Watch: “Harry Potter” Alum Rupert Grint & Georgia Groome Welcome Baby Girl
You’re a dad again, Ron!
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint and partner Georgia Groome have welcomed their second child, another daughter.
The actor, 36, confirmed the news April 27, sharing a photo of the newborn. “Secret Child Slightly Revealed’ Introducing Goldie G. Grint,” Rupert wrote on his Instagram. “A 10/10 baby (so far).”
Alongside the pic, which shows Goldie wearing a white onesie with her named embroidered on it under a knit gray cardigan, the actor wrote, “Shout out to @alex.digesu for always delivering,” referring to his wife’s OBGYN.
Rupert, who played Harry’s best friend Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, posted the pic after he and Georgia were photographed in London holding the infant. Neither he nor the actress had publicly announced they were expecting a second child.
Rupert and Georgia are also parents to daughter Wednesday G. Grint, who was born in 2020.
Rupert had announced her birth in November of that year, several months after she arrived, in what marked his first Instagram post. It broke a Guinness World Record by making the actor the fastest person to reach one million followers on the platform—in just 4 hours and one minute.
While Rupert has largely kept details about his family life private, he has occasionally shared insight into his life as a dad. In 2022, he shared he was loving fatherhood and also explained the origin of Wednesday’s name.
“I’m always hesitant to say it was [inspired by] The Addams Family,” he said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, “but, it was.”
The Snatch star also explained why Wednesday was given a middle initial, adding, “We loved the idea of, like, an initial, like Samuel L. Jackson, Michael J. Fox.”
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Rupert also revealed how he was slowly introducing Wednesday to Harry Potter.
“Now you have this beautiful baby and one day you’re gonna show her these movies one day and say, ‘That’s daddy!'” Jimmy Fallon told him, to which Rupert responded, “I’ve already started showing her the trailers. She has a wand and a PEZ dispenser with my head on it.”
The British star also revealed that his daughter accidentally learned a curse word while keeping him company in his dressing room when he read over his scripts for The Servant series, in which his character Julian Pearce swears a lot.
“She says ‘dada’, she says ‘mama’, it was kind of at the same time. And also, the F-word came pretty quick,” he said. “Now she just says it whenever she’s excited. We were in the toy store today and she was just walking around just dropping it.”
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Then in 2023, after the family returned to England after the Apple TV+ show, which filmed in Pennsylvania, ended its run, Rupert spoke about how the move was affecting Wednesday.
“She’s struggling a little bit with kind of adjusting to U.K. life. She spent most of her time in America, so she’s missing some kind of cultural things,” he said on The Tonight Show. “She does love Philly. She loves hoagies. She loves water ice [treats]. The big one is Target. She is obsessed with Target.”
He continued, “She’d choose that over going to the park, the zoo.”
Find out more about the lives of the stars of Harry Potter.
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The boy who played Harry Potter is ever grateful for the role that knocked down all the doors for him, but he’s also been busy scrubbing any child-star residue from his acting image, starting with his raw, nudity-requiring Broadway debut in Equus in 2007.
The actor followed that up with the more chipper How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2011. And since then, he’s alternated between theater (The Cripple of Inishmaan, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead and his Tony-winning performance in Merrily We Roll Along) and film (The Woman in Black, Victor Frankenstein, Swiss Army Man).
To be sure, if there’s some dark humor to be found, Radcliffe is into it, whether on TV playing a morphine-addicted physician in A Young Doctor’s Notebook or a low-level angel trying to prevent God from ending the world in Miracle Workers.
However, his list of credits don’t end there. Radcliffe also played the villain opposite Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in their 2022 rom-com The Lost City, portrayed musician “Weird Al” Yankovic in the biographical parody film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, and done some voiceover work for the animated series Mulligan.
Radcliffe has been in a relationship with actress Erin Darke since meeting her on the set of 2013’s Kill Your Darlings, in which he played “Howl” poet Alan Ginsberg. Together, they share a son, who was born in April 2023.
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The Paris-born and Oxfordshire-raised kid had no more than a few school plays on her résumé when she was cast as Hermione Granger, her first professional acting job.
