Nikesh Patel

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1. Early training

   Nikesh Patel won the Guildhall School of Music and Drama's gold medal for acting in 2010, the year he graduated from the school.

2. 

   Getting ready for a role

   For the 2020 film Artemis Fowl, Patel played the centaur Foaly, and the final stage of his audition was a screen test performed on stilts to emulate being half man, half horse.

3. Early training

   While he was at university, Patel found acting and took on the role of Othello in a production put on by students.

4. First role

   Patel began his professional career in the theater. In 2010 he appeared in Anupama Chandrasekhar's play Disconnect at the Royal Court Theatre.

5. Beyond film

   In 2017, Patel took the lead role in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children. Two years later, he was Arcite, one of the title characters, in BBC Radio 3's production of William Shakespeare's The Two Noble Kinsmen.