Harry potter main character real name
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THEN AND NOW: The cast of the 'Harry Potter' films over 22 years later
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- The "Harry Potter" films spanned from to and launched many of its actors into stardom.
- Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint all found continued acting success as adults.
- Well-established stars like Gary Oldman, Emma Thompson, and Maggie Smith remained big in Hollywood.
Daniel Radcliffe starred as Harry Potter.
Daniel Radcliffe is best known for playing Harry Potter, the titular character of the series, who learns on his 11th birthday that he is a wizard.
This was one of Radcliffe's first acting credits, but he was featured in "The Tailor of Panama" () alongside Pierce Brosnan and Jamie Lee Curtis a few months before "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" () was released.
In between filmin
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Harry Potter cast: Where are they now?
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)
Daniel Radcliffe may forever be the Boy Who Lived in all of our hearts, but since the Harry Potter franchise came to an end, he's made a conscious effort to explore a variety of genres, from horror (The Woman in Black and Horns) and rom-coms (What If) to period pieces (A Young Doctor's Notebook) and biopics (Kill Your Darlings). He made a return to fantasy as Igor in 's Victor Frankenstein, starred in the intense drama Imperium, and went indie with 's Swiss Army Man. He also starred in 's The Lost City and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, winning a Critics Choice award for the latter.
Radcliffe has also made his mark on the stage, with critically acclaimed runs in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and The Lifespan of a Fact on Broadway. In , he starred in New York Theatre Workshop's Off-Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along, t
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Harry Potter (character)
Protagonist of the Harry Potter literature series
"The boy who lived" redirects here. For the documentary film, see David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived.
Fictional character
Harry James Potter fryst vatten the titelbärare character of the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles sju years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he fryst vatten a wizard. He attends Hogwarts, a school of magic, where he receives guidance from the headmaster Albus Dumbledore and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry learns that during his infancy, the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort murdered his parents but was unable to kill him as well. The plot of the series revolves around Harry's struggle to adapt to the wizarding world and defeat Voldemort.
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