See the original ‘Harry Potter’ cast, then and now

Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)

Daniel Radcliffe, who began his Harry Potter journey at age 11, might endlessly be the Boy Who Lived — and he is completely okay with that.

“I believe it’s one thing that I’ve develop into an increasing number of comfy with,” he said in a 2019 interview on PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing. “As much as I’m very happy to be doing other films now, I’m always genuinely very honored when someone comes up and says, ‘You were a huge part of my childhood.'”

Because the Harry Potter franchise got here to an finish, Radcliffe has made a acutely aware effort to discover quite a lot of genres, from horror (2012’s The Lady in Black and 2013’s Horns) and rom-coms (2013’s What If) to interval items (A Younger Physician’s Pocket book) and biopics (2013’s Kill Your Darlings). He returned to fantasy as Igor in Victor Frankenstein (2015); went indie with Swiss Military Man (2016); and starred in different movies reminiscent of Imperium (2016), The Misplaced Metropolis (2022), and Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story (2022), profitable a Critics’ Alternative Award for the latter.

Radcliffe has additionally made his mark on the stage, with critically acclaimed runs in Methods to Reach Enterprise With out Actually Making an attempt, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and The Lifespan of a Truth on Broadway. In 2022, he starred in New York Theatre Workshop’s Off-Broadway manufacturing of Merrily We Roll Alongside, transferring to Broadway within the fall of 2023 and profitable a Tony Award for Finest Featured Actor in a Musical in 2024.

Throughout his downtime, Radcliffe works with the Trevor Mission (amongst different charities); writes poetry (below a pen title); and unwinds by enjoying fantasy soccer and learning complex rap lyrics. Since 2012, Radcliffe has been in a relationship with actress Erin Darke, whom he met whereas filming Kill Your Darlings (2013). The couple welcomed a son in April 2023.

Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley)

Followers grew up watching Rupert Grint play everybody’s dream finest buddy and including some much-needed comedian aid to the Harry Potter movies as Ron Weasley, a task he started at 11 years outdated.

“It was our entire childhood. We grew up on those sets,” Grint instructed EW in 2021. “I mean, it was an immensely strange childhood, but it was one that was really fun.”

Since then, Grint has showcased his vary with tasks just like the World Battle II-set Into the White (2012), the biographical drama CBGB (2013), and the comedy Moonwalkers (2015). He additionally leaped to the stage with critically acclaimed turns within the 2013 West Finish revival of Mojo and on Broadway in 2014 within the star-studded manufacturing of It is Solely a Play.

On TV, Grint had main elements on Snatch and Sick Word on Netflix, Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders on Amazon Prime Video, and Servant on Apple TV+. In 2023, he returned to movie after an eight-year absence in M. Night time Shyamalan’s Knock on the Cabin, and is about to star in Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn.

Since 2011, Grint has been in a relationship with actress Georgia Groome, with whom he shares a daughter. In November 2024, the Associated Press reported he owed £1.8 million ($2.3 million) in taxes to His Majesty’s Income and Customs after misclassifying £4.5 million in Potter residuals as capital beneficial properties fairly than earnings in 2019.

Emma Watson (Hermione Granger)

On display, Emma Watson performs Hermione Granger — the function mannequin for bookish youths in all places — a personality she first delivered to life at 10 years outdated. Off display, Watson may be very very like her character, as she enrolled at Brown College and the College of Oxford, graduating with a bachelor’s diploma in English literature in 2014.

“Harry Potter was my home, my family, my world, and Hermione (still is) my favorite fictional character of all time,” she captioned an Instagram post in 2021. “I am proud not just of what we as a group contributed as actors to the franchise, but also as the children that became young adults that walked that path.”

After Harry Potter, the actress starred in The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), The Bling Ring (2013), and Noah (2014), and made an ironic cameo as herself in This Is the Finish (2013). In 2017, she starred as Belle in Invoice Condon’s live-action remake of Disney’s Magnificence and the Beast. She additionally starred in The Circle (2017) and Little Girls (2019).

Watson has since taken a step again from performing, telling the U.K.’s Financial Times in 2023 that she “felt a bit caged” by her profession. “I love what I do. It’s finding a way to do it where I don’t have to fracture myself into different faces and people,” she instructed the outlet. “And I just don’t want to switch into robot mode anymore.”

Along with performing, Watson has fronted campaigns for Burberry, Lancôme, and Prada. After being named a United Nations Girls Goodwill Ambassador in 2014, Watson based #HeForShe, a U.N. marketing campaign that requires males to advocate for gender equality. She additionally began the sustainable gin model, Renais, together with her brother Alex in 2023.

