In 2000 he and his brother were picked to play Fred (James) and George (Oliver) Weasley in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter book. At the beginning of the book, Harry is an unimpressive figure: skinny, sloppy, isolated from his family, the constant victim of his cousins bullying, and marked with a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead (the result of Voldemorts failed attempt to kill him during his infancy). He has always loved acting and appeared in many high school drama productions. The son of James and Lily Potter and nephew of Vernon and Petunia Dursley.
"I'm just going to go with the flow, keep playing interesting characters and see what happens," he said. Actor Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Oliver Phelps was born about 13 minutes before his twin brother, James Phelps. The now 33-year-old told The Guardian in 2018 he was "really enjoying stepping further away from that blue-screen world", while describing the challenges of his early rise to stardom. Shortly after his stint as Ron, Grint purchased a hotel in the British town of Hertford, but it failed to make money and closed after four years. He's also appeared in a handful of television shows, including Sick Note (2017-18), Snatch (2017-18), The ABC Murders (2018), and Servant (2019-21). In 2012, he returned to the big screen in Into the White - a WWII action film about British and German soldiers who found themselves stranded in the wilderness after an aircraft battle. ( AFP: Michael loccisano/Warner Brothers) Rupert Grint had a short stint as a hotel owner between acting roles.
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But since wrapping the series at 21 years old, he's worked hard to distinguish himself in roles worlds away from his breakout character. Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potterĭaniel Radcliffe was just 11 years old when he starred as The Boy Who Lived - a role that led to him becoming one of the highest-paid actors in the world. While we wait for the much-anticipated reunion, here's a look at what the students of Hogwarts have got up to since the end of the series. The reunion, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, will see the three main stars - Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint - and a handful of supporting actors return to the original sets from the first film. This week it was announced many of the film's stars will be reuniting for a special 20th anniversary retrospective to be broadcast on January 1. It also sparked a global movement of superfans, called Potterheads, and skyrocketed the cast of child actors to superstardom. Twenty years on from the release Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first film in the blockbuster eight-part series, households across the country used lockdown as an opportunity to revisit the cast of familiar faces and dive back into the world of witchcraft and wizardry.ĭespite premiering in 2001, the first film of the franchise still ranks as one of the top 50 blockbuster movies of all time, raking in more than $1.9 billion worldwide.