Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor best known for portraying the title character in all eight films of the Harry Potter film series from 2001 to 2011. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $8.38 billion worldwide. Radcliffe's accolades include a Tony Award and a Critics' Choice Award, alongside nominations for a BAFTA Award, two Grammy Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2019, he was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list.

Radcliffe was born on 23 July 1989 in the Hammersmith district of London, the only child of casting agent Marcia Jeannine Gresham and literary agent Alan George Radcliffe, both of whom had acted as children. His mother was born in South Africa to an Ashkenazi Jewish family with roots in Germany, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, while his father came from a working-class Protestant background in Northern Ireland. Radcliffe attended Redcliffe School, Sussex House School, and the City of London School. He continued his education with tutors on film sets and chose not to attend university after taking his AS level exams in 2006.

Radcliffe expressed a desire to act at age five and made his screen debut at age ten in the 1999 BBC One television adaptation of David Copperfield. He made his feature film debut in The Tailor of Panama (2001). Later that year, Radcliffe starred in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone after being selected by producer David Heyman and director Chris Columbus. He reprised the role across seven sequels, concluding with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011.

Alongside his film work, Radcliffe established a prominent stage career. He made his West End debut in 2002 in The Play What I Wrote, followed by a starring role in the 2007 West End revival of Equus, which transferred to Broadway in 2008. His subsequent Broadway performances include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011), The Cripple of Inishmaan (2014), and Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (2023), which earned him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He was also cast in Every Brilliant Thing (2026), and appeared in London revivals of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017) and Endgame (2020).

Radcliffe's film and television work spans multiple genres. He starred in the horror film The Woman in Black (2012), portrayed poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings (2013), and appeared in Swiss Army Man (2016), Now You See Me 2 (2016), and The Lost City (2022). He played "Weird Al" Yankovic in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022), earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy and a British Academy Television Award, and starred in the comedy anthology series Miracle Workers from 2019 to 2023.

Offscreen, Radcliffe has supported charities such as Demelza Hospice Care for Children and the Trevor Project, receiving the Trevor Project's Hero Award in 2011 for LGBTQ youth advocacy. He has been in a long-term relationship with actress Erin Darke since 2012, with whom he has a son.