Michael Gambon (Professor Albus Dumbledore)

Michael Gambon, who took over the function of Dumbledore after Richard Harris died in 2002, was a beloved actor lengthy earlier than he stepped into the halls of Hogwarts.

“They rang me up and said, ‘Will you do it?’ Like any other job, I said, ‘Sure.’ Then you find yourself in the middle of this thing,” he told the Associated Press in 2009. “This will stick out as being a happy memory, being with a thing for so long and the worldwide love of it. You never forget that.”

Gambon nonetheless delighted audiences of all ages after Harry Potter. In 2012, he starred in a stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall, which finally transferred to New York. He additionally continued to work on display, with roles in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet (2012), in addition to on the collection Luck and Fortitude.

In 2015, he reunited with Harry Potter creator J.Ok. Rowling to star within the BBC miniseries adaptation of her novel, The Informal Emptiness. He had roles in 2017’s Victoria & Abdul and Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and in addition appeared in Rupert Goold’s 2019 Judy Garland biopic, Judy. Moreover, Gambon was a licensed pilot and a automotive aficionado who appeared on the enduring BBC collection Prime Gear.

In September 2023, Gambon died at age 82. He’s survived by his spouse, mathematician Anne Miller; in addition to his long-term companion, set designer Philippa Hart, and their two sons.

Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid)

Even earlier than he performed the beloved keeper of grounds and keys at Hogwarts, Robbie Coltrane was one of the crucial well-known Scottish actors ever.

After leaving Hagrid’s hut for the ultimate time, Coltrane lent his voice to such animated movies as Arthur Christmas (2011) and Courageous (2012). In 2012, Coltrane reunited with fellow Potter alums Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter in Nice Expectations and completed out the 30-year run of The Comedian Strip Presents…, a TV collection that has develop into a British comedic establishment. He was seen on the massive display within the 2014 movie Effie Grey, and starred within the 2016 British miniseries Nationwide Treasure and a 2020 episode of City Myths.

Coltrane had two youngsters with ex-wife Rhona Gemmell, a sculptor whom he was married to from 1999 to 2003. The actor died in 2022 at age 72, together with his ultimate onscreen look being within the Max particular Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.

“The legacy of the flicks is that my youngsters’s technology will present them to their youngsters, so you may be watching it in 50 years time, simple,” he said in the special. “I’ll not be right here, sadly…however Hagrid will.”

Maggie Smith (Professor Minerva McGonagall)

Professor McGonagall was only one in an extended line of inspiring, no-nonsense ladies whom Dame Maggie Smith performed all through her legendary profession. After Potter ended, Smith stepped into yet one more iconic function as Girl Violet Crawley on Downton Abbey, for which she gained a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, and three Emmys. (She additionally introduced Girl Violet to the massive display in Downton motion pictures launched in 2019 and 2022.)

Nonetheless, for all of the accolades, Smith did not discover the roles creatively fulfilling. “I am deeply grateful for the work in Potter and indeed Downton, but it wasn’t what you’d call satisfying,” she told the Evening Standard in 2019. “I didn’t really feel I was acting in those things.”

Past Potter (and Downton), Smith most notably starred in The Finest Unique Marigold Resort (2012) and its 2015 sequel, with different appearances in movies like Quartet, The Girl within the Van (2015), A Boy Referred to as Christmas (2021), and The Miracle Membership (2023). She additionally lent her voice to a number of animated motion pictures, together with Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) and Sherlock Gnomes (2018).

In 2011, Smith helped increase $4.6 million to restore the Courtroom Theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand, after the earthquake, and the next yr, she grew to become a patron of the Worldwide Glaucoma Affiliation.

Sadly, the actress died at age 89 in 2024. She is survived by her two sons and her 5 grandchildren.

Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle)

With Oscar-nominated turns in Schindler’s Checklist (1993) and The English Affected person (1996), plus a Tony win for his 1995 Broadway efficiency in Hamlet, Ralph Fiennes had greater than sufficient performing prowess to strike legit concern into audiences of all ages because the franchise’s archvillian: Tom Riddle, a.ok.a. Lord Voldemort.

“I think when I’m playing Voldemort, I’m trying to access something without empathy. It’s about power and control, and manipulation of people for power,” Fiennes told PEOPLE in December 2024. “It’s a real, almost erotic pleasure in how I can control you. ‘I know I have the power to do it. You have no chance.'”

