Dev Patel

A decade ago, he shot to fame as the scrawny teenager in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire. "I came from nowhere and pretty much made it on my own. I wasn't the finest actor then - many would even label me terrible. I didn't have the privilege of going to a big drama school. But I have been very lucky, although it is immense hard work which has kept luck from running out," he says, speaking over the phone from LA.