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- Albus Dumbledore – Michael Gambon. An actor like Michael Gambon needs no introduction. He joined the Harry Potter film series with Prisoner of Azkaban after the untimely death of the original Dumbledore actor Richard Harris.
- Severus Snape – Alan Rickman. Rickman unfortunately passed away in 2016 at the age of 69. The actor had a huge career outside of the Harry Potter film series, starring in well-known films like Die Hard, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Love Actually.
- Professor McGonagoll – Maggie Smith. The actress who played Dumbledore’s right-hand man has slowed down her Hollywood career after Harry Potter. Still, she’s had some big roles: She co-starred in the Downton Abbey TV series as the hilarious Violet Crawley, and will appear in the upcoming movie.
- Lord Voldemort – Ralph Fiennes. Ralph Fiennes was a very established actor before the Harry Potter films, so naturally, that has continued since the series wrapped.
This is a list of Harry Potter cast members who portrayed or voiced characters appearing in the film series. The list below is sorted by film and the character's surname, as some characters have been portrayed by multiple actors.
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Harry Potter, the protagonist of the Harry Potter book series is a very interesting character in a wide variety of ways. Firstly, as is later revealed in the book series, Harry and his legacy are both a result of choice rather than a deterministic path that led from one event to another. It is a prophecy that Sybill Trelawney makes to Albus Dumbled...
The above prophecy does justice to every event that occurred in the Harry Potter book series. To answer who chose Harry to lead everyone in the battle against Voldemort is quite easy as is claimed by the prophecy. “The Dark Lord will mark him as his equal” implies that after Voldemort heard about this prophecy, he could have just not reacted to it ...
Several characters from other books have similar trajectories as Harry. For instance, Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings faces similar choices as he is initially just satisfied with living in the Shire and being used to the daily routine that had grown on him. However, when the ring needs to be carried all the way to the Mountain of Doom, Fro...
The character of Harry Potter was played by the British child actor, Daniel Radcliffe. The moment Daniel Radcliffe auditioned for his role as Harry, many people in the crew of the movie felt that Daniel was meant to play the role of Harry. Along with Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, who played Ron and Hermione respectively, the trio were cast for the ...
Harry Potter has stayed in several different places over the span of 17 years until his coming of age. While some of these places are not necessarily homes as such, Harry would definitely consider these as his homes.
If there’s one thing that Harry Potter has in abundance, it is his friends. Harry’s friends play a crucial role in his development as a character in the books. After his eleventh birthday, on which Hagrid visits him to inform him of his wizarding heritage, Harry is blessed with an abundance of friends. Until this point, Harry is not known to have a...
Harry Potter’s teachers at Hogwarts played a major role in shaping his identity and helping him hone his skills and channeling it wisely. Here are some of the most important teachers that Harry had at Hogwarts.
Harry Potter, both the character and the book series were immense hits among the readers and ended up gaining a lot of fame. Interestingly, the phenomenon of Harry Potter has a very interesting metanarrative in its unraveling. Both in the world of the story and the real world where J. K. Rowling penned this book series, Harry Potter seemed to captu...
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