Rupert Grint

At 36 years old, Rupert Grint has this physical status:

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor and producer.

He came to fame for his portrayal of Ron Weasley, one of the three main characters in the Harry Potter film series.

Grint was first introduced as Ron in school productions and at his local theatre group at the age of 11.

He appeared in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011. Grint first began to work outside of the Harry Potter franchise, playing a co-leading role in Thunderpants in 2002.

He has appeared in Driving Lessons, a dramedy that was released in 2006, and Cherrybomb, a limited release of limited number in 2010.

In Wild Target, a comedy, Grint co-starred Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt.

In 2012, Into the White, his first film project after the Harry Potter series, In which he appears as a supporting actor.

Grint's latest film CBGB was released in 2013, and he was cast in CBS' new show Super Clyde.

At the Harold Pinter Theatre in London, Grint made his stage debut in Jez Butterworth's Mojo in October 2013.

Josh appeared in and was executive producer of the television series Snatch, based on the film of the same name, in 2014 and 2014.

Early life

Grint was born in Harlow, Essex, on August 24th, 1988, to Nigel Grint, a race memorabilia dealer, and Joanne Grint (née Parsons). He is the eldest of five siblings. He has said that his first goal in life was to be a ice cream man. He grew up in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, and attended Richard Hale School in Hertford.

He had a keen interest in theatre while attending college. He began acting in school productions and joined Top Hat Stage and Screen School, a local theatre company that portrayed him as a fish in Noah's Ark and a donkey in a nativity play. As he entered secondary school, he continued participating in school plays. Nevertheless, he had never performed properly before the Harry Potter series. He left school at sixteen to concentrate on his acting career, citing that he "didn't really like school that much."

Personal life

Grint has been in a relationship with actress Georgia Groome since 2011. They have a daughter who was born in May 2020.

Grint contracted H1N1 swine flu and suffered with mild respiratory disease during the 2009-2010 influenza pandemic. He was involved in the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay from Hendon, northwest London, to Middlesex University.

In November 2020, he took to Instagram to post a snapshot of himself holding his newborn daughter. Within four hours and a minute of establishing his account, he took the first Guinness World Records record for the first time to reach one million followers on the website.

Grint is a devoted football fan and a ardent fan of Tottenham Hotspur.

Grint has sponsored various charitable causes, from donating personal items to charity auctions. He and Oliver Phelps joined the Wacky Rally in 2010, which raised funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the United Kingdom. He was one of more than 40 people to create designs for the Chrysalis Collection for Keech Hospice Care in Luton. In March 2010, his work, a painted butterfly, was auctioned on eBay. He and other celebrities took part in the "Make Mine Milk" ad campaign in May 2011 to promote daily milk intake. Thousands of buses throughout the United Kingdom were seen on posters and the sides of thousands of buses. Since 2011, he has sponsored the Little Star Award for Cancer Research in the United Kingdom. "I think it's amazing that Cancer Research UK is assisting in bringing a little bit of magic to the children's lives in this way," he said.

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Career

Casting began in 1999 for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling's best-selling book. Rowling demanded that the actors be British, and she helped Susie Figgis and director Chris Columbus with casting the roles. Grint, a bookworm, auditioned for the role of Ron Weasley, one of Harry Potter's closest friends at Hogwarts. After seeing a Newsround article about the open casting, he sent in a video of himself rapping about how he wished to be cast, and the casting team arranged a meeting with him. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and an 11-year-old Grint were selected to perform Harry, Hermione Granger, and Ron on August 8, 2000. Grint is the oldest member of the trio. Grint's debut screen appearance was in 2001 after the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It was the year's highest-grossing film, smashing records for opening-day sales and opening-weekend takings. It's second most commercially profitable entry in the series, with a total of US$974 million in its theatrical run. It was generally well-received, with mainly positive feedback. However, a number of commentators found that the adaption's faithfulness to the novel had both its highest and worst qualities. Grint received a Satellite Award in the category of Outstanding New Talent and Young Artist Award for Most Promising Young Newcomer.

