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Birthday:
Jul 23, 1989
Birthplace:
Fulham, London, England

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Daniel Radcliffe Biography

Daniel Radcliffe is an actor best known for portraying Harry Potter in the eight film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's immensely popular novels. The London born son of a casting agent and a literary agent, Radcliffe became interested in acting at the age of five and participated in school plays. At ten Radcliffe had his first screen acting role in a television production of David Copperfield for the BBC in 1999. It was at this time that director Chris Columbus watched David Copperfield and wanted Radcliffe to audition for 2001's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Despite some parental reservations about the high profile part, Radcliffe auditioned and was chosen for the role. Along with the other primary actors, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, Radcliffe, at age 11, immediately became a focal point for media attention. He would eventually commit to staying with the production to its conclusion, 2011's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. While working on the Harry Potter franchise, Radcliffe appeared in a number of other projects. Only one of these was a feature film, the Australian coming of age drama December Boys (2007), in which he played an orphan named Maps. For British TV the actor starred as Jack in My Boy Jack (2007), a WWI drama that was aired in the UK for Remembrance Day. A stage actor as well, Radcliffe portrayed J. Pierrepont Pinch in a 2011 Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Of his non-Potter roles, seventeen year-old Radcliffe drew greatest attention for participating in a 2007 revival of Peter Schaffer's play Equus in London (and later New York.) As the brooding central figure, Alan Strang, the actor received favorable reviews and a Drama Desk Award nomination for the against-type role in the psycho-sexual drama. None of that quite compared to the press he garnered for appearing in nude scenes in the play. The actor attended a number of private schools in England, but found it increasingly difficult to continue, relying instead on on-set tutors while making most of the Harry Potter films. He later expressed a desire to take a break from his education and declined to attend a college or university. Daniel Radcliffe is among Hollywood's most successful actors, particularly for his age, with Vanity Fair estimating Radcliffe to have made over $41 million from 2009 and Forbes placing him 5th on their list of box office earners in 2010.

Daniel Radcliffe Trivia

He writes and has published poetry under the pen name Jacob Gershon.
- submitted by Emma M (10 months ago)
Daniel Radcliffe admires and respects the works of scientist Richard Dawkins.
- submitted by Maii E (13 months ago)
Is very close to Gary Oldman, who played his godfather, Sirius Black in the Harry Potter movies.
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (22 months ago)
His favourite actors include Aishwarya Rai, Christina Ricci, Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson, and Ben Stiller.
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (22 months ago)
Has never seen the film "The Tailor of Panama", in which he appeared in.
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (22 months ago)
Fulham is his favorite footbal Club.
- submitted by Flixster F (2 years ago)
"12 Angry Men" is his favorite film.
- submitted by Flixster F (2 years ago)
Daniel Radcliffe is a huge fan of Gary Oldman.
- submitted by Flixster F (2 years ago)
His favorite Harry Potter book is "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
- submitted by Flixster F (2 years ago)

Quotes from Daniel Radcliffe's Characters

    1. Hermione Granger: Let's have a look, shall we?
    2. Harry Potter: No!
    3. Hermione Granger: Why not?
    4. Harry Potter: The binding is fragile...
    5. Hermione Granger: 'The binding is fragile...?'
    From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Submitted by Gina E (3 days ago)
    1. Harry Potter: You! No,it can't be. Snape, he - he was the...
    2. Professor Quirrell: Yes, he does seem the type, doesn't he? Why, next to him, who would suspect p-p-poor, st-st-stuttering Professor Quirrell?
    From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by ethan t (4 days ago)
    1. Ginny Weasley: Harry!
    2. Harry Potter: Hi there.
    3. Ron Weasley: Six months she hadn't see me,It's like I'm a Frankie First Year.I'm only her brother...
    4. Seamus Finnigan: She's got lots of them,but there's only one Harry.
    5. Ron Weasley: Shut up Seamus.
    1. Ron Weasley: [discussing inviting dates to the Yule Ball] This is mad! At this rate, we'll be the only ones in our year without dates! Well, us and Neville.
    2. Harry Potter: [laughing] Yeah, but then again he could take himself.
    3. Hermione Granger: It might interest you to know that Neville's already got someone.
    4. Ron Weasley: What? Now I'm really depressed. Oi, Hermione... you're a girl.
    5. Hermione Granger: [haughtily] Very well spotted.
    6. Ron Weasley: Come with one of us! It's one thing for a bloke to show up alone, but for a girl it's just sad.
    7. Hermione Granger: [angrily] I won't be going alone, because believe it or not, someone's asked me! And I said yes! [exits]
    From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Submitted by Austin R (11 days ago)
    1. Harry Potter: This connection between me and Voldemort... what if the reason for it is that I am becoming more like him? I just feel so angry, all the time. What if after everything that I've been through, something's gone wrong inside me? What if I'm becoming bad?
