Harry Potter: Television Cast (2001-2011) (Fan Casting)
Season 1 (2001)
Episode 1x01 – The Boy Who Lived
Episode 1x02 – The Letters From No One
Episode 1x03 – Diagon Alley
Episode 1x04 – The Sorting Hat
Episode 1x05 – The Midnight Duel
Episode 1x06 – Halloween And Quidditch
Episode 1x07 – The Mirror Of Erised
Episode 1x08 – Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback
Episode 1x09 – The Forbidden Forest
Episode 1x10 – The Man With Two Faces
Season 2 (2002)
Episode 2x01 – The Worst Birthday
Episode 2x02 – The Burrow
Episode 2x03 – The Whomping Willow
Episode 2x04 – Mudbloods And Murmurs
Episode 2x05 – The Writing On The Wall
Episode 2x06 – The Polyjuice Potion
Episode 2x07 – The Very Secret Dary
Episode 2x08 – Aragog
Episode 2x09 – The Chamber Of Secrets
Episode 2x10 – The Heir Of Slytherin
Season 3 (2003)
Episode 3x01 – Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake
Episode 3x02 – The Dementor
Episode 3x03 – The Boggart In The Wardrobe
Episode 3x04 – Flight Of The Fat Lady
Episode 3x05 – The Marauder’s Map
Episode 3x06 – The Patronus
Episode 3x07 – The Quidditch Final
Episode 3x08 – Cat, Rat And Dog
Episode 3x09 – The Servant Of Lord Voldemort
Episode 3x10 – Hermione’s Secret
Season 4 (2004)
Episode 4x01 – The Riddle House
Episode 4x02 – Back To The Burrow
Episode 4x03 – The Quidditch World Cup
Episode 4x04 – The Dark Mark
Episode 4x05 – The Triwizard Tournament
Episode 4x06 – The Unforgivable Curses
Episode 4x07 – The Goblet of Fire
Episode 4x08 – The Weighing Of The Wands
Episode 4x09 – The Hungarian Horntail
Episode 4x10 – The First Task
Season 5 (2005)
Episode 5x01 – The Unexpected Task
Episode 5x02 – The Yule Ball
Episode 5x03 – Rita Skeeter’s Scoop
Episode 5x04 – The Egg And The Eye
Episode 5x05 – The Second Task
Episode 5x06 – The Madness Of Mr. Crouch
Episode 5x07 – The Pensieve
Episode 5x08 – The Third Task
Episode 5x09 – Flesh, Blood, And Bone
Episode 5x10 – The Beginning
Season 6 (2006)
Episode 6x01 – Dudley Demented
Episode 6x02 – Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
Episode 6x03 – The Order Of The Phoenix
Episode 6x04 – The Ministry Of Magic
Episode 6x05 – Luna Lovegood
Episode 6x06 – Professor Umbridge
Episode 6x07 – The Hogwarts High Inquisitor
Episode 6x08 – In The Hog’s Head
Episode 6x09 – Dumbledore’s Army
Episode 6x10 – The Lion And The Serpent
Season 7 (2007)
Episode 7x01 – Hagrid’s Tale
Episode 7x02 – The Eye Of The Snake
Episode 7x03 – Occlumency
Episode 7x04 – Seen And Unforeseen
Episode 7x05 – Snape’s Worst Memory
Episode 7x06 – Career Advice
Episode 7x07 – O.W.L.s
Episode 7x08 – The Department Of Mysteries
Episode 7x09 – The Only One He Ever Feared
Episode 7x10 – The Second War Begins
Season 8 (2008)
Episode 8x01 – The Other Minister
Episode 8x02 – Horace Slughorn
Episode 8x03 – Draco’s Detour
Episode 8x04 – The Slug Club
Episode 8x05 – The Half-Blood Prince
Episode 8x06 – The House Of Gaunt
Episode 8x07 – Silver And Opals
Episode 8x08 – The Secret Riddle
Episode 8x09 – Felix Felicis
Episode 8x10 – A Very Frosty Christmas
Season 9 (2009)
Episode 9x01 – A Sluggish Memory
Episode 9x02 – Birthday Surprises
Episode 9x03 – Lord Voldemort’s Request
Episode 9x04 – After The Burial
Episode 9x05 – Horcruxes
Episode 9x06 – Sectumsempra
Episode 9x07 – The Seer Overheard
Episode 9x08 – The Lightning-Struck Tower
Episode 9x09 – Flight Of The Prince
Episode 9x10 – The White Tomb
Season 10 (2010)
Episode 10x01 – In Memoriam
Episode 10x02 – The Seven Potters
Episode 10x03 – Fallen Warrior
Episode 10x04 – The Wedding
Episode 10x05 – A Place To Hide
Episode 10x06 – Magic Is Might
Episode 10x07 – The Muggle-Born Registration Commission
Episode 10x08 – The Goblin’s Revenge
Episode 10x09 – Godric’s Hollow
Episode 10x10 – The Silver Doe
Season 11 (2011)
Episode 11x01 – The Tale Of The Three Brothers
Episode 11x02 – Malfoy Manor
Episode 11x03 – Shell Cottage
Episode 11x04 – Gringotts
Episode 11x05 – The Final Hiding Place
Episode 11x06 – The Sacking Of Severus Snape
Episode 11x07 – The Battle Of Hogwarts
Episode 11x08 – The Elder Wand
Episode 11x09 – The Prince’s Tale
Episode 11x10 – The Flaw In The Plan
Episode 1x01 – The Boy Who Lived
Episode 1x02 – The Letters From No One
Episode 1x03 – Diagon Alley
Episode 1x04 – The Sorting Hat
Episode 1x05 – The Midnight Duel
Episode 1x06 – Halloween And Quidditch
Episode 1x07 – The Mirror Of Erised
Episode 1x08 – Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback
Episode 1x09 – The Forbidden Forest
Episode 1x10 – The Man With Two Faces
Season 2 (2002)
Episode 2x01 – The Worst Birthday
Episode 2x02 – The Burrow
Episode 2x03 – The Whomping Willow
Episode 2x04 – Mudbloods And Murmurs
Episode 2x05 – The Writing On The Wall
Episode 2x06 – The Polyjuice Potion
Episode 2x07 – The Very Secret Dary
Episode 2x08 – Aragog
Episode 2x09 – The Chamber Of Secrets
Episode 2x10 – The Heir Of Slytherin
Season 3 (2003)
Episode 3x01 – Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake
Episode 3x02 – The Dementor
Episode 3x03 – The Boggart In The Wardrobe
Episode 3x04 – Flight Of The Fat Lady
Episode 3x05 – The Marauder’s Map
Episode 3x06 – The Patronus
Episode 3x07 – The Quidditch Final
Episode 3x08 – Cat, Rat And Dog
Episode 3x09 – The Servant Of Lord Voldemort
Episode 3x10 – Hermione’s Secret
Season 4 (2004)
Episode 4x01 – The Riddle House
Episode 4x02 – Back To The Burrow
Episode 4x03 – The Quidditch World Cup
Episode 4x04 – The Dark Mark
Episode 4x05 – The Triwizard Tournament
Episode 4x06 – The Unforgivable Curses
Episode 4x07 – The Goblet of Fire
Episode 4x08 – The Weighing Of The Wands
Episode 4x09 – The Hungarian Horntail
Episode 4x10 – The First Task
Season 5 (2005)
Episode 5x01 – The Unexpected Task
Episode 5x02 – The Yule Ball
Episode 5x03 – Rita Skeeter’s Scoop
Episode 5x04 – The Egg And The Eye
Episode 5x05 – The Second Task
Episode 5x06 – The Madness Of Mr. Crouch
Episode 5x07 – The Pensieve
Episode 5x08 – The Third Task
Episode 5x09 – Flesh, Blood, And Bone
Episode 5x10 – The Beginning
Season 6 (2006)
Episode 6x01 – Dudley Demented
Episode 6x02 – Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place
Episode 6x03 – The Order Of The Phoenix
Episode 6x04 – The Ministry Of Magic
Episode 6x05 – Luna Lovegood
Episode 6x06 – Professor Umbridge
Episode 6x07 – The Hogwarts High Inquisitor
Episode 6x08 – In The Hog’s Head
Episode 6x09 – Dumbledore’s Army
Episode 6x10 – The Lion And The Serpent
Season 7 (2007)
Episode 7x01 – Hagrid’s Tale
Episode 7x02 – The Eye Of The Snake
Episode 7x03 – Occlumency
Episode 7x04 – Seen And Unforeseen
Episode 7x05 – Snape’s Worst Memory
Episode 7x06 – Career Advice
Episode 7x07 – O.W.L.s
Episode 7x08 – The Department Of Mysteries
Episode 7x09 – The Only One He Ever Feared
Episode 7x10 – The Second War Begins
Season 8 (2008)
Episode 8x01 – The Other Minister
Episode 8x02 – Horace Slughorn
Episode 8x03 – Draco’s Detour
Episode 8x04 – The Slug Club
Episode 8x05 – The Half-Blood Prince
Episode 8x06 – The House Of Gaunt
Episode 8x07 – Silver And Opals
Episode 8x08 – The Secret Riddle
Episode 8x09 – Felix Felicis
Episode 8x10 – A Very Frosty Christmas
Season 9 (2009)
Episode 9x01 – A Sluggish Memory
Episode 9x02 – Birthday Surprises
Episode 9x03 – Lord Voldemort’s Request
Episode 9x04 – After The Burial
Episode 9x05 – Horcruxes
Episode 9x06 – Sectumsempra
Episode 9x07 – The Seer Overheard
Episode 9x08 – The Lightning-Struck Tower
Episode 9x09 – Flight Of The Prince
Episode 9x10 – The White Tomb
Season 10 (2010)
Episode 10x01 – In Memoriam
Episode 10x02 – The Seven Potters
Episode 10x03 – Fallen Warrior
Episode 10x04 – The Wedding
Episode 10x05 – A Place To Hide
Episode 10x06 – Magic Is Might
Episode 10x07 – The Muggle-Born Registration Commission
Episode 10x08 – The Goblin’s Revenge
Episode 10x09 – Godric’s Hollow
Episode 10x10 – The Silver Doe
Season 11 (2011)
Episode 11x01 – The Tale Of The Three Brothers
Episode 11x02 – Malfoy Manor
Episode 11x03 – Shell Cottage
Episode 11x04 – Gringotts
Episode 11x05 – The Final Hiding Place
Episode 11x06 – The Sacking Of Severus Snape
Episode 11x07 – The Battle Of Hogwarts
Episode 11x08 – The Elder Wand
Episode 11x09 – The Prince’s Tale
Episode 11x10 – The Flaw In The Plan
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- The avuncular star character actor Richard Griffiths grew up in a council flat in less than prosperous conditions, the son of deaf and volatile parents in a dysfunctional family setting. According to an article in the Telegraph newspaper, his father Thomas was a steelworker 'who fought in pubs for prize money'. Like most children, Richard's "mother tongue" was the same as his parents. In his case, that was sign language. Like many kids in the 50s, his world did not include television. He had to explain sounds to his parents, for example music. Griffiths made a career out of language. For instance, he developed a talent for dialects which later allowed him to shine in a number of ethnic portrayals. He attended the Manchester Polytechnic School Of Drama and then began his career in radio drama and repertory theatre. He subsequently became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company where he often excelled playing Shakespeare's comic characters.
In a 2007 interview, Griffiths said "I like playing Vernon Dursley in Harry Potter because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public." In fact, unlike those jovial characters he so often portrayed on screen, Griffiths did not tolerate fools gladly. On occasion, he would get stroppy with members of an audience, especially those failing to switch off their mobile phones during a performance (who could blame him?). He was also highly thought of as a raconteur and wit.
The ever-versatile, often bespectacled and bearded Griffiths did his best work for the small screen, excelling as the inquisitive and resourceful civil servant Henry Jay in Bird of Prey (1982) and as the lovable 'cooking policeman' Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994), a role specially created for him. As comic relief he made many a hilarious guest appearance, in, among other popular series, The Vicar of Dibley (1994) (as the Bishop of Mulberry) and as Dr. Bayham Badger in the superb BBC adaption of Bleak House (2005). He could also play evil and sinister, none more so than Swelter in Gormenghast (2000), a character Griffiths described being at once "laughably comic" and "a monster like Idi Amin". He was also much sought-after by Hollywood producers, appearing in a dual role in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), as the ill-fated Magistrate Philipse in Tim Burton 's Sleepy Hollow (1999) and as King George in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).
The much-acclaimed actor won a Tony Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Griffiths was uncommonly skinny as a child and this required radiation treatment on his pituitary gland from the age of eight. It caused his metabolism to slow to such an extent that he eventually became obese, a condition which in all likelihood contributed to his death from complications during heart surgery on 28 March 2013 at the age of 65.Vernon Dursley (16 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x02 Horace Slughorn (2008)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010) - Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Shaw was already an accomplished theater actress when director Jim Sheridan awarded her a role in his film, My Left Foot (1989). The film is a telling of Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), an Irishman disgruntled with his confinement to a body horribly crippled by cerebral palsy but who found incredible success as an artist and writer. Shaw portrayed Eileen Cole, the doctor largely responsible for Christy's education and physical rehabilitation. Since, Shaw has received several accolades for her film and television performances.Petunia Dursley (14 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x02 Horace Slughorn (2008)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)- Born Dublin, Ireland on July 11 1929. Educated at Synge Street Catholic boys school. Started acting aged 8 in the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. Playing everything from Beckett to Shakespeare, he has appeared in theatre, TV and film constantly since 1959. Awards include: Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production (1991) for "The Playboy of the Western World"; nominated for SAG Award, Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (1999) for Waking Ned Devine (1998); ESB Lifetime Achievement award for work in the Irish theatre. He lived in Dublin, Ireland, where he died on 12 February 2012 at the age of 82. Children: Son, David. Daughter, Miriam.Dedalus Diggle (7 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 percent gay, 10 percent other."
Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead, London, to Marianne Eve (Newman) and Alan Fry, a physicist and inventor. His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants, while his father's family was of English background. He grew up in Norfolk and attended Uppingham School and Stout's Hill. After his notorious three months in Pucklechurch prison for credit card fraud, he attended Queens College, Cambridge in 1979, finishing with a 2:1 in English in 1981/2. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Cherubs drinking club, and Footlights with Thompson, Tony Slattery, Martin Bergman, and Hugh Laurie (to whom he was introduced by E.T.). His prolific writing partnership with Laurie began in 1981 with resulting Footlights revues for (among others) Mayweek, Edinburgh Festival, and a three month tour of Australia. In 1984, Fry was engaged to do the rewrite of the Noel Gay musical "Me and My Girl," which made him a millionaire before the age of 30. It also earned him a nomination for a Tony award in 1987. (Sidenote: It was upon SF's suggestion that Emma Thompson landed a leading role in the London cast of this show.) Throughout the 1980s, Fry did a huge amount of television and radio work, as well as writing for newspapers (e.g. a weekly column in the "Daily Telegraph") and magazines (e.g. articles for "Arena"). He is probably best known for his television roles in Blackadder II (1986) and Jeeves and Wooster (1990).
His support of the Terence Higgins Trust through events such as the first "Hysteria" benefit, as well as numerous other charity efforts, are probably those works of which he is most proud. Fry's acting career has not been limited to films and television. He had successful runs in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On," Simon Gray's "The Common Pursuit" with John Sessions, Rik Mayall, John Gordon Sinclair, and others. Michael Frayn's "Look Look" and Gray's "Cell Mates" were less successful for both Fry and their playwrights, the latter not helped by his walking out of the play after only a couple of weeks. Fry has published four novels as well as a collection of his radio and journalistic miscellanea. He has recorded audiotapes of his novels (an unabridged version of "The Liar" was released in 1995), as well as many other works for both adults and children.Ted (3 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006)- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Jim Dale began his career as a stand-up comic. He sharpened his comedy skills during a stint in the army, where he organized and performed in camp shows. After his discharge he pursued a comedy career, and landed a job as the warm-up comic on a musical variety show. He did so well that the producers gave him a spot on the show as a singer, and he quickly became a recording star. He was signed for a small part in one of the "Carry On" films, Carry on Cabby (1963), but the audience reaction to him was so great the he was soon made a regular member of the cast. Unlike many comics, Dale insisted on performing his own stunts, and in fact injured his arm performing a stunt in Carry on Again Doctor (1969), his last film of the series until 1992.
After his departure from the series he returned to the stage, notably in Sir Laurence Olivier's National Theater. In the 1970s Dale moved to the US for film and stage work, achieving success in the Broadway show "Barnum" and in a string of film comedies for Disney.
He returned to Britain in 1992 for an appearance in the final "Carry On" film, Carry on Columbus (1992).Jim McGuffin (1 episode)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred (Harty) and Ivan Harris. He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout of tuberculosis as a teenager ended his aspirations to a rugby career, but he became fascinated with the theater and skipped a local dance one night to attend a performance of "Henry IV". He was hooked and went on to learn his craft at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), then spent several years in stage productions. He debuted on screen in Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) and quickly scored regular work in films, including The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959), The Night Fighters (1960) and a good role as a frustrated Australian bomber pilot in The Guns of Navarone (1961).
However, his breakthrough performance was as the quintessential "angry young man" in the sensational drama This Sporting Life (1963), which scored him an Oscar nomination. He then appeared in the WW II commando tale The Heroes of Telemark (1965) and in the Sam Peckinpah-directed western Major Dundee (1965). He next showed up in Hawaii (1966) and played King Arthur in Camelot (1967), a lackluster adaptation of the famous Broadway play. Better performances followed, among them a role as a reluctant police informer in The Molly Maguires (1970) alongside Sir Sean Connery. Harris took the lead role in the violent western A Man Called Horse (1970), which became something of a cult film and spawned two sequels. As the 1970s progressed, Harris continued to appear regularly on screen; however, the quality of the scripts varied from above average to woeful.
His credits during this period included directing himself as an aging soccer player in The Hero (1970); the western The Deadly Trackers (1973); the big-budget "disaster" film Juggernaut (1974); the strangely-titled crime film 99 and 44/100% Dead! (1974); with Connery again in Robin and Marian (1976); Gulliver's Travels (1977); a part in the Jaws (1975); Orca (1977) and a nice turn as an ill-fated mercenary with Richard Burton and Roger Moore in the popular action film The Wild Geese (1978).
The 1980s kicked off with Harris appearing in the silly Bo Derek vanity production Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) and the remainder of the decade had him appearing in some very forgettable productions. However, the luck of the Irish was once again to shine on Harris's career and he scored rave reviews (and another Oscar nomination) for The Field (1990). He then locked horns with Harrison Ford as an IRA sympathizer in Patriot Games (1992) and got one of his best roles as gunfighter English Bob in the Clint Eastwood western Unforgiven (1992). Harris was firmly back in vogue and rewarded his fans with more wonderful performances in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993); Cry, the Beloved Country (1995); The Great Kandinsky (1995) and This Is the Sea (1997). Further fortune came his way with a strong performance in the blockbuster Gladiator (2000) and he became known to an entirely new generation of film fans as Albus Dumbledore in the mega-successful Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). His final screen role was as "Lucius Sulla" in Caesar (2002).
Harris died of Hodgkin's disease, also known as Hodgkin's lymphoma, in London on October 25, 2002, aged 72.Albus Dumbledore (13 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)- Actress
- Soundtrack
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor Robert Stephens and to playwright Beverley Cross. Her marriage to Stephens ended in divorce in 1974. She was married to Cross until his death in 1999. She had two sons with Stephens, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens who are also actors.
Maggie Smith's career began at the Oxford Playhouse in the 1950s. She made her film debut in 1956 as one of the party guests in Child in the House (1956). She has since performed in over sixty films and television series with some of the most prominent actors and actresses in the world. These include: Othello (1965) with Laurence Olivier, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), California Suite (1978) with Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, A Room with a View (1985), Richard III (1995) with Ian McKellen and Jim Broadbent, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini (1999) with Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Cher and Gosford Park (2001) with Kristin Scott Thomas and Clive Owen, directed by Robert Altman. Maggie Smith has also been nominated for an Oscar six times and won twice, for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and California Suite (1978).
Smith later appeared in the very successful 'Harry Potter' franchise as the formidable Professor McGonagall as well as in Julian Fellowes' ITV drama series, Downton Abbey (2010) (2010-2011) as the Dowager Countess of Grantham.Minerva McGonagall (60 epsodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's most popular comedians who was head of debating society at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.
Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. His mother, Jean Ross (Howie), was a teacher and pianist. His father, Ian Baxter McMillan, was a general surgeon who also worked for police pathology. Young Robbie was fond of art, music, films and cars. He was a voracious reader of his dad's books on medicine and crime. At age 12 he made his acting debut on stage at Glenalmond College, delivering rants from "Henry V". At that time he was fascinated with Marlon Brando and Orson Welles.
He attended Glasgow Art School, majoring in drawing, painting and film, then studied art at Edinburgh's Moray House College of Education for a year. In 1973 he made a documentary titled "Young Mental Health", which was voted Film Of The Year by the Scottish Education Council. At that time Robbie took the name Coltrane, due to his love of jazz, and began a career of a stand-up comedian at night clubs, at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as an actor with Edinburgh's renowned Traverse Theatre.
In 1980 Coltrane made his debut on television as "Border Guard" in BBC's mini-series The Lost Tribe (1980), then made his big screen debut as a limousine driver in Death Watch (1980). In 1981 he appeared in his first leading role as Detective Fritz Langley in Subway Riders (1981), by famed underground director Amos Poe.
He became a well-known face through appearances in The Comic Strip series, then in Alfresco (1983) and Comic Strip movies The Supergrass (1985) and The Pope Must Diet (1991), among other films. At that time Coltrane had a drinking problem, downing as much as a bottle of whiskey a day. In 1986 he flew to a clinic in Mexico and was treated for obesity. In 1987 his partner for 15 years, Robin Paine, left him for good, leaving her portrait in Coltrane's barn.
In 1988 Coltrane met then 18-year-old Rhona Gemmell in a pub. They married and had a son, Spencer, and a daughter, Alice. His career took off during the early 1990s with the leading role as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a forensic psychologist, in the popular TV series Cracker (1993).
