Lauren Patel

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Lauren Patel (born 2001) [1] is a British actress.

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Patel was born in and grew up in Bolton, Greater Manchester, and attended Smithills School and The Sixth Form Bolton. [1] [2] She was cast as Pritti Pasha in the 2021 Amazon Prime Video film Everyone's Talking About Jamie, having auditioned when she was 17 after seeing an advertisement requesting an actress of her age and Indian origin; [3] in the same month as being cast, all her applications to London theatre schools were rejected. [4] Patel's father had a cameo as her on-screen father in the film. [5]

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In June 2021, Patel was announced in the voice cast for Lloyd of the Flies, produced by Aardman Animations and airing on CITV at the end of the following year. [6] She voiced young police officer Mukherjee in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024), with fellow Boltonian Peter Kay voicing Chief Inspector Mackintosh. [1] [7]

Patel has opined that there are too few roles for British Asians in proportion to their population, [8] and said that she was unaware of South Asian Americans in her childhood as they were rarely shown in film and television. [3] [9]

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  2. ↑ "Former B6 Student Starring in new Wallace and Gromit Film". The Sixth Form Bolton . Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 George, Tom (16 September 2021). "Lauren Patel". Revamp. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  4. ↑ Smither, Tanis (6 October 2021). "Lauren Patel". 1883. Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  5. ↑ Smith, Ellie (8 March 2022). "Lauren Patel on Everybody's Talking About Jamie". Country & Town House. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  6. ↑ Milligan, Mercedes (29 June 2021). "Aardman, CITV Set Buzzworthy Voice Cast for 'Lloyd of the Flies'". Animation Magazine . Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  7. ↑ Chaudhari, Salqa (25 December 2024). "Wallace and Gromit stars Peter Kay, Lauren Patel and Diane Morgan". The Bolton News . Retrieved 25 December 2024.
  8. ↑ Agarwal, Mihika (31 March 2022). "Lauren Patel of Everybody's Talking About Jamie is calling for more brown representation in Hollywood". Vogue India . Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  9. ↑ Vraljal, Alicia (27 September 2021). "Lauren Patel Of Everybody's Talking About Jamie: My Character Is More Than Just The 'Hijabi Muslim'". Refinery29 . Retrieved 26 December 2024.
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