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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.

From Hammersmith, London, England, UK

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2025 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

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7.61 Music 3

7.36 Adventure 12

6.89 History 2

6.79 Documentary 14

6.55 Fantasy 12

6.50 Romance 5

6.44 Animation 2

6.35 TV Movie 3

6.28 Thriller 10

6.20 Drama 17

6.14 Horror 1

6.13 Crime 6

6.00 Comedy 16

5.95 Science Fiction 1

5.75 Action 3

5.20 Mystery 1

3.75 Family 2