He made such a good performance as Valentin Zukovsky, a KGB man turned St. Petersburg mafia lord, in GoldenEye (1995) the producers called him back for the same character in The World Is Not Enough (1999). Then Coltrane hit another lucrative franchise; he was personally selected by J.K. Rowling as her choice to play half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the 'Harry Potter' films.
In early 1990s Coltrane wrote an autobiography, "Coltrane in a Cadillac", and also starred in the eponymous TV series, Coltrane in a Cadillac (1993), in which he indulges his passion for vintage cars and tells with great humor about his 4000-mile journey across America from Los Angeles to New York. In 2003 he separated from his wife. His interests outside of his acting profession had been reading books, and rebuilding and collecting vintage cars. Robbie Coltrane resided in a converted farmhouse in Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK.Rubeus Hagrid (65 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 7x01 Hagrid’s Tale (2007)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Soundtrack
Harry Melling started acting at the age of 10 in the Harry Potter films playing the role of Dudley Dursley.
In his mid-teens he joined the National Youth Theatre appearing in a number of shows including "The Master and Margarita".
Harry at the age of 18 attended the LAMDA (London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art.) He left early when offered to join the company of "Mother Courage and her Children" at the National Theatre alongside on-screen mother Fiona Shaw.
This kick-started a long series of theatre roles which included Harold Pinter's "The Hothouse," the Old Vic Theatre's, "King Lear" opposite Glenda Jackson, and the lead in the West End transfer of hit show, "Hand To God."
Harry in 2017 won the role in the new Coen Brother's film, "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." This premiered at the Venice Film Festival.Dudley Dursley (13 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x02 Horace Slughorn (2008)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England, to casting agent Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe. His father is from a Northern Irish Protestant background, while his mother was born in South Africa, to a Jewish family (from Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Germany). Daniel began performing in small school productions as a young boy. Soon enough, he landed a role in David Copperfield (1999), as the young David Copperfield. A couple of years later, he landed a role as Mark Pendel in The Tailor of Panama (2001), the son of Harry and Louisa Pendel (Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis). Curtis had indeed pointed out to Daniel's mother that he could be Harry Potter himself. Soon afterwards, Daniel was cast as Harry Potter by director, Chris Columbus in the film that hit theaters in November 16, 2001, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). He was recognized worldwide after this film was released. Pleasing audiences and critics everywhere, filming on its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), commenced shortly afterwards. He appeared again as Harry in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and then appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) directed by Mike Newell. Shortly afterwards, he finished filming December Boys (2007) in Adelaide, Australia, Kangaroo Island, and Geelong, Australia which began on the 14 November 2005 and ended sometime in December. On January 27, 2006, he attended the South Bank Awards Show to present the award for "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" to Billie Piper. Daniel reprised his famous character once again for the next installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). In February 2007, he took on his first stage role in the West End play Equus, to worldwide praise from fans and critics alike. Also that year, he starred in the television movie My Boy Jack (2007), which aired on 11 November 2007 in the UK.
After voicing a character in an episode of the animated television series The Simpsons in late 2010, Radcliffe debuted as J. Pierrepont Finch in the 2011 Broadway revival How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a role previously held by Broadway veterans Robert Morse and Matthew Broderick. Other cast members included John Larroquette, Rose Hemingway and Mary Faber. Both the actor and production received good reviews, with USA Today commenting: "Radcliffe ultimately succeeds not by overshadowing his fellow cast members, but by working in conscientious harmony with them - and having a blast in the process." Radcliffe's performance in the show earned him Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. The production itself later received nine Tony Award nominations. Radcliffe left the show on 1 January 2012. His first post-Harry Potter project was the 2012 horror film The Woman in Black, adapted from the 1983 novel by Susan Hill. The film was released on 3 February 2012 in the United States and Canada, and was released on 10 February in the UK. Radcliffe portrays a man sent to deal with the legal matters of a mysterious woman who has just died, and soon after he begins to experience strange events from the ghost of a woman dressed in black. He has said he was "incredibly excited" to be part of the film and described the script as "beautifully written".
In 2013, he portrayed American poet Allen Ginsberg in the thriller drama Kill Your Darlings (2013), directed by John Krokidas. He also starred in an Irish-Canadian romantic comedy film The F Word directed by Michael Dowseand written by Elan Mastai, based on TJ Dawe and Michael Rinaldi's play Toothpaste and Cigars and then he starred in an American dark fantasy horror film directed by Alexandre Aja Horns. Both of the films premiered at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival. Radcliffe also performed at the Noël Coward Theatre in the stage play revival of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy The Cripple of Inishmaan as the lead, Billy Claven, for which he won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play. In 2015, Radcliffe starred as Igor in a science fiction horror film Victor Frankenstein (2015), directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Max Landis, which was based on contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. In 2016, he appeared as a wealthy villain in the mystery/action film Now You See Me 2 (2016), and as an oftentimes mobile corpse in the indie fantasy Swiss Army Man (2016).
Now being one of the world's most recognizable people, Daniel leads a somewhat normal life. He has made friends working on the Harry Potter films, which include his co-stars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.Harry Potter (108 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x09 The Servant Of Lord Voldemort (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x01 The Riddle House (2004)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x04 The Egg And The Eye (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x09 Flesh, Blood, And Bone (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x01 Hagrid’s Tale (2007)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007)
Episode 7x09 The Only One He Ever Feared (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x02 Horace Slughorn (2008)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x06 The House Of Gaunt (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x08 The Secret Riddle (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x03 Lord Voldemort’s Request (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x05 Horcruxes (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x07 The Seer Overheard (2009)
Episode 9x08 The Lightning-Struck Tower (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x01 In Memoriam (2010)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 10x06 Magic Is Might (2010)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)
Episode 10x09 Godric’s Hollow (2010)
Episode 10x10 The Silver Doe (2010)
Episode 11x01 The Tale Of The Three Brothers (2011)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)
Episode 11x04 Gringotts (2011)
Episode 11x05 The Final Hiding Place (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own on stage and screen spanning six decades.
Born in Brigg, Lincolnshire on October 28, 1929, she received her training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and made her professional stage debut at Croydon in 1948. Her London debut came in 1954, and two years later, she joined George Devine's English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, which would change her life just as the drama at the Royal Court revolutionized the English theater.
The Royal Court's 1956 production of John Osborne's _Look Back In Anger' was a watershed in English theatrical history, ushering in the 'Angry Young Man" era in British cultural life. In 1957, Plowright first co-starred with her future husband Olivier in the Royal Court's production of Osborne's The Entertainer (1960) when she took over the role of Archie Rice's daughter Jean Rice when the play transferred to a commercial venue in the West End. She recreated the role in Tony Richardson's 1960 film of the play.
To escape the notoriety from Olivier's divorce from Vivien Leigh, Plowright and Olivier went to New York, where they appeared on Broadway, he in Becket (1964) and she in A Taste of Honey (1961). For her performance as Josephine, which Rita Tushingham played in the movie version, she won a 1961 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. (She had first appeared on Broadway in a twin bill of Eugène Ionesco's "The Chairs" and "The Lesson" in January 1958, a month before she appeared with Olivier in "The Entertainer".) When his divorce from Leigh came through, they were married in March 1961 in New York with Richard Burton as Larry's best man.
From 1963 onward, she was a member of the National Theatre, which was headed by Olivier. Plowright created a distinguished stage career and was acclaimed when she began appearing more frequently in movies and television starting in the the 1980s. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of a knighthood, in the 2004 Queen's New Year Honours.
Plowright divorced her first husband, the actor Roger Gage, to marry Olivier in 1961 and they had three children, Richard Kerr Olivier, Tamsin Olivier and Julie Kate Olivier.Arabella Figg (6 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)- Jason Boyd was born in the UK. He is known for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Teachers (2001) and Fred Dinenage Murder Casebook (2011).Piers Polkiss (3 episodes)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006) - Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Olivia Colman was born on 30 January 1974 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Favourite (2018), Tyrannosaur (2011) and The Lost Daughter (2021). She has been married to Ed Sinclair since August 2001. They have three children.Piers Polkiss's Mother (1 episode)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Antônio Fagundes was born on 18 April 1949 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is an actor and producer, known for Two Faces (2007), O Dono do Mundo (1991) and Port of Miracles (2001). He was previously married to Mara Carvalho and Clarisse Abujamra.Boa Constrictor (1 episode)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001) (voice)- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
James Nesbitt was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to May, a civil servant, and James Nesbitt, a primary school headmaster. He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution (also the school of Brian Campbell & Brian McAlister). He originally planned to be a French teacher. It was not until teacher Robert Simpson encouraged him to take an apprenticeship at the local Riverside Theatre that his interest in acting began, eventually leading him to a drama school in London, and to what has become a highly successful acting career.
James is a lover of football.Zoo Director (1 episode)
Episode 1x01 The Boy Who Lived (2001)- Richard Macklin was born in the UK. He is known for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).Malcolm (1 episode)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006) - Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Andrew Sachs born Andreas Siegfried Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, he and his family emigrated to London in 1938, to escape persecution under the Nazis. He made his name on British television and rose to fame in the 1970s for his portrayals of the comical Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (1975), a role for which he was BAFTA nominated.
He went on to have a long career in acting and voice-over work for television, film and radio. In his later years, he continued to have success with roles in films such as Quartet, and as Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.
Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina (née Schrott-Fiecht), a librarian, and Hans Emil Sachs, an insurance broker. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic, and of half-Austrian descent. He left with his parents for Britain in 1938, when he was eight years old, to escape the Nazis. They settled in north London, and he lived in Kilburn for the rest of his life.
In 1960, Sachs married Melody Lang, who appeared in one episode of Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat", as Mrs. Taylor. He adopted her two sons from a previous marriage, John Sachs and William Sachs, and they had one daughter, Kate Sachs.
In the late 1950s, whilst still studying shipping management at college, Sachs worked on radio productions, including Private Dreams and Public Nightmares by Frederick Bradnum, an early experimental programme made by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Sachs began in acting with repertory theatre and made his West End debut as Grobchick in the 1958 production of the Whitehall farce Simple Spymen. He made his screen debut in 1959 in the film The Night We Dropped a Clanger. He then appeared in numerous television series throughout the 1960s, including some appearances in ITC productions such as The Saint (1962) and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (1969).
Sachs is best known for his role as Manuel, the Spanish waiter in the sitcom Fawlty Towers (1975 and 1979). During the shooting of the Fawlty Towers episode "The Germans", Sachs was left with second degree acid burns due to a fire stunt. He was hit with a faulty prop on the set of the show by John Cleese and suffered a massive headache.
Sachs recorded four singles in character as Manuel; the first was "Manuel's Good Food Guide" in 1977, which came in a picture sleeve with Manuel on the cover. Sachs also had a hand in writing (or adapting) the lyrics. This was followed in 1979 by "O Cheryl" with "Ode to England" on the B side. This was recorded under the name "Manuel and Los Por Favors". Sachs shares the writing credits for the B side with "B. Wade", who also wrote the A side.
In 1981, "Manuel" released a cover version of Joe Dolce's number one in the United Kingdom "Shaddap You Face", with "Waiter, there's a Flea in my Soup" on the B side. Sachs also adapted "Shaddap You Face" into Spanish, but was prevented from releasing it before Dolce's version by a court injunction. When finally released it reached 138 in the UK Chart.
In 2007, the BBC broadcast an adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency with Sachs portraying Reg (Professor Urban Chronotis, the Regius Professor of Chronology). He would later appear in another Adams adaptation as the Book in the live tour of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy during its run at Bromley's Churchill Theatre.
On 17 November 2008, it was announced that Sachs had been approached to appear in ITV soap Coronation Street. He later confirmed on 14 December that he was taking up the offer, saying, "I'm taking Street challenge". In May 2009 he made his debut on the street as Norris' brother, Ramsay. He appeared in 27 episodes and left in August 2009.
With the Australian pianist Victor Sangiorgio, he toured with a two man show called "Life after Fawlty", which included Richard Strauss's voice and piano setting of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden". 2012 saw his last major role, as Bobby Swanson in the movie Quartet.
Sachs was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2012, which eventually left him unable to speak and forced him to use a wheelchair. He died on 23 November 2016 at the Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, London, England. He was buried on 1 December 2016, the same day his death was publicly announced.
On 2 December 2016, BBC One broadcast the Fawlty Towers episode "Communication Problems" in his memory. John Cleese led tributes to Sachs, describing him as a "sweet, sweet man"Railview Hotel Owner (1 episode)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)- Actor
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
Sylvester McCoy was born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith on 20 August 1943, the only child of Molly Sheridan and Percy James Kent-Smith, a couple living in Dunoon, Scotland. His mother was Irish. Percy James Kent-Smith was killed in the Second World War a couple of months before his son was born, and he was brought up by his mother, his grandmother (Mary Sheridan), and his aunts. He attended St Muns Primary School in Dunoon. The headmistress, Rosie O'Grady, was keen that her young charges obtain decent jobs upon leaving the school and so organized regular talks from people in all manner of professions.
McCoy expressed an interest in every job, and as a result eventually found himself given an afternoon off school to go to see a local priest about entering the priesthood. He left school, joined Blairs College, a Catholic seminary in Aberdeen, and between the ages of twelve and sixteen trained to be a priest. At Blairs College, he realized that there was more to life than could be found in Dunoon and discovered classical music and history, which fascinated him. He eventually decided to become a monk and applied to join a Dominican order, but his application was rejected as he was too young. He returned to school and soon discovered the delights of the opposite sex in the form of fellow students and determined he didn't want to be a priest or a monk after all.
On finishing his education he took a holiday down to London, from which he never returned. McCoy approached a youth employment center looking for a job and impressed by the fact that he had attended a grammar school, they instantly found him a job in the City working for an insurance company. He trained in this job and stayed there until he was 27 before deciding that it wasn't really for him. With the help of a cook at London's Roundhouse Theatre, McCoy gained a job there selling tickets and keeping the books in the box office.
McCoy joined the Ken Campbell Roadshow. Along with Bob Hoskins, Jane Wood, and Dave Hill, he would start performing a range of plays with the umbrella theme of "modern myths". McCoy found himself in a double-act with Hoskins. After Hoskins left, and being booked at a circus, director Ken Campbell improvised a circus-based act about a fictitious stuntman called Sylvester McCoy and thought it would be amusing if the program stated that this character was played by "Sylvester McCoy". While at the Royal Court Theatre, one of the critics missed the joke and assumed that Sylvester McCoy was a real person. McCoy liked the irony of this and adopted the name of his stage identity. During one of their UK engagements, the Roadshow team was invited up by Joan Littlewood, who was directing a production of "The Hostage", before the performance of her play. This led McCoy to bona fide theater, and he was subsequently invited to appear in numerous plays and musicals.
McCoy was starring at the National Theatre in "The Pied Piper", a play written especially for him, when he learned that the BBC was looking for a new lead actor to replace Colin Baker, who had been unceremoniously dumped from Doctor Who (1963) on the orders of Michael Grade. McCoy won the role as the Seventh Doctor despite reservations from Grade and Head of Drama Jonathan Powell, who were by this time monitoring producer John Nathan-Turner's decision-making very closely. McCoy's first season took the slightly pantomimic style of Baker's final season, Trial of a Time Lord, even further and received a very dubious reception from the press and fans. Nathan-Turner put McCoy in a pullover covered in question marks, which McCoy later admitted he didn't like.
By the time of McCoy's second season, the new script editor, Andrew Cartmel, was trying to make the series darker and more complex. In the third season, his costume was changed from a fawn jacket and paisley scarf to a dark brown jacket and an altogether more muted and subdued image, but the pullover remained. Despite forming a close bond with co-star Sophie Aldred and the general standard of the stories rising again towards the end, the series was obviously starved of funds and ratings were fairly poor throughout the McCoy era, with the series being trounced by ITV's Coronation Street (1960). The BBC's opinion of Doctor Who (1963) was that it was an embarrassment. In 1989, the new series head, Peter Cregeen, pulled the plug.
After Doctor Who (1963) McCoy worked extensively in theater and on television. In theater he appeared in "The Government Inspector" twice in tours during 1993 and 1994, and in between these he starred as the Narrator, Thomas Marvel, in the stage version of H.G. Wells's "The Invisible Man". In 1995, he starred in Zorro: The Musical".
On television, his credits include Frank Stubbs Promotes (1993) and Rab C. Nesbitt (1988). He also created the character of Crud in the cult television series Ghoul Lashed for Sky TV. In 1996, he was contracted to reprise his role as the Doctor, handing over to an eighth incarnation of the Time Lord in the earthly form of his friend Paul McGann. Also in 1996, McCoy devised and presented Reeltime Pictures' I Was a 'Doctor Who' Monster (1996), a special video tribute to the men and women who had played the monsters of Doctor Who (1963).Rowboat Owner (1 episode)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents encouraged him to leave school and pursue his acting goals rather than be unhappy. McGregor studied drama for a year at Kirkcaldly in Fife, then enrolled at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama for a three-year course. He studied alongside Daniel Craig and Alistair McGowan, among others, and left right before graduating after snagging the role of Private Mick Hopper in Dennis Potter's six-part Channel 4 series Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). His first notable role was that of Alex Law in Shallow Grave (1994), directed by Danny Boyle, written by John Hodge and produced by Andrew Macdonald. This was followed by The Pillow Book (1995) and Trainspotting (1996), the latter of which brought him to the public's attention.
He is now one of the most critically acclaimed actors of his generation, and portrays Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first three Star Wars episodes. McGregor is married to French production designer Eve Mavrakis, whom he met while working on the television series Kavanagh QC (1995). They married in France in the summer of 1995, and have four daughters. McGregor formed a production company, with friends Jonny Lee Miller, Sean Pertwee, Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Damon Bryant, Bradley Adams and Geoff Deehan, called "Natural Nylon", and hoped it would make innovative films that do not conform to Hollywood standards. McGregor and Bryant left the company in 2002. He was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama and charity.
Ewan made his directorial debut with American Pastoral (2016), an adaptation of Philip Roth's book, in which Ewan also starred.
In 2018 McGregor won an Golden Globe for his work in the TV Series Fargo.James Potter (11 episodes)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003) (voice)
Episode 5x09 Flesh, Blood, And Bone (2005)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 10x09 Godric’s Hollow (2010)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
British actress Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer and his second wife, Penelope (née Gollop). She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in West London, and it was whilst there she began acting. Mortimer moved on from school to Lincoln College, Oxford University, where she studied English Literature and Russian, and spent two terms at the Moscow Arts Theater Drama School, studying acting.
While appearing in an Oxford University student production, Mortimer was spotted by a TV producer who cast her in an adaptation of Catherine Cookson' s The Glass Virgin (1995). She made her feature film debut in 1996 alongside Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). Roles in various projects have followed, including Elizabeth (1998), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), Match Point (2005), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Shutter Island (2010) and Hugo (2011).
During the making of Love's Labour's Lost (2000), Mortimer met her husband Alessandro Nivola. The couple have two children, Sam Nivola and May Nivola.Lily Potter (14 episodes)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003) (voice)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003) (voice)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003) (voice)
Episode 3x09 The Servant Of Lord Voldemort (2003) (voice)
Episode 5x09 Flesh, Blood, And Bone (2005)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 10x09 Godric’s Hollow (2010)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus Fiennes, a musician; Sophie Fiennes, a producer; and Joseph Fiennes, an actor. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish origin.
A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes first worked on screen in 1990 and then made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992), opposite Juliette Binoche. 1993 was his "breakout year". He had a major role in the controversial Peter Greenaway film The Baby of Mâcon (1993), with Julia Ormond, which was poorly received. Later that year he became known internationally for portraying the amoral Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993). For this he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He did not win, but did win the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for the role, as well as Best Supporting Actor honors from numerous critics groups, including the National Society of Film Critics, and the New York, Chicago, Boston, and London Film Critics associations. His portrayal as Göth also earned him a spot on the American Film Institute's list of Top 50 Film Villains. To look suitable to represent Goeth, Fiennes gained weight, but he managed to shed it afterwards. In 1994, he portrayed American academic Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show (1994). In 1996, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Count Almásy the World War II epic romance, and another Best Picture winner, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996), in which he starred with Kristin Scott Thomas. He also received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, as well as two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations, one for Best Actor and another shared with the film's ensemble cast.
Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including Strange Days (1995), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), the animated The Prince of Egypt (1998), István Szabó's Sunshine (1999), Neil Jordan-directed films The End of the Affair (1999) and The Good Thief (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), co-starring Kate Winslet, Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar®-winning The Hurt Locker (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Mike Newell's screen adaptation of Charles Dickens'Great Expectations (2012), with Helena Bonham Carter and Jeremy Irvine, and Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
He is also known for his roles in major film franchises such as the Harry Potter film series (2005-2011), in which he played the evil Lord Voldemort. His nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin played Tom Riddle, the young Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). Ralph also appears in the James Bond series, in which he has played M, starting with the 2012 film Skyfall (2012).
In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy political thriller Coriolanus (2011), in which he also played the title character, opposite Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave. Fiennes has won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway.
In 2015, Fiennes played a music producer in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash (2015), starring opposite Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts, and in 2016, Fiennes starred in Joel and Ethan Coen's Hail, Caesar! (2016).
Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK.Lord Voldemort (30 episodes)
Episode 1x02 The Letters From No One (2001) (uncredited)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003) (voice)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003) (voice)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003) (voice)
Episode 4x01 The Riddle House (2004) (voice)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005) (voice)
Episode 5x09 Flesh, Blood, And Bone (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005) (voice)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x09 The Only One He Ever Feared (2007)
Episode 9x03 Lord Voldemort’s Request (2009)
Episode 10x01 In Memoriam (2010)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 10x06 Magic Is Might (2010)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)
Episode 10x09 Godric’s Hollow (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)
Episode 11x05 The Final Hiding Place (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011) (voice)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Tim McInnerny is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder. McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William Ronald McInnerny. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and read English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.Tom (7 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x04 Gringotts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
- Producer
Hailing from an English theatrical family, Christina Pickles is a beloved stage-trained actress who has enjoyed a rich and varied career that has allowed her to show her incredible range and great depth of character in her performances. She sets the bar for all at an entirely new height with this year's "Outstanding Actress, Short Form, Comedy or Drama, Short Form" for her critically lauded performance in "Break a Hip" earning a remarkable seventh Emmy nomination for a superior performance. Earlier, Christina earned an Emmy nod for her hilarious role on "Friends" as 'Ross' and 'Monica Geller's' mom adding to five nominations for her historic role on precedent-setting "St. Elsewhere."
