Happy Birthday Daniel Radcliffe!

Happy Birthday Daniel Radcliffe!  Daniel’s first film role was as Mark in John Boorman’s The Tailor of Panama, the thriller based on the John le Carre novel.  Then, he began his long running and iconic parts in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001).  Next, he was in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).  After Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), he appeared in the drama, December Boys (2007), and then starred in the tv movie, My Boy Jack (2007).  Also in 2007, Daniel starred in the play Equus in London and New York.  Daniel continued with the series starring in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), appeared in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey (2010) for the theme park, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and finally Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).  It is a brilliant adaptation of the J.K. Rowling novels following young wizard Harry Potter growing up and learning at Hogwarts while facing his destiny to ultimate face Voldemort.  

Also in 2011, he was in the Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.  Leaving Harry Potter behind, Daniel was in the horror film, The Woman in Black (2012).  Next, he played Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, in Kill Your Darlings (2013).  Daniel had the part of Ig Perrish in the horror movie Horns (2013) which has him waking to find horns that has the power to reveal secrets and hopes to find the killer of his girlfriend.  He had the lead role in A Young Doctor’s Notebook & Other Stories, a tv series that ran from 2012-2013.  Daniel had a part in the comedy Trainwreck (2015) and played Igor, the assistant of Victor Frankenstein (2015).  In 2016, he played the corpse, Manny, in Swiss Army Man (2016).  Daniel portrayed Walter Mabry, the tech genius who challenges the Four Horsemen in Now You See Me 2 (2016).  He played Nate Foster, an F.B.I. agent going undercover as a white supremacist in Imperium (2016). Daniel had the part of Rosencrantz in the play for the National Theatre, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (2017).  In this year’s Beast of Burden, Daniel plays Sean Haggerty who has an hour to deliver cargo to keep his wife alive.  Happy Birthday Daniel Radcliffe!   

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