    2. Sirius Black: I want you to listen to me very carefully, Harry. You're not a bad person. You're a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
    From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Submitted by Samira O (36 days ago)
    1. Ron Weasley: Let me get this straight. Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban- to come after you?
    2. Harry Potter: Yeah.
    3. Hermione Granger: But they'll catch Black, won't they? I mean- everyone's looking for him...
    4. Ron Weasley: Sure... except no one's ever broken out of Azkaban before, and he's a murderous raving lunatic...
    5. Harry Potter: Thanks Ron.
    From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Submitted by Natalie P (2 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: I have to go back, haven't I?
    2. Professor Albus Dumbledore: Oh, that's up to you
    3. Harry Potter: I have a choice?
    4. Professor Albus Dumbledore: Oh, yes. We're in King's Cross, you say? I think, if you so desired, you'd be able to board a train.
    5. Harry Potter: And where would it take me?
    6. Professor Albus Dumbledore: On.
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Mati M (2 months ago)
    1. Ron Weasley: So what is it he sees in her?
    2. Harry Potter: I don't know! She's smart, funny, attractive...
    3. Ron Weasley: ...attractive?
    4. Harry Potter: You know, she's got nice skin.
    5. Ron Weasley: Skin? You're saying Dean's dating my sister because of her skin?
    6. Harry Potter: Well, no, I mean I just...I'm just saying it could be a contributing factor.
    7. Ron Weasley: **long pause**...Hermionie's got nice skin, don't you say, as skin goes I mean?
    8. Harry Potter: ...I've never really thought about it...but I suppose yeah, very nice.
    9. Harry Potter: **even longer awkward pause**...I think i'll be going to sleep now.
    10. Ron Weasley: Right, yeah.
    11. Harry Potter: ***says nothing but you can tell he's thinking about it*** xD
    From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Submitted by Katerina K (2 months ago)
    1. Rubeus Hagrid: Seriously misunderstood creatures, spiders are. It's the eyes I reckon, they unnerve some people.
    2. Harry Potter: Not to mention the pincers [makes clicking sound and imitates fangs]
    3. Rubeus Hagrid: Yeah, that too I reckon...[ makes strange face]
    From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Submitted by Katerina K (2 months ago)
    1. Joseph Kipps: Daddy, who's that lady?
    2. Arthur Kipps: That's your mum.
    From The Woman in Black. Submitted by Shayla J (3 months ago)
    1. Joseph Kipps: Daddy...who's that lady?
    2. Arthur Kipps: Your mother.
    From The Woman in Black. Submitted by Aidan C (3 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: So you mean this map shows-
    2. Fred Weasley: Everyone
    3. Harry Potter: Everyone?
    4. George Weasley: Where they are
    5. Fred Weasley: What there doing
    6. George Weasley: Every Minute
    7. Fred Weasley: Of everyday!
    From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Submitted by Camile E (3 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: Oh, and sir?
    2. Professor Albus Dumbledore: [turns and faces Harry]
    3. Harry Potter: Is this all real..? Or is it just happening inside my head?
    4. Professor Albus Dumbledore: Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry. But why then should it mean that it's not real?
    1. Helena Ravenclaw: [about Tom Riddle] He lied to me.
    2. Harry Potter: He's lied to many people-
    3. Helena Ravenclaw: I know who he is! I know what he's done! He defiled my mother's diadem with dark magic!
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Jake D (3 months ago)
    1. Mrs. Daily: You said you have a son. Go home to him.
    2. Arthur Kipps: I can't leave yet.
    From The Woman in Black. Submitted by Jake D (3 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: You're a genius, Hermione! Really!
    2. Hermione Granger: Actually I'm highly logical, which allows me to look past extraneous detail and perceive clearly that which others overlook!
    3. Harry Potter: Right!
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Alise S (4 months ago)
    1. Albus Severus Potter (19 Years Later): Dad, what if I am put in Slytherin?
    2. Harry Potter: Albus Severus Potter, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin, and he was the bravest man I've ever known.
    3. Albus Severus Potter (19 Years Later): But just say that I am...
    4. Harry Potter: Then Slytherin house will have gained a wonderful, young wizard. But listen, if it really means that much to you, you can choose Gryfindor. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account.