Probably best known for her portrayal of "Nurse Helen Rosenthal" on the NBC hit hospital drama "St. Elsewhere" and "Judy Geller," the dysfunctional mother of Monica (Courtney Cox) and Ross (David Schwimmer), on the NBC smash comedy hit "Friends," Christina was Emmy-nominated five times for "St. Elsewhere" and once for her indelible role on "Friends."
Christina just added her seventh Emmy nomination this summer for her hilarious and touching performance as "Biz" in the short-form comedy series "Break A Hip." Guest stars and riveting performances surround her indelible character including those from Oscar winners Allison Janey, Octavia Spencer and Jim Rash as well as a laugh-out-loud turn from Peri Giipin. It was Christina five years ago that learned about the infectious storyline of "Break A Hip" and its protagonist, 'Biz,' insisting producer/director Cameron Watson turn this into the Short Form hit series you see today. It's the best in its space at a time when all of us are living longer and know a 'Biz' in our lives.
Christina trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before moving to New York where she was a member of The APA Repertory Company and enjoyed a luminous career starring on and Off-Broadway. After moving to Los Angeles for "St. Elsewhere," she worked consistently in film and television establishing herself as a versatile actress able to perform both comedy and drama deftly. Film credits include "The Wedding Singer," Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet," "Grace of My Heart," and "Legends of the Fall." As a voice-over artist, Christina can be heard in classic episodes of "The Family Guy" and as the spokesperson for Pavilions supermarket.Doris Crockford (2 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Anthony Andrews made his West End theater debut at the Apollo Theatre as one of twenty young schoolboys in Alan Bennett's "Forty Years On" with John Gielgud. He began his career at the Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK. His theater credits include spells with the New Shakespeare Company - "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The Royal National Theatre production of Stephen Poliakoff's "Coming in to Land" with Maggie Smith, directed by Peter Hall, the much-acclaimed Greenwich Theatre production of Robin Chapman's "One of Us" and, as "Pastor Manders", in Robin Phillips's highly acclaimed production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Comedy Theatre in London, produced by Bill Kenwright.
Anthony's first television appearance was in A Beast with Two Backs (1968) by Dennis Potter, which was part of The Wednesday Play (1964) series. His first leading role in a series was as the title character in the BBC's The Fortunes of Nigel (1974) by Walter Scott. Subsequently, he distinguished himself in various television classics playing "Mercutio" in Romeo & Juliet (1978) and starred in three different plays in the "Play of the Month" (1976) series, including playing "Charles Harcourt" in "London Assurance". He also starred in Danger UXB (1979), in which he played bomb disposal hero "Brian Ash".
Most famously, he received worldwide recognition for his portrayal of the doomed "Sebastian Flyte" in Brideshead Revisited (1981) for which he won a BAFTA in the UK, the Golden Globe award in the USA and an Emmy nomination for Best Actor.
Anthony's since gone on to star in Jewels (1992), for which he received another Golden Globe nomination.
Most recently, Anthony has received tremendous acclaim for his outstanding portrayal of "Count Fosco" in "The Woman In White" at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.
As a producer, he co-produced Lost in Siberia (1991), which translates as "Lost in Siberia", filmed entirely in Russia, which received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film and Haunted (1995), produced by his own production company, Double 'A' Films.Quirinus Quirrell (10 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 5x09 Flesh, Blood, And Bone (2005)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)- Actor
- Additional Crew
Bogrod (4 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 11x04 Gringotts (2011)
Episode 11x05 The Final Hiding Place (2011)- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Kenny Baker was born on 24 August 1934 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Elephant Man (1980). He was married to Eileen Baker. He died on 13 August 2016 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.Gornuk (4 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
English actor Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, the son of Susan J. (Pain) and Ashley Davis, an insurance broker. Davis was born with the condition spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital (SED), which caused his dwarfism. He was educated at City of London Freemen's School. When he was 11 years old, his grandmother heard a radio appeal for people under four feet tall to appear in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). A huge Star Wars fan, Davis auditioned successfully and was cast as an extra, playing an Ewok. Kenny Baker was cast as lead Ewok Wicket, but fell ill so George Lucas chose Davis to replace him. The film was a smash hit, and Davis went on to reprise his role as Wicket in further TV projects - The Ewok Adventure (1984) and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985).
Davis next big role came with a part specifically written for him, as the titular hero in Willow (1988). Other successes followed with roles in such projects as Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) and two distinctly different film series - the 'Harry Potter' and 'Leprechaun' film series. In 2006, he appeared in a cameo role in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's hit sitcom Extras (2005), which led to the pair writing a series specifically for Davis, the comic mockumentary Life's Too Short (2011).
Davis, along with his father-in-law Peter Burroughs, is also the director of an acting agency for very short and tall actors called Willow Management. He is married to Samantha Davis and they have a son and a daughter.Griphook / Filius Flitwick (41 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)
Episode 11x04 Gringotts (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Director
- Writer
The acclaimed Cornish actress Dame Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, to Deborah (Hurlbatt) and Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas. Her father was a pilot for the British Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964. Her stepfather, Lt. Cdr Simon Idiens, was also a pilot, and died six years later under similar circumstances. Her childhood home was Dorset, England. She left at the age of 19 to work as an au pair in Paris. She was married to French doctor François Oliviennes, with whom she had three children; Hannah, Joseph, and George.Madam Malkin (6 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Tom Felton was born in Epsom, Surrey, to Sharon and Peter Felton. He has been acting since he was 8 years old at the suggestion of an actress friend of his family who recognized Felton's theatrical qualities. Felton met with an agent, and two weeks later, after auditioning with over 400 other children, he landed an international commercial campaign and went abroad to work.
A talented singer, he started singing in a church choir at the age of 7 and has been a member of four choirs at school. He declined an offer to join the Guildford Cathedral Choir. He is a keen sportsman enjoying football (soccer), ice skating, roller blading, basketball, cricket, swimming, and tennis.
After working on Anna and the King (1999) with Jodie Foster, Tom received his big break in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) as Draco Malfoy, school boy rival to the titular character as played by Daniel Radcliffe. Tom managed to film the part of Draco in all eight "Harry Potter" movies while also having an active life outside the magical world it created. In between shoots he filmed independent horror movies The Disappeared (2008), Night Wolf (2010), and The Apparition (2012) with Twilight's Ashley Greene. It was directly after completing his filming on "Harry Potter" that he landed his roles in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and From the Rough (2013). His newest projects are In Secret (2013), Fangs of War (????) and Attachment.
In between acting gigs, Tom still manages times with his music. He is one of the founding owners and talent of Six String Productions, a recording company devoted to signing young musical artists overlooked by the major recording industry.Draco Malfoy (61 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x08 The Lightning-Struck Tower (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 10x01 In Memoriam (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Soundtrack
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend Arnould Herbert Hurt, an Anglican clergyman and mathematician, his quiet shyness betrayed an early passion for acting. First enrolled at the Grimsby Art School and St. Martin's School of Art, his focus invariably turned from painting to acting.
Accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1960, John made his stage debut in "Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger" followed by "The Dwarfs." Elsewhere, he continued to build upon his 60's theatrical career with theatre roles in "Chips with Everything" at the Vaudeville, the title role in "Hamp" at the Edinburgh Festival, "Inadmissible Evidence" at Wyndham's and "Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs" at the Garrick. His movie debut occurred that same year with a supporting role in the "angry young man" British drama Young and Willing (1962), followed by small roles in Appuntamento in Riviera (1962), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967).
A somber, freckled, ravaged-looking gent, Hurt found his more compelling early work in offbeat theatrical characterizations with notable roles such as Malcolm in "Macbeth" (1967), Octavius in "Man and Superman" (1969), Peter in "Ride a Cock Horse" (1972), Mike in '"The Caretaker" (1972) and Ben in "The Dumb Waiter" (1973). At the same time he gained more prominence in a spray of film and support roles such as a junior officer in Before Winter Comes (1968), the title highwayman in Sinful Davey (1969), a morose little brother in In Search of Gregory (1969), a dim, murderous truck driver in 10 Rillington Place (1971), a skirt-chasing, penguin-studying biologist in Cry of the Penguins (1971), the unappetizing son of a baron in The Pied Piper (1972) and a repeat of his title stage role as Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974).
Hurt shot to international stardom, however, on TV where he was allowed to display his true, fearless range. He reaped widespread acclaim for his embodiment of the tormented gay writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp in the landmark television play The Naked Civil Servant (1975), adapted from Crisp's autobiography. Hurt's bold, unabashed approach on the flamboyant and controversial gent who dared to be different was rewarded with the BAFTA (British TV Award). This triumph led to the equally fascinating success as the cruel and crazed Roman emperor Caligula in the epic television masterpiece I, Claudius (1976), followed by another compelling interpretation as murderous student Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment (1979).
A resurgence occurred on film as a result. Among other unsurpassed portraits on his unique pallet, the chameleon in him displayed a polar side as the gentle, pathetically disfigured title role in The Elephant Man (1980), and as a tortured Turkish prison inmate who befriends Brad Davis in the intense drama Midnight Express (1978) earning Oscar nominations for both. Mainstream box-office films were offered as well as art films. He made the most of his role as a crew member whose body becomes host to an unearthly predator in Alien (1979). With this new rush of fame came a few misguided ventures as well that were generally unworthy of his talent. Such brilliant work as his steeple chase jockey in Champions (1984) or kidnapper in The Hit (1984) was occasionally offset by such drivel as the comedy misfire Partners (1982) with Ryan O'Neal in which Hurt looked enervated and embarrassed. For the most part, the craggy-faced actor continued to draw extraordinary notices. Tops on the list includes his prurient governmental gadfly who triggers the Christine Keeler political sex scandal in the aptly-titled Scandal (1989); the cultivated gay writer aroused and obsessed with struggling "pretty-boy" actor Jason Priestley in Love and Death on Long Island (1997); and the Catholic priest embroiled in the Rwanda atrocities in Shooting Dogs (2005).
Latter parts of memorable interpretations included Dr. Iannis in Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), the recurring role of the benign wand-maker Mr. Ollivander in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), the tyrannical dictator Adam Sutler in V for Vendetta (2005) and the voice of The Dragon in Merlin (2008). Among Hurt's final film appearances were as a terminally ill screenwriter in That Good Night (2017) and a lesser role in the mystery thriller Damascus Cover (2017). Hurt's voice was also tapped into animated features and documentaries, often serving as narrator. He also returned to the theatre performing in such shows as "The Seagull", "A Month in the Country" (1994), "Afterplay" (2002) and "Krapp's Last Tape", the latter for which he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award.
A recovered alcoholic who married four times, Hurt was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen in 2004, and Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in 2015. That same year (2015) he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In July of 2016, he was forced to bow out of the father role of Billy Rice in a then-upcoming London stage production of "The Entertainer" opposite Kenneth Branagh due to ill health that he described as an "intestinal ailment". Hurt died several months later at his home in Cromer, Norfolk, England on January 15, 2017, three days after his 77th birthday.Garrath Ollivander (7 episodes)
Episode 1x03 Diagon Alley (2001)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 10x01 In Memoriam (2010) (voice) (uncredited)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Nick Frost is an English actor, screenwriter and comedian. He is known for his work in the series of British comedic genre films The Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy: Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World's End (2013). He also co-starred in Paul (2011), with frequent collaborator and friend Simon Pegg.
Nicholas John "Nick" Frost is good friends with Simon Pegg and they have appeared alongside each other in several Movies. He resides with his half-Swedish wife, production executive Christina Frostin St Margarets, London. He previously lived in Finsbury Park, which was also the filming location for Shaun of the Dead. In a 2005 interview, Frost stated that he was brought up as a Catholic. He is a supporter of West Ham United, as well as being a rugby player, formerly playing for Barking RFC. On 22 June 2011, Frost's wife gave birth to a son.Station Guard (3 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Soundtrack
For decades, British actress and comedienne Dame Julie Walters has served as a sturdy representation of the working class with her passionate, earthy portrayals on England's stage, screen and television. A bona fide talent, her infectious spirit and self-deprecating sense of humor eventually captured the hearts of international audiences. The small and slender actress with the prominent cheekbones has yet to give an uninteresting performance.
She was born Julia Mary Walters on February 22, 1950 in Edgbaston, England, the youngest of three children and only daughter of Mary Bridget (O'Brien), an Irish-born postal clerk from County Mayo, and Thomas Walters, an English-born builder, from Birmingham. Convent schooled in Birmingham, she expressed an early desire to act. However, her iron-willed mother had other ideas and geared her towards a nursing career. Dutifully applying at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, Julie eventually gave up nursing when the pull to be an actress proved too strong.
Studying English and Drama at Manchester Polytechnic, she subsequently joined a theatre company in Liverpool and apprenticed as a stand-up comic. A one-time company member of the Vanload improv troupe, she made her London stage debut in the aptly-titled comedy "Funny Peculiar" in 1975, and went on to develop a successfully bawdy act on the cabaret circuit. While at Manchester, Julie befriended aspiring writer/comedienne Victoria Wood and the twosome appeared together in sketch comedy. A couple of their works, "Talent" and "Nearly a Happy Ending", transferred to television and were accompanied by rave reviews. Eventually, they were handed their own television series, Wood and Walters (1981).
In 1980, Julie scored a huge solo success under the theatre lights when she made her London debut in Willy Russell's "Educating Rita". For her superlative performance, she won both the Variety Critic's and London Critic's Circle Awards as the young hairdresser who vows to up her station in life by enrolling in a university. She conquered film as well when Educating Rita (1983) transferred to the big screen opposite Michael Caine as her Henry Higgins-like college professor, collecting a Golden Globe Award and Oscar nomination. Reuniting with Victoria Wood in 1984, the pair continue to appear together frequently on television, most recently with the award-winning series dinnerladies (1998). On stage, Julie has impressed in a variety of roles ranging from the contemporary ("Fool for Love", "Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune") to the classics ("Macbeth", "The Rose Tattoo" and "All My Sons"), winning the Laurence Olivier Award for the last-mentioned play.
Following her success as Rita, she immediately rolled out a sterling succession of film femmes including her seedy waitress-turned successful brothel-owner in Personal Services (1987); the unsophisticated, small-town wife of Phil Collins in Buster (1988); a boozy, man-chasing mum in Killing Dad or How to Love Your Mother (1989); and Liza Minnelli's abrasive tap student in Stepping Out (1991). Playing a wide variety of ages, she also mustered up a very convincing role as the mother of Joe Orton in the critically-acclaimed Prick Up Your Ears (1987).
Julie capped her career in films as the abrasively stern but encouraging dance teacher in Billy Elliot (2000) which earned her a second Oscar nomination and a healthy helping of quirky character roles, including her charming, charity-driven widow who poses à la natural in Calendar Girls (2003), and the maternal witch-wife Molly Weasley in the J.K. Rowling "Harry Potter" series beginning with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and ending with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). For her work on film and television, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has honored Julie five times, including four awards in a row (2001-2004).
Married to Grant Roffey since 1997 after a 12-year relationship, the couple tend to a 70-acre organic farm they bought in Sussex. They have one daughter, Maisie Mae Roffey (born 1988). In 1999, Julie was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama, and in 2008, was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2017, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Other more recent millennium films for Dame Julie include Wah-Wah (2005), Becoming Jane (2007) (as Jane Austen's mother), Mamma Mia! (2008), Paddington (2014), Brooklyn (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and The Secret Garden (2020) as Mrs. Medlock.Molly Weasley (35 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x02 Horace Slughorn (2008)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood is an English actress and model, best known for her roles as Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (2003), Corrie McKenzie in Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), and Sibyl Vane in Dorian Gray (2009). She was born on 17 August 1990 in the Streatham district of South London, England, as daughter of Philip and Sarah Hurd-Wood. Hurd-Wood's career in acting started in 2002 when she was picked for the role of Wendy Darling, after her grandparents spotted a television clip that said P.J. Hogan was searching for a "young English rose" for the feature film Peter Pan. She traveled to Gold Coast, Australia for eight months for filming. Her performance received good reviews and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor, and a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress. Hurd-Wood portrayed the character Imogen Helhoughton in the 2004 TV film Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, as a 13-year-old victim of a serial killer. Also in 2004, she had a major role of Betsy Bell in the thriller An American Haunting, as a girl who is haunted and tormented by an unrelenting demon. Hurd-Wood was nominated for the 2006 Teen Choice Awards in the category Movie - Choice Scream for her role. In 2005 she appeared in an adaptation of the best-selling novel by German writer Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Set in 18th century France, Hurd-Wood portrayed Laura Richis, the red-headed virgin daughter of a politically connected merchant played by Alan Rickman. She had her brunette hair dyed red. She was nominated for the "Best Supporting Actress" award at the 33rd Saturn Awards by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for her role. The year 2007 saw Hurd-Wood starring as a waitress in the music video for the song "A Little Bit" by Madeleine Peyroux. In the 2008 film Solomon Kane, she played Meredith Crowthorn, a Puritan captured by a band of marauders who killed her family and whom Kane sought to rescue. Her younger brother Patrick appears in the film as her brother Samuel. During filming, Hurd-Wood studied for her GCSE A-levels at Godalming College in Surrey. Later in the year she acted in the film Dorian Gray based on the Oscar Wilde novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. She was in the small but key role of the young budding actress Sibyl Vane, with whom Gray falls in love. She was studying in the first year of the linguistics course at UCL while working in this film. In her first contemporary role, Hurd-Wood was cast as Corrie Mackenzie, one of the principal characters in the 2009 Australian action-adventure film Tomorrow, When the War Began, based on the novel by John Marsden. At this point, she discontinued studying for a Linguistics degree to concentrate full-time on acting. Hurd-Wood portrayed the lead character Mae-West O'Mara in the 2010 film Hideaways, narrating a story to her six-year-old daughter, about the strange powers of the men in the Furlong family. Her performance was well-received by critics. Later in the year, she played the younger version of the character Isabel, played by Jenny Agutter, in the short film The Mapmaker. Also in the same year, she was featured in the music video for "Revolver" by Warehouse Republic. In 2014, Hurd-Wood played the female lead role of Elisabeth James in the film Highway to Dhampus, a story about the effect foreigners in Nepal and Nepali expatriates have on the locals.Ginny Weasley (62 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007)
Episode 7x09 The Only One He Ever Feared (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x07 The Seer Overheard (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Additional Crew
- Actor
- Director
Christopher William Rankin lived with his parents in his native New Zealand until age 6 when they moved back to England.
He found his love for acting at the age of 11, at Northgate High School in Norfolk, as a member of the Youth Theatre Company of Dereham Operatic Society. While in school, Chris appeared in numerous productions. He was ensemble in "Bugsy Malone" and "Little Shop of Horrors" (also on a European tour). Chris has also appeared as Bosun in "Return to the Forbidden Planet", Roger in "Grease", Ralph in "The Lord of the Flies", Joseph in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and in 2003 made a last-minute appearance, stepping in as Thenardier in "Les Miserables", when a cast member had taken ill. With the Youth Theatre, Chris has played Edmund in "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe"; chorus roles in "My Fair Lady", "Whistle Down the Wind" and "The King and I" and Harry / Young Ebenezer in "Scrooge".
In August 2000, he auditioned for and landed the role of Percy Weasley in the "Harry Potter: movie series, which was the beginning of his professional on-camera acting career. Chris made his professional stage debut in "Jack and the Beanstalk" at Norwich Theatre Royal. He has since been splitting his time between films, television and stage.
In January 2004, Chris formed Painted Horse Theatre Company with Director Jim Rymer. He played Eilert Loevborg in their premiere production of 'Hedda Gabler' by Ibsen and worked on their production of 'Salome', which toured East Anglia in 2005. He made his first television drama as Waring in "The Rotter's Club", a 3-part drama produced by Company Pictures for the BBC.Percy Weasley (37 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005) (voice)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x07 The Muggle-Born Registration Commission (2010)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
James Phelps was born on 25 February 1986 in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).Fred Weasley (70 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Oliver Phelps was born about 13 minutes before his twin brother, James Phelps. He has always loved acting and appeared in many high school drama productions. 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 series by J.K. Rowling.George Weasley (70 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint was born in Harlow, Essex, England, the elder son of Joanne (Parsons) and Nigel Grint, who dealt in memorabilia. The first of 5 children, Rupert has one brother and three sisters.
Rupert grew up in Hertfordshire, the English county directly to the north of London, conveniently placed for commuting to Leavesden Film Studios. Before successfully auditioning for the Harry Potter films, Rupert attended Richard Hale Secondary School in Hertford: here he took an active interest in school plays, being cast as Rumplestilskin in the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. He was also a regular attendee at weekend drama classes at Top Hat Stage School, also in Hertford.
Time at school was limited, as Rupert was needed on set for the Harry Potter films, where all of the child actors were tutored for four hours a day on set, to keep up with legal requirements. During the summer of 2004, he took his GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) exams and completed his formal education.Ron Weasley (97 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x09 The Servant Of Lord Voldemort (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x04 The Egg And The Eye (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x01 Hagrid’s Tale (2007)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007)
Episode 7x09 The Only One He Ever Feared (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x06 The House Of Gaunt (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x08 The Secret Riddle (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x03 Lord Voldemort’s Request (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x07 The Seer Overheard (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 10x06 Magic Is Might (2010)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)
Episode 10x10 The Silver Doe (2010)
Episode 11x01 The Tale Of The Three Brothers (2011)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)
Episode 11x04 Gringotts (2011)
Episode 11x05 The Final Hiding Place (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Matthew Lewis was born on 27 June 1989 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Me Before You (2016) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). He has been married to Angela Jones since 28 May 2018.Neville Longbottom (56 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007)
Episode 7x09 The Only One He Ever Feared (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x05 The Final Hiding Place (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
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Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar served as Honorary Treasurer of the East London Federation of Suffragettes (term 1915), and Mayor of Poplar (term 1924-1925). He was the second Communist mayor in British history, the first being Joe Vaughan (1878-1938). Lansbury's mother was Irish film actress Moyna Macgill (1895-1975), originally from Belfast. During the first five years of Angela's life, the Lansbury family lived in a flat located in Poplar. In 1930, they moved to a house located in the Mill Hill neighborhood of north London. They spend their weekends vacationing in a farm located in Berrick Salome, a village in South Oxfordshire.
