tmdb_id: 1227717
wikidata_id: "Q2835788"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 October 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-09-24T04:04:32.847760+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Himesh Patel

## Identity

Himesh Patel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/himesh-patel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** himesh-patel
- **IMDb ID:** nm2797744
- **TMDB ID:** 1227717
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2835788
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himesh_Patel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2835788, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2797744/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227717

Actor. Born 13 October 1990 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 October 1990, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Himesh Jitendra Patel
- **Frequently works with:** [Christopher Nolan](https://film.one/person/christopher-nolan.md), [Emma Thomas](https://film.one/person/emma-thomas.md), [Robert Pattinson](https://film.one/person/robert-pattinson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 67 (2), 2020s 73 (5)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 71 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 5 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Drama 3, Action 2, Fantasy 2, Science Fiction 2, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,152m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himesh_Patel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2835788, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2797744/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227717

## Coming up

- *High in the Clouds* (2027-10-07), as Wirral (voice)

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Station Eleven*](https://film.one/tv/station-eleven.md) (84)
- **Apple TV:** [*Motherland*](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Himesh Patel

> Himesh Patel plays the man who is not the hero and knows it: the crewman who has stopped believing, the stranger who does not know what to do with the child. He does less than anyone around him and we watch him anyway.

Watch what Himesh Patel does with a telephone in the first episode of *Station Eleven* (2021). His sister is telling him what is filling the hospitals, the snow is coming down, a small girl he has just met is standing beside him, and Hiro Murai's camera stays on his face and does not cut. He does almost nothing. He listens, and his face goes from polite to grey, and the city behind him carries on not knowing. A few minutes later he is pushing a train of trolleys through a supermarket, and we realised we were frightened by a man buying tinned soup. That is what he does: he plays ordinary people at the moment ordinariness stops being available to them, and he never lets you see him work.

He came up the slow way. Nine years as Tamwar Masood on *EastEnders* (2007–2016), after an audition at 16, then the sitcom *Damned* and stage work, and then Danny Boyle put him at the front of *Yesterday* (2019) as Jack Malik, a struggling musician. He sang live and carried the film; most critics were cool on the picture and warm on him, which is the pattern that has held since. Christopher Nolan gave him a small part as Mahir in *Tenet* (2020), Adam McKay a supporting one as Phillip in *Don't Look Up* (2021), and Patrick Somerville gave him Jeevan and ten episodes to fill.

Nolan cast him again as Eurylochus in *The Odyssey* (2026), and used him properly this time. Eurylochus is the crewman who has stopped believing the captain and cannot say so, and Patel plays him opposite Matt Damon's Odysseus, a man slow to answer and quick to anger, with the same quality he brought to Jeevan: he knows something is wrong and he is not entitled to say it. In a story full of people offering Odysseus things, he is the one holding something back, and in a film shot enormous and acted quietly he is one of the reasons to keep looking at the faces rather than the horizon.

