List Of Harry Potter Cast Members
Some of the most renowned actors of the United Kingdom and Ireland voiced or portrayed characters appearing in the Harry Potter film series based on the book series by J. K. Rowling. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson played Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in all the films. When they were cast only Radcliffe had previously acted in a film. Complementing them on screen are such actors as Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, and Julie Walters, among others. Thirteen actors appeared as the same character in all eight films of the franchise.
Some well-known British actors who did not appear in the series, are asked in jest why they were not cast. When David Yates was directing the fifth film, Bill Nighy, who had previously collaborated with Yates on three of his television projects, said that he joked with Yates that maybe now he wouldn't be the only actor in England who hadn't been in Harry Potter. "But nobody called", Nighy added. But in 2009, Yates cast Nighy as Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in Deathly Hallows. Nighy said, "I am no longer the only English actor not to be in Harry Potter and I am very pleased." Jude Law quipped, "Nobody's asked me. I was a bit too old for Harry". When a reporter compared potions professor Horace Slughorn's obsession with famous names to the series' connection to "every notable British actor," Jim Broadbent, who plays Slughorn said, "Well, not every actor gets invited. I know some who are still waiting."
With the exception of Chris Columbus, each director had a cameo appearance in their respective film: Alfonso Cuarón appears as a wizard holding a candle during a scene at The Three Broomsticks in Prisoner of Azkaban; Mike Newell is heard briefly as the radio presenter in Frank Bryce's house in Goblet of Fire; and David Yates features as a wizard within a magical moving portrait in Order of the Phoenix. Producer David Heyman also makes a cameo appearance as a wizard featured within a magical moving portrait in the third film, Prisoner of Azkaban.
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