The Basics
Name: Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint
Nicknames: Rupe, Rupes
Age: 20
Birthdate: August 24th, 1988
Astrological Sign: Virgo
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Dragon
Birth Place: Hertfordshire, England
Nationality: British
Heritage: Irish/English
Siblings: *Eldest of 5 children; *One brother – James (born in 1990); *Three sisters – Georgina (born in 1993), Samantha (born in 1996), and Charlotte (born in 1999)
Parents: Nigel (father) - a race car memorial dealer and Jo (mother) - a homemaker.
School: Richard Hale School, Hertford (Graduated after taking GCSEs in June 2004).
Did you know?: Rupert is right handed

The Look
Hair color: Red/Ginger
Eye color: Blue-green
Height: 5′10″
Trade Marks: Red hair; Smart casual dressing (jeans, blazers, chucks, hands in pocket).

Favorites
Personal Favorites

Favorite Color: Green
Favorite Childhood Toy: Yo-yos (Super Yo Satellite)
Favorite Cartoon Character: SpongeBob SquarePants
Favorite Simpsons character: Bart
Favorite Birthday Present: Unicycle (he got it on his 14th birthday)
Favorite Snacks: Sweets
Favorite Candy Bar: Nestle Milky Bar
Favorite Dessert: Ice cream
Favorite Ice-cream Flavor: Choco-mint
Favorite Fast-food: Hawaiian Pizza, Burger, Ham sandwiches
Favorite Fruit: Orange
Favorite Thirst-quencher: Lemonade
Favorite article of Clothing: Jeans
Favorite Catchphrase: “Wicked!”
Favorite Music: Rock, rap
Favorite Musical Instrument: Guitar
Favorite Bands: AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, The Killers, Parklife and Blur. Oasis
Favorite Books: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.
Favorite Author: J.K. Rowling
Favorite School Subject: Art
Favorite Genre: Comedy and horror
Favorite Actors: Jim Carrey, Lee Evans and Mike Myers
Favorite Actress / Celebrity Crush: Jessica Alba and Sienna Miller
Favorite Movies: Napoleon Dynamite, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Shrek, Ace Ventura, The Grinch, Dumb & Dumber, Star Wars
Favorite TV Show: Big Brother (UK)
Favorite TV Guilty Pleasure: The Joy of Painting, with Bob Ross
Favorite (secret) Girlie Movie/TV Show: Saved by the Bell
Favorite Website: eBay
Favorite Pastimes: Sleeping, drawing/sketching, playing the guitar, riding his Quad bike/unicycle
Favorite Sports: Golf, Pool, Bowling, Biking, Football, Rugby, Swimming
Favorite Sports Team: Tottenham Hotspur (The Spurs) football/soccer team
Favorite Video Game: Need for Speed
Favorite Video Game Format: GameCube and PlayStation 2
Favorite Cellphone: Motorola v3
Favorite Gadgets: iPod Nano (which he has rigged up in his car), Sony Vaio laptop, and a great new device that finds lost golf balls on the course!
Favorite Car: Hot rod
Favorite Tourist Visit in New York: The Empire State Building

Funny Favorites asked at Golf Event Sept. 2008:

Favorite Smell: Petrol

HP Favorites

Favorite HP book: Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire
Favorite HP Character: Ron Weasley
Favorite HP Scene: The Chess Scene (Sorcerer’s Stone)
Favorite HP Line: “Bloody Brilliant!”
Favorite HP Animal: Scabbers (Ron’s rat)
Favorite HP Magic Ability: Invisibility
Favorite HP magical object/transportation: Flying Car

Rupert’s Firsts
First dream job: Ice cream man
First acting roles: School productions and local theater productions – a fish in Noah’s Ark, a donkey in a nativity play, a chorus in Cinderella, as Gangster Rooster in Annie, and as Rump in Rumplestiltskin.
First book read: Each Peach Plum by Allan and Janet Ahlberg.
First Kiss: At 10 years old – “it was just a peck.”
First Car: Black Mini Cooper
First thing bought (with his HP earnings): A house for his family.

Awards & Nominations
Rupert won the Young Artist Award Special Award for Most Promising Young Newcomer, for his performance in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in April of 2002

Empire Awards UK 2002 Best Debut Nomination for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’

In The Beginning...
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on 23rd July 1989 in the London suburb of Fulham. From the tender age of five, Dan expressed an interest in acting, although his early experience was limited to playing a monkey in a school production. (Today, Dan’s perspective on his first role today is "I hope no one ever finds any pictures of that!"). He became officially involved in the acting profession "by accident".

He had missed out on auditioning for a part in a television production of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist - his parents didn't think it would be a very good idea - but he was destined to make his small screen debut as another of Dickens' famous titular characters: David Copperfield, starring alongside Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins.

