Who’s Who In HBO’s Harry Potter TV Series Cast
It’s been only 14 years since Warner Bros. released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, yet a fresh adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s massively popular novels is now filming.
HBO has started production on a TV series version of the Harry Potter saga, with each book following the boy wizard’s Hogwarts journey being adapted into a full season. The major roles from Rowling’s first novel — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — has been recast with different actors than those who played the characters in the Warner Bros. films. The adult actors are often much younger than their film counterparts, as the show is sticking closer to the characters’ ages in the books.
Below are all the actors who have been announced, with photos showing them side by side with their film version counterparts. A few significant roles have yet to be revealed — such as who will play Lord Voldemort, who arrives near the very end of first book.
Movies: Emma Watson / Show: Arabella Stanton
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Movies: Rubert Grint / Show: Alastair Stout
Movies: Daniel Radcliffe / Show: Dominic McLaughlin
(Or, if we’re being formal about things: Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore).
The first two movies: Richard Harris / Show: John Lithgow
Movies: Maggie Smith / Show: Janet McTeer
Movies: Alan Rickman / Show: Paapa Essiedu
Movies: Robbie Coltrane / Show: Nick Frost
Movies: Julie Walters / Show: Katherine Parkinson
Movies: Tom Felton / Show: Lox Pratt
Movies: Jason Isaacs / Show: Johnny Flynn
Lucius doesn’t appear in the first Harry Potter film (or book), but he’s one of a few characters that are among the first season’s cast that don’t show up until later in the film series (others include Parvati Patil and Cornelius Fudge).
Movies: Matthew Lewis / Show: Rory Wilmot
Movies: Harry Melling / Show: Amos Kitson
Movies: Zoe Wanamaker / Show: Louise Brealey
Movies: John Hurt / Show: Anton Lesser
Movies: Devon Murray / Show: Leo Earley
Movies: Shefali Chowdhury and Alessia Leoni
Movies: Fiona Shaw / Show: Bel Powley
Movies: Richard Griffiths / Show: Daniel Rigby
Movies: Robert Hardy / Show: Bertie Carvel
Movies: Ian Hart / Show: Luke Thallon
Movies: David Bradley / Show: Paul Whitehouse
Movies: Geraldine Somerville / Show: TBA
Movies: Adrian Rawlins / Show: TBA (but we do know that both Lily and James will be closer to the ages in the books — 21 — than the actors in the films)
Movies: Ralph Fiennes / Show …
Nobody has yet been announced for the franchise’s biggest villain, but an interesting question is: When will the main actor for the role first show up? In the films, Fiennes didn’t appear until the forth movie, Goblet of Fire, as that’s when Voldemort first takes human form. But his face appears at the end of the first film (played by Richard Bremmer), and in the second film, he appears as his younger self, Tom Riddle (played by Christian Peter Coulson). Given the production has cast several roles that didn’t appear until the latter films, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if the production has quietly already cast an actor to play Voldemort throughout the entire series.