    5. Albus Severus Potter (19 Years Later): Really?
    6. Harry Potter: Really. Ready?
    7. Albus Severus Potter (19 Years Later): Ready.
    1. Dobby: Such a beautiful place, to be with friends. Dobby is happy to be with his friend, Harry Potter.
    2. Luna Lovegood: We should close his eyes, don't you think? [closes Dobby's eyes] There. Now he can be sleeping.
    3. Harry Potter: I want to bury him. Properly, without magic.
    1. Harry Potter: I'm not coming back Hermione. I've got to finish whatever Dumbledore started. And I don't know when I'm leaving, but I'll let you and Ron know where I am as soon as I can.
    2. Hermione Granger: I've always admired your courage Harry. Sometimes you can be really thick. You don't think you can find all those horcruxes by yourself, do you? You need us Harry.
    3. Harry Potter: I never realized how beautiful this place is.
    From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Submitted by Michael C (4 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: I've been thinking about something Dumbledore said to me.
    2. Hermione Granger: What's that?
    3. Harry Potter: That even though we have a fight ahead of us, we've got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have.
    4. Ron Weasley: Yeah?
    5. Harry Potter: Something worth fighting for.
    From Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Submitted by Michael C (4 months ago)
    1. Hermione Granger: You'll remember to write every week, won't you?
    2. Ron Weasley: You know I won't.
    3. Harry Potter: You'll remember Harry, won't you?
    4. Harry Potter: Yeah, every week.
    From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Submitted by Michael C (4 months ago)
    1. Professor Severus Snape: If anyone here knows any knowledge of Mr. Potter's movements this evening, I invite them to step forward... now.
    2. Harry Potter: It seems despite your exhaustive defensive strategies, you still have a bit of a security problem, Headmaster. It's quite extensive. How dare you stand where he stood. Tell them how it happened that night. How you looked him in the eye, a man who trusted you, and killed him!
    1. Harry Potter: We have to go there, now.
    2. Hermione Granger: What? We cant do that! We've got to plan! We've got to figure out...
    3. Harry Potter: Hermione! When have any of our plans ever worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose!
    1. Harry Potter: What do you know about the Deathly Hallows?
    2. Mr. Ollivander: It is rumored there are three. The elder wand, the cloak of invisibility, to hide you from your enemies, and the resurrection stone, to bring back loved ones from the dead. Togheter, they make one the master of death.
    3. Mr. Ollivander: But few truty believe that such objects exists.
    4. Harry Potter: Do you? Do you believe they exist sir?
    5. Mr. Ollivander: Well... I see no reason to put stock into an old wives' tale.
    6. Harry Potter: You're lying! You know one exists. You told him about it. Yout told him about the elder wand and where he could go looking for it.
    7. Mr. Ollivander: He tortured me. Besides... I only conveyed rumors.
    8. Mr. Ollivander: There's... There's no telling wheter he will find it.
    9. Harry Potter: He has founded it, sir. We'll let you rest.
    10. Mr. Ollivander: He's after you, Mr. Potter. If it's true, what you say, and he has the elder wand, I'm afraid, you really don't stand a chance.
    11. Harry Potter: Well, I suppose I'll have to kill him, before he finds me, then.
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Pedro R (6 months ago)
    1. Griphook: How did you came by this sword?
    2. Harry Potter: It's complicated. Why Bellatrix Lestrange think it should be at her vaul at Gringotts?
    3. Griphook: It's complicated.
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Yago P (8 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: When you told Professor Snape that wand was failing you. It will always fail you!
    2. Lord Voldemort: I killed Snape!
    3. Harry Potter: But what if that wand never belonged to Snape?
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Eric G (8 months ago)
    1. Severus Snape: It appears there is a connection, between the dark lord's mind and your own. Whether he is, as yet, aware of this connection is, for the moment, unclear. Pray he remains ignorant.
    2. Harry Potter: You mean, if he knows about it, then... he'll be able to read my mind?
    3. Severus Snape: Read it, control it... unhinge it. In the past, it was often the Dark Lord's pleasure to invade the minds of his victims, creating visions designed to torture them into madness.
    From Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Submitted by Suhail M (8 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?
    2. Professor Albus Dumbledore: Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Emma C (10 months ago)
    1. Vernon Dursley: Do you know whats so great about Sunday, Dudley?
    2. Dudley Dursley: (Speechless)
    3. Harry Potter: No post on Sunday?
    4. Vernon Dursley: Right you are, Harry. No post on Sunday! Ha!
    From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Sydney S (10 months ago)
    1. Professor Severus Snape: If anyone here has any knowledge of Mr. Potter's movements this evening, I invite them to step forward... Now.
