Lion star Dev Patel and Tilda Cobham-Hervey now Hollywood’s hottest couple
THEY are Hollywood’s hottest young couple, but their love story began in Adelaide nine months ago when Lion star Dev Patel and Tilda Cobham-Hervey first met.
THEY are Hollywood’s hottest young couple, but their love story began in Adelaide nine months ago when Lion star Dev Patel and Tilda Cobham-Hervey first met.
Cobham-Hervey, 22, was staying at home with her parents and Oscar nominee British actor Patel, 26, had flown in to film the terrorist drama Hotel Mumbai at the Adelaide Studios.
Cobham-Hervey was a late addition to the Hotel Mumbai cast playing a nanny after another Adelaide actress, Teresa Palmer, became pregnant and dropped out.
So Cobham-Hervey showed Patel — who shot to fame almost a decade ago in Slumdog Millionaire — the city and introduced him to his favourite Adelaide restaurant, Jasmin.
“They’re a completely gorgeous team of people,” Cobham-Hervey told The Advertiser soon after meeting Patel last July. “I’ve been showing them the sights.”
While Patel, 26, took his mother, Anita, to Sunday night’s Oscars, Cobham-Hervey was at his table a day earlier at the Weinstein Company’s pre-Oscars party at the Montage Beverly Hills.
They were photographed on Monday walking hand-in-hand in Los Angeles.
As well as starring in Hotel Mumbai, the first film from Adelaide writer and director Anthony Maras, Patel was also an executive producer.
During the five-week Adelaide shoot, photos appeared on social media of Cobham-Hervey in group shots with Patel, Armie Hammer (The Social Network), Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland) and Isaac Lucas (Harry Potter), at the Jasmin, in the Adelaide Hills and again in India when location filming resumed.
Cobham-Hervey, an elfin-faced actress who trained as a circus performer, has had a meteoric rise since she completed the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival transgender drama, 52 Tuesdays, made while she was still a student at Marryatville High.
Two years later she was the face of the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival, and an ambassador for Myer.
She was seen last year in Foxtel’s The Kettering Incident, and the ABC thriller Barracuda, and on stage in Andrew Bovell’s State Theatre production of Things I know to Be True — a name she inspired after telling Bovell about a list she wrote during a bad breakup with a boyfriend in the UK. The lighting designer for the play was her father, Geoffrey Cobham.