Since Voldemort’s ultimate battle in Deathly Hallows — Half 2, Fiennes has saved busy each behind and in entrance of the digicam. He made his directorial debut with Coriolanus (2011), adopted by The Invisible Lady (2013) and The White Crow (2018). On display, the British actor has delivered standout performances in The Grand Budapest Resort (2014), A Greater Splash (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), The King’s Man (2021), The Menu (2022), and Conclave (2024) — the latter incomes him one other Oscar nomination. He is additionally stayed true to his Shakespearean roots with acclaimed performances in Richard III (2016) and Macbeth (2023). 

Followers can catch Fiennes subsequent within the extremely anticipated threequel to Danny Boyle’s cult horror movie 28 Days Later (2002) — 28 Years Later, hitting theaters in June 2025 — with its already-filming follow-up set for 2026.

Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy)

Originating Draco Malfoy at simply 12, Tom Felton portrays the character everybody likes to hate — profitable MTV Film & TV Award for Finest Villain twice — however exterior of Hogwarts, he is remained shut together with his former castmates.

“We’re all very tight still, very close,” he told PEOPLE in April 2025. “We’re usually in four corners of the earth at the same time, so it’s difficult to round us all up together. But Slytherins and Gryffindors are friendly.”

Within the years for the reason that franchise ended, Felton has performed extra troubled characters and unhealthy boys in movies like Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), The Apparition (2012), Belle (2013), and In Secret (2013). His different movie credit embody Ophelia (2018), Braking for Whales (2019), The Forgotten Battle (2020), Save the Cinema (2022), and Altered (2024). On TV, he is booked elements on Homicide within the First, The Flash, Origin, and the upcoming Gandhi. Felton can also be a musician; he is launched a number of EPs, together with three in 2024 titled ReD, ORaNgE, and YelLoW.

The actor has additionally had a number of Harry Potter-related tasks over time. In 2015, he produced and directed the TV documentary Tom Felton Meets the Superfans — through which he interviewed hardcore Potter followers and a few of his former costars — and in 2022, he penned a memoir titled Past the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Rising Up a Wizard.

Felton has been in a relationship with jewellery designer Roxanne Danya since 2020.

Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy)

With movie credit like Occasion Horizon (1997), Armageddon (1998), and The Patriot (2000) — and having already working alongside Ralph Fiennes in The Finish of the Affair (1999) — Jason Isaacs was no stranger to the display when he took on the function of Lucius Malfoy: Draco’s luscious-locked father and one in all Voldemort’s most-loyal Demise Eaters. Whereas Isaacs might have had enjoyable enjoying together with his character’s peculiar accent, he additionally admitted that “it’s quite boring making special effects films; however, all the pleasures come afterward.”

“Even though I was in the films, when I’ve taken godchildren or nephews and nieces to the [studio tour] and the thing comes up and suddenly you’re in the Great Hall,” he stated in a 2025 episode of BBC’s The One Show. “Every time, I burst out in tears. It’s incredibly moving and overwhelming. There’s some magic that happened in those stories.”

Put up-Potter, Isaacs has continued to work on the massive display, starring in motion pictures like The Demise of Stalin (2017), Mass (2021), and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022). He is additionally saved a daily presence on TV, clinching credit for The OA, Star Trek: Discovery, The Nice, Intercourse Training, The Crowded Room, and Archie, amongst different exhibits. His fame noticed a resurgence together with his function as Timothy Ratliff, the in-hot-water patriarch within the Thailand-set third season of The White Lotus.

Off display, Issacs married former documentary filmmaker Emma Hewitt in 2001. The couple shares two daughters.

James and Oliver Phelps (Fred and George Weasley)

James and Oliver Phelps solemnly swore they have been as much as no good as Fred and George Weasley, and we could not have liked them extra for it.

“I always think that Fred and George really became fan favorites because of the way they were…always having a laugh. They were very much the comic relief throughout lots of the storylines,” Oliver said in the Max special. “Also, I think people always thought, ‘Let’s be pals with those guys.'”

As soon as their mischief was managed, James and Oliver appeared as brothers in an episode of the ITV collection Kingdom and the 2009 brief movie A Thoughts’s Eye, based mostly on the philosophical concepts of Plato. James additionally labored as a gofer on the Harry Potter units, in addition to on the set of The Da Vinci Code (2006). The twins labored collectively on display once more in Personal Worst Enemy (2014), 7 Days: The Story of Blind Dave Heeley (2019), and Final Night time in Soho (2021).

