Daniel Radcliffe

        Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989) is an English actor who rose to prominence playing the titular character in the Harry Potter film series adapted from the book series of the same name. Radcliffe was cast as Harry at the age of eleven. From 2001 to 2010, he starred in seven Harry Potter films alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson; he will return for the final installment: the second part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2011). Radcliffe's work on the Harry Potter series has earned him several awards and more than £60 million.

In 2007, Radcliffe was involved in three non-Harry Potter productions: the television adaptation of the play My Boy Jack, the film adaptation of the novel December Boys and the theater production Equus, for which he earned a Drama Desk Award nomination. Since then he has appeared in the theater production How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011), and has filmed the film adaptation of the novelThe Woman in Black (2012).

Radcliffe has also contributed to many charities, including Demelza House Children's Hospice and The Trevor Project; he won the Trevor Project's "Hero Award" in 2011. Radcliffe also suffers from a mild form of the neurological disorder dyspraxia.

         Radcliffe was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith, West London, England, the only child of Alan George Radcliffe, a literary agent, and Marcia Jeannine Gresham (née Marcia Gresham Jacobson), a casting agent who was involved in several films for the BBC, including The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and, most recently, Walk Away And I Stumble. Radcliffe's mother is Jewish and a native of Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex (her family's surname was anglicised from "Gershon");his father, originally from Northern Ireland, is Protestant.

Radcliffe first expressed a desire to act at the age of five. In December 1999, aged ten, he realised his ambition and made his acting debut in the BBC's televised two-part adaptationof the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, portraying the title character as a young boy.

Radcliffe was educated at two independent schools for boys: Sussex House School, a day school in Cadogan Square in Chelsea in London. He achieved A grades in the three AS-levels he sat in 2006, but then decided to take a break from education, and did not go to college or university.