"A friend suggested that I audition, as a bit of fun, for the role of David Copperfield. I never expected to actually get the part as I knew there would be hundreds of boys trying for it, so when I did, it came as a huge surprise."

The annual Christmas BBC period drama is very popular in the UK and this 1999 adaptation of the classic novel was particularly well received. Copperfield producer Kate Harwood had these comments after working with Dan:

"He has a particular quality of naturalness and innocence. One normally dreads working with child actors, but in his case he was wonderful. He has a great deal of charm and simplicity."

Dan followed up his appearance in "David Copperfield" by taking a small part, to gain some experience, in the film "The Tailor of Panama" released in March 2001. He played Mark Pendel, the son of Harry and Louisa Pendel, who were played by Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis. While the filming was taking place, a major talent search was underway in the UK to find someone to portray a certain popular literary character and Curtis was struck by a particular insight:

"One day I was looking at Daniel, who was standing beside the swimming pool. I turned to his mother and said: 'He could be Harry Potter.' "


The Role Of A Lifetime
It was Dan's "charm and simplicity" that caught the eye of Chris Columbus and David Heyman whilst on the search for a young British actor to bring to life the lead character of what is arguably the modern literary world's most successful phenomenon: Harry Potter. This was going to be no mean feat for whoever won the role and superb casting of the part was, of course, vital to the film. Director Columbus had seen a tape of "David Copperfield" and had badgered his casting director into calling its young star in for an audition.

However, Dan's understandably protective parents were reluctant to subject their son to any gruelling audition process only to have his hopes dashed and so the life-altering role was at first turned down. But serendipity smiled down on Dan one evening in a theatre: producer David Heyman and screenwriter Steve Kloves spotted him with his parents in the audience while watching the play 'Stones in his Pockets'. Heyman knew Dan's father through business connections and introduced himself to Dan during the interval. He then spent the second half of the play totally distracted by his potential Harry.

The next morning, Heyman called Dan's parents to try to persuade them to change their minds about letting him audition and... discovered that they had already had the same idea! They agreed to an informal meeting between Dan and David Heyman and, once they were confident that he would be protected as much as possible from the media glare if offered the role, agreed that Dan should go for an audition. Then one night while taking a bath, Dan heard his father answer the phone:

"My dad came in and told me I'd got the part of Harry Potter. I cried, I was so happy. I woke up in the middle of the night, around half two, and I woke up my dad too, just to check with him that it wasn't all a dream. That I really was going to be Harry Potter."

The casting of Dan, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson in the l

Emma Charlotte Duerre was Born to Lawyer parents Jacqueline and Chris in Paris, France on April 15th 1990. Her parents divorced when Emma was 5 years old which is when Emma and her brother Alex (3 years Emma’s junior) Moved to Oxfordshire and lived with their mother.
At the age of 7 Emma won 1st prize in a school poetry recital: The Daisy Pratt poetry competition. Emma was just 9 years old when casting agents travelled to many different schools in England looking for talented children to audition for the parts of Harry, Ron and Hermione in the upcoming Harry Potter movies. Emma recalls that she auditioned for the part as Hermione because her friends did and she thought it would “be a laugh”, her drama teacher at the time recommended Emma to the casting agents who obviously saw the same potential in her and was short listed for the role after several auditions. After being paired with several different “Ron’s” and several different “Harry’s”, Emma was called into the producers office alongside Rupert Grint who were both told at the same time that they had won the parts as Hermione and Ron.

At the age of 10, Emma began filming the her first role as Hermione Granger in: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone – the first instalment of the Harry Potter movies taken from the hugely popular books written by J.K Rowling. Even though Ms Rowling had not yet met Emma, she had said that after a chat on the phone with her she knew there and then that she was absolutely perfect for the role as the books main female character Hermione Granger.

On the day of release Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone had already broken many records, and Emma’s performance in the movie won her critical acclaim from movie bigwigs all over the world.

Emma is still working on the Harry Potter movies to this day and now at the tender age of 16, she also has the massively successful: “Chamber of Secrets”, “Prisoner of Azkaban” and “Goblet of Fire” under her belt and "Order of the Phoenix." "Half-Blood Prince," will also be hitting theaters soon.

Currently studying her A-Levels, Emma more than lives up to her Hermione reputation after passing all 10 of her GCSE exams in the summer of 2006 with 8 A* (the highest grade you can get) and 2 A's. Emma has said on a number of occasions that she would very much like to go to university, but she is interested in so many things that she would find it hard to choose a subject to study.

In her spare time Emma has lots of hobbies including field hockey and dancing, she loves hanging out with her friends and likes to be treated like a normal teenager which is one of the reasons why Emma appeals to so many people around the world.