Grint appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) a year later. It attracted positive reviews and critics generally adored the lead actors' performances. Both Los Angeles Times and New York Magazine reported that Grint and his peers had matured between films, with the former claiming that Grint had become "more proficient" and missing "the amateurish ardour" in Philosopher's Stone. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) were released in the United Kingdom on May 31. All three of the film's lead characters appear to be on the verge of adolescence, "and although they appear more capable and fearless than ever," the dangers they face seem to be bigger and more vulnerable." Alfonso Cuarón took over direction for Prisoner of Azkaban, the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film with US$795 million in revenues. Nevertheless, it was the second highest-grossing film of 2004, after Shrek 2.

Grint reprised his role in the series's fourth film – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – in 2005. Unlike previous films, the adaptation explored romantic elements and contained more humour. All three lead actors singled out humour as a reason for the film's success in 2005. It was directed by Mike Newell, who Grint described as "very loud and not afraid to swear at you," but it was actually cool." Goblet of Fire is one of the series' best-reviewed instalments, and it is praised for its characters' longevity and sophistication, darker and more complicated plotline, and the quality of the screenplay and lead actors' performances.

In 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth film in the Harry Potter series, was released in cinemas. A huge financial success, it brought in a record opening-week gross of US$394 million, which was a record for worldwide beginning-week sales of Spider-Man 3. It was directed by David Yates, a young film producer who produced all of the subsequent Potter films. Grint said the laid-back director was "very fine" and kept the job fresh, but the content was not always accurate. In front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Grint and his Harry Potter co-stars left imprints of their hands, feet, and wands.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the series's sixth instalment, was announced on July 15, 2009, and record-breaking box office figures were set. Its inaugural run at US$933 million in ticket sales. It's also one of the most highly regarded Harry Potter films, with critics praising its "emotionally touching" story, direction, cinematography, graphic design, and music. In this book, Grint portrayed a change in Ron, pointing out that his once fragile, often overshadowed person began to feel more stable, and that he even began to show a darker side. It was amusing to depict a more emotional Ron. Grint's work received three awards, one of which was named in honor of the German magazine Bravo in 2009, with one winning—the Otto Award.

Despite the previous films' success, the franchise's future was put into doubt when the three main actors had reservations about joining the final two films. However, Grint decided to return for the last instalments by March 2007. The final book was split into two films, shot back-to-back, with filming wrapping in June 2010. Grint said, "I mean it literally has been my childhood," grint said, and it was then reduced to just one random scene, with us jumping through a fireplace, and then it was over. It's very strange. It was all over, just like that. It was really difficult for all of us, knowing that we're never going to do this again."

Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were published in November and gross over US$950 million. It set multiple box office records and received mainly favorable feedback. Grint's portrayal of Ron has earned him critical praise once more. Dana Stevens, who was assisting with the conversion of Slate, said the three leads were "terrible." Though he disliked the film, Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "Grint has developed to be a savvy actor who knows the value of a slow burn." However, writer Lou Lumenick of the New York Post found that both Grint and Radcliffe had grown weary of portraying the characters and reacted to it in their performances. Grint's appearances earned him nominations from the MTV Movie Awards and National Movie Awards for Best Fight and Performance of the Year in 2011. For the seventh time in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, the final Harry Potter instalment, he appeared. It jumped from where the previous film ended and involved a lot of drama, though Part 1 was more focused on character development. Grint and the film were both critically acclaimed: "Who could have predicted that Radcliffe, Grint, and Watson would be good actors?" Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post wrote, "Who might have guessed that they'd be good actors." Several box office hits were broken, including the best midnight premiere, the biggest first-day opening, and the biggest opening week. Part 2 of Deathly Hallows became the fourth highest-grossing film of all time. On July 7, 2011 in London, Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling spoke at the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2! Grint was one of seven Harry Potter film series cast members on "The Big Seven," according to her; she, Emma Watson, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, and Bonnie Wright.

Grint appeared in his first non-Harry Potter film, Thunderpants, based on Patrick (played by Bruce Cook), who earns him the position of astronaut. Grint played Alan, an anosmic boy who is Patrick's only friend, in this film. Critics and audiences generally dismissed it. Most of the commentators who did not pay attention to it were dissatisfied, with one saying: "This film should be shown in jails so prisoners have a legitimate excuse not to return." Grint appeared in Driving Lessons, a comedy drama that was released in 2006, starring Julie Walters. Critics generally dismissed the film, but his portrayal of an oppressed teenage boy was applauded. "Grint, on the other hand, is a revelation," Andre Soares, Alt Film Guide's, wrote. . . [He] combines aninnate naturalness with personal charisma to make a potentially traumatic Christian convert into a likable, if not a little uncomfortable young man."

