Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe — British movie and theater actor

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on 23 July 1989 in London. Radcliffe became interested in acting when he was just 5 years old.

In 1999, Daniel debuted on the TV screens in the drama David Copperfield, in which he played the young illusionist. The same year he landed the role of his life in the first movie about Harry Potter. The filming started right away.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone premiered in 2001 and immediately made the young actor an international celebrity. The box office sales revenue of the film reached a billion dollars. It was nominated for an Academy Award three times. Radcliffe earned a prize at Teen Choice Awards in the "Choice Movie: Male Breakout Star" category and received several more awards and nominations.

Seven more parts of the movie series followed. Each one was incredibly successful all over the world. Daniel was growing up together with his on-screen personality and developing formidable acting skills. He started working on Harry Potter movies when he was eleven and finished when he was already an adult. For his role as Harry Potter, Daniel earned more than 23 million pounds. He also received a big number of awards and nominations, among which are prizes at National Movie Awards, Scream Awards, Teen Choice Awards, People's Choice Awards, and MTV Movie Awards. The actor’s schedule was so busy that fans and organizers were only dreaming about inviting him to private events.

Besides working on his famous movie hero, Radcliffe accepted other projects on the big screen, TV, and in the theater. For the leading role Peter Shaffer’s play Equus, which premiered in 2009, the actor earned two Broadway.com Audience Awards as "Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play" and "Favorite Breakthrough Performance". He was also nominated for Drama Desk Award and Drama League Award.

In March 2011, the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying came out. Daniel had the starring part. It brought him two more Broadway.com Audience Awards as "Favorite Actor in a Musical" and "Favorite Onstage Pair".

Daniel was trying hard to make people view him as a well-rounded actor. However, the majority saw him as Harry Potter. In 2012, Radcliffe accepted the leading role in the horror movie The Woman in Black. The part was drastically different from the role of the good wizard. The project brought Daniel a prize at BloodGuts UK Horror Awards.

In 2013, at Glamour Awards, Daniel was granted the “Man Of The Year” title. The same year, he performed in the biographical drama Kill Your Darlings, in a romantic comedy What If, and in a thriller Horns. He had the leading roles in all three movies.

For the role of Manny in the 2016 comedy-drama Swiss Army Man, Daniel was named the Best Actor at Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya.

In 2017, Radcliffe worked on the leading part in the movie Jungle. A year later, he landed the starring part in Beast of Burden.

Radcliffe’s fans are awaiting his new movie Guns Akimbo, which is expected to be released in 2018.