The reservation is that nobody has yet asked him to fail. His directors have known how to place a still man in a loud frame, and the parts have been variations on the same decent, watchful person who is right about the danger and powerless to act on it. We would like to see someone hand him a character who is unreasonable, or vain, or simply bad, and find out whether the stillness is a choice or a limit. Until then he is the actor you notice on the second viewing, which is a compliment to him and a small failing of the people doing the casting.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Bait* (2026), Fi1m 81, as Raj Thakker — [page](https://film.one/tv/bait-2026.md)
- *The Odyssey* (2026), Fi1m 83, as Eurylochus — [page](https://film.one/film/the-odyssey.md)
- *Don't Look Up* (2021), Fi1m 52, as Phillip — [page](https://film.one/film/dont-look-up.md)
- *Station Eleven* (2021), Fi1m 84, as Jeevan Chaudhary — [page](https://film.one/tv/station-eleven.md)
- *Tenet* (2020), Fi1m 65, as Mahir — [page](https://film.one/film/tenet.md)
- *Yesterday* (2019), Fi1m 60, as Jack Malik — [page](https://film.one/film/yesterday.md)
- *Motherland* (2017), Fi1m 74, as Mr. Glencuddy — [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *High in the Clouds* (2027), as Wirral (voice)
- *The Odyssey* (2026), as Eurylochus — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-odyssey.md)
- *Enola Holmes 3* (2026), as Dr. Watson
- *Bait* (2026), series, as Raj Thakker — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/bait-2026.md)
- *The Assessment* (2025), as Aaryan
- *Bubble & Squeak* (2025), as Declan
- *The Franchise* (2024), series, as Daniel Kumar
- *Greedy People* (2024), as Will
- *Good Grief* (2023), as Thomas
- *The Amazing Maurice* (2022), as Keith (voice)
- *Enola Holmes 2* (2022), as Dr. Watson
- *Ten Percent* (2022), series, as Himesh Patel
- *Station Eleven* (2021), series, as Jeevan Chaudhary — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/station-eleven.md)
- *Don't Look Up* (2021), as Phillip — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/dont-look-up.md)
- *Enjoy* (2021), as Michael
- *Tenet* (2020), as Mahir — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/tenet.md)
- *The Luminaries* (2020), series, as Emery Staines
- *Avenue 5* (2020), series, as Jordan Hatwal
- *The Aeronauts* (2019), as John Trew
- *Yesterday* (2019), as Jack Malik — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/yesterday.md)
- *The Best of EastEnders* (2018), as Tamwar Masood (archive footage)
- *My Pure Land* (2018), Associate Producer
- *Motherland* (2017), series, as Mr. Glencuddy — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/motherland-2017.md)
- *Climaxed* (2017), series, as Amit
- *The Fox* (2017), as The Suit
- *Damned* (2016), series, as Nitin
- *Two Dosas* (2014), as Pavan
- *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as TV Krish — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *EastEnders* (1985), series, as Tamwar Masood — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *The Amazing Maurice: The Waters of Life*, as Keith (voice)
- *Bad Bridgets*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Himesh Patel at the premiere of "Bubble & Squeak" at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-c6b6163ac105.jpg) Himesh Patel at the premiere of "Bubble & Squeak" at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/2025_01_24_Sundance_Film_Festival-46_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_24_Sundance_Film_Festival-46_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Franco at the premiere of "Bubble & Squeak" at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-ec9fde6281f5.jpg) Dave Franco at the premiere of "Bubble & Squeak" at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival — Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/2025_01_24_Sundance_Film_Festival-47_Full.jpg/1280px-2025_01_24_Sundance_Film_Festival-47_Full.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Himesh Patel at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-b7cbae3fb313.jpg) Himesh Patel at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/HimeshPatel-byPhilipRomano.jpg/1280px-HimeshPatel-byPhilipRomano.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Himesh Patel at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-cf33b4f4af40.jpg) Himesh Patel at the NYC Premiere of "The Odyssey" - July 14, 2026 — PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/HimeshPatel-byPhilipRomano2.jpg/1280px-HimeshPatel-byPhilipRomano2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Himesh Patel](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-785792e2fecf.jpg) Himesh Patel — Image via TMDB
- ![Himesh Patel](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-f330abe758ec.jpg) Himesh Patel — Image via TMDB
- ![Himesh Patel](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-332947b846fb.jpg) Himesh Patel — Image via TMDB
- ![Himesh Patel, Evan Twohy, and Sarah Goldberg at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the movie Bubble & Squeak.](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-4f15340f5090.jpg) Himesh Patel, Evan Twohy, and Sarah Goldberg at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival for the movie Bubble & Squeak. — Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Himesh_Patel%2C_Evan_Twohy%2C_and_Sarah_Goldberg_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Himesh_Patel%2C_Evan_Twohy%2C_and_Sarah_Goldberg_at_the_2025_Sundance_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor Himesh Patel at the Inside Soap Awards - pictured by Ian Smith (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-c7a94d2b42e7.jpg) Actor Himesh Patel at the Inside Soap Awards - pictured by Ian Smith (2011) — Ian Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Himesh_Patel.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Himesh Patel](https://film.one/media/person/390/gallery-6ce13d957eb4.jpg) Himesh Patel — Image via TMDB

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