Lauren Patel

Biography

Lauren Christine Patel(born 2001) is a British actress. Her roles include Pritti Pasha in Everyone's Talking About Jamie (2021), Mukherjee in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024), Jas Sharma in Waterloo Road (2025), and Kacey in Small Prophets (2026). Patel was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester to Prashant Patel and Christine C. Moore, and attended Smithills School and The Sixth Form Bolton. 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; in the same month as being cast, all her applications to London theatre schools were rejected. Patel's father had a cameo as her on-screen father in the film.