Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 to Marcia Gresham (Jacobson) and Alan Radcliffe in Fulham, a suburb in London, England. At 5 Dan showed his desire to act. In his first role, he stared as a Monkey in a School Play. Today Dan’s look on that is, “I hope no one ever finds any pictures of me in that!”. His Mother is a Casting Director and has been involved in many productions like The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and The Debt. His father is a Literary Agent, who has retired for now to look after his son and his career. He was involved in a film at a young age called The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne starring as the Young Priest. I guess you could call it Genetic for Daniel to have a passion for acting. He officially became a part of the business by “accident”.

Altough he wanted to audition for the role of Oliver Twist, Dan’s parents were not to keen on the idea. When he had the next oppurtunity he took it. The auditons for David Copperfeld opened up and he did it. He made his first BBC and Screen/TV Debut starring as the Young David Copperfield. A friend who had suggested that he audition, said that it would be a bit of fun. He never figured he would get the role. Therefore it came to a huge surprise when he recieved the information. The Producer of David Copperfield said “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.” The Production was well recieved and recieved many great reviews.

In Early 2000 Daniel was cast in the role of Mark Pendel in The Tailor of Panama. He was in the game for the experiance. Starring as Mark Pendel, son of Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush) and Louisa Pendel (Jamie Lee Curtis). While filming in Panama, a major search in the United Kingdom for a certain literary character, Harry Potter, was going on. Jamie Lee Curtis was looking at Dan one day, turned to Daniel’s mother and said, “He Could Be Harry potter.”

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