DANIEL RADCLIFFE has just completed a sell-out and record-breaking run of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Merrily We Roll Along’, a role which garnered him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, his co-star Jonathan Groff a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and the show overall winning the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
Not only did the show break all records at The Hudson Theatre on Broadway, but also broke the record for the highest grossing week of a Sondheim musical amassing a staggering $2.766 million. Maria Friedman’s applauded production which ran from October 2023 to July of this year, was first seen at the New York Theatre Workshop opening in November 2022 to huge critical acclaim. The sell-out production again starred Radcliffe as Charley Kingras alongside Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard and Lindsay Mendez as Mary.
Radcliffe can previously be seen starring in the titular role of the five times Grammy Award-winner in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Radcliffe starred opposite Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna in The Roku Channel’s tongue-in-cheek ‘real life’ story. The role garnered Radcliffe Best Actor Emmy and BAFTA Award nominations, a further Hollywood Critics’ Association nomination and a Critics’ Choice Award.
Prior to this, Radcliffe starred in Miracle Workers: End Times, the fourth and final season of TBS’s comedy series with Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan and Karan Soni. Radcliffe continued his role as executive producer on the series, which first aired in 2019 with Buscemi in the role of a weary God and Radcliffe as a low-level angel. Radcliffe is also executive producer on HBO’s Emmy and BAFTA Award nominated feature documentary David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived which tells the story of Radcliffe’s long-term friend and stunt double Holmes who was tragically injured during rehearsals for the penultimate Harry Potter film.
In 2022 Radcliffe starred opposite Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in Paramount’s box office no. 1 hit The Lost City in which he played Abigail Fairfax, an eccentric billionaire convinced that reclusive novelist Loretta Sage (Bullock) can help him locate lost treasure.
Other recent credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend in which Radcliffe plays the role of Kimmy’s fiancé, Prince Frederick, alongside Ellie Kemper and Jon Hamm. Also, in 2020, Radcliffe returned to London’s West End starring in the role of Clov opposite Alan Cumming’s Hamm in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ at The Old Vic theatre. The Beckett double bill, featuring Jane Horrocks and Karl Johnson, also saw Radcliffe and Cumming star in ‘Rough for Theatre II’, with both plays directed by Richard Jones.
2019 saw the release of the true-life prison break feature Escape From Pretoria in which Radcliffe played the role of Tim Jenkin. Shot on location in Australia, the film is based on Jenkin’s autobiography ‘Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison’. Radcliffe also starred in the comedic action film Guns Akimbo opposite Samara Weaving, playing Miles, a mild-mannered video game developer, who accidentally finds himself starring in his own real-life and violent video game.
Since completing the final instalment in the series of eight Harry Potter films in 2010, Radcliffe quickly proved himself a diverse talent. In 2011, he starred in a 10-month sell-out run of the Broadway musical ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’. The following year, Radcliffe starred in the horror/thriller The Woman in Black. He also then starred opposite Jon Hamm in two seasons of the TV mini-series, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, a comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by celebrated Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Prior to this Radcliffe starred in the TV feature film My Boy Jack alongside Carey Mulligan, Kim Cattrall and David Haig, which tells the true story of the son of British author Rudyard Kipling who was tragically killed during the first world war.
Other notable film credits include: The indie hit which marked the Daniels’ feature film directorial debut, Swiss Army Man, in which Radcliffe starred opposite Paul Dano; The survivalist film Jungle, the true-life story of Yossi Ghinsberg who was stranded alone in the Amazon jungle; Now You See Me 2, alongside Michael Caine; Imperium, a thriller inspired by real events about white supremacists in America, and Sony Pictures Classics’ Kill Your Darlings. Radcliffe has also starred opposite James McAvoy in the film Victor Frankenstein; opposite Juno Temple in the horror-thriller Horns, with Zoe Kazan and Adam Driver in the romantic comedy What If, and he made a cameo appearance in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck written by and starring Amy Schumer.
Radcliffe first appeared on stage in 2007 as Alan Strang, playing opposite Richard Griffiths, in Peter Shaffer’s ‘Equus’. Directed by Thea Sharrock, the play then transferred from London’s West End to Broadway in 2008. Radcliffe also starred alongside Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale in the sell-out Broadway production of the acclaimed original play The Lifespan of a Fact. Other Broadway credits include Martin McDonagh’s comic masterpiece The Cripple of Inishmaan as Billy, which made its way to Broadway from London’s West End, and a sell-out run of Privacy, a timely play about the digital age and technology, at NYC’s The Public Theatre in 2016. He has also previously won rave reviews for his performance as Rosencrantz, opposite Josh McGuire’s Guildenstern, in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at The Old Vic Theatre, London.
A lifelong fan of The Simpsons, Radcliffe has lent his voice to the show multiple times. First in November 2010, to the brooding vampire named Edmund for the show’s “Treehouse of Horror XXI” special entitled “Tweenlight” and to the character Diggs, a new transfer student whom Bart befriends. Recent voice credits include Mulligan, Rick and Morty and Andy Samberg’s Digman. Radcliffe has also made a guest appearance as himself in the HBO/BBC series Extras.