In 1935, Edgar Lansbury died from stomach cancer. Angela reportedly retreated into "playing characters", as a coping mechanism to deal with the loss. The widowed Moyna Macgill soon became engaged to Leckie Forbes, a Scottish colonel. Moyna moved into his house in Hampstead.
From 1934 to 1939, Angela was a student at South Hampstead High School. During these years, she became interested in films.. She regularly visited the local cinema, and imagined herself in various roles. Angela learned how to play the piano, and received a musical education at the Ritman School of Dancing.
In 1940, Lansbury started her acting education at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, located in Kensington, West London. She made her theatrical debut in the school's production of the play "Mary of Scotland" (1933) by Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959). The play depicted the life of Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587, reigned 1542-1567), and Lansbury played one of the queen's ladies-in-waiting.
Also in 1940, Lansbury's paternal grandfather, George Lansbury, died from stomach cancer. When the Blitz started, Moyna Macgill had reasons to fear for the safety of her family and few remaining ties to England. Macgill moved to the United States to escape the Blitz, taking her three youngest children with her. Isolde was already a married adult, and was left behind in England.
Macgill secured financial sponsorship from American businessman Charles T. Smith. She and her children (including Angela) moved into Smith's house in Mahopac, New York, a hamlet in Putnam County. Lansbury was interested in continuing her studies, and secured a scholarship from the American Theatre Wing. From 1940 to 1942, Lansbury studied acting at the Feagin School of Dramatic Art, located in New York City. She appeared in performances organized by the school.
In 1942, Lansbury moved with her family to a flat located in Morton Street, Greenwich Village. She soon followed her mother in her theatrical tour of Canada. Lansbury secured her first paying job in Montreal, singing at the nightclub Samovar Club for a payment of 60 dollars per week. Lansbury was 16 years old at the time, but lied about her age and claimed to be 19 in order to be hired.
Lansbury returned to New York City in August, 1942, but Moyna Macgill soon moved herself and her family again. The family moved to Los Angeles, where Moyna was interested in resurrecting her film career. Their first home there was a bungalow in Laurel Canyon, a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills.
Lansbury helped financially support her family by working for the Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles. Her weekly wages were only 28 dollars, but she had a secure income while her mother was unemployed. Through her mother, Lansbury was introduced to screenwriter John Van Druten (1901-1957), who had recently completed his script of "Gaslight" (1944). He suggested that young Lansbury would be perfect for the role of Nancy Oliver, the film's conniving cockney maid. This helped secure Lansbury's first film role at the age of 17, and a seven-year contract with the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She earned 500 dollars per week, and chose to continue using her own name instead of a stage name.
In 1945, Lansbury married actor Richard Cromwell (1910-1960), who was 15 years older than she. The troubled marriage ended in a divorce in 1946. The former spouses remained friends until Cromwell's death.
In 1946, Lansbury started a romantic relationship with aspiring actor Peter Shaw (1918-2003), who was 7 years older than her. Shaw had recently ended his relationship with actress Joan Crawford (c. 1908-1977). The new couple started living together, while planning marriage. They wanted to be married in the United Kingdom, but the Church of England refused to marry two divorcees. They were married in 1949, in a Church of Scotland ceremony at St. Columba's Church, located in Knightsbridge, London. After their return to the United States, they settled into Lansbury's home in Rustic Canyon, Malibu. In 1951, both Lansbury and Shaw became naturalized citizens of the United States, while retaining their British citizenship.
Meanwhile, Lansbury continued appearing in MGM films. She appeared in 11 MGM films between 1945 and 1952. MGM at times loaned Lansbury to other film studios. She appeared in United Artists' "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami" (1947), and Paramount Pictures' "Samson and Delilah" (1949). In 1948, Lansbury made her debut in radio roles, followed by her television debut in 1950.
In 1952, Lansbury requested the termination of her contract with MGM, instead of its renewal. She felt unsatisfied with her film career as an MGM contract player. She then joined the East Coast touring productions of two former Broadway plays. By 1953, Lansbury had two children of her own and was also raising a stepson. She and her family moved into a larger house, located on San Vincente Boulevard in Santa Monica. In 1959, she and her family moved into a house in Malibu. The married couple were able to send their children to a local public school.
Meanwhile she continued her film career as a freelance actress, but continued to be cast in middle-aged roles. She regained her A-picture actress through well-received roles in the drama film "The Long, Hot Summer" (1958) and the comedy film "The Reluctant Debutante" (1958). She also appeared regularly in television roles, and became a regular on game show "Pantomime Quiz" (1947-1959).
In 1957, Lansbury made her Broadway debut in a performance of "Hotel Paradiso". The play was an adaptation of the 1894 "L'Hôtel du libre échange" ("Free Exchange Hotel"), written by Maurice Desvallières (1857-1926) and Georges Feydeau (1862-1921). Lansbury's role as "Marcel Cat" was critically well received. She continued appearing in Broadway over the next several years, most notably cast as the verbally abusive mother in "A Taste of Honey". She was cast as the mother of co-star Joan Plowright (1929-), who was only four years younger.
In the early 1960s, Lansbury was cast as an overbearing mother in "Blue Hawaii" (1961). The role of her son was played by Elvis Presley (1935-1977), who was only 10 years than her. The film was a box office hit, it finished as the 10th-top-grossing film of 1961 and 14th for 1962 on the "Variety" national box office survey. It gained Lansbury renewed fame, at a difficult point of her career.
Lansbury gained critical praise for a sympathetic role in the drama film "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1960), and the role of a manipulative mother in the drama film "All Fall Down" (1962). Based on her success in "All Fall Down", she was cast in a similar role in the Cold War-themed thriller "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). She was cast as Eleanor Iselin, the mother of her co-star Laurence Harvey (1928-1973), who was only 3 years younger than she. This turned out to be one of the most memorable roles in her career. She received critical acclaim and was nominated for a third time for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The award was instead won by Patty Duke (1946-2016).
Lansbury made a comeback in the starring role of Mame Dennis in the musical "Mame" (1966), by Jerome Lawrence (1915-2004) and Robert Edwin Lee (1918-1994). The play was an adaptation of the novel "Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade" (1955) by Patrick Dennis (1921-1976), and focused on the life and ideas of eccentric bohemian Mame Dennis. The musical received critical and popular praise, and Lansbury won her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Lansbury gained significant fame from her success, becoming a "superstar".
Her newfound fame led to other high-profile appearances by Lansbury. She starred in a musical performance at the 1968 Academy Awards ceremony, and co-hosted the 1968 Tony Awards. The Hasty Pudding Club, a social club for Harvard students. elected her "Woman of the Year" in 1968.
Lansbury's next theatrical success was in 1969 "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (1945) by Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944). The play concerns an eccentric Parisian woman's struggles with authority figures. Lansbury was cast in the starring role of 75-year-old Countess Aurelia, despite her actual age of 44. The show was well received and lasted for 132 performances. Lansbury won her second Tony Award for this role.
In 1970, Lansbury's Malibu home was destroyed in a brush fire. Lansbury and her husband decided to buy Knockmourne Glebe, an 1820s Irish farmhouse, located near the village of Conna in rural County Cork.
Her film career reached a new height. She was cast in the starring role of benevolent witch Eglantine Price in Disney's fantasy film "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971). The film was a box-office hit; it was critically well received, and introduced Lansbury to a wider audience of children and families.
In 1972, Lansbury returned to the British stage, performing in London's West End with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1973, Lansbury appeared in the role of Rose in London performances of the musical "Gypsy" (1959) by Arthur Laurents. It was quite successful. In 1974, "Gypsy" went on tour in the United States. with the same cast. For her role, Lanbury won the Sarah Siddons Award and her third Tony Award. The musical had its second tour in 1975.
Tired from musicals. Lansbury next sought Shakespearean roles in the United Kingdom. From 1975 to 1976, she appeared as Queen Gertrude in the National Theatre Company's production of Hamlet. In November 1975, Lansbury's mother Moyna Macgill died at the age of 79. Lansbury arranged for her mother's remains to be cremated, and the ashes scattered near her own County Cork home.
In 1976, Lansbury returned to the American stage. In 1978, Lansbury temporarily replaced Constance Towers (1933-) in the starring role of Anna Leonowens (1831-1915) in The King and I. While Towers was on a break from the role, Lansbury appeared in 24 performances.
In 1978, Lansbury appeared in her first film role in seven years, as the novelist and murder victim Salome Otterbourne in the mystery film "Death on the Nile" (1978). The film was an adaptation of the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie (1890-1976); Otterbourne was loosely based on real-life novelist Elinor Glyn (1864-1943). The film was a modest box-office hit, and Lansbury befriended her co-star Bette Davis (1908-1989).
In 1979, Lansbury was cast in the role of meat pie seller Mrs. Lovett in the musical "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (1979), by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler (1912-1987). The musical was loosely based on the penny dreadful serial novel "The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance" (1846-1847), which first depicted fictional serial killer Sweeney Todd. Lansbury remained in the role for 14 months, and was then replaced by Dorothy Loudon (1925-2003). Lansbury won her fourth Tony Award for this role. She returned to the role for 10 months in 1980.
Lansbury's next prominent film role was that of Miss Froy in "The Lady Vanishes" (1979), a remake of the 1938 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). She was next cast in the role of amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in the mystery film "The Mirror Crack'd" (1980), an adaptation of the novel "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" (1962) by Agatha Christie. The novel was loosely inspired by the life of Gene Tierney (1920-1991). The film was a modest commercial success. There were plans for at least two sequels, but they ended in development hell.
In 1982, Lansbury was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame, She appeared at the time in the new play "A Little Family Business" and a revival of "Mame", but both shows were commercial failures. In film, Lansbury voiced the witch Mommy Fortuna in the animated fantasy film "The Last Unicorn" (1982). The film was critically well received, but was not a box-office hit.
Lansbury played Ruth in the musical comedy "The Pirates of Penzance" (1983), a film adaptation of the 1879 comic opera by William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). The film was a box office bomb, earning about 695,000 dollars.
Lansbury's next film role was that of Granny in the gothic fantasy film "The Company of Wolves" (1984), based on a 1979 short story by Angela Carter (1940-1992). Lansbury was cast as the grandmother of protagonist Rosaleen (played by Sarah Patterson), in a tale featuring werewolves and shape-shifting. The film was critically well received, but barely broke even at the box office.
At about that time, Lansbury appeared regularly in television films and mini-series. Her most prominent television role was that of Jessica Fletcher in the detective series "Murder, She Wrote" (1984-1996). Jessica was depicted as a successful mystery novelist from Maine who encounters and solves many murders. The character was considered an American counterpart to Miss Marple. The series followed the "whodunit" format and mostly avoided depictions of violence or gore.
The series was considered a television landmark for having an older female character as the protagonist. It was aimed primarily at middle-aged audiences, but also attracted both younger viewers and senior citizen viewers. Ratings remained high for most of its run. Lansbury rejected pressure from network executives to put her character in a relationship, as she believed that Fletcher should remain a strong single female.
In 1989, Lansbury co-founded the production company Corymore Productions, which started co-producing the television series with Universal Television. This allowed Lansbury to have more creative input on the series. She was appointed an executive producer. By the time the series ended in 1996, it tied with the original "Hawaii Five-O" (1968-1980) as the longest-running detective drama series in television history.
Her popularity from "Murder, She Wrote" made Lansbury a much-sought figure for advertisers. She appeared in advertisements and infomercials for Bufferin, MasterCard and the Beatrix Potter Company.
Lansbury's highest-profile film role in decades was voicing the character of singing teapot Mrs. Potts in Disney's animated fantasy film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). Lansbury performed the film's title song, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, Lansbury lived most of the year in California. In 1991, she had Corymore House, a farmhouse at Ballywilliam, County Cork, built as her new family home. She spend Christmases and summers there.
Following the end of "Murder, She Wrote", Lansbury returned to a career as a theatrical actress. She temporarily retired from the stage in 2001, to take care of her husband Peter Shaw, whose health was failing. Shaw died in 2003, from congestive heart failure at the couple's Brentwood, California home. Their marriage had lasted for 54 years (1949-2003).
Lansbury felt at the time that she could not take on any more major acting roles, but that she could still make cameos. She moved back to New York City in 2006, buying a condominium in Manhattan. Her first prominent film role in years was that of Aunt Adelaide in the fantasy film "Nanny McPhee" (2005). She credits her performance in the film with pulling her out of depression, a state of mind which had lasted since her husband's death.
Lansbury returned to performing on the Broadway stage in 2007, after an absence of 23 years. In 2009, she won her fifth Tony Award. She shared the record for most Tony Award victories with Julie Harris (1925-2013). In the 2010s, she continued regularly appearing in theatrical performances. In 2014, she returned to the London stage, after an absence of nearly 40 years.
In 2015, Lansbury received her first Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress. At age 89, she was among the oldest first-time winners. Also in 2015, November 2015 was awarded the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre.
In 2017, she was cast as Aunt March in the mini-series "Little Women". The mini-series was an adaptation of the 1868-1869 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). The series lasted for 3 episodes, and was critically well received.
In 2018, Lansbury gained her next film role in Disney's fantasy film "Mary Poppins Returns" (2018), a sequel to "Mary Poppins". Lansbury was cast in the role of the Balloon Lady, a kindly old woman who sells balloons at the park. The films was a commercial hit, earning about 350 million dollars at the worldwide box office.
In 2019, Lansbury performed at a one-night benefit staging of Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895). a farce satirizing Victorian morals. She was cast in the role of society lady Lady Bracknell, mother to Gwendolen Fairfax.
By 2020, Lansbury was 95 years old, one of the oldest-living actresses. She has never retired from acting, and remains a popular icon.Augusta Longbottom (7 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003) (voice)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 8x02 Horace Slughorn (2008)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Luke Youngblood was born on 12 June 1986 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Community (2009) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).Lee Jordan (32 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Age has not taken the flower off this Bloom. The well-known and highly respected stage, screen and television actress Claire Bloom continues to be in demand as an octogenarian actress and looks as beautiful as ever.
She was born Patricia Claire Blume on February 15, 1931, in Finchley, North London, to Elizabeth (Grew) and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales. Her parents were from Jewish families from Belarus. Educated at Badminton School in Bristol and Fern Hill Manor in New Milton, Claire expressed early interest in the arts and was stage trained as an adolescent at the Guildhall School, under the guidance of Eileen Thorndike, and then at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Marking her professional debut on BBC radio, she subsequently took her first curtain call with the Oxford Repertory Theatre in 1946 in the production of "It Depends What You Mean". She then received early critical accolades for her Shakespearean ingénues in "King John", "The Winter's Tale" and, notably, her Ophelia in "Hamlet" at age 17 at Stratford-on-Avon opposite alternating Hamlets Paul Scofield and Robert Helpmann. By 1949 Claire was making her West End debut with "The Lady's Not For Burning" with the up-and-coming stage actor Richard Burton.
A most becoming and beguiling dark-haired actress whose photogenic, slightly pinched beauty was accented by an effortless elegance and poise, Claire's inauspicious film debut came with a prime role in the British courtroom film drama The Blind Goddess (1948). It was her second film, when Charles Chaplin himself selected her specifically to be his young leading lady in the classic sentimental drama Limelight (1952), that propelled her to stardom. Her bravura turn as a young suicide-bent ballerina saved from despair by an aging music hall clown (Chaplin) was exquisitely touching and sparked an enviable but surprisingly sporadic career in films.
Despite the sudden film attention, Claire continued her formidable presence on the Shakespearean stage. Joining the Old Vic Company for the 1952-53 and 1953-54 seasons, she appeared as Helena, Viola, Juliet, Jessica, Miranda, Virgilia, Cordelia and (again) Ophelia in a highly successful tenure. Touring Canada and the United States as Juliet, she made her Broadway bow in the star-crossed-lover role in 1956, also playing the Queen in "Richard II". A strong presence on both the London and New York stages over the years, she gave other powerful performances with "The Trojan Women", "Vivat! Vivat! Regina!", "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House" and "A Streetcar Named Desire". Much later in life she performed in a superb one-woman show entitled "These Are Women: A Portrait of Shakespeare's Heroines" that included monologues from several of her acclaimed stage performances.
Claire's stylish and regal presence was simply ideal for mature period films, and she appeared opposite a roster of Hollywood's most talented leading men, including Laurence Olivier in the title role of Richard III (1955), Richard Burton and Fredric March in Alexander the Great (1956), Yul Brynner in The Brothers Karamazov (1958), and Brynner and Charlton Heston in the DeMille epic The Buccaneer (1958), in which she had a rare dressed-down role as a spirited pirate girl. On the more contemporary scene, she appeared with Burton in two classic film dramas: the stark "kitchen sink" British stage piece Look Back in Anger (1959) and the Cold War espionage thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965). In addition she courted tinges of controversy, playing a housewife gone bonkers in the offbeat sudser The Chapman Report (1962) and a lesbian in the supernatural chiller The Haunting (1963).
Claire met first husband Rod Steiger while performing with him on stage in 1959's "Rashomon". They married that year and in 1960 had a daughter, Anna, who grew up to become a well-regarded opera singer. Claire and Rod appeared in two lesser films together, The Illustrated Man (1969) and Three Into Two Won't Go (1969), in 1969. That same year, they divorced after 10 tumultuous years.
As with other maturing actresses during the 1970s, Claire looked toward classy film roles in TV movies for sustenance, appearing in Backstairs at the White House (1979) as First Lady Edith Wilson and in Brideshead Revisited (1981), for which she was nominated for an Emmy. Also lauded were the epic miniseries Ellis Island (1984); a remake of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables (1983); The Ghost Writer (1984), an acclaimed adaption of Philip Roth's novel ; and Shadowlands (1986), the latter earning her a British Television Award. Claire married Roth the writer (her third marriage) in 1990 after a brief second marriage to producer Hillard Elkins (1969-1972). The union with Roth lasted five years.
Claire appeared in several Shakespearean teleplays over the decades while also portraying a choice selection of historical royals, including Czarina Alexandra and Katherine of Aragon. On daytime drama, she delightfully played matriarch and murderess Orlena Grimaldi on the daytime drama As the World Turns (1956) starting in 1993. She left the role in 1995 and was replaced.
Continuing sporadically in films from the 1970s on, Claire graced such films as the stylish British social comedy A Severed Head (1971), the tender coming-of-age drama Red Sky at Morning (1971) as Richard Thomas's mother, and one of that year's versions of Ibsen's A Doll's House (1973) (Jane Fonda starred as Nora in the other). She also movingly played George C. Scott's estranged wife in Islands in the Stream (1977) and had a very brief cameo as Hera in Clash of the Titans (1981), a small part as a manipulative mother in Déjà Vu (1985), and mature parts in the romantic dramedy Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) and classic Woody Allen drama Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).
In the new millennium, Claire has been seen in such quality films as and The Book of Eve (2002), Imagining Argentina (2003), The King's Speech (2010) (as Queen Mary), And While We Were Here (2012), Max Rose (2013) starring a dramatic Jerry Lewis, and Miss Dalí (2018). She has also made appearances on such TV miniseries as The Ten Commandments (2005) and Summer of Rockets (2019).
Claire wrote two memoirs. The first was the more career-oriented "Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress," released in 1982. Her more controversial second book, "Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir," published in 1996, focused on her personal life.Trolley Witch (5 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
- Director
- Producer
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing and acting. By the age of ten, she had performed and taken the lead in various Stagecoach productions and school plays.
In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (2001), the film adaptation of British author J.K. Rowling's bestselling novel. Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher. After eight consistent auditions, producer David Heyman told Emma and fellow applicants, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, that they had been cast for the roles of the three leads, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. The release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) was Emma's cinematic screen debut. The film broke records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings and was the highest-grossing film of 2001. Critics praised the film and the performances of the three leading young actors. The highly distributed British newspaper, 'The Daily Telegraph', called her performance "admirable". Later, Emma was nominated for five awards for her performance in the film, winning the Young Artist Award for Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film.
After the release of the first film of the highly successful franchise, Emma became one of the most well-known actresses in the world. She continued to play the role of Hermione Granger for nearly ten years, in all of the following Harry Potter films: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). Emma acquired two Critics' Choice Award nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her work in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. The completion of the seventh and eight movies saw Emma receive nominations in 2011 for a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award, and for Best Actress at the Jameson Empire Awards. The Harry Potter franchise won the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in February 2011.
2011 saw Emma in Simon Curtis's My Week with Marilyn (2011), alongside a stellar cast of Oscar nominees including Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier, in addition to Eddie Redmayne, Dame Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Zoe Wanamaker, Toby Jones and Dominic Cooper. Chronicling a week in Marilyn Monroe's life, the film featured Emma in the supporting role of Lucy, a costume assistant to Colin Clark (Redmayne). The film was released by The Weinstein Company and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. In 2012 Emma was seen in Stephen Chbosky's adaptation of his coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), starring opposite Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller. This independent drama centered around Charlie (Lerman), an introverted freshman who is taken under the wings of two seniors (Watson and Miller) who welcome him to the real world. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and received rave reviews. The film won the People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic Movie and Emma also picked up the People's Choice Award for Favourite Dramatic Movie Actress. Emma was awarded a second time for this role with the Best Supporting Actress Award at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards where the film also won the Best Ensemble Performance Award.
