Check Out the Stars of Harry Potter, 20 Years Later

It was as if the redhead from Essex sprang from the earth able to play Harry’s greatest mate, Ron Weasley. Grint—whose first massive post-Potter honor was being a part of the Olympic Torch relay earlier than the London Olympics in 2012, an “wonderful” expertise he mentioned he’d cherish perpetually— has acted primarily in British productions. Most notably he starred in The ABC Murders on BBC One, primarily based on the Agatha Christie thriller, and the Sky One darkish comedy Sick Be aware, taking part in a mean Joe whose life perks up after he’s given a false-alarm most cancers prognosis however decides to let everybody proceed to imagine he’s nonetheless sick. (Lindsay Lohan was amongst his co-stars.) His films have included CBGB, concerning the famed punk-rock membership in New York, and the French comedy Moonwalkers. He at the moment stars on Apple TV+ in Servant, M. Evening Shyamalan‘s supernatural thriller sequence, which returned for a second season.

“From the second I obtained the half [of Ron], my life fully modified,” Grint informed Radio Occasions in 2018. “It was a bizarre time and it has taken me an extended whereas to course of. Simply being invisible can nonetheless be troublesome. Generally you simply need to go to B&Q.”

He additionally mentioned, “After Potter I didn’t actually know what I wished to do. I had this sense that I had missed out on regular issues. I misplaced contact with loads of my pals from college. I wished to have a little bit of a life once more, so I took a break. I’ve by no means actually been super-ambitious. I feel there’s at all times been one thing in me, notably after I completed Potter, that wishes to show myself, however I’m additionally naturally fairly an insecure particular person anyway.”

No matter he was doing labored. Shyamalan informed EW.com about Grint, “He got here in and auditioned, and I simply noticed a unique particular person. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen this type of reinvention from little one actor to grownup actor in my life, it’s wonderful.”

In Might 2020, Grint and longtime girlfriend Georgia Groome welcomed their first little one, daughter Wednesday G. Grint.