Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor, producer, and singer. He is best known for playing Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series. Radcliffe made his acting debut at age ten in BBC One’s television film David Copperfield. In 2000, producer David Heyman asked Radcliffe to audition for the role of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
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Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor, producer, and singer. He is best known for playing Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series during his adolescence and early adulthood. Radcliffe made his acting debut at age ten in BBC One’s television film David Copperfield. He made his cinematic debut in The Tailor of Panama in 1996. In 2000, producer David Heyman asked Radcliffe to audition for the role of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Over the next ten years, he played the lead role in seven sequels, culminating with Harry Potter – Part 2. Since 2018, Radcliffe has starred in the TBS anthology television series Miracle Workers. He has contributed to many charities, including Demelza Hospice Care for Children and The Trevor Project; the latter charity gave him its Hero Award in 2011. In 2019, he explored both sides of his family history in series 16 of BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? Radcliffe’s parents had both acted as children. His father is a literary agent. His mother is a casting agent and was involved in several films for the BBC, including The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Walk Away and I Stumble. His maternal ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Russia. He achieved A grades in the three AS-level exams that he took in 2006, but decided to take a break from education and did not go to college or university. He admitted he was not a very good student, considering school useless and finding the work “really difficult’ in his early twenties.
He said he already knew he wanted to act and write, and that it would be difficult to have a normal college experience. In 2007, he began to branch out to stage acting in 2007, starring in the London and New York productions of Equus and in the 2011 Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. In 2011, he appeared in the Broadway production of How To Succeed In Business Without really Trying, starring as the lead character. He also appeared in a revival of The Book Thief, starring alongside Emma Watson. He appeared in several other stage productions, including the musical version of The Mousetrap and the musical The Book of Henry. In 2012, he starred in a stage production of The Great Gatsby, playing the lead roles of Henry VIII, Henry VIII and Henry VIII. In 2013, he had a role in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and 2. In 2014, he was cast in the TV series The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and the film The Hobbit – The Desolation of the Planet of the Apes. In 2015, he made his film debut in the comedy-drama The Secret of the Tsar. In 2016, he co-starred in the television series The Grand Budapest Hotel. In 2017, he portrayed the character of Manny in the movie Swiss Army Man.
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