    2. Harry Potter: [Harry steps out. All students gasp and murmur] It seems, despite your exhaustive defensive strategies, you still have a bit of a security problem, Headmaster.
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. Submitted by Alec C (10 months ago)
    1. Remus Lupin: Why do you look so miserable, Harry?
    2. Harry Potter: None of it made any difference. Pettigrew escaped.
    3. Remus Lupin: Didn't make any difference? Harry, it made all the difference in the world! You helped discover the truth. You saved an innocent man from a terrible fate. It made a great deal of difference.
    From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Submitted by Stu P (11 months ago)
    1. Ron Weasley: Hiya, Harry
    2. Harry Potter: Ron. Fred. George. What are you all doing here?
    3. Ron Weasley: Rescuing you, of course. Now, come on, get your trunk.
    From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Submitted by Nithin T (11 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: You put my name in the goblet of fire, you bewitched Krum.
    2. Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody: But but but. You won because I made it so potter.
    From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Submitted by Steven P (11 months ago)
    1. Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody: Potter, you're underage. Which means you still have the trace on you.
    2. Harry Potter: What's the trace?
    3. Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody: If you sneeze, the Ministry will know who wipes your nose. Point is we'll have to use those means of transport the trace can't detect. Brooms, thestrals, and the like. We'll go in pairs, that way if anyones out there waiting for us, and I reckon there will be, they won't know which Harry Potter is the real one.
    4. Harry Potter: The real one?
    5. Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody: [Brings out Polyjuice potion] I believe you're familiar with this particular brew.
    6. Harry Potter: No, absolutely not.
    7. Hermione Granger: Told you he'd take it well.
    From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1. Submitted by Manuela D (12 months ago)
    1. Neville Longbottom: Fourteen years ago, a Death Eater named Bellatrix Lestrange used the Crutiatus Curse on my parents. She tortured them for information, but they never gave in. I'm quite proud to be their son. But I'm not sure I'm ready for everyone to know just yet.
    2. Harry Potter: We're going to make them proud, Neville. That's a promise.
    From Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: I didn't put my name in that cup! I don't want eternal glory, I just wanna be... look, I don't know what happened tonight and I don't know why. It just did.
    From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Cedric Diggory: For a moment there, I thought you were going to let it get me.
    2. Harry Potter: For a moment there, so did I.
    From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Draco Malfoy: Why so tense, Potter? My father and I have a bet, you see. See, I don't think you're going to last ten minutes in this tournament. He disagrees. He thinks you won't last five!
    2. Harry Potter: I don't give a damn what your father thinks, Malfoy! He's vile and cruel, and you're just pathetic!
    From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: (talinkg about Sirius) He was their friend, and he betrayed them. He was their FRIEND! I hope he finds me! Cause when he does, I'm gonna be ready. When he does, I'm gonna kill him!
    From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: Professor, can I ask you something?
    2. Remus Lupin: You want to know why I stopped you facing that boggart, yes? I would have thought that would be obvious - I assumed it would take the shape of Lord Voldemort.
    3. Harry Potter: I did think of Voldemort - at first. But then I remembered that night on the train... and the dementor...
    4. Remus Lupin: I'm very impressed. That suggests that what you fear most of all, is fear itself. This is very wise.
    From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Harry Potter: (talking about Sirius) When we free him, I'll never have to go back to the Dursley's. It'll just be me and him. We could live in the country, someplace you can see the sky. I think he'll like that after all those years in Azkaban.
    From Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Gilderoy Lockhart: Harry, Harry, Harry. Can you possibly imagine a better way to serve detention, than by helping me to answer my fan mail?
    2. Harry Potter: Not really.
    3. Gilderoy Lockhart: Fame is a fickle friend Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.
    From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Tom Riddle: How is it that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?
    2. Harry Potter: Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time!
    3. Tom Riddle: Voldemort is my past, present, and future.
    From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Oliver Wood: Scared Harry?
    2. Harry Potter: A little.
    3. Oliver Wood: That's all right. I felt the same way before my first game.
    4. Harry Potter: What happened?
    5. Oliver Wood: I..uh..I don't really remember. I took a bludger to the head two minutes in. Woke up in hospital a week later.
    From Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)
    1. Horace Slughorn: But i suppose thats the way life goes on.You have something now and then it suddenly goes... poof!
    2. Rubeus Hagrid: Poof!
    3. Harry Potter: Poof...
    From Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Submitted by David C (13 months ago)
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