Left: Dev Patel; Right: Tilda Cobham-Hervey.Photo: GP Images/WireImage ; Frazer Harrison/Getty
Dev Patelfound love while making a movie.
When shooting the filmHotel Mumbaiin 2016, theAcademy Award-nominated British actor — best known for his roles inSlumdog Millionaire(2009) andLion(2016) — met Australian actress Tilda Cobham-Hervey, who replaced the actress who initially booked the role of Sally.
The cast ofHotel Mumbaisat down with IMDbat the 2018Toronto International Film Festivalto talk about the film. “We had such a wonderful ensemble,” Patel said at the time. “It was one of those intense experiences that brings you together.”
Patel and Cobham-Herveymade their relationship publicin 2017, stepping out together with Patel’s mom in Los Angeles.
So who is Dev Patel’s girlfriend? Here’s everything to know about Tilda-Cobham-Hervey and her relationship withThe Green Knightstar.
She met Patel on the set ofHotel Mumbai
Maybe it was kismet thatHotel Mumbai’sfemale leadTeresa Palmerpulled out of the film due to her pregnancy, or that the film happened to be shooting in Cobham-Hervey’s Australian hometown of Adelaide. It would seem the stars did align, though, when Cobham-Hervey was cast to replace Palmer as Sally in 2016.
Patel and Cobham-Hervey got to know one another while shooting the thriller based onthe 2008 terrorist attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace.
According toVogue Australia,the actress showed Patel around Adelaide —where he now lives— and introduced him to what would be his favorite local restaurant, Jasmin.
She co-directed a short film with Patel
Tilda Cobham-Hervey.Don Arnold/WireImage
When asked what inspired her to create the short film, Cobham-HerveytoldInspired Byin 2022, “That was sort of my boyfriend’s fault.”
“We were meant to be going out for dinner one night and I was very hungry, and he disappeared into a room and he’s like, ‘I can’t talk to you for a while. I’m just coming up with this idea and I just need a moment to write it down,’ " the director continued.
Although she initially turned down Patel’s pitch of “a story about the tiniest hamster in the entire world,” she warmed up to it after dinner.
“We were working on a script that he’s just finished filming calledMonkey Man, which is sort of an intense action movie. And it was very dark and violent, and we needed a way to switch off from that,” Cobham-Hervey added. “So at night, we would sit with me, Dev, and a man called John Collee, who wroteHappy Feet… so we would all sit around at dinner and talk about hamsters.”
She was an ambassador of the Adelaide Fringe Festival
Tilda Cobham-Hervey.Saverio Marfia/WireImage
Adelaide Fringe is a massive, 31-day arts festival in Australia, for which Cobham-Hervey served as an ambassador in 2021.
“My parents met at the Fringe Festival in ‘86. Mom was dancing in a show and my dad was lighting it,” the actresstoldThe Projectin December 2020. “You can say the Fringe has a very, very special place in my heart. I don’t know if I’d be here without the Fringe.”
“What I love about the Fringe is [that] I always just try to go and see as much as humanly possible, and just stumbling into shows that you wouldn’t usually necessarily know to pick,” she added. “There [are] people of all ages, all abilities, coming together in this sort of melting pot of creativity, so you can’t go wrong with anything you see at the Fringe.”
Cobham-Hervey also revealed that while Adelaide can be a sleepy town throughout the year, it comes alive when it’s time for the festival.
She played Helen Reddy inI Am Woman
From left: Unjoo Moon, Helen Reddy and Tilda Cobham-Hervey.John Sciulli/Getty
Helen Reddywas the feminist icon behind the 1971 anthem"I Am Woman.“Just like Reddy, Cobham-Hervey was born in Australia and got the opportunity to play the hitmaker inthe 2020 biopic(which also starredEvan Peters).
She rehearsed for five weeks before shooting. During that time, she sang for two or three hours every morning and she worked with a breathing coach.
While promoting the film in September 2019, Cobham-Hervey visited Canada alongside Patel, who was on a press tour for his project,The Personal History of David Copperfield.
She acted during her senior year of high school
Tilda Cobham-Hervey.Aaron Davidson/Getty
Cobham-Hervey spent the last year of high school filming the 2013 indie film52 Tuesdays— in her breakout role portraying 16-year-old Billie, who moves in with her father after her other parent comes out as transgender.
The scheduling required her to film every Tuesday throughout her last year at Marryatville High School.
According toVogue Australia, the breakout star signed with AMA Talent Agency and CAA after the film’s release at the 2014Sundance Film Festival, and then landed supporting roles in various Australian television series such asBarracudaandThe Kettering Incident.
She performed in a circus troupe
Tilda Cobham-Hervey.Frazer Harrison/Getty
In 2016,Cobham-Hervey opened up about her days performing in a circus troupe.
According toThe Sydney Morning Herald, she trained with the Adelaide-based youth circus troupe Cirkidz. Her specialties in the five major productions she performed in were hula hoop, trapeze and acrobatics — each with a storytelling element to her various acts.
“I started doing circus school when I was about 9, and then at 14, me and six and other members of the youth circus made a company,” shetoldMarie Claire Australiain June 2016. “We decided to make a show for the Adelaide Fringe thinking it was kind of hilarious, and it went so well that we traveled around with that show for three months.”
She continued: “It was never a straight circus, no leotards and animals … It was more circus theater, circus storytelling. My parents are both in the arts and I had grown up watching my mum perform and my dad’s light shows. What I really loved was the process of making something and coming up with different ways to tell stories.”
She threw Patel a birthday party in 2020
Dev Patel and Tilda Cobham-Hervey.gotpap/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
The world had just shut down amid the pandemic when it was Patel’s 30th birthday in April 2020, so Cobham-Hervey got creative and took the party to the front lawn where the two were spotted with birthday balloons.
In 2021,the pair left Los Angeles and joined several other A-listers(Natalie Portman,Matt DamonandJulia Roberts) in moving to Australia to wait out the pandemic.
source: people.com