In summer 2013, Emma starred in Sofia Coppola's American satirical black comedy crime film, The Bling Ring (2013), opposite Katie Chang and Israel Broussard. The film took inspiration from real events and followed a group of teenagers who, obsessed with fashion and fame, burgled the homes of celebrities in Los Angeles. The film opened the Un Certain Regard section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Emma also appeared in a cameo role as herself in Seth Rogen's apocalypse comedy This Is The End (2013). The film tells the story about what happens to some of Hollywood's best loved celebrities when the apocalypse strikes during a party at James Franco's house.
In 2014, Emma was seen in Darren Aronofsky's Noah (2014), opposite Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Douglas Booth, Logan Lerman, and Anthony Hopkins. The film told the epic, biblical tale of Noah and the ark. Emma plays the role of Ila, a young woman who develops a close relationship with Noah's son, Shem (Booth). Noah made an outstanding $300m since its release in March. In 2015, Emma starred in Regression (2015), written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar and Occultum Luciferus. Also headlined by Oscar-nominated Ethan Hawke, and set in Minnesota in 1990, Regression tells the story of Detective Bruce Kenner (Hawke), who investigates the case of young Angela, played by Emma, who accuses her father of sexual abuse.
In 2012, Emma was honored with the Calvin Klein Emerging Star Award at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards. In 2013, Emma was awarded the Trailblazer Award at the MTV Movie Awards in April and was honored with the GQ Woman of the Year Award at the GQ Awards in September. Further to her acting career, Emma is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN, promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. Emma graduated from Brown University in May 2014.
In 2017, Emma starred in the live-action Disney fantasy Beauty and the Beast (2017), one of the biggest movies of all time in the U.S., and the dramatic thriller The Circle (2017).Hermione Granger (94 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x09 The Servant Of Lord Voldemort (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x01 Hagrid’s Tale (2007)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007)
Episode 7x09 The Only One He Ever Feared (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x06 The House Of Gaunt (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x08 The Secret Riddle (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x03 Lord Voldemort’s Request (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x07 The Seer Overheard (2009)
Episode 9x08 The Lightning-Struck Tower (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 10x06 Magic Is Might (2010)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)
Episode 10x09 Godric’s Hollow (2010)
Episode 10x10 The Silver Doe (2010)
Episode 11x01 The Tale Of The Three Brothers (2011)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)
Episode 11x04 Gringotts (2011)
Episode 11x05 The Final Hiding Place (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Jamie Waylett was born on 21 July 1989 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).Vincent Crabbe (39 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011) - Joshua was born in Hampton, England to Martin and Jessica Herdman. He is the youngest of four boys. He started acting when he was about seven. His father is an actor and got him an agent. He got his big break when he auditioned for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and got the part of Gregory Goyle. In his spare time, he enjoys going back home to Hampton, spending time with friends and family, reading and writing.Gregory Goyle (39 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x08 The Third Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actor
- Producer
Widely regarded as one of England's finest stage, screen and TV actors, David Suchet's international reputation has only grown over the years, greatly enhanced by his definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's suave Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, a character he played for nearly 25 years in various TV episodes (1988-2013). Born in London on May 2, 1946, the son of actress Joan Patricia Jarché and renowned Lithuanian-Jewish obstetrician and gynecologist Jack Suchet, David, following boarding school, took an early desire in acting and was given a membership with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain at age 16. He then studied for three years at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and, after a significant route in repertory work, became a company member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1973 where he evolved into one of its most dominant players.
In the 1970s, Suchet also began to come into his own on British television. In classical tradition, his first television movie was A Tale of Two Cities (1980). His first cinematic detective was as a Greek inspector in the Disney mystery comedy Trenchcoat (1983). This was followed by a versatile range of film roles that also express the width of his acting nationalities, such as a Middle Eastern terrorist in The Little Drummer Girl (1984), a Russian operative in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985), a French hunter in Harry and the Hendersons (1987), a Polish bishop in To Kill A Priest (1988), and the emperor Napoleon in Sabotage! (2000).
Suchet's masterful work in television roles also includes portrayals of historical, biblical, entertainment and fictional figures, such as Sigmund Freud in Freud (1984), news reporter William L. Shirer in Murrow (1986), Aaron in Moses (1995), movie mogul Louis B. Mayer in RKO 281 (1999), Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII (2003), vampire nemesis Van Helsing in Dracula (2006), and Robert Maxwell in Maxwell (2007).
Suchet's memorable theatre incarnations have included Shakespearean interps of Iago in "Othello", Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet", Caliban in "The Tempest", and the title role of "Timon of Athens", as well as vibrant classical roles such as George in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1996), as composer Salieri in "Amadeus" (1998), a mesmerizing performance that earned both Olivier and Tony nominations, as Joe Keller in "All My Sons" (2010), as James Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (2012) (and in the 2014 film), as Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest" (2015) (and in the 2015 film), and as Gregory Solomon in "The Price" (2019).
Long married to former actress Sheila Ferris, the couple have two children: Robert Suchet (born 1981) and Katherine Suchet (born 1983). His older brother is BBC newscaster-turned-journalist John Suchet. David was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) at the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to drama. He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire at the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to drama and to charity.The Fat Friar (5 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behavior in others. He loved humor in and of itself, collected jokes, and, like many young Britons who would grow up to be comedians, was devoted to the radio comedy show, "The Goon Show," starring the legendary Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe.
Cleese did well in both sports and academics, but his real love was comedy. He attended Cambridge to read (study) Law, but devoted a great deal of time to the university's legendary Footlights group, writing and performing in comedy reviews, often in collaboration with future fellow Python Graham Chapman. Several of these comedy reviews met with great success, including one in particular which toured under the name "Cambridge Circus." When Cleese graduated, he went on to write for the BBC, then rejoined Cambridge Circus in 1964, which toured New Zealand and America. He remained in America after leaving Cambridge Circus, performing and doing a little journalism, and here met Terry Gilliam, another future Python.
Returning to England, he began appearing in a BBC radio series, "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", based on Cambridge Circus. It ran for several years and also starred future Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden. He also appeared, briefly, with Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman in At Last the 1948 Show (1967), for television, and a series of collaborations with some of the finest comedy-writing talent in England at the time, some of whom - Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Chapman - eventually joined him in Monty Python. These programs included The Frost Report (1966) and Marty Feldman's program Marty (1968). Eventually, however, the writers were themselves collected to be the talent for their own program, Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969), which displayed a strange and completely absorbing blend of low farce and high-concept absurdist humor, and remains influential to this day.
After three seasons of the intensity of Monty Python, Cleese left the show, though he collaborated with one or more of the other Pythons for decades to come, including the Python movies released in the mid-70s to early 80s - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982), and The Meaning of Life (1983). Cleese and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975), as the sharp-tongued, rude, bumbling yet somehow lovable proprietor of an English seaside hotel. Cleese based this character on a proprietor he had met while staying with the other Pythons at a hotel in Torquay, England. Only a dozen episodes were made, but each is truly hilarious, and he is still closely associated with the program to this day.
Meanwhile Cleese had established a production company, Video Arts, for clever business training videos in which he generally starred, which were and continue to be enormously successful in the English-speaking world. He continues to act prolifically in movies, including in the hit comedy A Fish Called Wanda (1988), in the Harry Potter series, and in the James Bond series as the new Q, starting with The World Is Not Enough (1999), in which he began as R before graduating to Q. Cleese also supplies his voice to numerous animated and video projects, and frequently does commercials.
Besides the infamous Basil Fawlty character, Cleese's other well-known trademark is his rendition of an English upper-class toff. He has a daughter with Connie Booth and a daughter with his second wife, Barbara Trentham.
Education and learning are important elements of his life - he was Rector of the University of Saint Andrews from 1973 until 1976, and continues to be a professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. Cleese lives in Santa Barbara, California.Nearly Headless Nick (17 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 7x01 Hagrid’s Tale (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 9x05 Horcruxes (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). When Alan was 8 years old, his father died. He attended Latymer Upper School on a scholarship. He studied Graphic Design at Chelsea College of Art and Design, where he met Rima Horton, who would later become his longtime partner.
After three years at Chelsea College, Rickman did graduate studies at the Royal College of Art. He opened a successful graphic design business, Graphiti, with friends and managed it for several years before his love of theatre led him to seek an audition with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). At the relatively late age of 26, Rickman received a scholarship to RADA, which started a professional acting career that has lasted nearly 40 years, a career which has spanned stage, screen and television, and overlapped into directing, as well. In 1987, he first came to the attention of American audiences as the Vicomte de Valmont in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" on Broadway (he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the role). Denied the role in the film version of the show, Rickman instead made his first film appearance opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988) as the villainous Hans Gruber. His take on the urbane villain set the standard for screen villains for decades to come.
Although often cited as being a master of playing villains, Rickman actually played a wide variety of characters, such as the romantic cello-playing ghost Jamie in Anthony Minghella's Truly Madly Deeply (1990) and the noble Colonel Brandon of Sense and Sensibility (1995). He treated audiences to his comedic abilities in such films as Dogma (1999), Galaxy Quest (1999) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), and roles like Dr. Alfred Blalock in Something the Lord Made (2004), and as Alex Hughes in Snow Cake (2006), showcased his ability to play ordinary men in extraordinary situations. Rickman even conquered the daunting task of singing a role in a Stephen Sondheim musical as he took on the role of Judge Turpin in the movie adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). In 2001, Rickman introduced himself to a whole new, younger generation of fans by taking on the role of Severus Snape in the film versions of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001). He continued to play the role through the eighth and last movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).
Alan Rickman died of pancreatic cancer on 14 January 2016. He was 69 years old.Severus Snape (62 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 3x09 The Servant Of Lord Voldemort (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x04 The Egg And The Eye (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x02 Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place (2006)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x01 The Other Minister (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x05 Horcruxes (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x07 The Seer Overheard (2009)
Episode 9x08 The Lightning-Struck Tower (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 10x01 In Memoriam (2010)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x06 Magic Is Might (2010)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)- Actor
- Location Management
- Soundtrack
David Bradley was born on 17 April 1942 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The World's End (2013), Hot Fuzz (2007) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). He has been married to Rosanna Bradley since 1978. They have three children.Argus Filch (32 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x04 The Egg And The Eye (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Zoë Wanamaker is an American expatriate actress, who has spend most of her career in the United Kingdom. She has worked extensively in the theatre. She has been nominated for 9 Laurence Olivier Awards, wining twice. She has also been nominated for 4 Tony Awards, without ever winning. In television, she is known for the main role of Susan Harper in the long-running sitcom "My Family" (2000-2011).
In 1949, Wanamaker was born in New York City. Her father the American film director Sam Wanamaker (1919 -1993). Sam was born in Chicago to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants. Wanamaker's mother was the Canadian actress Charlotte Hollan, who was also of Jewish descent. Wanamaker's paternal grandfather was the tailor Maurice Wanamaker, whose original family name was "Watmacher".
Sam Wanamaker was a veteran of World War II, and an adherent of communism. In the early 1950s, the United States was experiencing the Second Red Scare. Communists, real or suspected ones, were seen as potential foreign agents and were targeted by political purges. In 1952, Sam was blacklisted in the United States. He decided to settle in the United Kingdom with his family. Zoë consequently settled in the United Kingdom at the age of 3.
Wanamaker received her early education at the King Alfred School, a co-educational independent school located in London. She later attended the Sidcot School, a co-educational boarding school located in the village of Winscombe, Somerset. Sidcot was a Quaker school, but was open to students from various faiths and cultures. Sidcot had served as a co-educational school since 1808. one of the earliest British schools of its kind.
Following her graduation, Wanamaker pursued a pre-diploma course at the Hornsey College of Art. Having decided to follow an acting career, Wanamaker was trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. The school had been operating since 1906, when founded by the teacher Elsie Fogerty (1865 -1945). The school was initially based around Fogerty's theories about teaching proper elocution.
In the early 1970s, Wanamaker was primarily a theatrical actress. In 1976, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. It is a prestigious theatrical company, headquartered in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. It specializes in performing the plays of William Shakespeare, though it has performed plays by many other playwrights. Wanamaker served as a member until 1984.
In 1979, Wanamaker won her first Olivier Award for her role in a revival of the play "Once in a Lifetime" (1930) by Moss Hart (1904 -1961) and George Simon Kaufman (1889-1961). The play is a satire of American show business. It depicts veteran vaudeville performers trying to re-establish their careers in the Hollywood film industry.
In the 1980s, Wanamaker frequently appeared in television films and other television production. She played an intelligence agent in the mini-series "Edge of Darkness" (1985), which combined elements from the genres of crime drama, political thriller, and science fiction. She was part of the cast of the historical drama series "Paradise Postponed" (1986), which depicts the changes experienced by British from the 1940s to the 1970s. She was part of the cast in the biographical film "Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story" (1987), based on the life and long-term problems of American heiress Barbara Hutton (1912 -1979). She had a one-shot role in the anthology series "Tales of the Unexpected" (1979-1988), which typically adapted short stories into its episodes.
In 1991, Wanamaker played manicurist Moyra Henson in the first season of the police procedural "Prime Suspect" (1991-2006). Henson's common-law husband is suspected serial killer George Marlow, and police authorities eventually realize that all the recent victims were Henson's clients. Wanamaker's role was critically well-received. She was nominated for the "British Academy Television Award for Best Actress" for this role, but the award was instead won by her co-star Helen Mirren (1945-).
In 1993, Wanamaker had a co-starring role in the drama film "The Countess Alice". In the film, she played Konstanza (nicknamed "Connie"), the German daughter of British aristocrat Countess Alice von Holzendorf (played by Wendy Hiller). Connie investigates her own past and realizes that the real Konstanza died in childhood. She is a child of obscure origins, who was secretly adopted by Alice as a replacement. The film was well-received at the time, though it is mostly remembered for Hiller's last role in a film.
In 1997, Wanamaker had a supporting role in the biographical film "Wide", based on the life of the writer Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900). She played the role of the novelist Ada Leverson (1862 -1933), a close friend of Wilde who offered him hospitality when he became an outcast. The film was well-received by critics. Wanamaker was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, but the award was instead won by rival actress Sigourney Weaver (1949-).
In 2000, Wanamaker gained a major television role, when cast as Susan Harper in the sitcom "My Family" (2001-2011). Harper was depicted as a tour guide who is married and has three children. Her so-called "control freak" nature often has her clash with her family. Her problems include being married to a husband who clearly does not care about her, and having immature kids.
In 2000, Wanamaker finally gained British citizenship, after residing in the country for 48 years. She also maintained her American citizenship. In January 2001, Wanamaker was appointed a "Commander of the Order of the British Empire" for her services to drama. This is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences.
In 2001, Wanamaker had a supporting role in the fantasy film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", an adaptation of a novel by J. K. Rowling (1965-). Wanamaker played the role of Rolanda Hooch, a Quidditch referee and flying instructor for first-year students at the magic school Hogwarts. The film was a box office hit. Wanamaker did not appear in the film's sequels.
In 2005, Wanamaker had a role in the science fiction series "Doctor Who" (2005-) as the villain Lady Cassandra, who is obsessed with prolonging her own life. Wanamaker returned to this role in 2006.
Also in 2005, Wanamaker joined the cast of the mysteries series "Agatha Christie's Poirot" (1989-2013) as crime novelist Ariadne Oliver. Oliver was a recurring character created by writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976), and was intended as a self-portrait of Christie. Wanamaker played this role in 6 feature-length episodes, broadcast from 2005 to 2013. Oliver was depicted as a close friend and ally of detective Hercule Poirot (played by David Suchet).
In 2008, Wanamaker voiced the blind seeress Theresa in the role-playing video game "Fable II". Her character guides the game's protagonist through its story. The video game was quite successful. Wanamaker returned to this role in two of the game's sequels: "Fable III" (2010), and Fable: The Journey (2012). This has been Wanamaker's most prominent performance in voice acting.
In 2011, Wanamaker had a supporting role in the drama film "My Week with Marilyn", which depicted Marilyn Monroe brief stay in the United Kingdom during the shooting of the classic film "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957). Wanamaker played the role of Paula Strasberg (1909-1966), Monroe's acting coach. The film performed well at the box office, and was critically acclaimed.
In 2015, Wanamaker joined the cast of the period drama series "Mr Selfridge" (2013-2016). The series was based on the life of retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858-1947). Wanamaker played the role of Princess Marie Wiasemsky de Bolotoff, a Russian aristocrat who serves at the mother-in-law of Rosalie Selfridge.
In 2018, Wanamaker gained the major role of Queen Antedia in the historical fantasy series "Britannia" (2018-).Antedia was depicted as the Queen regnant of the Regni tribe, a Celtic tribe struggling against the rival Cantii tribe.
As of 2021, Wanamaker is 72-years-old. She has never retired from acting, and continues to appear regularly in television. She is quite familiar to the British public, through decades of notable roles.Rolanda Hooch (15 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
- Producer
- Director
On January 30, 1937, renowned theatre actor Michael Redgrave was performing in a production of Hamlet in London. During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier, announced to the audience: "tonight a great actress was born". This was in reference to his co-star's newborn daughter, Vanessa Redgrave.
Vanessa was born in Greenwich, London, to Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, both thespians. Three quarters of a century after her birth (despite numerous ups and down) this rather forward expectation has definitely been lived up to with an acclaimed actress that has won (among many others) an Academy Award, two Emmys, two Golden Globes, two Cannes Best Actress awards, a Tony, a Screen Actors Guild award, a Laurence Olivier theatre award and a BAFTA fellowship.
Growing up with such celebrated theatrical parents, great expectations were put on both herself, her brother Corin Redgrave and sister Lynn Redgrave at an early age. Shooting up early and finally reaching a height just short of 6 foot, Redgrave initially had plans to dance and perform ballet as a profession. However she settled on acting and entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954 and four years later made her West End debut. In the decade of the 1960s she developed and progressed to become one of the most noted young stars of the English stage and then film. Performances on the London stage included the classics: 'A Touch of Sun', 'Coriolanus', 'A Midsummer's Night Dream', 'All's Well that Ends Well', 'As You Like It', 'The Lady from the Sea', 'The Seagull' and many others. By the mid 1960s, she had booked various film roles and matured into a striking beauty with a slim, tall frame and attractive face. In 1966 she made her big screen debut as the beautiful ex-wife of a madman in an Oscar nominated performance in the oddball comedy Morgan! (1966), as well as the enigmatic woman in a public park in desperate need of a photographer's negatives in the iconic Blow-Up (1966) and briefly appeared in an unspoken part of Anne Boleyn in the Best Picture winner of the year A Man for All Seasons (1966).
She managed to originate the title role in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" the same year on the London stage (which was then adapted for the big screen a few years later, but Maggie Smith was cast instead and managed to win an Oscar for her performance). Her follow up work saw her play the lead in the box office hit adaptation Camelot (1967), a film popular with audiences but dismissed by critics, and her second Academy Award nominated performance as Isadora Duncan in the critically praised Isadora (1968).
Her rise in popularity on film also coincided with her public political involvement, she was one of the lead faces in protesting against the Vietnam war and lead a famous march on the US embassy, was arrested during a Ban-the-Bomb demonstration, publicly supported Yasar Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and fought for various other human rights and particularly left wing causes. Despite her admirably independent qualities, most of her political beliefs weren't largely supported by the public. In 1971 after 3 films back to back, Redgrave suffered a miscarriage (it would have been her fourth, after Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Carlo Gabriel Nero) and a break up with her then partner and father of her son, Franco Nero. This was around the same time her equally political brother Corin introduced her to the Workers Revolutionary Party, a group who aimed to destroy capitalism and abolish the monarchy. Her film career began to suffer and take the back seat as she became more involved with the party, twice unsuccessfully attempting to run as a party member for parliament, only obtaining a very small percentage of votes.
In terms of her film career at the time, she was given probably the smallest part in the huge ensemble who-dunnit hit, Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and given another thankless small part as Lola Deveraux in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976).
After a celebrated Broadway debut, she created further controversy in 1977 with her involvement in two films, firstly in Julia (1977) where she acted opposite Jane Fonda as a woman fighting Nazi oppression and narrated and featured in the documentary The Palestinian (1977) where she famously danced holding a Kalashnikov rifle. She publicly stated her condemnation of what she termed "Zionist hudlums", which outraged Jewish groups and as a result a screening of her documentary was bombed and Redgrave was personally threatened by the Jewish Defense League (JDL). Julia (1977) happened to be a huge critical success and Redgrave herself was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, but Jewish support groups demanded her nomination to be dropped and at the event of the Academy Awards burned effigies of Redgrave and protested and picketed. Redgrave was forced to enter the event via a rear entrance to avoid harm and when she won the award she famously remarked on the frenzy causes as "Zionist hoodlums" which caused the audience to audibly gasp and boo. The speech reached newspapers the next morning and her reputation was further damaged.
It came as a surprise when CBS hired her for the part of real life Nazi camp survivor Fania Fenelon in Playing for Time (1980), despite more controversy and protesting (Fenelon herself didn't even want Redgrave to portray her) she won an Emmy for the part and the film was one of the highest rating programs of the year. Her follow up film work to her Oscar had been mostly low key but successful, performances in films such as Yanks (1979), Agatha (1979), The Bostonians (1984), Wetherby (1985) and Prick Up Your Ears (1987) further cemented her reputation as a fine actress and she received various accolades and nominations.
However mainly in the 1980s, she focused on TV films and high budget mini-series as well as theatre in both London and New York. She made headlines in 1984 when she sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra for $5 million for wrongful cancellation of her contract because of her politics (she also stated her salary was significantly reduced in Agatha (1979) for the same reason). She became more mainstream in the 1990s where she appeared in a string of high profile films but the parts often underused Redgrave's abilities or they were small cameos/5-minute parts. Highlights included Howards End (1992), Little Odessa (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Cradle Will Rock (1999), as well as her leading lady parts in A Month by the Lake (1995) and Mrs Dalloway (1997).
In 2003 she finally won the coveted Tony award for her performance in 'The Long Day's Journey Into Night' and followed up with another two Tony nominated performances on Broadway, her one woman show 'The Year of Magical Thinking' in 2007 and 'Driving Miss Daisy' in 2010 which not only was extended due to high demand, but was also transferred to the West End for an additional three months in 2011.