Grint would appear in the drama film Cherrybomb, starring Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon, in July 2008. Grint found shooting this film very different from Harry Potter's because he had to adjust to doing a dozen scenes per day. Grint's character—Malachy, a Belfast worker—goes to great lengths to impress his boss's daughter, with whom he is infatuated. He appeared in this film, as well as his forthcoming one, in which he played violent characters. Despite premiering at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, the film was initially unable to find a distributor. Grint's fans' online campaign was credited with helping to obtain a distribution deal in the United Kingdom in 2010.

Jonathan Lynn starred Grint in Wild Target, a 2010 comedy drama in which he appeared with Emily Blunt and Bill Nighy. It was a remake of the 1993 French film Cible Emouvante made on a very modest budget of US$8 million. It was a commercial failure, earning only US$3.4 million, and it received mostly critical feedback in the media, who chastised it for mocking the original film and wasting its cast's comedic potential. However, Grint received some positive feedback: "It's nice to see Rupert Grint do well in a role other than Ron Weasley's, and it's clear that he has a future ahead of him."

Grint made a cameo appearance on BBC comedy show Come Fly with Me, starring comedy duo Matt Lucas and David Walliams (Little Britain) in January 2011. In March 2011, he was cast as the lead actor in the small-budget anti-war Norwegian film Into the White, directed by Petter Nss. Principal photography began in April, and the film, which was shot on location, was released in 2012. It is based on a true story that occurred on the 27th of April 1940, when German Luftwaffe pilot Horst Schopis' bomber was shot down by a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua and crashed at Grotli, which later crashed-landed. During a cold winter there, the several German and British crews found protection by chance.

Grint did a photo shoot in Los Angeles with his friend and Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton during the fashion label Band of Outsiders' fall/winter series. Grint would appear in the film version of Postman Pat starring David Tennant, Stephen Mangan, and Jim Broadbent; it was announced in May 2014 that it would be released in September 2011. Grint appears in Ed Sheeran's "Lego House" music video, which was released on October 20, 2011.

The "Visit Britain" TV commercial, starring Grint, Michelle Dockery, and Stephen Fry, was released in March 2012, promoting holidaying in the United Kingdom. Grint was cast alongside Chlo Grace Moretz in The Drummer, a biopic film about drummer Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, later this month. On that day, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that filming would begin in California and Savannah, Georgia, on June 15, 2012.

Grint carried the 2012 London Olympic torch during the Olympic Torch Relay, which was part of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. He told the BBC News that it was an "overwhelming" experience that he "wanted to recall forever" and that "it was truly overwhelming." It's just such a privilege to be a part of this. I'm really proud." We Are Aliens, a 25-minute 3D planetarium Fulldome film about the possibility of other intelligent life in the universe, was narrated by a narrator in October 2012.

Grint will appear in a CBS television pilot called Super Clyde on February 13, 2013, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed. It was not set up as a series. Grint will make his stage debut in Jez Butterworth's second run of Jez Butterworth's black comedy Mojo in July 2013, with Grint playing Sweets, a hood that "pops amphetamines like Smarties," and "does a double act of comedic menace." Brendan Coyle, Ben Whishaw, and Daniel Mays were among the plays based on true events and ran from 26 October 2013 to 8 February 2014 at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. Grint was named Best London Newcomer by the WhatsOnStage Award for his role.

Grint will appear in Enemy of Man's version, starring Sean Bean, Charles Dance, Jason Fleming, James D'Arcy, and Joe Gilgun, and directed by Vincent Regan in September 2013. In the United Kingdom, filming began in January 2014. Grint will make his Broadway debut in the play It's Only a Play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, performing with Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, and Megan Mullally. It went from 28 August 2014 to 4 January 2015.

Grint has appeared in the Apple TV+ psychological thriller series Servant since 2019. The series has been lauded by critics. The program was revived in December 2021 for its fourth and final season.

Grint will appear in Netflix's Cabinet of Curiosities and in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film Knock at the Cabin. In addition, he reunited with several cast members of the Harry Potter film series, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, which premiered on January 1, 2022.

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