The superstars
Three of Britain’s most famous actors started their careers on the set of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2000.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint were just 12, 11 and 13 respectively when they arrived at Hertfordshire’s Leavesden Film Studios for the first time.
The trio went on to star in all eight Harry Potter films and have found further success after filming wrapped in 2010.
Radcliffe, now 32, went on to star in the 2012 film adaptation of The Woman in Black and played poet Allen
Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings in 2013.
He balanced his film work with theatre, performing in numerous West End and Broadway plays.
Watson, meanwhile, became a global women’s rights activist in between starring in films such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and a live-action adaptation of
Beauty and the Beast.
The 32-year-old helped launch Times Up UK in 2018 and was appointed to a G7 advisory body for women’s rights in 2019.
Grint, 33, also continued with his acting career and has played Julian Pearce in Apple TV+ series Servant since 2019. He will appear in a number of shows on Netflix later this year.
Other recognisable faces from the films include Robert Pattinson – who played ill-fated Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but went on to find fame in the Twilight films – and Emma Thompson, who played Prof Sybill Trelawney.
Helena Bonham Carter also appeared in the franchise as wicked Bellatrix Lestrange while the late Alan Rickman portrayed complicated teacher Severus Snape.
Dame Maggie Smith starred as Hogwarts’ Prof Minerva Mcgonagall and Robbie Coltrane played loveable giant, Hagrid.