Daniel Jacob "Dan" Radcliffe (born July 23, 1989) is an English actor, whose roles span from film, television and stage and best known as Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series
Career[]
1999-2001: Early Life[]
Radcliffe desired to become an actor at the age of 5. In 1999, he landed his first television role of Young David in the BBC's adaptation of David Copperfield after his mother's friend secured him an audition, followed by his film debut in 2001 with The Tailor of Panama as Mark Pendel.
2001-2011: Stardom with Harry Potter[]
In 2000, he met David Heyman while at the theatre with his father. Heyman encouraged Radcliffe to audition for the role of Harry Potter. Chris Columbus, who directed the first two films recalled seeing him in David Copperfield and said, "This is what I want. This is Harry Potter". Eight months and several auditions later, Radcliffe got the role. However, his parents turned it down at first as it would be involving the filming of six films in LA. Warner Bros offered him a two-movie deal in the UK and it was unsure that he would film more than two Potter films. During the filming of the Potter franchise, he also appeared playing himself in Extras (2006), the Australian family drama film December Boys (2007) as Maps opposite Teresa Palmer, and John "Jack" Kipling in the biographical television film My Boy Jack (2007). In 2010 and 2011, he appeared for the final time playing the titular character in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Additionally, he had reprised his role as Harry in the motion-based dark ride Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, located in the Wizarding World section in the Universal theme parks.
2012-2016: Roles after Potter[]
After concluding the Potter series, he went to star as Arthur Kipps in the horror The Woman in Black (2012), beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the biographical film Kill Your Darlings (2013), med school dropout Wallace in the Irish Canadian romantic comedy What If (2013). He then went on to star in the dark fantasy horror film Horns as Ig Perrish that same year. He was seen in the science fiction horror film Victor Frankenstein (2015) as Igor. Also in 2015, he played Sam Houser in the BBC docudrama film The Gamechangers and played The Dog Walker in Trainwreck. In 2016, he starred as Walter Maybry in the action-adventure film Now You See Me 2, Manny in the indie film Swiss Army Man, Nate Foster in the independent film Imperium.
2017-present: Career expansion[]
In 2017, he was seen as himself in Lost in London, and as Yossi Ghinsberg in the physiological thriller Jungle. He played Sean Haggerty in Beast of Burden (2018), Miles in Guns Akimbo (2019), and played multiple characters in the TBS anthology series Miracle Workers (2019-2023), which also he executive produced and starred in the 2020 Australian prison film Escape from Pretoria as Tim Jenkin. He reunited with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter films for the 20th anniversary special titled Harry Potter: 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022). That same year, he starred in the musical parody film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as musician Weird Al Yankovic. He then starred as Abigail Fairfax in the adventure comedy The Lost City (2022). Notable voice credits include The Simpsons (2010,2014,2018), Robot Chicken (2012, 2017), and in BoJack Horseman (2015), detective Rex Dasher in Playmobile: The Movie (2019), Rick and Morty (2022), Sebastian Lines in an episode of Digman! (2023), and as King Jeremey in the animated apocalyptic sitcom Mulligan (2023). In November of that same year, he executive produced a documentary about his former Potter stunt double, David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived. He will next star in the upcoming film Batso opposite Ethan Hawke and Jessica Biel.
2007-present: West End, Off-Broadway & Broadway[]
Radcliffe has also branched out to stage roles as well during his career including Equus, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Lifespan of a Fact, Privacy, and more recently, starred in the revival of Off Broadway and Broadway productions of Merrily We Roll Along.
Awards[]
Radcliffe is the recipient of two MTV Movie & TV Awards, a People's Choice Award, a Scream Award, and three Teen Choice Awards, as well as nominations for four Critics' Choice Movie Awards and a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award. WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor, 6 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, a first time Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as lyricist and playwright Charley Kringas. He has also been nominated for 4 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Drama League Awards, and 2 Outer Critics Choice Awards. He also earned a nomination for two Grammy Awards for Best Musical Theatre Album for How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and Merrily We Roll Along.
Personal Life[]
He met Michigan-born actress Erin Darke on the set on his film Kill Your Darlings, where the two began dating and splits his time between Fulham and the West Village of New York City and are parents to a son, born in April 2023.