Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe ( born July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England ) is a British actor. He became known through the incarnation of Harry Potter in the film adaptations of novels of the same name by JK Rowling.
Life and career
Daniel Radcliffe was born in 1989 as the only child of Alan George Radcliffe literary agents and casting agent Marcia Jeannine Gresham (née Jacobson ) at a hospital in West London. His father is Protestant and originates from Northern Ireland, and his mother is Jewish, her last name Gresham is an Anglicization of Gershon. Daniel Radcliffe himself is Atheist. He suffers in his own words from a mild form of dyspraxia. Daniel Radcliffe played in 1999 at the age of ten years in the British television production of David Copperfield, a film adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens, the young David Copperfield. His film debut he graduated in 2001 in the John le Carré adaptation as canvas son of Jamie Lee Curtis and Geoffrey Rush in John Boorman's The Tailor of Panama.
2001 Radcliffe was due to the great success of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, world known exactly how his two co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who embody Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley quickly. It was followed by the sequels Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( 2004) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( 2007) Harry Potter and the half-Blood Prince (2009 ). For Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010 and 2011 ), the last book in the series, which has been split into two films, Radcliffe also stood in front of the camera. He also played the lead role in the film December Boys Maps.
In November and December 2002 Radcliffe was the surprise guest in several performances of the Olivier Award winning comedy The Play What I Wrote, the Kenneth Branagh directed at the Wyndham 's Theatre in London's West End. Followed in 2007 by his theater debut in Peter Shaffer Equus, where he celebrated in the role of psychologically disturbed stable boy Alan Strang at the Gielgud Theatre in London successes.
Daniel Radcliffe has an estimated fortune of £ 52 million, which works out at about 64 million euros. In 2008 he was listed as the American Forbes magazine's best-paid young actors in Hollywood. Between June 2007 and June 2008, it received fees amounting to 19 to 25 million U.S. dollars, ranking before the Americans Miley Cyrus (* 1992, 15-25 million U.S. dollars) and Mary -Kate and Ashley Olsen ( born 1986, 15-22 million U.S. dollars) at the top of the payroll. He is also one of the best known financial supporter of the Trevor Project. Daniel Radcliffe suffers from cluster headache.
Since December 2012, he is seen in the miniseries A Young Doctor 's Notebook of the channel Sky Arts as Dr. Vladimir Bomgard next to Jon Hamm.
Awards
Radcliffe 2001 received his first award in Hollywood on "Hollywood Women's Press Club" as the " best male youth discovery." The Variety Club of Great Britain named him in February 2002 for " Best Young Actor ". In the same month he was awarded the " Sir James Carreras " as " outstanding new talent ". In April 2002, he of the Italian Film Award David di Donatello was awarded for his extraordinary portrayal of Harry Potter and his contribution to the future of cinema. In the years 2001 to 2005 and 2007 Radcliffe a Bravo Otto in the category of male movie star or movie star was from the German youth magazine Bravo awarded (from 2004): 2001 and 2002 in Silver, 2003 Bronze, 2004 Silver and 2005 and 2007 gold. In July 2007, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint immortalized together with imprints of their hands, feet and wands in front of Grauman 's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
Filmography
Synchronization
Since the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban him Nico Sablik lends his voice, and before that he was voiced by Tim Schwarzmaier.
Theater
- 2002: The Play What I Wrote ( West End ) - Guest Appearance
- 2007: Equus ( West End ) - as Alan Strang
- 2008: Equus (Broadway) - as Alan Strang
- 2011: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Broadway) as J. Pierrepont Finch
- 2013: The Cripple of Inishmaan ( West End ) - as Billy Claven