What happened to the main actors in Harry Potter 20 years later?

This month they are fulfilled 20 years since the world premiere of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, the film adaptation directed by Chris Columbus of the first of the seven novels in the literary saga created in 1997 by the British author JK Rowling. Their books finished being published in 2007 and their respective films were released in theaters until 2011, raising an average of one billion euros each. Their protagonists, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma watson, they were between 11 and 13 years old in 2001 when they first played Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, the young apprentice magicians of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Thanks to one of the biggest franchises in movie history, children first and then teenagers became stars overnight and, a decade later, when the last story was shot, they all continued their respective careers in the world of the interpretation, with or more or less fortune.

Along with them, a host of secondary players also strengthened their careers in film, theater and television thanks to this famous fantasy saga. Others, on the other hand, died before seeing it finish or shortly after finishing, such as Richard Harris, who played the magician Albus Dumbeldore, or Alan Rickman, alias Severus Snape.


Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)

He had already participated in other films, such as ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘El sastre de Panamá’ when, at the age of 11, Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (London, 1989) passed a casting of 40,000 children to embody the magician’s apprentice Harry Potter. Up to the age of 21, he gave life to the character in eight films (the last, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, was divided into two parts), although in the last blows of the saga he also participated in other projects, such as the Peter Shaffer’s work ‘Equus’, in 2007, which raised dust, as the already tall boy appeared naked, smoking and cursing. Tobacco has not been the worst of the interpreter’s addictions, whose precocious fame seemed to advocate an incessant career of successes that later have not been so many. “Me alcoholism It is due to Harry Potter, “he acknowledged to ‘The Independent’. However, thanks to his magician alter ego, the actor, who leads a lot of teetotalers, managed to amass a fortune of more than 100 million euros, which has then allowed him to choose the jobs at will: theater, independent productions and even a series, ‘Miracle Workers’ (2019), where he plays an angel who tries to avoid the apocalypse. Offstage, since 2013 he has shared his life with the American actress Erin Darke.

Emma Watson (Hermione Granger)

I was only 9 years old, and the only experience of having participated in a couple of school functions, when Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (Paris, 1990) entered the JK Rowling saga head first. Of the three protagonists, she is the one that has achieved the greatest projection, since she has worked under the orders of Sophia Coppola, in ‘The Bling ring’ (2013), and has starred in blockbusters as ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (2017) the ‘Little Women’ (2018). She has also flirted with modeling, as the image of Burberry and Lancôme, and has become activism benchmark Younger: She is a goodwill ambassador for UN Women and has participated in various environmental and women’s rights campaigns. In recent times, he assures that directing is more difficult for him – “it is the most empowering thing I have learned during confinement”, he has said on Instagram – and that he temporarily retires from the cinema to dedicate more time to your personal life and your partner, the Californian businessman Leo Robinton, with whom he has been dating for two years and with whom “he probably wants to start a family & rdquor ;, according to his manager.

Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)

Freckled Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (Harlow, Essex, 1989) had only acted in neighborhood performances when he landed the role of Harry Potter’s best friend. Before the end of the saga, he simultaneously combined several short-range feature films and, later, he participated in several plays in London and Broadway. Of the three protagonists, he is the one that has had the least media coverage afterwards, although he has also had leading roles, like the one two years ago, in the series’Servant‘, and has even appeared in the video clip of ‘Lego House’ from Ed Sheeran. In May 2020 it was father of a girl together with her partner for more than a decade, the also actress Georgia Groome. This same year an account was opened on Instagram, “only 10 years late,” he says humorously.

Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy)

Al also british Thomas Andrew Felton (Epsom, 1987) they knocked him down in the selection to play Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, but he got the role of the boy who does not stop playing the protagonist. He had already participated in ‘Los Borrowers’ (1997), and ‘Ana y el rey’ (1999), and, like the three main protagonists, he appeared in each and every one of the films of the series. Until 2018 he did not return to the screen, just as blond, but with a mustache, to star Origin‘, a science fiction series premiered on YouTube Premium. Last September he made headlines again when fell suddenly collapsed while playing a game of golf with other ‘celebrities’ at the Ryder Cup in the United States. Fortunately everything was a shock.

Maggie Smith (Minerva McGonagall)

Hogwarts’ most charismatic teacher of wizards and witches is truly the established actress of British theater, film and television. Margaret Natalie Smith (Ilford, 1934), an institution with more than 50 films behind him in a career spanning more than six decades and seven BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, three Emmys, two Oscars, a Tony, and a SAG. Among his titles, that of ‘Lady’, awarded by Isabel II in 1990, in addition to the Order of Companions of Honor that he received in 2014. Although he has also participated in blockbusters such as’Wrath of the Titans‘ (1981), ‘Hook’ (1991) o ‘Sister Act‘(1992), the general public also recognizes her for her endearing interpretation of Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham in the famous British series ‘Downton Abbey’.

Harry Meeling (Dudley Dursley)

The obnoxious and overweight child Harry Melling (London, 1989), the only son of Petunia and Vernon, and Harry’s only cousin, is another of the longest-lived characters in the saga, having participated in a total of five films. Was born in a actor family: his grandfather was the Second Doctor of the veteran British science fiction series ‘Doctor Who’ and has several uncles and cousins ​​among the cast of well-known series. Exceeded his severe child overweight, and the consequent traumas that brought him, channeled one of the most deserving careers of the ‘Potter generation’. “Now I can get rid of my facet as a child actor, as ‘the fat man’, and start a new career because nobody sees me as Dudley,” he has told in ‘The Telegraph’, after savoring fame with his role as a villain in the film ‘The Old Guard’, starring Charlize Theron, and the multi-award-winning series’Lady’s gambit‘starring Anya Taylor-Joy.

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