The twins are an energetic pressure in connecting followers with the world of Harry Potter, showing at conferences and touring around the globe. In November 2024, they started cohosting Meals Community’s Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking, the place they be a part of real-life cooks Carla Corridor and Jozef Youssef to evaluate contestants’ edible recreations of iconic scenes from the flicks.

Three years earlier than James married Annika Ostle in 2016, Oliver tied the knot with Katy Humphage, with whom he has two youngsters.

Alan Rickman (Severus Snape)

Alan Rickman appeared in such cinematic classics as Die Onerous (1988), Sense and Sensibility (1995), and Love Really (2003) along with scaring everybody as Hogwarts’ Slytherin Headmaster, Severus Snape.

“I think, probably thanks to [J.K.] Rowling, they all are [going to be immortal], all of those teachers,” Rickman told NPR in 2011. “You know, there are kids now who weren’t even born when we started the whole thing, and there they are, you know, age eight or something on book four. And so a whole, you know, the merry-go-round keeps going on.”

After Harry Potter wrapped, Rickman returned to the stage within the Abbey Theatre’s manufacturing of The Seagull, which transferred to New York in 2011. He starred within the unique manufacturing of Seminar on Broadway just a few months later, for which he earned nominations for a Drama League award and the Broadway.com Viewers Alternative award for Favourite Actor in a Play.

In 2013, he reunited with Rupert Grint within the movie CBGB, the place he performed Hilly Kristal, founding father of the enduring punk membership. He performed King Louis XIV within the movie A Little Chaos (2014) and starred within the thriller Eye within the Sky (2015) alongside Helen Mirren.

In 2012, Rickman married Rima Horton, a former Labour Social gathering councilor and a lecturer at Kingston College, with whom he had been in a relationship since 1965. He died at age 69 in January 2016.

Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom)

Matthew Lewis rose to fame at age 12 when he first introduced the bumbling-yet-brave Neville Longbottom to the display — and, because of his castmates, that early highlight by no means steered him astray.

“One of the questions that was asked earlier about the pitfalls of being a child actor that we seem to have avoided, I would posit that a large degree of that was because we were all there together,” he stated throughout a solo panel at Rhode Island Comedian Con in November 2024. “One of the only things that I still hold onto is those relationships that we forged throughout those films.”

Within the years since Potter ended, Lewis has established himself as a possible main man with credit for The Syndicate, Bluestone 42, and The Rise (2012). Lewis made his stage debut in a touring manufacturing of Agatha Christie’s Verdict in 2011, and made his West Finish debut the next yr in Our Boys. He additionally had gigs in movies like Me Earlier than You (2016), Terminal (2018), and Child Performed (2020) and on the British TV collection Girlfriends, All Creatures Nice and Small, and Avoidance.

In 2012, Lewis acquired an honorary grasp of arts diploma from Leeds Metropolitan College, and in 2018, he got married to way of life blogger Angela Jones.

Devon Murray (Seamus Finnigan)

Devon Murray was 15 when he first performed Seamus Finnigan, a half-blood wizard from Gryffindor.

After hanging up his wand in 2011 (and thus drastically decreasing the variety of explosions on the Hogwarts grounds), Murray took a break from performing till 2018, when he returned to the display for Damon & Ivor: The Film. He usually reunites together with his former castmates for Harry Potter occasions and nights out in town. And sure, he is still close with Alfred Enoch (a.ok.a. Dean Thomas), and they’re nonetheless completely lovable.

In Could 2021, Murray acquired engaged to Shannon McCaffrey Quinn, with whom he had welcomed a son earlier that yr.

Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley)

Bonnie Wright made her movie debut at 9 years outdated as Ginny Weasley, whom she believes did not get sufficient correct display time.

“I definitely feel there was anxiety toward performing and doing the best thing as my character built…. That was always hard to do, especially when, inevitably, a lot of the scenes of every character were chopped down from the book to the film,” she stated throughout a 2023 episode of Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast. “Sometimes that was a little disappointing because there were parts of the character that just didn’t get to come through because there weren’t the scenes to do that.”

Since profitable Harry Potter’s coronary heart (and loads of Quidditch Cups!) because the youngest Weasley, Wright graduated from movie faculty in 2012 to pursue her dream of writing and directing, although she has continued performing in movies like Earlier than I Sleep (2013) and After the Darkish (2013). She’s additionally performed some kid-friendly movies like Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg? (2015) and A Christmas Carol (2018).

