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Daniel Radcliffe

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Daniel Radcliffe

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Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (English: Daniel Jacob Radcliffe, July 23, 1989 -) is a British actor. He made his official debut in the 1999 BBC One TV movie "The Last Days" at the age of 10. He later became well-known for his role as Harry Potter in the "Harry Potter" series of films. Following "David Copperfield", Daniel Radcliffe made his film debut in 2001 in "Danger". In the same year, he was cast as the protagonist Harry Potter in the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Over the next ten years, he played the same character in seven sequels of the series, culminating in the final film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II (2011). During the 10-year filming period, he became one of the highest-paid actors in the world and enjoyed global fame, popularity and critical acclaim. In 2007, Daniel Radcliffe's acting career began to involve stage performances. He starred in the West End Theater and Broadway theater production "Equus". From 2011 to 2012, his performance slowly expanded to stage plays, and he portrayed J. Pierrepont Finch in the Broadway revival of the musical "One Step Up". He then went on to appear in the West End and Broadway in Martin McDonald's black comedy The Cripple of Inissiman in 2013-2014, and in Tom Staple's Old Vic revival of Hamlet. He has also performed on and off Broadway in the satires "Privacy" (2016) and "The Lifespan of Truth" (2018). Following the success of the "Harry Potter" series, Daniel Radcliffe played the role of lawyer Arthur Kips in the 2012 horror film "The Man in Black" Kipps), and later starred in the romantic comedy film "The Book of Friends" in 2013, and played the role of poet Alan Kanesburg in the independent drama film "The Darlings". Later, in 2015, he starred in the science fiction horror film "The Big Brother". He played the role of Ego in "Frankenstein: The Father of Creation", and later played a sentient corpse in the 2016 comedy film "3000". He played the role of Technique in the 2016 heist crime film "Exception 2".

Category
Film & TV
Nationality
U.K.
Born
1989-07-23
Wikidata
Q38119
Occupations television actormovie actorchild starsingerstage actoractor
Aliases Daniel RadcliffeDaniel RadcliffeDaniel Radcliffe

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