Vanessa continues to lend her name to causes and has been notable for donating huge amounts of her own money for her various beliefs. She has publicly opposed the war in Iraq, campaigned for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, supported the rights of gays and lesbians as well as AIDs research and many other issues. She released her autobiography in 1993 and a few years later she was elected to serve as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She also famously declined the invitation to be made a Dame for her services as an actress. Many have wondered the possible heights her career could have reached if it wasn't for her outspoken views, but being a celebrity and the artificial lifestyle usually attached doesn't seem to interest Redgrave in the slightest.
Vanessa has worked with all three of her children professionally on numerous occasions (her eldest daughter, Natasha Richardson tragically died at the age of 45 due to a skiing accident) and in her mid 70s she still works regularly on television, film and theatre, delivering time and time again great performances.Aurora Sinistra (11 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Music Department
- Director
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and at Old Vic Theatre. She is a ten-time BAFTA winner including Best Actress in a Comedy Series for A Fine Romance (1981) in which she appeared with her husband, Michael Williams, and Best Supporting Actress in A Handful of Dust (1988) and A Room with a View (1985). She received an ACE award for her performance in the television series Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985). She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1970, a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1988 and a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2005.Pomona Sprout (31 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Tony Award-winning English actor Michael Gough, best known for playing the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the first four Batman (1989, 1992, 1995 & 1997) movies and for playing the arch-criminal Dr. Clement Armstrong in The Avengers (1961) episode "The Cybernauts", was an accomplished performer on both stage and screen. He was nominated twice for Tony Awards, in 1979 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce" and in 1988 in the same category for Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code", winning in 1979. Though he never achieved on the small screen and silver screen what he did in the theater, Gough's career in television and movies spanned sixty-plus years over eight decades. Michael Gough died at age 94 on March 17, 2011 at his home near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.The Sorting Hat (7 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001) (voice)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002) (voice)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004) (voice)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006) (voice)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009) (voice)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011) (voice)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) (voice) - Actress
- Producer
- Director
Bonnie Francesca Wright was born on February 17, 1991 to jewelers Gary Wright and Sheila Teague. Her debut performance was in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) as Ron Weasley's little sister Ginny Weasley. Bonnie tried out for the film due to her older brother Lewis mentioning she reminded him of Ginny. Her role in the first film was a small cameo like role as Ginny, having bigger part in the second film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). After shooting the first Potter film, in 2002 Bonnie did the Hallmark television film Stranded (2002) playing Young Sarah Robinson. Then in 2004 after doing the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Bonnie was cast in Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004) , a BBC TV film as Young Agatha. Then Bonnie was back as Ginny Weasley for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) where her role turned supporting as Harry's love interest.
In 2007 she guest-voiced for Disney's TV series The Replacements (2006) as Vanessa. Also that time she voiced Ginny for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) as well for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) in 2009.
While shooting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), Bonnie was cast as Mia for Geography of the Heart (2014) a feature-length film shot in five international locations about the complexity of love. Bonnie's segment was shot in December 2009 in London. Also during that time and shooting for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) Bonnie was attending London College of Communication to study film.
In 2011 Bonnie starred in After the Dark (2013), with James D'Arcy, Daryl Sabara and with Harry Potter co-star Freddie Stroma.
Bonnie also wrote and directed a short film for school called Separate We Come, Separate We Go (2012) starring Potter co-star David Thewlis.Susan Bones (10 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Jessica Brown Findlay is an English actress. She is known for Emelia Conan-Doyle in the British comedy-drama Albatross (2011), Winter's Tale (2014), This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) and Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey (2010). She also starred in the TV series Misfits (2009) and mini-series Labyrinth (2012). In 2011, she starred in the Black Mirror (2011) episode, Fifteen Million Merits (2011). "Albatross" was her film debut.
Jessica was born in Cookham, Berkshire, to Beverley, a teacher's aide and nurse, and Christopher Brown-Findlay, who works in finance. She is of Scottish, English, and Irish descent. Jessica trained with the National Youth Ballet and the Associates of the Royal Ballet. At age fifteen, she was invited to dance with the Kirov at the Royal Opera House for a summer season.Lavender Brown (35 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x03 Lord Voldemort’s Request (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)- Theodore Nott (5 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
- Director
- Writer
Lily began working as an actress when she was 6 years old, then returned to film when she was 16 in Marilyn Manson's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. In 2009 she played the female lead in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Since then she has made over fifteen films with esteemed directors including Sally Potter, Shekhar Kapur, Roland Joffe, Mary Harron and Rian Johnson; performed at the Globe theatre and The Old Vic theatre. Lily wrote and presented a six-part TV series on contemporary art for Sky Arts, shoots photography and directed her first short film Wild Rubber in 2012.
Lily has worked with notable photographers and artists from Steven Meisel to Gilliam Wearing. She was the youngest model to appear on the cover of British Vogue, and was listed by French Vogue as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. As an advocate for sociopolitical and environmental issues, Lily has employed technology, writing, filmmaking and public speaking as means to build awareness and encourage dialogue. Lily was awarded a First Class BA in History of Art from Cambridge University in 2011. In 2013 she co-founded Impossible.com: a technology company that uses technology to solve social and environmental problems.
Lily has spoken at Davos, Google's Zeitgeist, Wired and Web Summit, was an affiliate at the Berkman Center at Harvard University, and holds an Honorary Doctor of Letters from GCU. Lily is a patron of the EJF and has worked significantly with WWF. She writes often for national and international press. 'Impossible Utopias', originally submitted as the thesis for her undergraduate degree, is Lily's first book.Pansy Parkinson (21 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)- Afshan Azad, who is of Bangladeshi descendant, was born on February 12, 1988 in Manchester, England. She is an actress who is mostly known for her play in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009).Padma Patil (14 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Shefali Chowdhury is a British actress, vastly known for her role of Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter film series. Shefali was born in Denbighshire, Wales, to Bangladeshi parents who migrated to the United Kingdom in the year 1980. She attended the Waverly School before her foray into acting and later on completed her Alma Mater from Birmingham City University. Shefali is the youngest of five siblings and resides in Birmingham, England.Parvati Patil (34 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Alfred Lewis Enoch was born December 2, 1988 in Westminster, London, England, the son of English actor William Russell (William Russell Enoch) and Brazilian doctor Etheline Margareth Lewis. He is an actor, known for his role as Dean Thomas in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)_ (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) (2009), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) (2011). More recently, he has played Philotus in Timon of Athens (2012), and Titus Lartius in Coriolanus (2013 - 2014), by William Shakespeare, both at the Donmar Warehouse theater.Dean Thomas (48 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x03 Shell Cottage (2011)
Episode 11x04 Gringotts (2011)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Blaise Zabini (8 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Devon Murray was born in County Kildare, Ireland in October 1988. His parents Michael and Fidelma Murray sent him to the Billie Barry when he was six, and within two weeks he landed a Tesco television ad. Within six months he was in his first movie, acting alongside Aidan Quinn in This Is My Father (1998). He then joined the National Performing Arts School and made his breakthrough in Angela's Ashes (1999). He also acted with Jane Seymour in Yesterday's Children (2000).
He now plays Seamus Finnigan (one of Harry's Gryffindor House friends) in the much-hyped Harry Potter series. Devon is an only child and now lives in Celbridge, County Kildare (Ireland). He has horses, and enjoys riding them, as well as rollerblading, skateboarding and playing on his computer.Seamus Finnigan (44 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory school, The Dragon School in Oxford, and by the time he was 13, he boarded at Eton College, at the same time that his parents were going through a divorce. He continued on to the University of Cambridge, where he earned a double first in Classics. He continued to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 2005.
Whilst at University of Cambridge, he was seen by the Hamilton Hodell agency in the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" and was signed. Following this, he was cast in his first television role in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001). Hiddleston won his first film role as Oakley in Joanna Hogg's award-winning first feature, Unrelated (2007). His breakthrough role came when he portrayed the nemesis Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe feature film Thor (2011). He reprised the character in The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
He has also appeared in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris (2011), and the romantic vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). On television, he appeared on the BBC series The Hollow Crown (2012), in the adaptations of Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "Henry V". In theatre, he has been in the productions of "Cymbeline" (2007) and "Ivanov" (2008). In December 2013, he starred as the title character in the Donmar Warehouse production of "Coriolanus" which played until February 2014. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in "Cymbeline" while also being nominated for the same award the same year for his role as Cassio in "Othello".The Bloody Baron (8 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
Rik Mayall, one of the first and foremost alternative comedians in the UK, was born in Matching Tye, a village just outside Harlow in Essex. His parents, John and Gillian, were both drama teachers. His acting debut was at the age of seven when he appeared in one of his father's stage plays. He met his comedy partner and best friend Adrian "Ade" Edmondson at Manchester University in 1975. Soon, the duo began performing together as a comedy act called "Twentieth Century Coyote" at the now legendary Comedy Store in London. They later moved their act to a venue called "The Comic Strip" and it was there that they were discovered by producer Paul Jackson. Rik and his friends, including Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Alexei Sayle, Peter Richardson, and Nigel Planer were boomed onto television screens with immense success. He wrote The Young Ones (1982) with Ben Elton and Lise Mayer. You loved it or hated it, but you can't deny the impact it had on British sitcoms.
His career was launched, and, aged 24, he became one of the most popular comedians in Britain. He wrote and starred in various other television programmes and films over the years such as The New Statesman (1987); his role in it as Alan B'Stard earned him a BAFTA. He had his brief touch of Hollywood in 1991 when he starred as the title role in Drop Dead Fred (1991), but he soon returned to the British TV screens with Bottom (1991) a show which only ran for 3 seasons from 1991 to 1995 but was so popular that he and "Ade" toured with live shows based on the series around Britain every two years or so up until 2014.
In 1998, he suffered a severe accident and ended up in a coma after he crashed with his quad-bike at his farm in Devon. Luckily, he recovered and starred in films and shows such as Guest House Paradiso (1999) and Day of the Sirens (2002). In 2002, he proved that he was back and ready for action in the comedy series Believe Nothing (2002), which reunited him with Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the writers of "The New Statesman". In 2003, he toured the UK alongside "Ade" with the fifth Bottom Live show.Peeves (24 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 3x03 The Boggart In The Wardrobe (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x05 Horcruxes (2009)
Episode 9x07 The Seer Overheard (2009)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Dawn was educated at a weekly boarding school in Plymouth and spent the weekends with her grandparents who lived nearby She never felt at home at the school as it was too posh. She met Jennifer Saunders while training to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama and became flat mates and started writing together. When the Comedy Store opened they started attending and it was there that she met Lenny Henry who she later married.The Fat Lady (32 episodes)
Episode 1x04 The Sorting Hat (2001)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 5x04 The Egg And The Eye (2005)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x01 A Sluggish Memory (2009)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x05 Horcruxes (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
John Nettles has been a familiar face on British and International television screens for over 30 years.
From his early beginnings in the UK hit comedy The Liver Birds (1969), he became a household name overnight playing the Jersey detective Jim Bergerac. The series, Bergerac (1981), was a huge hit in Britain and was exported to many countries across the world including France, Spain, and Greece, gaining him thousands of fans.
His newfound fame as Bergerac gave him almost film-star-like fame and fortune, not to mention thousands of female admirers!
Despite Bergerac (1981) being mothballed in the early 1990s, the series still has a considerable fan base and lingering popularity abroad, especially in Jersey, where images of John Nettles are still used for advertising tourist attractions and other services on the island.
Nettles' polished Shakesperean performances have won him critical acclaim and many consider him to rival fellow British stalwarts of theatre such as Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen.
Oddly enough, however, he has never really ventured onto the big screen and has seemed happy to stick to stage and television throughout his successful career.
Most recently he has enjoyed continued success playing the straightforward DCI Tom Barnaby in ITV's Midsomer Murders (1997). He is on record as wanting to create a TV detective without any of the usual tics, and consequently Tom Barnaby is a happy family man who just happens to live in the most murderous part of an otherwise stereotypical idyllic English countryside.Cuthbert Binns (13 episodes)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 3x08 Cat, Rat And Dog (2003)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x07 The Pensieve (2005)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Sean Biggerstaff was born to a firefighter and a community education worker. He joined a local drama group and he acted as "Augustus Gloop" in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". After that, for six years, he joined the Scottish Youth Theatre. It was there he got his big break when Alan Rickman asked him be Tom in The Winter Guest (1997). That appearance led to the role of Oliver Wood in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).He continued the role of Oliver in the following Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).Oliver Wood (16 episodes)
Episode 1x05 The Midnight Duel (2001)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Tiana Benjamin was born on 5 October 1984 in Enfield, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), EastEnders (1985) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).Angelina Johnson (26 episodes)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
- Producer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her mother is from Llandeilo, Wales, and Carey also has Irish and English ancestry.
Her first major appearance was playing Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005) alongside Keira Knightley, Judi Dench, and Donald Sutherland. Carey also played orphan Ada Clare in the BBC television series Bleak House (2005).
Carey has said that her passion and love for acting was first kindled at her old school Woldingham School, where she took part in a school production of "Sweet Charity" in her final year, and where she was also a student head of drama.
Carey is married to musician Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons.Katie Bell (27 episodes)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x08 The Secret Riddle (2008)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x08 The Lightning-Struck Tower (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Karen Sheila Gillan was born and raised in Inverness, Scotland, as the only child of Marie Paterson and husband John Gillan, who is a singer and recording artist. She developed a love for acting very early on, attending several youth theatre groups and taking part in a wide range of productions at her school, Charleston Academy.
At age 16, Karen decided she wanted to pursue her acting career further and, studied under the renowned theatre director Scott Johnston at the Performing Arts Studio Scotland. She later attended the prestigious Italia Conti Academy in London. During her first year, she landed a role on Rebus (2000) and soon appeared in a variety of programs including Channel 4's Stacked (2008) and The Kevin Bishop Show (2008), as well as a two-year stint on the long-running series Doctor Who (2005). Karen also stars in the film Outcast (2010), starring James Nesbitt. Her most recent starring role is as Eliza Dooley on the situation comedy Selfie (2014).Alicia Spinnet (22 episodes)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Jamie Yeates was born on 27 October 1983 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The English Programme (1976) and Mr. Bean (1990). He has been married to Dominique DeBeer since 17 December 2011.Marcus Flint (6 episodes)
Episode 1x06 Halloween And Quidditch (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x07 The Quidditch Final (2003)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Eileen Atkins was born in a Salvation Army Women's Hostel in north London. Her father was a gas meter reader; her mother, a seamstress and barmaid. A drama teacher taught her how to drop her Cockney accent, and she studied Shakespeare and Greek tragedies. Her breakthrough role in "The Killing of Sister George" took her to Broadway.Irma Pince (10 episodes)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 9x08 The Lightning-Struck Tower (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Writer
- Actor
- Producer
Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic Society and staged Gilbert and Sullivan concerts. Jones studied at St. Edmund Hall College, Oxford University, read English but graduated with a degree in History. He was variously captain of boxing, captain of the Rugby Team and School Captain. At about this time, he befriended Michael Palin. Both performed comedy together as part of the Oxford Revue. In 1965, he again partnered Palin in The Late Show (1966) and worked in the dual capacity of writer/actor on Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967) with Palin, Eric Idle and David Jason. Another noteworthy television credit was Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) (again with Palin) in which fun was poked at famous historical personae, Jones essaying Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh and Henry VIII (among others).
Needless to say that Jones found his greatest success as a founding member of the anarchic and irreverent Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969), along with Palin, Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam. Jones not only provided much of the written comic input, but also portrayed many of the classic characters: the implausibly obese Mr. Creosote in The Meaning of Life (1983) (who explodes after one more little wafer), the inept Detective Superintendent Harry "Snapper" Organs in the Piranha Brothers sketch (a take on the Kray Twins), the tobacconist in the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook sketch and numerous assorted shrill-voiced, slovenly 'rat-bag women' (Mrs. Equator comes to mind).
The Pythons were unconventional, controversial, certainly groundbreaking and invariably inspired, at their best in their unrelenting satirical attacks on established British institutions, ruling hierarchies and the class structure. Jones later said "The thing is we never thought Python was a success when it was actually happening, it was only with the benefit of hindsight". In addition to writing and acting, Jones also co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (with Terry Gilliam) and took solo directing credit for Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life. Post-Python, he rejoined Palin as co-writer for some of the very best episodes of Ripping Yarns (1976), including Whinfrey's Last Case, Tompkinson's Schooldays, Murder at Moorstone Manor, The Curse of the Claw and The Testing of Eric Oldthwaite. Jones later scripted Labyrinth (1986) from a story by Jim Henson and Dennis Lee and wrote, as well as directed, Erik the Viking (1989) and Absolutely Anything (2015), a science fiction comedy with Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale.
On a more serious note, Jones sidelined as a newspaper columnist and was an outspoken social and political commentator (a staunch critic of the Iraq War). His lifelong fascination with medieval and ancient history (and Geoffrey Chaucer in particular) led to presenting a series of television documentaries (Medieval Lives (2004) and Barbarians (2006))) as well as publishing several well researched, if sometimes controversial, books including Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary and Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery.
Jones died at the age of 77 on 21 January 2020 from complications of dementia, at his home in Highgate, North London.Chessmen (1 episode)
Episode 1x07 The Mirror Of Erised (2001) (voice)- Actor
- Director
- Producer
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill, Glasgow, where he did well enough and started 'a little school band with a couple of mates'.
McAvoy toyed with the idea of the Catholic priesthood as a child but, when he was 16, a visit to the school by actor David Hayman sparked an interest in acting. Hayman offered him a part in his film The Near Room (1995) but despite enjoying the experience McAvoy didn't seriously consider acting as a career, although he did continue to act as a member of PACE Youth Theatre. He applied instead to the Royal Navy and had already been accepted when he was also offered a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD).
He took the place at the RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and, when he graduated in 2000, he moved to London. He had already made a couple of TV appearances by this time and continued to get a steady stream of TV and movie work until he came to attention of the British public in 2004 playing car thief Steve McBride in the successful UK TV series Shameless (2004) and then to the rest of the world in 2005 as Mr Tumnus, the faun, in Disney's adaptation of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). In The Last King of Scotland (2006) McAvoy portrayed a Scottish doctor who becomes the personal physician to dictator Idi Amin, played by Forest Whitaker. McAvoy's career breakthrough came in Atonement (2007), Joe Wright's 2007 adaption of Ian McEwan's novel.
Since then, McAvoy has taken on theatre roles, starring in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' (directed by Jamie Lloyd), which launched the first Trafalgar Transformed season in London's West End and earned him an Olivier award nomination for Best Actor. In January 2015, McAvoy returned to the Trafalgar Studios stage to play Jack Gurney, the delusional 14th Earl of Gurney who believes he is Jesus, in the first revival of Peter Barnes's satire 'The Ruling Class', a role for which he was subsequently awarded the London Evening Standard Theatre Award's Best Actor.
On screen, McAvoy has appeared as corrupt cop Bruce Robertson in Filth (2013), a part for which he received a Scottish BAFTA for Best Actor, a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, a London Critics Circle Film Award for British Actor of the Year and an Empire Award for Best Actor. More recently, he reprised his role as Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019). He began his depiction of Kevin Wendell Crumb, also known as The Horde, a man with an extreme case of dissociative identity disorder in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Split (2016) and continued it in the sequel, Glass (2019). Also in 2019, he played Bill Denbrough in It Chapter Two (2019), the horror sequel to It (2017).
McAvoy and Jamie Lloyd look set to continue their collaboration in December 2019, with a production of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End, London. The project has been on the cards as long ago as 2017, when McAvoy posted a picture of him reading the script and wearing a false nose.Charlie Weasley (13 episodes)
Episode 1x08 Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback (2001)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he quit when his editor told him he was spending too much time at the theatre and not enough working. Stewart spent a year as a furniture salesman, saving cash to attend drama school. He was accepted by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1957.
He made his professional debut in 1959 in the repertory theatre in Lincoln; he worked at the Manchester Library Theatre and a tour around the world with the Old Vic Company followed in the early 1960s. Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1966, to begin his 27-year association. Following a spell with the Royal National Theatre in the mid 1980s, he went to Los Angeles, California to star on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), which ran from 1987-1994, playing the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. After the series ended, Stewart reprised his role for a string of successful Star Trek films: Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). Stewart continues to work on the stage and in various films. He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to drama.Ronan (5 episodes)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Executive
Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to May (Smith), a nurse, and Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan, County Meath, until he moved to England, UK, at an early age (thus explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly). His father left the household when Pierce was a child and although reunited later in life, the two have never had a close relationship. His most popular role is that of British secret agent James Bond. The death, in 1991, of Cassandra Harris, his wife of eleven years, left him with three children - Christopher and Charlotte from Cassandra's first marriage and Sean from their marriage. Since her death, he has had two children with his second wife, Keely Shaye Brosnan.
Brosnan is most famous for starring in the TV series Remington Steele (1982) as the title character, as well as portraying famous movie character James Bond in GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002).Bane (5 episodes)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), as Hugo's father in Hugo (2011) and in the titular role in Dom Hemingway (2013).
David Jude Law was born on December 29, 1972 in Lewisham, London, England, to Margaret Anne (Heyworth) and Peter Robert Law, both of whom taught at comprehensive schools; his father later became a headmaster. Law has said that he was named after both the book Jude the Obscure and the song Hey Jude.
In 1992, Jude began his stage career. He starred in many plays throughout London, and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award of "Outstanding Newcomer" After doing the play "Indiscretions" in London, he moved and did it again on Broadway. This time, he was alongside Kathleen Turner. He then received a Tony Nomination for "Outstanding Supporting Actor". He was then rewarded the Theatre World Award. After Broadway, Jude started on the big screen, in many independent films. His first big-named movie was Gattaca (1997), with Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. He also had a good role in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). Jude's latest rise to fame has been because of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), in which he plays Matt Damon's obsession. The film did very well at the box office, and critics loved Jude's acting.