After completing the seven films, Watson split her time between college at Brown University (she graduated in 2014 with a degree in English literature) and starring in indie movies such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Bling Ring.
The actress went on to play Belle in the 2017 live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast as well as the eldest March sister, Meg, in 2019’s Little Women.
However, she then stepped back from acting. And while Watson was admittedly scared to do so, she felt like it was the right move for her.
“I’m just so glad that I did [step away from acting] because I have this feeling of having my own voice and creative space and sovereignty in some way that I don’t think I did before–more autonomy,” she told British Vogue in 2023. “I’m so glad that I allowed things to be messy for a minute and to really allow myself to not know [what’s next], because the knowing that I’ve come to, I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”
What was next for Watson included going back to school—with her telling the magazine she enrolled in a creative writing program at Oxford—launching her gin brand Renais with her brother Alex Watson, and directing a few commercials.
Over the years, she’s also modeled for brands like Burberry and Lancôme and been an activist focused on gender equality.
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It was as if the redhead from Essex sprang from the earth ready to play Harry’s best mate, Ron Weasley.
Afterwards, Grint acted in British productions like The ABC Murders, based on the Agatha Christie mystery, and the dark comedy Sick Note, playing an average Joe whose life perks up after he’s given a false-alarm cancer diagnosis but decides to let everyone continue to believe he’s still sick.
Grint also landed roles in CBGB, a film about the famed punk-rock club in New York, the French comedy Moonwalkers, M. Night Shyamalan‘s supernatural mystery series Servant, and the filmmaker’s horror movie Knock at the Cabin.
However, it took him a while to adjust to life after years of playing Ron.
“After Potter I didn’t really know what I wanted to do,” Grint told Radio Times in 2018. “I had this feeling that I had missed out on normal things. I lost touch with a lot of my friends from school. I wanted to have a bit of a life again, so I took a break. I’ve never really been super-ambitious. I think there’s always been something in me, particularly when I finished Potter, that wants to prove myself, but I’m also naturally quite an insecure person anyway.”
Whatever he did worked. As Shyamalan told EW.com, “He came in and auditioned, and I just saw a different person. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen this kind of reinvention from child actor to adult actor in my life, it’s amazing.”
In May 2020, Grint and longtime girlfriend Georgia Groome welcomed daughter Wednesday G. Grint.
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Without a doubt, the erstwhile child actor who played the awkward Neville Longbottom has made the biggest splash in the then-and-now department, as news of Lewis’ grown-up hotness has since traversed the globe.
Lewis has primarily done stage and screen work in his native England, including the BBC One miniseries The Syndicate, the 2016 tear-jerker Me Before You and the 2018 revenge thriller Terminal with Margot Robbie.
In 2015, he raved about the enjoyable time he had playing a soldier in the BBC Three dramedy Bluestone 42, about a bomb disposal squad in Afghanistan.
“Potter was an amazing and a unique experience that I was privileged to have been a part of,” Lewis told RadioTimes.com, “but I’ve never been as involved with or as proud of a project as I have with Bluestone 42—I’ve had so much fun being a part of it, so much more than I’ve ever had before as an actor, definitely.”
Other credits have included Avoidance, All Creatures Great & Small, Baby Done and Ripper Street.
Lewis is a private fellow, but fans know he married Angela Jones in 2018 and that they made at stop at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter World—the very place where they first met—in October 2019.
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The nefarious Draco Malfoy was really a platinum-haired doll with a heart of gold in real life. In the summer of 2011, he was in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but has since been in less CGI-heavy films, including period dramas Belle and A United Kingdom.
Felton blew fanboys-and-girls’ minds showing up as Julian “Dr. Alchemy” Albert on the CW’s The Flash in 2016. He also appeared in the sci-fi drama Origin and films Ophelia, Braking for Whales, Burial and Some Other Woman.
Also a singer-songwriter, Felton has released several EPs over the years.
When it comes to his personal life, the actor dated Jade Olivia Gordon—Draco’s flash-forward wife, Astoria Malfoy—for seven years before they split in 2016. Since then, he’s formed a relationship with Roxanne Danya.
