Daniel Radcliffe

He met Rossane Coker in 2007 while she was assisting on the sets of ‘Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince’. She is 23 years old and he claims that he is in love with her and they are taking it one step at a time.

In 2008, Radcliffe told the media that he suffers from a neurological disorder development coordination disorder. He said that it gets so bad that he cannot even do day to day activities.

Daniel Radcliffe was born in West London, England to Alan George Radcliffe and Marcia Jeannine Gresham. His father is a literary agent and his mother worked as a casting agent for BBC.

Radcliffe belonged to a working class family; his father is a profuse protestant and his mother belonged to the Jewish faith. Both her parents had acted in small acting projects when they were children.

He was interested in acting professionally from the age of five but it was when he was finally ten years old that he got a role in BBC adaptation of Dickens’ book ‘David Copperfield’.

Radcliffe attended two different private schools in England namely: Sussex House School and City of London School. He suffered from bullying in the school after he started getting famous through his movies.

It became difficult for him to attend school owing to his busy acting schedules and he decided to not pursue college or university as he knew already that he wants to write and act and college education would come in the way.

In 1999, when Radcliffe was 10 years old, he bagged the lead role in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’. He gave quite a few auditions for the role before he was finally signed on the project.

In 2000, Radcliffe got an offer to audition for the role in the movie ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. His parents were insistent on not sending him for the auditions because the contract required him to do all the seven movies in Los Angeles.

The writer of the series J.K. Rowling wanted Radcliffe to play the lead role in the movie. After several auditions he was selected for the movie. Initially, he signed a two-movie contract and was promised that the shooting will take place in the UK.

The movie was finally released in 2001 and Radcliffe a seven figure salary for it. It was the highest grossing movie of the year. His performance was critically acclaimed. In the same year, he did ‘The Tailor of Panama’.

In 2002, ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ was released and Radcliffe received positive critical appreciation for it. The movie was the second highest grossing film of the year worldwide.

Radcliffe is an atheist and claims that he is very proud of being Jewish.

He has been ranked as the ‘Most Valuable Young Stars’ by the Forbes magazine.

Radcliffe is considered to be the richest teenager in England.