Following the success of Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Law's feature film career continued to gain momentum throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s with roles in such films as Enemy at the Gates (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), I Heart Huckabees (2004), The Aviator (2004) and many others. Law is one of three actors, along with Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp, to take over acting responsibilities in the Terry Gilliam project The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) following Heath Ledger's death.
Law is a partner in the production company "Natural Nylon". His partners include Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor and his ex-wife Sadie Frost.
Law has been active in many charitable activities and supports several different foundations and causes, doing work for organizations including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Make Poverty History, Breast Cancer Care and others. Law is also a peace advocate, and in 2011, participated in street protests against the rule of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus.
Law married Sadie Frost in 1997 and the couple had two sons (Rafferty and Rudy) and a daughter (Iris) before divorcing in 2003. Law and Alfie (2004) co-star Sienna Miller were engaged to be married in 2005 and separated in 2006 (they would later rekindle their relationship in 2009, splitting once again in 2011). Law and American model Samantha Burke had a brief relationship in 2008 that resulted in the birth of Law's fourth child, daughter Sophia. Law's fifth child, with an ex-girlfriend, Catherine Harding, was born in 2015.Firenze (7 episodes)
Episode 1x09 The Forbidden Forest (2001)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Geraldine McEwan was born in Old Windsor, England and made her theatre debut at the age of 14 at the Theatre Royal in Windsor. By the age of 18 she was starring in London's West End in several long-running popular productions. During the 1950s she acted with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961.
She had leading roles as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with Christopher Plummer, Ophelia in Hamlet, The Princess of France in Love's Labour's Lost, Marina in Pericles and played opposite Dorothy Tutin in Twelfth Night which also toured Moscow and Leningrad.
Miss McEwan originated the female lead role in Joe Orton's Loot, captivated Broadway with productions of The School for Scandal, The Private Ear and the Public Eye, and most recently, The Chairs, earning her a Tony nomination for best actress.
As a member of the Royal National Theatre, acting along side Albert Finney, and Laurence Olivier, Geraldine spent the 1960s and 70s with memorable roles including The Dance of Death, Love for Love, A Flea in Her Ear, Chez Nous, Home and Beauty, The Browning Version, Harlequinade and The White Devil. In 1976 she had the distinction of being nominated for an Olivier Award in two separate categories.
In 1983 she won the Evening Standard Best Actress Award for The Rivals. In 1991 she won the BAFTA Best Actress Award for her intense and powerful performance as the Mother in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989) and in 1995 she won the Evening Standard Best Actress Award for her performance of Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World.
In 1998, McEwan was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best Actress Category for The Chairs. Her numerous television credits include the highly acclaimed The Barchester Chronicles (1982) with Alan Rickman, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1978), Mulberry (1992), and the immensely popular Mapp & Lucia (1985). Her film work includes The Dance of Death (1969) with Laurence Olivier, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) with Alan Rickman, Henry V (1989) and Love's Labour's Lost (2000), both with Kenneth Branagh, and most recently The Magdalene Sisters (2002), The Lazarus Child (2004), Vanity Fair (2004) and Carrie's War (2004). In 2003, Geraldine was chosen to play Agatha Christie's Jane Marple. She recently retired from that role after completing 12 hugely popular two-hour mysteries for ITV/PBS.Poppy Pomfrey (23 episodes)
Episode 1x10 The Man With Two Faces (2001)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 3x05 The Marauder’s Map (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x10 The First Task (2004)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x08 The Secret Riddle (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x03 Lord Voldemort’s Request (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hugh Fraser was born on 23 October 1945 in England, UK. He is an actor, known for Poirot (1989), 101 Dalmatians (1996) and Jack the Ripper (1988). He has been married to Belinda Lang since 15 October 1988. They have one child.Mr. Mason (1 episode)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Legendary EastEnders actress and Carry On star Barbara Windsor was born Barbara Ann Deeks in Stepney, London, the daughter of Rose (Ellis), a dressmaker, and John Deeks, a costermonger. She was a bright pupil at school and her parents wanted her to go to university, but after her first taste of show business, when her grandmother took her backstage at a theatre, she decided acting was what she wanted to do.
Her mother spent all her savings on a place at the Aida Foster Acting School, where Barbara made her stage debut in Aida's 1950s pantomime at the Golders Green Hippodrome. Aida's tutors tried to iron out her Cockney accent but luckily they didn't succeed. In 1952, she was cast as one of the orphans in the musical "Love from Judy", which opened at London's Saville Theatre. With the show's star, she made her television debut in "Variety Parade". Two years later in 1954, she made her film debut as a school girl extra in "The Belles of St. Trinians", and by 1957, she was performing at London's Winston's Club with Amanda Barrie. The producer Joan Littlewood, who was committed to working class theatre, spotted her at an audition and in 1960 gave her the role which changed her life - Rose in "Fings Ain't What They Used to Be" at London's Garrick Theatre where it ran for two and a half years, during which she appeared in the sitcom The Rag Trade (1961).
As a result of the success of "Fings", Littlewood cast her in the film Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), which was seen by producer Peter Rogers who offered her roles in "Carry On" films, the first of which was Carry on Spying (1964). In 1964, She appeared in Joan's stage version of 'Oh! What a Lovely War' on Broadway and toured America with it. On her return, she was cast in the West End production of Lionel Bart's ill fated musical "Twang", which closed after a short run allowing her to take a role in "Come Spy with Me" with Danny La Rue at London's Whitehall Theatre. During the run, she had a complete change in playing one of the Ripper's victims in the film A Study in Terror (1965), then it was back to lighthearted roles in such films as Carry on Doctor (1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and in 1968, a British tour with Frankie Howerd in "The Wind in the Sasafras Tree". In late 1969, Ned Sherrin cast her as the music hall legend Marie Lloyd in "Sing a Rude Song" which opened at the Greenwich Theatre before transferring to the West End's Garrick Theatre.
Windsor did become well known in the London theatrical scene, but it was the "Carry On" comedies that made her a star. Although she appeared in only nine films in the long-running series (she left because she thought they were getting too risqué), she made such an impression as the basically good-hearted but dizzy sexpot that many of the series' fans believe she was in many more than she actually was. She almost didn't get the role originally, as she and series regular Kenneth Williams took an instant dislike to each other, but that was soon overcome and they became lifelong friends.
After she left the series, she continued her stage and film work, and became a regular in a long-running British soap opera, EastEnders (1985) as the matriarch of The Queen Victoria - Peggy Mitchell, which she played in over 1,500 episodes. She wrote two autobiographies, "Barbara - the Laughter and Tears of a Cockney Sparrow" and "All of Me - My Extraordinary Life". She was awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 Queen's New Years Honours for her services to entertainment. She was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Queen's New Years Honours for her services to entertainment and to charity.
Dame Barbara Windsor died of Alzheimer's disease on December 10, 2020, in London. She is survived by husband Scott Mitchell.Mrs. Mason (1 episode)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Rhys Ifans was born and raised in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, the son of teacher parents, Beti Wyn (Davies) and Eirwyn Evans. He was educated in two Welsh language schools - Ysgol Pentrecelyn, where his mother taught, and Ysgol Maes Garmon. During his childhood, Ifans showed an interest in performing and attended youth acting school. He went on to train at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Ifans made his small screen debut as the host of Welsh children's TV show, Stwnsh. Various roles in theater and Welsh language television also followed. His breakthrough on the big screen came in the British hit Twin Town (1997), where he acting alongside his younger brother Llyr Ifans. More film success followed, notably as Hugh Grant's scruffy housemate in Notting Hill (1999). Other projects include Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) , Little Nicky (2000), Enduring Love (2004), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
In 2004, he played iconic British comedian Peter Cook in the TV film Not Only But Always (2004). His performance earned him an Emmy nomination and a BAFTA award for Best Actor.Dobby (13 episodes)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002) (voice)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002) (voice)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002) (voice)
Episode 5x01 The Unexpected Task (2005) (voice)
Episode 5x02 The Yule Ball (2005) (voice)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005) (voice)
Episode 5x06 The Madness Of Mr. Crouch (2005) (voice)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006) (voice)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007) (voice)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007) (voice)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009) (voice)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009) (voice)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011) (voice)- Actress
- Producer
- Director
The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded legal thriller Michael Clayton (2007), however, her androgynous looks and often bizarre appeal have been embraced by more mainstream crowds as well.
She was born Katherine Mathilda Swinton into a patrician Scottish military family on November 5, 1960, in London, England. Her mother, Judith Balfour, Lady Swinton (née Killen), was Australian, and her father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, an army officer, was English-born. Her ancestry is Scottish, Northern Irish, and English, including a long tapestry of prominent Scottish ancestors. Educated at an English and a Scottish boarding school, Tilda subsequently studied Social and Political Science at Cambridge University and graduated in 1983 with a degree in English Literature.
During her tenure as a student, she performed countless stage productions and proceeded to work for a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she appeared in such productions as "Measure for Measure." The rebel insider her, however, was strong and she left the company after a year as her approach and interests began to shift dramatically. With a pungent taste for the unique and seldom tried, Tilda found some gender-bending stage roles come her way. She portrayed Mozart in Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri", and as a working class woman impersonating her dead husband during World War II, in Manfred Karge's "Man to Man," a role she later committed to film (Man to Man (1992)).
In 1985, the tall, slender performer with alabaster skin and carrot-topped hair began a professional association with gay experimental director Derek Jarman. She continued to live and work with the groundbreaking writer/director/cinematographer for the next nine years, involving herself in seven of his often notorious films. This quirky, highly fascinating alliance would produce such stark and radical turns as the Berlin International Film Festival winners Caravaggio (1986), The Last of England (1987), The Garden (1990) and Edward II (1991) (playing Isabella, in which she won "Best Actress" at the Venice Film Festival) and Wittgenstein (1993), as well as the films Soursweet (1988) (a movie with no spoken dialogue) and the Stockholm Film Festival Award winner Blue (1993).
Jarman succumbed to complications from AIDS in 1994. His untimely demise left a devastating void in Tilda's life for quite some time. Her most notable performance of her Jarman period, however, came from a non-Jarman film. For the vivid title role in Orlando (1992), her nobleman character lives for 400 years while changing sex from man to woman. The film, which Swinton spent years helping writer/director Sally Potter develop and finance, continues to this day to have a worldwide devoted fan following.
Over the years, Tilda has preferred art to celebrity, opening herself to experimental projects with new and untried directors and mediums, delving into the worlds of installation art and cutting-edge fashion. Consistently off-centered roles in Female Perversions (1996), Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998), Teknolust (2002), Young Adam (2003), Broken Flowers (2005) and Béla Tarr's The Man from London (2007) have added to her mystique. Back in 1995, she delved into a performance art piece in the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she was put on display to the public for a week, asleep (or apparently so), in a glass case.
Following the birth of her twins in 1997, Tilda would leave lean for a time towards Hollywood mainstream filming. The thriller The Deep End (2001), earned her a number of critic's awards and her first Golden Globe nomination. Other visible U.S. pictures included The Beach (2000) with Leonardo DiCaprio, fantasy epic Constantine (2005) with Keanu Reeves, her Oscar-decorated performance in Michael Clayton (2007) and, of course, her iconic White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005).
Into the millennium, Tilda continued to amaze starring in the crime drama Julia (2008) and in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). She learned Italian and Russian for Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love (2009), starred in the psychological thriller We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer (2013), and earned fine notice in Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem (2013). She also starred in the dark romantic fantasy drama Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) directed by Jim Jarmusch, had a small role in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), starred in Judd Apatow's comedy Trainwreck (2015), and played a rock star in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash (2015).
Showing no signs of slowing up, Tilda continues to make creative, visual impressions in such films as the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar! (2016) where she reunited with Clooney and had a dual role playing twin journalists, and as the wise Asian teacher of Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) in the Marvel Comics action film Doctor Strange (2016), while repeating the part of The Ancient One in Avengers: Endgame (2019). She gave another eccentric, unhinged performance in the action adventure message movie Okja (2017), played Betsy Trotwood in a contemporary telling of The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and teamed up again with writer/director Jim Jarmusch in the thoroughly offbeat fantasy horror comedy The Dead Don't Die (2019).Mafalda Hopkirk (6 episodes)
Episode 2x01 The Worst Birthday (2002) (voice)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006) (voice)
Episode 10x06 Magic Is Might (2010)
Episode 10x07 The Muggle-Born Registration Commission (2010)
Episode 10x08 The Goblin’s Revenge (2010)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family escaped The Troubles by moving to Reading, Berkshire, England. At 23, Branagh joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he took on starring roles in "Henry V" and "Romeo and Juliet". He soon found the RSC too large and impersonal and formed his own, the Renaissance Theatre Company, which now counts Prince Charles as one of its royal patrons. At 29, he directed Henry V (1989), where he also co-starred with his then-wife, Emma Thompson. The film brought him Best Actor and Best Director Oscar nominations. In 1993, he brought Shakespeare to mainstream audiences again with his hit adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing (1993), which featured an all-star cast that included, among others, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton and Keanu Reeves. At 30, he published his autobiography and, at 34, he directed and starred as "Victor Frankenstein" in the big-budget adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein (1994), with Robert De Niro as the monster himself. In 1996, Branagh wrote, directed and starred in a lavish adaptation of Hamlet (1996). His superb film acting work also includes a wide range of roles such as in Celebrity (1998), Wild Wild West (1999), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Valkyrie (2008) and his stunning portrayal of Laurence Olivier in My Week with Marilyn (2011), where once again he offered a great performance that was also nominated for an Academy Award.Gilderoy Lockhart (11 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)- Actor
- Stunts
- Writer
George Robert Lazenby was born September 5, 1939 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, to Sheila Joan (Bodel) and George Edward Lazenby. He moved to London, England in 1964, after serving in the Australian Army. Before becoming an actor, he worked as an auto mechanic, used car salesman, prestige car salesman, and as a male model, in London, England. In 1968, Lazenby was cast as "James Bond", despite his only previous acting experience being in commercials, and his only film appearance being a bit-part in a 1965 Italian-made Bond spoof. Lazenby won the role based on a screen-test fight scene, the strength of his interviews, fight skills and audition footage. A chance encounter with Bond series producer Albert R. Broccoli in a hair salon in 1966, in London, had given Lazenby his first shot at getting the role. Broccoli had made a mental note to remember Lazenby as a possible candidate at the time when he thought Lazenby looked like a Bond. The lengths Lazenby went to to get the role included spending his last pounds on acquiring a tailor-made suit from Sean Connery's tailor, which was originally made for Connery, along with purchasing a very Bondish-looking Rolex watch.
Lazenby quit the role of Bond right before the premiere of his only film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), citing he would get other acting roles, and that his Bond contract, which was fourteen pages thick, was too demanding on him.
In his post-Bond career, Lazenby has acted in TV movies, commercials, various recurring roles in TV series, the film series "Emmanuelle", several Bond movie spoofs, TV guest appearances, provided voice for several animated movies and series, and several Hong Kong action films, using his martial arts expertise.Gnome (4 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002) (voice)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004) (voice)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008) (voice)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010) (voice)- Hugh Bonneville is a British actor, known for his stage work at the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company as well as the West End. His extensive film and television work includes Twenty Twelve, W1A, Downton Abbey, Paddington, The Gold and I Came By. See his website hughbonneville.uk for full biography.Arthur Weasley (34 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x01 Aunt Marge’s Big Mistake (2003)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 4x02 Back To The Burrow (2004)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 5x10 The Beginning (2005)
Episode 6x01 Dudley Demented (2006) (voice)
Episode 6x03 The Order Of The Phoenix (2006)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x03 Occlumency (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 8x04 The Slug Club (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 8x10 A Very Frosty Christmas (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 10x02 The Seven Potters (2010)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)
Episode 10x04 The Wedding (2010)
Episode 10x05 A Place To Hide (2010)
Episode 10x07 The Muggle-Born Registration Commission (2010)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing Studios. His older sister, Tamasin Day-Lewis, is a documentarian. His father was of Northern Irish and English descent, and his mother was Jewish (from a family from Latvia and Poland). Daniel was educated at Sevenoaks School in Kent, which he despised, and the more progressive Bedales in Petersfield, which he adored. He studied acting at the Bristol Old Vic School. Daniel made his film debut in Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), but then acted on stage with the Bristol Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Companies and did not appear on screen again until 1982, when he landed his first adult role, a bit part in Gandhi (1982). He also appeared on British television that year in Frost in May (1982) and How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982). Notable theatrical performances include Another Country (1982-83), Dracula (1984) and The Futurists (1986).
His first major supporting role in a feature film was in The Bounty (1984), quickly followed by My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and A Room with a View (1985). The latter two films opened in New York on the same day, offering audiences and critics evidence of his remarkable range and establishing him as a major talent. The New York Film Critics named him Best Supporting Actor for those performances. In 1986, he appeared on stage in Richard Eyre's "The Futurists" and on television in Eyre's production of The Insurance Man (1986). He also had a small role in a British/French film, Nanou (1986). In 1987, he assumed leading-man status in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), followed by a comedic role in the unsuccessful Stars and Bars (1988). His brilliant performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989) won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.
He returned to the stage to work again with Eyre, as Hamlet at the National Theater, but was forced to leave the production close to the end of its run because of exhaustion, and has not appeared on stage since. He took a hiatus from film as well until 1992, when he starred in The Last of the Mohicans (1992), a film that met with mixed reviews but was a great success at the box office. He worked with American director Martin Scorsese in The Age of Innocence (1993), based on Edith Wharton's novel. Subsequently, he teamed again with Jim Sheridan to star in In the Name of the Father (1993), a critically acclaimed performance that earned him another Academy Award nomination. His next project was in the role of John Proctor in father-in-law Arthur Miller's play The Crucible (1996), directed by Nicholas Hytner. He worked with Scorsese again to star in Gangs of New York (2002), another critically acclaimed performance that earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Day-Lewis's wife, Rebecca Miller, offered him the lead role in her film The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005), in which he played a dying man with regrets over how his wife had evolved and over how he had brought up his teenage daughter. During filming, he arranged to live separate from his wife to achieve the "isolation" needed to focus on his own character's reality. The film received mixed reviews. In 2007, he starred in director Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!", titled There Will Be Blood (2007). Day-Lewis received the Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and a variety of film critics' circle awards for the role. In 2009, Day-Lewis starred in Rob Marshall's musical adaptation Nine (2009) as film director Guido Contini. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.Lucius Malfoy (16 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 4x04 The Dark Mark (2004)
Episode 5x09 Flesh, Blood, And Bone (2005)
Episode 6x04 The Ministry Of Magic (2006)
Episode 6x07 The Hogwarts High Inquisitor (2006)
Episode 7x08 The Department Of Mysteries (2007) (voice) (uncredited)
Episode 7x09 The Only One He Ever Feared (2007)
Episode 10x01 In Memoriam (2010)
Episode 11x02 Malfoy Manor (2011)
Episode 11x05 The Final Hiding Place (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Animation Department
- Additional Crew
Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on television.
He was born Ian Holm Cuthbert on September 12, 1931, in Goodmayes, Essex, to Scottish parents who worked at the Essex mental asylum. His mother, Jean Wilson (née Holm), was a nurse, and his father, Doctor James Harvey Cuthbert, was a psychiatrist. Young Holm was brought up in London. At the age of seven he was inspired by the seeing 'Les Miserables' and became fond of acting. Holm studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1950 to the Royal Shakespeare Company. There he emerged as an actor whose range and effortless style allowed him to play almost entire Shakespeare's repertoire. In 1959 his stage partner Laurence Olivier scored a hit on Ian Holm in a sword fight in a production of 'Coriolanus'. Holm still had a scar on his finger.
In 1965 Holm made his debut on television as Richard III on the BBC's The Wars of the Roses (1965), which was a filmed theatrical production of four of Shakespeare's plays condensed down into a trilogy. In 1969 Holm won his first BAFTA Film Award Best Supporting Actor for The Bofors Gun (1968), then followed a flow of awards and nominations for his numerous works in film and on television. In 1981, he played one of his best known roles, Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981), for which he was nominated for Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In the late 1990s, he gave a highly-acclaimed turn as the lawyer, Mitchell, in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and was subsequently cast in a number of high-profile Hollywood films of the next decade, playing Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element (1997), Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), and Professor Fitz in The Aviator (2004), as well as Zach Braff's character's father Gideon in Garden State (2004). His last non-Hobbit film role was a voice part as Skinner in Ratatouille (2007).
Ian Holm had five children, three daughters and two sons from the first two of his four wives and from an additional relationship. In 1989 Holm was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), and in 1998 he was knighted for his services to drama. He died in London in June 2020.Mr. Borgan (3 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 8x03 Draco’s Detour (2008)
Episode 9x03 Lord Voldemort’s Request (2009)- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law at University College Cork, but dropped out after about a year. During this time, Murphy also pursued an interest in music, playing guitar in various bands. Upon leaving University, Murphy joined the Corcadorca Theater Company in Cork, and played the lead role in "Disco Pigs", amongst other plays.
Various film roles followed, including a film adaptation of Disco Pigs (2001). However, his big film break came when he was cast in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later (2002), which became a surprise international hit. This performance earned him nominations for Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards and Breakthrough Male Performance at the MTV Movie Awards.
Murphy went on to supporting roles in high-profile films such as Cold Mountain (2003) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), and then was cast in two villain roles: Dr. Jonathan Crane, aka The Scarecrow, in Batman Begins (2005) and Jackson Rippner in Red Eye (2005). Although slight in nature for a villain, Murphy's piercing blue eyes helped to create creepy performances and critics began to take notice. Manhola Dargis of the New York Times cited Murphy as a "picture-perfect villain", while David Denby of The New Yorker noted he was both "seductive" and "sinister".
Later that year, Murphy starred as Patrick "Kitten" Braden, an Irish transgender woman in search of her mother in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto (2005), a film adaptation of the Pat McCabe novel. Although the film was not a box office success, Murphy was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical and he won Best Actor for the Irish Film and Television Academy Awards.