In his 2022 memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, Felton opened up about his struggles with childhood fame and past substance abuse and set the record straight about his relationship with Watson.
“I’ve always had a secret love for Emma, though not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear,” he wrote. “That isn’t to say there’s never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times.”
While nothing romantic formed from that spark, they still have love for each other as friends. “I don’t think I was ever in love with Emma,” Felton explained, “but I loved and admired her as a person in a way that I could never explain to anybody else.”
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The actress was barely 10 when she started playing Ginny Weasley, going from “Ron’s little sister” to Harry Potter’s soul mate over the course of the films.
Wright graduated from the London College of Communication and formed her own production company, BonBonLumière, in 2012. In addition to acting in such movies as After the Dark and Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg?, the artist has written and directed her own short films, including Separate We Come, Separate We Go, starring David Thewlis (the Remus Lupin); 2014’s Know Thyself, with Christian Coulson, who played Tom Riddle; and Medusa’s Ankles featuring Jason Isaacs, aka Lucius Malfoy.
However, she seems to have stepped back from acting (her most recent movie was 2018’s A Christmas Carol) and pursued other career paths, releasing her book, Go Gently (which offered readers tips on how to become involved in the climate movement) in 2021.
In 2019, Wright joined Watson, Felton, Lewis and Evanna Lynch for a reunion that, happily, someone thought to take a picture of. “Time turning,” Wright captioned the pic, punctuating the sentiment with a lightning bolt.
She was previously engaged to Sweeney Todd star Jamie Campbell Bower, who played a young Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Death Hallows Part 1, but they called it off in 2012. She then dated Simon Hammerstein for several years before finding love with Andrew Lococo in 2020. The pair got married in March 2022 and welcomed son Elio in September 2023.
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Not to take away Fred and George Weasley’s individuality or anything… but Ron’s twin older brothers and Hogwarts’ resident pranksters were indeed played by actual twins (though Oliver is 13 minutes older).
They went on to play twins in other films, including Our Own Worst Enemy and Last Night in Soho, and James has acted in movies on his own, including Patchwork and Cadia: The World Within. The brothers also hosted a podcast called Normal Not Normal as well as the cooking competition series Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking.
Oliver wed Katie Humpage in 2015, and they welcomed two daughters together. Meanwhile, James exchanged vows with Annika Ostle the following year.
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The British actor started out in the Hogwarts student ensemble as fellow Gryffindor Dean Thomas and, after doing a slew of theater in England and popping up in the likes of Broadchurch and Sherlock, starred on four seasons of How to Get Away With Murder. There he played the well-intentioned but inevitably morally compromised and doomed law student Wes, though he returned for a cameo as—SPOILER ALERT—Wes’ own son in the mindboggling final season in 2020. He has since appeared in Foundation, The Couple Next Door and Miss Austen. He is also a graduate of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
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Chris Columbus was looking for a 15-to-17-year-old to play the specter of 16-year-old Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but the 23-year-old Coulson won the part anyway.
He went on to land other film and TV roles, playing Damien George on Nashville, Sebastian in the Golden Globe-winning series Mozart in the Jungle, Benjamin on High Fidelity and Peter in Blood Brothers: Civil War.
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Leung beat out roughly 3,000 other aspirants to play Harry’s Goblet of Fire-era crush Cho Chang. However, she’s opened up about the hate she received online after her casting was announced.
“I was like, Googling myself at one point and I was on this website which was dedicated to kind of Harry Potter fandom and I remember reading all the comments. It was a lot of racist s–t,” Leung said on the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast in 2021. “And then somebody had actually created a website, a hate site—it was like, if you disagree with this casting, then click on this button and then it would just be like a count of how many people disagreed with the casting and you would just see a number…I know, it’s awful. It’s so awful.”
After Harry Potter, the classically trained Scottish actress did theater and TV in the U.K., acting in White Dragon, Chimerica, and The Nest. She also provided the voice of Caitlyn in the animated series Arcane. Other credits have included Nightsleeper, Annika, Chemistry of Death, The Peripheral and The Foreigner.
In a December 2022 Instagram post, Leung revealed she had welcomed her first child, a son named Wolf.
