Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born July 23, 1989) is an English actor. He rose to fame at age twelve, when he began portraying Harry Potter in the film series of the same name; and has held various other film and theatre roles. Over his career, Radcliffe has received various awards and nominations.
Radcliffe made his acting debut at age 10 in the BBC One television film David Copperfield (1999), followed by his feature film debut in The Tailor of Panama (2001). The same year, he starred as Harry Potter in the film adaptation of the J.K. Rowling fantasy novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Over the next decade, he played the eponymous role in seven sequels, culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). During this period, he became one of the world's highest-paid actors and gained worldwide fame, popularity, and critical acclaim.
Following the success of Harry Potter, Radcliffe starred in the romantic comedy What If? (2013), and played the lawyer Arthur Kipps in the horror film The Woman in Black (2012), poet Allen Ginsberg in the drama film Kill Your Darlings (2013), Igor in the science-fiction horror film Victor Frankenstein (2015), a sentient corpse in the comedy-drama film Swiss Army Man (2016), technological prodigy Walter Mabry in the heist thriller film Now You See Me 2 (2016), and FBI agent Nate Foster in the critically acclaimed thriller film Imperium (2016). Since 2019, he has starred in the TBS anthology series Miracle Workers. In 2022, he starred in the action comedy The Lost City and portrayed Weird Al Yankovic in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
Radcliffe branched out to stage acting in 2007, starring in the West End and Broadway productions of Equus. From 2011 to 2012 he portrayed J. Pierrepont Finch in the Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He continued in Martin McDonagh's dark comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan (2013-2014) in the West End and Broadway and a revival of Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017) at The Old Vic. He also starred in the satirical plays Privacy (2016) and The Lifespan of a Fact (2018), respectively off and on Broadway. In 2022 starred in the New York Theatre Workshop revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
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RevenueActing
Primarily2025 Merrily We Roll Along as Charley Kringas
2025 Now You See Me: Now You Don't as Walter Mabry
2025 Batso and the Wall as Dean Caldwell
2025 Trust the Man
2024 Carole & Grey as Dan Radcliffe's Voice (voice)
2024 Music by John Williams as Harry Potter (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special as Self (archive footage)
2024 The Rooster Thanks
2023 David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived as Self Executive Producer
2022 Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as 'Weird Al' Yankovic
2022 The Lost City as Abigail Fairfax
2022 Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
2021 (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story as Self (archive footage)
2020 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Music: A Live Singing Contest (That's Live) as Self
2020 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend as Prince Frederick Windsor
2020 Endgame & Rough for Theatre II as A / Clov
2020 Escape from Pretoria as Tim Jenkin
2020 Guns Akimbo as Miles
2019 Playmobil: The Movie as Rex Dasher (voice)
2018 Beast of Burden as Sean Haggerty
2017 The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking as Gareth (voice)
2017 Jungle as Yossi
2017 National Theatre Live: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as Rosencrantz
2017 Lost in London as Daniel Radcliffe
2016 Circus Kid Executive Producer
2016 Imperium as Nate Foster
2016 Swiss Army Man as Manny
2016 Now You See Me 2 as Walter Mabry
2015 Victor Frankenstein as Igor
2015 The Gamechangers as Sam Houser
2015 Trainwreck as The Dogwalker
2015 Tom Felton Meets the Superfans as Self
2013 Kill Your Darlings as Allen Ginsberg
2013 A Conversation With JK Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe as Self
2013 What If as Wallace
2013 Horns as Ignatius Perrish
2012 Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter as Self
2012 The Woman in Black as Arthur Kipps
2011 A Conversation with J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe as Self
2011 When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
2011 50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments as Harry Potter (archive footage)
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Harry Potter
2010 Fry and Laurie Reunited as Self
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Harry Potter
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as Harry Potter
2007 Trailing Tonks as Self
2007 My Boy Jack as John Kipling
2007 December Boys as Maps
2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Harry Potter
2007 The Art of Breaking Character as Self
2006 The Children's Party at the Palace as Harry Potter (Harry Potter)
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Harry Potter
2004 The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Harry Potter
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Harry Potter
2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as Harry Potter
2001 The Tailor of Panama as Mark Pendel