The following year, Murphy starred in Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). The film was the most successful independent Irish film and won the Palm D'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Murphy continued to take roles in a number of independent films, and also reprised his role as the Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008). Nolan is known for working with actors in multiple films, and cast Murphy in Inception (2010) as Robert Fischer, the young heir of the multi-billion dollar empire, who was the target of DiCaprio's dream team. His most well-known work is starring as Thomas Shelby in the British TV show Peaky Blinders beginning in 2013.
Murphy continues to appear in high-profile films such as In Time (2011), Red Lights (2012), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), the final film in Nolan's Batman trilogy.
Murphy is married to Yvonne McGuinness, an artist. The couple have two sons, Malachy and Aran.Mr. Granger (2 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010)- Michelle was born in July 1965, the second child of publican Brian and nurse Theresa Fairley. As a teenager she attended the Ulster Youth Theatre before moving to Belfast , where she was a member of Fringe Benefit, a repertory company where she acted alongside Conleth Hill, with whom she would later appear in television juggernaut 'Game of Thrones'. In 1986 she came to London and established herself as a considerable stage actress in 'Oleanna 'at the Royal Court, 'Dancing at Lughnasa' at the Old Vic, as Lady Macbeth with the West Yorkshire Playhouse and as Emilia, wife of the villainous Iago in the Donmar Warehouse's production of 'Othello', for which she was nominated for an Olivier award and on the strength of which she was offered the part of the fiercely matriarchal Lady Stark in 'Game of Thrones'. Following that character's demise she appeared in several American television series - '24', 'Suits' and 'The Lizzie Borden Chronicles ' - as well as playing the wife of (Southern) Irish Brendan Gleeson in the epic period film 'In the Heart of the Sea'. In 2015 she returned to Britain to appear in the play 'Splendour' in London and the television series 'Rebellion' chronicling the 1916 Easter Rising.Mrs. Granger (2 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 10x03 Fallen Warrior (2010) - Actor
- Soundtrack
Preferring contemporary over classical theatre (with nary a Shakespeare stage credit in sight), one of West End theatre's most enduring and popular faces of the past four decades has been that of Tom Conti.
He was born Thomas Antonio Conti on November 22, 1941, in Paisley, Scotland, to a pair of hairdressers. His father, Alfonso, was an Italian immigrant, and his mother, Mary (McGoldrick), was Scottish, though of Irish descent. A student at Hamilton Park Catholic School (for boys), he initially trained for a musical career as a classical pianist but switched gears while attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Conti's acting credits began with the Citizen's Theatre's 1959 production of "The Roving Boy" at age eighteen.
Throughout the 1960s he tried to make ends meet on the Glasgow and English repertory stages but gained little momentum despite some scattered TV appearances in between. Unable to find the break to sustain himself, he considered leaving the arts at one point for a steadier career in medicine. While performing in the 1972 play "The Black and White Minstrels" at the Traverse Theatre for the Edinburgh Festival, however, he was spotted and cast in the TV series Adam Smith (1972), thus beginning a more promising streak of work. He would return to the play in 1974 at the Hampstead Theatre, where he also performed in "Other People" (also 1974) and as the title role of "Don Juan" (1976). An earlier London stage debut in 1973 with the acclaimed Christopher Hampton play "Savages" also helped move things along.
Following a number of successful Engish mini-series roles, particularly his slothful Charles Bovary in Madame Bovary (1975), Jewish novelist Adam Morris in The Glittering Prizes (1976), and ever-conquesting Norman in "The Norman Conquest" trilogy by Alan Ayckbourn, Tom reaped huge career rewards under the theatre lights starring as a paralyzed sculptor in both the London and Broadway mountings of the right-to-die play "Whose Life is it Anyway?" in 1979. Among the reaps were the Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Laurence Olivier, and Variety Club Awards; among the rewards was a 1980s film career in starring roles. Despite losing out on recreating his "Whose Life..." role on film (Richard Dreyfuss was granted that opportunity in 1981), Tom absolutely wowed American audiences with his scene-stealing work in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) and Reuben, Reuben (1983). He was given the National Board of Review award for his participation in both films, and earned a "leading actor" Oscar nomination for the latter in which he played an alcoholic Scottish writer. To date, he has not received another Oscar nomination or, arguably, been handed comparative film roles since.
Continuing in American films with the lesser-received American Dreamer (1984) and Saving Grace (1986), he failed to nab what seemed quite inevitable -- Hollywood screen stardom. He did, however, venture off to find other film projects to star or co-star in over the years -- both here and abroad. These have included Shirley Valentine (1989) opposite Pauline Collins, Someone Else's America (1995), Out of Control (1998), Paid (2006), O Jerusalem (2006), Blind Revenge (2009) with Daryl Hannah, a gender-bending version of The Tempest (2010) (as Gonzalo), City Slacker (2012), Paddington 2 (2017) and the sci-fi horror yarn Peripheral (2018).
Not one to frequent pubs himself, he nevertheless earned glowing reviews disappearing into the lives of two notorious celebrity tipplers -- columnist Jeffrey Bernard in "Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell" (1990, 2000, 2006) and bon vivant actor John Barrymore in "One Helluva Life" (2002) -- in separate one-man stage shows. A writer as well, the versatile Conti published the thriller novel "The Doctor" in 2004. He has long been married to Scottish actress Kara Wilson (since 1967), who has appeared with him on stage ("Present Laughter" and "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers", both of which he also directed) as well as TV and film. Daughter Nina is an actress and ventriloquist. The couple maintain residence in London.Bozo (4 episodes)
Episode 2x02 The Burrow (2002)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x03 Rita Skeeter’s Scoop (2005)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Freddie Highmore is an English actor who came to prominence for his roles in Five Children and It (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
He was born Alfred Thomas Highmore in Camden Town, London, England, to Sue (Latimer), a talent agent, and Edward Thomas Highmore, an actor. Highmore has a younger brother, Albert "Bertie" Highmore. He attended Highgate School, and later earned a double-first degree in Spanish and Arabic from Cambridge University's Emmanuel College.
In 1999, Highmore made his big screen debut in the comedy Women Talking Dirty (1999), portraying Helena Bonham Carter's son. His next prominent role was in the family drama Two Brothers (2004). Highmore's breakout role came when he was cast in Finding Neverland (2004), alongside Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. He was then cast in the title role of Charlie Bucket in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and was reportedly recommended by co-star Johnny Depp. Roles in A Good Year (2006) and Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) soon followed, before he portrayed the title role in August Rush (2007), opposite Keri Russell and Robin Williams.
In 2013, he began starring as the iconic Norman Bates in the drama thriller series Bates Motel (2013), alongside Vera Farmiga as his mother. Highmore received much acclaim for his performance throughout the series' run, and was nominated for multiple Saturn Awards and Critics' Choice Television Awards.
2017- Stars in The Good Doctor as Shaun Murphy -a young autistic surgeon who has savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join the surgical unit at the prestigious San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. Shaun is alone in the world and unable to personally connect with those around him, but he finds his niche using his extraordinary medical skill and intuition to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.Colin Creevey (21 episodes)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 4x05 The Triwizard Tournament (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 8x09 Felix Felicis (2008)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x09 The Prince’s Tale (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Irish actor Robert Sheehan was born in Portlaoise, County Laois, the son of Joseph and Maria Sheehan. His father was a member of the Garda Síochána, the police force of the Republic of Ireland. As a child, Sheehan was interested in performing music. He learned how to play the banjo, the bodhrán, and the spoons. He took part in the Fleadh Cheoil, an Irish music competition for children and teenagers.
His interest in acting started when his mother took him to an audition for the drama film Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), about an oppressive school for boys during World War II. Sheehan won an acting role in the film and socialized with other young actors. Following his film debut, Sheehan started acting in theatrical performances.
During the 2000s, Sheehan started appearing in television series. His most prominent roles were as a series regular in the Australian series Foreign Exchange (2004), the historical fantasy Young Blades (2005), the drama series Rock Rivals (2008), and the first two seasons of science fiction series Misfits (2009). In "Misfits", the characters are youths in community service who gain superpowers. Sheehan's character, Nathan Young, gains the power of immortality.
Sheehan had a co-starring role in the drama film Cherrybomb (2009). The film is about two teenage boys who are trying to impress a female love interest trough performing criminal acts. Sheehan's co-star for the film was actor Rupert Grint, and their love interest was played by actress Kimberley Nixon.
Sheehan started the 2010s as a series regular in the crime drama series Love/Hate (2010). He has continued regularly appearing in theatre, film and television roles. Among his most prominent theatrical roles is the role of Richard Duke of Gloucester/Richard III in an adaptation of William Shakespeare's depiction of "The Wars of the Roses".Justin Finch-Fletchley (14 episodes)
Episode 2x03 The Whomping Willow (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Director
- Writer
He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. As he wasn't admitted to the National Film School, he decided to dedicate himself to acting, and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television. Fame came with the parts he played in such films as Riff-Raff (1991) by Ken Loach, Braveheart (1995) by Mel Gibson and Trainspotting (1996) by Danny Boyle, but above all when he won for best leading actor at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 for My Name Is Joe (1998), once again by Loach. The Magdalene Sisters (2002) is the second feature-length film he has directed. He also directed a few episodes of the BBC TV series, Cardiac Arrest (1994), which earned him a best director nomination from the Royal Television Society.Mysterious Voice (the Basilisk) (2 episodes)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002) (voice)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002) (voice)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald was born and raised in Glasgow. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she was raised by her mother, a sales executive in the garment industry. She has one brother, David. As a hobby, she acted in an amateur theatrical club, which she enjoyed a great deal. Macdonald was working as a barmaid, when she saw a leaflet for an open casting call for a film. She went along and was cast as Diane in Trainspotting (1996). For this breakout role, she was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award and began a highly successful acting career.
Other notable film projects include Stella Does Tricks (1996), Elizabeth (1998), Gosford Park (2001) and No Country for Old Men (2007). She won an Emmy for her role as Gina in The Girl in the Café (2005) and appeared as Helena Ravenclaw in the wildly popular Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). In 2010, she won the role of Margaret Schroeder in Boardwalk Empire (2010).
Macdonald is married to Travis bassist Dougie Payne, and they have a son, Freddie.Helena Ravenclaw (6 episodes)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Shirley Henderson was the eldest of three sisters born into a working-class family in the village of Kincardine in Fife, Scotland. As a teenager she sang locally and performed in school drama clubs. Her first break came when she watched a singer on the Opportunity Knocks (1956) TV talent program and decided she could do as well. She entered and won a talent competition at Butlins Holiday Camp and from there graduated to local music club gigs. She was later accepted by London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She performed on stage in England's National Theatre company, which led to a role on the British TV drama Hamish Macbeth (1995) with future Trainspotting (1996) co-star Robert Carlyle.Moaning Myrtle (12 episodes)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 2x05 The Writing On The Wall (2002)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 5x04 The Egg And The Eye (2005)
Episode 5x05 The Second Task (2005)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x06 Sectumsempra (2009)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actor
- Producer
- Director
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a standard text on Anglo-Saxon law. The family later moved to Leicester where his father was appointed Principal of the university while Richard was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
His film career began with a role as a deserting sailor in In Which We Serve (1942), a part that contributed to his being typecast for many years as a coward in films like Dulcimer Street (1948), Operation Disaster (1950) and his breakthrough role as a psychopathic young gangster in the film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, Brighton Rock (1948). During World War II, Attenborough served in the Royal Air Force.
He worked prolifically in British films for the next 30 years, and in the 1950s appeared in several successful comedies for John Boulting and Roy Boulting, including Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). Early in his stage career, Attenborough starred in the London West End production of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap", which went on to become one of the world's longest-running stage productions. Both he and his wife were among the original cast members of the production, which opened in 1952 and (as of 2007) is still running.
In the 1960s, he expanded his range of character roles in films such as Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and Guns at Batasi (1964), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the regimental Sergeant Major. He appeared in the ensemble cast of The Great Escape (1963), as Squadron Leader "Roger Bartlett" ("Big X"), the head of the escape committee.
In 1967 and 1968, he won back-to-back Golden Globe Awards in the category of Best Supporting Actor, the first time for The Sand Pebbles (1966), starring Steve McQueen, and the second time for Doctor Dolittle (1967), starring Rex Harrison. He would win another Golden Globe for Best Director, for Gandhi (1982), in 1983. Six years prior to "Gandhi", he played the ruthless "Gen. Outram" in Indian director Satyajit Ray's period piece, The Chess Players (1977). He has never been nominated for an Academy Award in an acting category.
He took no acting roles following his appearance in Otto Preminger's The Human Factor (1979), until his appearance as the eccentric developer "John Hammond" in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993). The following year, he starred as "Kris Kringle" in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), a remake of the 1947 classic. Since then, he has made occasional appearances in supporting roles, including the historical drama, Elizabeth (1998), as "Sir William Cecil".
In the late 1950s, Attenborough formed a production company, "Beaver Films", with Bryan Forbes and began to build a profile as a producer on projects, including The League of Gentlemen (1960), The Angry Silence (1960) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961), also appearing in the first two of these as an actor.
His feature film directorial debut was the all-star screen version of the hit musical, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), and his acting appearances became more sporadic - the most notable being his portrayal of serial killer "John Christie" in 10 Rillington Place (1971). He later directed two epic period films: Young Winston (1972), based on the early life of Winston Churchill, and A Bridge Too Far (1977), an all-star account of Operation Market Garden in World War II. He won the 1982 Academy Award for Directing for his historical epic, Gandhi (1982), a project he had been attempting to get made for many years. As the film's producer, he also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. His most recent films, as director and producer, include Chaplin (1992), starring Robert Downey Jr. as Charles Chaplin, and Shadowlands (1993), based on the relationship between C.S. Lewis and Joy Gresham. Both films starred Anthony Hopkins, who also appeared in three other films for Attenborough: "Young Winston", "A Bridge Too Far" and the thriller, Magic (1978).
Attenborough also directed the screen version of the hit Broadway musical, "A Chorus Line" (A Chorus Line (1985)), and the apartheid drama, Cry Freedom (1987), based on the experiences of Donald Woods. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for both films. His most recent film as director was another biographical film, Grey Owl (1999), starring Pierce Brosnan.
Attenborough is the President of RADA, Chairman of Capital Radio, President of BAFTA, President of the Gandhi Foundation, and President of the British National Film and Television School. He is also a vice patron of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund.
He is also the patron of the UWC movement (United World Colleges), whereby he continually contributes greatly to the colleges that are part of the organization. He has frequented the United World College of Southern Africa(UWCSA) Waterford Kamhlaba. His wife and he founded the "Richard and Sheila Attenborough Visual Arts Center". He also founded the "Jane Holland Creative Center for Learning" at Waterford Kamhlaba in Swaziland in memory of his daughter, who died in the Tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. He passionately believes in education, primarily education that does not judge upon color, race, creed or religion. His attachment to Waterford is his passion for non-racial education, which were the grounds on which Waterford Kamhlaba was founded. Waterford was one of his inspirations for directing Cry Freedom (1987), based on the life of Steve Biko.
He was elected to the post of Chancellor of the University of Sussex on 20 March 1998, replacing the Duke of Richmond and Gordon. A lifelong supporter of Chelsea Football Club, Attenborough served as a director of the club from 1969-1982 and, since 1993, has held the honorary position of Life Vice President. He is also the head of the consortium, "Dragon International", which is constructing a film and television studio complex in Llanilid, Wales, often referred to as "Valleywood".
In 1967, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1976 and, in 1993, he was made a life peer as Baron Attenborough, of Richmond-upon-Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
On 13 July 2006, Attenborough and his brother, David Attenborough, were awarded the titles of Distinguished Honorary Fellows of the University of Leicester "in recognition of a record of continuing distinguished service to the University". Lord Attenborough is also listed as an Honorary Fellow of Bangor University for his continued efforts to film making.
Attenborough has been married to English actress Sheila Sim, since 1945. They had three children. In December 2004, his elder daughter, Jane Holland, as well as her daughter Lucy and her mother-in-law, also named Jane, were killed in the tsunami caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake. A memorial service was held on 8 March 2005, and Attenborough read a lesson at the national memorial service on 11 May 2005. His grandson, Samuel Holland, and granddaughter, Alice Holland, also read in the service.
Attenborough's father was principal of University College, Leicester, now the city's university. This has resulted in a long association with the university, with Lord Attenborough a patron. A commemorative plaque was placed on the floor of Richmond Parish Church. The university's "Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts", which opened in 1997, is named in his Honor.
His son, Michael Attenborough, is also a director. He has two younger brothers, the famous naturalist Sir David Attenborough and John Attenborough, who has made a career in the motor trade.
He has collected Pablo Picasso ceramics since the 1950s. More than 100 items went on display at the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester in 2007; the exhibition is dedicated to his family members lost in the tsunami.Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore (3 episodes)
Episode 2x04 Mudbloods And Murmurs (2002)
Episode 9x10 The White Tomb (2009)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actress
- Soundtrack
Hannah Murray is an English actress known for portraying Gilly in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) and Cassie Ainsworth in the E4 teen drama series Skins (2007), from 2007 to 2008 (and again in 2013). In 2014, Murray starred in God Help the Girl (2014). In 2015, she played Sara in the Danish film Bridgend (2015).
Hannah was born in Bristol, England. Her father is a University professor and her mother is a research technician in the same field. When she was a teenager she began taking drama lessons, and she fell for acting. At the age of sixteen, Hannah decided to pursue acting and she auditioned for Skins (2007), the debut series for new channel E4. She won the role of Cassie Ainsworth, a gentle, "spacey", yet self-destructive teenager with an eating disorder. The role lasted two seasons on the show, when her generation was replaced with a new one. But until today, her character remains one of the greatest icons of the series. Murray can also be seen in Chatroom (2010), Womb (2010), and Dark Shadows (2012).Milicent Bulstrode (3 episodes)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Alexander Richard Pettyfer was born in Hertfordshire and raised in Windsor. His mother, Lee (Robinson), is an interior designer. His father, Richard Pettyfer, is a fellow actor. His parents divorced and Alex now has a younger half-brother, James, from his mother's re-marriage to a property developer, Michael Ireland. James is a junior tennis player.
At age 7, Alex started modeling for Gap's children range. He also appeared in TV commercials for other brands. When he was older, he modeled for Burberry to fund his traveling adventures.
Alex attended various private schools. During this time, he enjoyed performing in school plays. At age 13, he auditioned and won a role in the TV movie Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005). At age 15, he went to Los Angeles and was cast as "Alex Rider", the main character in Stormbreaker (2006) (aka "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker"). This was his breakthrough role and he was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for this role.Ernie Macmillan (27 episodes)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x07 The Very Secret Dary (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 4x03 The Quidditch World Cup (2004)
Episode 4x07 The Goblet of Fire (2004)
Episode 4x08 The Weighing Of The Wands (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 6x05 Luna Lovegood (2006)
Episode 6x06 Professor Umbridge (2006)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x06 The House Of Gaunt (2008)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 9x04 After The Burial (2009)
Episode 9x09 Flight Of The Prince (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x08 The Elder Wand (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)- Hugh Mitchell was born on 7 September 1989 in England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Nicholas Nickleby (2002).Terry Boot (13 episodes)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x05 The Half-Blood Prince (2008)
Episode 8x06 The House Of Gaunt (2008)
Episode 9x02 Birthday Surprises (2009)
Episode 11x06 The Sacking Of Severus Snape (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Egerton attended Ditcham Park School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where she says she was bullied. She also states she truanted, preferring to go to modeling shoots. After finishing school at 16 with nine A-grade GCSEs, Egerton decided to pursue acting rather than going to university. She had a brief job as a babysitter for three children. She previously shared a flat in Marylebone, Central London, with her St. Trinian's (2007) castmate, Talulah Riley, whom she described as her "soulmate". She lived in Hampstead with theatre producer Jamie Hendry.
She has cited Takeshi Kitano as her favourite film director.Hannah Abbott (17 episodes)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 3x04 Flight Of The Fat Lady (2003)
Episode 4x06 The Unforgivable Curses (2004)
Episode 4x09 The Hungarian Horntail (2004)
Episode 6x08 In The Hog’s Head (2006)
Episode 6x09 Dumbledore’s Army (2006)
Episode 6x10 The Lion And The Serpent (2006)
Episode 7x02 The Eye Of The Snake (2007)
Episode 7x04 Seen And Unforeseen (2007)
Episode 7x05 Snape’s Worst Memory (2007)
Episode 7x06 Career Advice (2007)
Episode 7x07 O.W.L.s (2007)
Episode 7x10 The Second War Begins (2007)
Episode 8x07 Silver And Opals (2008)
Episode 11x07 The Battle Of Hogwarts (2011)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011) - Actress
- Producer
- Executive
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress and producer. Jones started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. After Kings Norton Girls School, Jones attended King Edward VI Handsworth School, to complete A Levels and went on to take a gap year (during which she appeared in the BBC series Servants (2003)). She took time off from acting to attend school during her formative years, and has worked steadily since she graduated with a 2:1 from Wadham College, Oxford in 2006, where she read English. While studying English, she appeared in student plays, including Attis in which she played the title role, and, in 2005, Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" for the OUDS summer tour to Japan, starring alongside Harry Lloyd.
On radio, she is known for playing the long-running role of Emma Grundy in The Archers. In 2008, she appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of The Chalk Garden. Since 2006, Jones has appeared in numerous films, including Northanger Abbey (2007), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Chéri (2009), and The Tempest (2010). She stars in Star Wars spin-off Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Jyn Erso. Her performance in the 2011 film Like Crazy (2011) was met with critical acclaim garnering her numerous awards, including a special jury prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, her performance as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014) was also met with critical acclaim, garnering her nominations for the Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2019, Jones founded her own production company, Piecrust Productions with her brother, Alex Jones.Penelope Clearwater (8 episodes)
Episode 2x06 The Polyjuice Potion (2002)
Episode 2x08 Aragog (2002)
Episode 2x09 The Chamber Of Secrets (2002)
Episode 2x10 The Heir Of Slytherin (2002)
Episode 3x02 The Dementor (2003)
Episode 3x06 The Patronus (2003)
Episode 3x10 Hermione’s Secret (2003)
Episode 11x10 The Flaw In The Plan (2011)