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Gosh, whatever happened to the lad who played ill-fated heartthrob Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire…
Oh, right: Pattinson landed the lead in the other major YA franchise roiling hearts and minds, The Twilight Saga, and played brooding vampire Edward Cullen in five films, dating co-star Kristen Stewart along the way.
Since then he has distinguished himself in the acting department with gritty turns in independent films like Maps to the Stars, Cosmopolis, The Rover, Good Time and The Lighthouse. But he returned to big budget blockbusters when he donned the iconic cape and scowl as the titular DC superhero in 2022’s The Batman.
Previously engaged to FKA twigs, Pattinson has been dating model and actress Suki Waterhouse since 2018 and they became engaged in December 2023. The two welcomed their first child in March 2024.
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The statuesque Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons Academy in France, chosen to represent her school in the Triwizard Tournament, eventually marries Ron’s groovy big brother Bill.
Since then Poésy has worked steadily in film and TV, appearing in Gossip Girl, the dark comedy In Bruges, the English and French crime series The Tunnel and in Genius: Picasso on National Geographic Channel.
The French actress also landed roles in Tenant (opposite her former Triwizard Tournament opponent Pattinson), The Essex Serpent and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
After become a mom for the first time in 2017, Poésy opened up about how the journey changed her.
“I was thinking today how much it’s made me closer to women, somehow; closer to women in the centuries before, the whole clinical aspect of being pregnant and then becoming a mum and giving birth, it makes you think a lot,” she told The Guardian at the time. “It’s made my admiration for women even stronger.”
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The actress stole her scenes as the scatterbrained but heroic Luna Lovegood starting in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix—but she admitted that she struggled to get acting work after being part of the iconic franchise.
“It was just weird because we were getting all this fan mail and all this attention,” Lynch told Bustle in 2019. “But I found in the real world that wasn’t reflected. And it was hard. I think for a while I really missed the validation of being in a giant film series where anything you did was just admired and gushed over.
Still, she’s appeared in shorts like Bus Girl and animated projects like My Freaky Family.
A vegan herself since 2015, Lynch started a clean, cruelty-free beauty line, Kinder Beauty Box, in 2018, and co-hosts a podcast, Just Beings, with Dr. Melanie Joy. She came in third place on Dancing With the Stars in 2018 and she released her first book, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting, in 2021.
She told Bustle that she remained especially close to Katie Leung and Scarlett Byrne (Pansy Parkington) and saw a lot of her former co-stars at conventions.
“I think a lot of us have bonded more since the films,” Lynch said. “Just because we’re older and we’re adults now. Say, for example, I hung out with the twins this weekend, James and Oliver [Phelps]. And I didn’t talk to them much on the films because when you’re 14 and whatever, they’re 18 or 19, it seems like such a giant age gap. When you’re adults it doesn’t seem that much.”
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Draco’s henchman Goyle also cleaned up his act since his Slytherin days, appearing in the British crime drama Marcella with Anna Friel, the 2018 big-screen update of Robin Hood, the crime miniseries Murder at White House Farm and the spy drama Alex Rider. He’s also had roles in the Disney+ series Andor and the movie No Way Home.
However, acting isn’t the only path Herdman has pursued as he also began his MMA career in 2016.
In 2023, he announced he married Jessica Herdman. Together, they share two kids.
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Like most of the Harry Potter bullies, even Dudley Dursley was a perfectly nice bloke in real life. Mid-franchise, Melling started a workout regimen and got into such good shape he was almost recast before Deathly Hallows Part 1. However, he stayed on as Harry’s portly spoiled cousin by wearing prosthetics.
Since then, Melling has worked consistently on stage and screen, including roles in The Lost City of Z, the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and the HBO series His Dark Materials.
He also reteamed with Joel Coen to play Malcolm in the director’s take on The Tragedy of Macbeth, with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the murderously ambitious main duo. In addition, Melling appeared as Harry Beltik in the hit Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit and co-starred opposite Charlize Theron in the streaming giant’s action flick The Old Guard.
Other credits include Wolf Hall, Harvest, Shoshana and The Pale Blue Eye.
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