Wright made her stage debut in 2013 at London’s Southwark Playhouse in The Second of Reality, and her screenwriting and directorial debut in 2012 with the brief movie Separate We Come, Separate We Go, which starred Harry Potter alum David Thewlis. Since then, she has began her personal manufacturing firm and directed a number of brief movies — together with Medusa’s Ankles (2018), which starred Jason Isaacs — and music movies. She additionally launched an environmental guide in 2022 titled Go Gently: Actionable Steps to Nurture Yourself and the Planet.

Wright began relationship her Potter costar Jamie Campbell Bower in 2010; they have been engaged in 2011, however referred to as it off in 2012. A decade later, Wright married American businessman Andrew Lococo, with whom she has a son (and he or she’s “hoping he’ll be a Slytherin”).

Julie Walters (Molly Weasley)

The Golden Globe- and BAFTA-winning Julie Walters made us all snigger, cheer, and cry because the overprotective, extremely loving Weasley matriarch, Molly.

“Oh, I loved my [onscreen] children! I loved them,” she instructed EW in 2011. “The entire really feel of the job was very homey and really household. I’ve by no means recognized a movie [series] prefer it. I suppose it is as a result of we have been there for 10 years and we noticed the kids develop up and the remainder of us develop outdated. It did not ever really feel like work.”

Walters has continued to entertain within the years since Potter wrapped, with roles like Mistress Rapidly on The Hole Crown; the Witch in Courageous; and Mrs. Chicken in Paddington (2014), Paddington 2 (2017), and Paddington in Peru (2024). In 2011, she gained a BAFTA TV award for Finest Actress and an Worldwide Emmy award for her function as Member of Parliament and Irish Secretary of State Mo Mowlam within the TV film Mo. A yr later, she returned to the stage within the Nationwide Theatre’s manufacturing of The Final of the Haussmans.

Walters expanded her résumé with movie credit for Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel, Brooklyn (2015), Movie Stars Do not Die in Liverpool (2017), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and The Secret Backyard (2020).

The actress has a daughter together with her husband, Grant Roffey, whom she married in 1997. In 2020, she revealed she had been diagnosed with Stage III bowel cancer.

Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley)

He might by no means have discovered what, precisely, is the operate of a rubber duck, however, since leaving Arthur Weasley behind, Mark Williams has taken on loads of different artistic tasks.

Since 2013, Williams has performed the lead titular function on Father Brown, one other British establishment. He is additionally appeared in episodes of Physician Who, Drunk Historical past: UK, The Comedian Strip Presents…, and The Dumping Floor, in addition to presenting the daytime recreation present The Hyperlink. On the massive display, he is appeared in movies like Golden Years (2016), Early Man (2018), and Robin and the Hoods (2024).

Williams shares a daughter together with his spouse, Emma.

Domhnall Gleeson (Invoice Weasley)

He did not get a ton of display time as Ron’s oldest brother, Invoice Weasley, however Domhnall Gleeson — the son of Mad-Eye Moody actor Brendan Gleeson — nonetheless credit the function with opening doorways in his profession.

“I was a massive fan. When they asked my dad to play Mad-Eye, I was so incredibly excited. I said, ‘Listen, if one of the other brothers’ parts comes up, you need to get me in for an audition,'” he instructed EW in 2018. “I met some amazing people on that set…. There was about a year between shooting and the movie’s release, where I was going into meetings, and people didn’t know I only had two lines in [Harry Potter], so I probably got auditions for things that I may not have otherwise.”

Gleeson has greater than made up for his restricted scenes in his post-Potter years. After a supporting function in Anna Karenina (2012), Gleeson grew to become a number one man with the one-two punch of Tim in About Time (2013) and Jon Burroughs in Frank (2014). In 2015, he landed gigs within the critically acclaimed Ex Machina, Brooklyn, and The Revenant, and started his function within the Star Wars saga because the villainous Common Hux. His different movie credit embody mom! (2017), A Futile and Silly Gesture (2018), Peter Rabbit (2018) and its 2021 sequel, The Little Stranger (2018), The Kitchen (2019), and the upcoming Fountain of Youth and Echo Valley.

Gleeson has additionally made his mark on TV with tasks like Run, Frank of Eire, The Affected person, White Home Plumbers, and Alice & Jack. He is additionally set to star on Peacock’s The Workplace spinoff collection, The Paper.

The actor married Irish producer Juliette Bonass in 2023.