Daniel Jacob "Dan" Radcliffe is an English actor who portrayed Prince Fredrick in the Netflix interactive special Kimmy vs. the Reverend
Biography[]
Born and raised in London, Radcliffe got his start acting at the age of 10 in the two-part BBC television series David Copperfield (1999), as Young David, followed by his film debut in The Tailor of Panama (2001), as Mark Pendel. His role as Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film franchise (2001-2011) earned him worldwide popularity, as well as accolades for his portrayal. During that time, he was seen in Extras (2006), playing himself and was also seen in the Australian family drama December Boys (2007) as Maps, and as John Kipling in the biographical television film My Boy Jack (2007).
After concluding the Potter series, he went to star as Arthur Kipps in the horror The Woman in Black (2012), beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the biographical film Kill Your Darlings (2013), med school dropout Wallace in the Irish Canadian romantic comedy What If (2013). He then went on to star in the dark fantasy horror film Horns as Ig Perrish that same year. He was seen in the science fiction horror film Victor Frankenstein (2015) as Igor. Also in 2015, he played Sam Houser in the BBC docudrama film The Gamechangers and played The Dog Walker in Trainwreck. In 2016, he starred as Walter Maybry in the action-adventure film Now You See Me 2, Manny in the indie film Swiss Army Man, Nate Foster in the independent film Imperium. In 2017, he was seen as himself in Lost in London, and as Yossi Ghinsberg in the physiological thriller Jungle. He played Sean Haggerty in Beast of Burden (2018), Miles in Guns Akimbo (2019), and played multiple characters in the TBS anthology series Miracle Workers (2019-2023), which also he executive produced and starred in the 2020 Australian prison film Escape from Pretoria as Tim Jenkin.
He reunited with the cast and crew of the Harry Potter films for the 20th anniversary special titled Harry Potter: 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022). That same year, he starred in the musical parody film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story as musician Weird Al Yankovic. For his performance, he earned his first nominations for a BAFTA TV award[1] and a Primetime Emmy Award[2]. He then starred as Abigail Fairfax in the adventure comedy The Lost City (2022).
In addition, he has hosted Saturday Night Live in 2012, Have I Got News for You (2012, 2015), and done some voice work during his career. A lifelong fan of The Simpsons (2010,2014,2018), he lent his voice to characters such as Edmund, Digby Diggs, and himself, as well as voicing characters in Robot Chicken (2012, 2017), and in BoJack Horseman (2015). He has voiced characters such as detective Rex Dasher in Playmobile: The Movie (2019), one of the Knights of the Sun in Rick and Morty (2022), Sebastian Lines in an episode of Digman! (2023), and as King Jeremey in the animated apocalyptic sitcom Mulligan (2023). In November of that same year, he executive produced a documentary about his former Potter stunt double, David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived.
He has also branched out onto stage roles, beginning on the West End in the comedy play The Play What I Wrote, as a celebrity guest in 2002, and roles soon followed. He portrayed 17-year-old Alan Strang in the London and New York productions of Equus (2007-2009), J. Pierpont Finch in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011-2012). Radcliffe also made appearances in the West End and Broadway productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan (2013-2014) as Billy Claven. Other theatre roles include Endgame/Rough for Theatre II (2020), Privacy (2016), Lifespan of a Fact (2018), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017). More recently, he starred in the Off-Broadway and Broadway revivals of Merrily We Roll Along (2022-2024) as Charley Kringas, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical[3]
Trivia[]
- In April 2023, he and his girlfriend, actress Erin Darke welcomed their first child, a baby boy[4] and reminisced on fatherhood, calling it, "the best thing that's ever happened to me"[5]
- In August 2008, he revealed he had a mild case of Dyspraxia. The actor, then 19 at the time recalled to ABC News, "I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with discernible talent". [6]
- On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in October 2014, Dan rapped Alphabet Aerobics by Blackalicious[7] and on a 2010 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, sung The Elements Song by Tom Lehrer[8], which prepared him to learn Franklin Shepard Inc
References[]
- ↑ BAFTA 2023 Television Awards nominations and winners
- ↑ 2023 EMMY® AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEMENT (youtube.com)
- ↑ Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff React To First Tony Award Wins (youtube.com)
- ↑ Daniel Radcliffe, Girlfriend Erin Darke Welcome Their First Baby (people.com)
- ↑ Recap the 2024 Tony Awards Acceptance Speeches (broadwayworld.com)
- ↑ Dyspraxia Explains Harry Potter's Klutziness - ABC News (go.com)
- ↑ Daniel Radcliffe Raps Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics"
- ↑ Daniel Radcliffe sings "The Elements" - The Graham Norton Show - Series 8 Episode 4 - BBC One