Full name of Daniel Radcliffe, Dan Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is a British actor who is best known for playing Harry Potter in movies. Radcliffe first played an actor when he was six years old, in a school play as a monkey. After missing the chance to try out for a TV version of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Daniel Radcliffe is a famous actor all over the world for playing the lead role in the Harry Potter movies. People know him better as Harry Potter than by his real name because of how well he played the part. His role as Harry Potter won him millions of fans.
On July 23, 1989, Daniel Radcliffe was born to Alan George Radcliffe and Marcia Jeannine Gresham in West London, England, UK. His mother was a casting agent for the BBC, and his father is a literary agency. Radcliffe was up in a working-class family with a fervent Protestant father and a devout Jew for a mother. Both of her parents had dabbled in performing when they were younger. From the time he was five years old, he wanted to be an actor, but it wasn't until he was 10 that he won his first role, in the BBC production of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Radcliffe went to two different private schools in England. They were the City of London School and Sussex House School. Once he became popular from his movies, he had to deal with bullying at school.
He got the lead part in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield" when he was 10 years old. A lot of people saw him try out for the part before they finally hired him. Radcliffe was asked to try out for the part in the movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in 2000. Because he had to do all seven movies in Los Angeles as part of the deal, his parents wouldn't let him go to the auditions. Radcliffe made seven figures for his role in the movie, which finally came out in 2001. The movie made the most money of the year. His acting was praised by critics. 'The Tailor of Panama' came out the same year.
'Harry Potter and the Office of Mysteries' came out in 2002, and Radcliffe got good reviews for it. The movie made more money than any other movie in the world that year. Finally, in 2004, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" came out and got the best reviews of all the movies in the series so far. It was the least disturbing movie in the whole series. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" came out in 2005. It was directed by Mike Newell and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. A nomination for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction was made for the movie.
'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' came out in 2007. Many awards were nominated for him for this movie, and he won the National Movie Award for Best Male Performance. He was also in the movie "December Boys." Radcliffe and star Carey Mulligan worked together on a movie called "My Boy Jack" in 2007. That movie was shown on ITV as a TV movie. His work in the movie was praised by critics. The second to last movie in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," came out in 2009. His name was put forward for the MTV Movie Awards for Best Male Performance and Global Superstar. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1' came out in 2010, and it did pretty well in the UK. Most of the reviews for the movie were average. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2," the last movie in the series, came out in 2011. The movie opened to the most people on its first day and over the weekend. People think it's the fourth most successful movie of all time. Radcliffe was in the thriller film "Kill Your Darlings," which came out in 2013. The movie was directed by John Krokidas. 'The F Word' and 'Horns' were also in the same year. He played the part of "The Cripple of Inishmaan" at the Noel Coward Theatre.
In the 2017 Australian biographical survival drama picture "Jungle," he played "Yossi Ghinsberg." Critics had mixed to good things to say about the movie. The next year, he was in "Beast of Burden," a crime-action movie directed by Jesper Ganslandt. On Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of people who saw the movie liked it. He joined the regular cast of the animated sitcom "Mulligan" in 2023. Rotten Tomatoes gave the show a 50% approval score, which means that reviewers had mixed feelings about it.
He started dating actress Erin Darke in 2012. The couple told everyone in 2023 that they were going to have their first child together. Radcliffe told the press in 2008 that he has a neurological disease called developmental coordination disorder. Forbes magazine named him one of the "Most Valuable Young Stars." People think that Radcliffe is the richest teenager in England.