Daniel Jacob "Dan" Radcliffe is an English actor, whose roles span from film, television and stage and voiced one of the Knights of the Sun.
Biography[]
Daniel Radcliffe was born July 23, 1989, in London, England and got his start acting at the age of 10 in the two-part BBC television series David Copperfield (1999), as Young David, followed by his film debut in The Tailor of Panama (2001), as Mark Pendel. His role as Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film franchise (2001-2011) earned him worldwide popularity, as well as accolades for his portrayal. During that time, he was seen in Extras (2006) and was also seen in the Australian family drama December Boys (2007) as Maps, and as John Kipling in the biographical television film My Boy Jack (2007).
After concluding the Potter series, he went to star as Arthur Kipps in the horror The Woman in Black (2012), beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the biographical film Kill Your Darlings (2013), med school dropout Wallace in the Irish Canadian romantic comedy What If (2013). He then went on to star in the dark fantasy horror film Horns as Ig Perrish that same year. He was seen in the science fiction horror film Victor Frankenstein (2015) as Igor. Also in 2015, he played Sam Houser in the BBC docudrama film The Gamechangers and played The Dog Walker in Trainwreck. In 2016, he starred as Walter Maybry in the action-adventure film Now You See Me 2, Manny in the indie film Swiss Army Man, Nate Foster in the independent film Imperium. In 2017, he was seen as himself in Lost in London, and as Yossi Ghinsberg in the physiological thriller Jungle. He played Sean Haggerty in Beast of Burden (2018), Miles in Guns Akimbo (2019), and played multiple characters in the TBS anthology series Miracle Workers (2019-2023), which also he executive produced and starred in the 2020 Australian prison film Escape from Pretoria as Tim Jenkin.
He reunited with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter films for the 20th anniversary special titled Harry Potter: 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022). That same year, he starred in the musical parody film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as musician Weird Al Yankovic. He then starred as Abigail Fairfax in the adventure comedy The Lost City (2022).
Notable voice roles include The Simpsons (2010,2014,2018), Robot Chicken (2012, 2017), BoJack Horseman (2015), detective Rex Dasher in Playmobile: The Movie (2019), one of the Knights of the Sun in Rick and Morty (2022), Sebastian Lines in Digman! (2023), and as King Jeremey in the animated apocalyptic sitcom Mulligan (2023). In November of that same year, he executive produced a documentary about his former Potter stunt double, David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived. He has also branched out onto stage roles, beginning on the West End in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, as a celebrity guest in 2002, and roles soon followed. He portrayed 17-year-old Alan Strang in the London and New York productions of Equus (2007-2009), J. Pierpont Finch in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011-2012). Radcliffe also made appearances in the West End and Broadway productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan (2013-2014) as Billy Claven. Other theatre roles include Endgame/Rough for Theatre II (2020), Privacy (2016), Lifespan of a Fact (2018), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017). More recently, he starred in the Off-Broadway and Broadway revivals of Merrily We Roll Along (2022-2024) as Charley Kringas.
Radcliffe is the recipient of two MTV Movie & TV Awards, a People's Choice Award, a Scream Award, and three Teen Choice Awards, as well as nominations for four Critics' Choice Movie Awards and a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award. WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor, 6 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, a Tony Award. He has also been nominated for 4 Drama Desk Awards, 4 Drama League Awards, and 2 Outer Critics Choice Awards. He also earned a nomination for two Grammy Awards for Best Musical Theatre Album for How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and Merrily We Roll Along.
He lives in New York with partner, actress Erin Darke and their son, born in April 2023.