Having seen a Newsround report about the open casting, he sent in a video of himself rapping about how he wished to receive the role, and the casting team asked for a meeting with him. Grint, a fan of the book series, chose to audition for the role of Ron Weasley, one of Harry Potter's best friends at Hogwarts.

Rowling insisted the cast be British, and assisted Susie Figgis and director Chris Columbus in casting the roles. Starting in 1999, casting began for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the best-selling novel by J. Career 1999–2011: Harry Potter and worldwide recognition He left school at sixteen to focus on his acting career, saying he 'didn't really like school that much'. Nonetheless, he had never acted professionally prior to the Harry Potter series. He continued participating in school plays as he moved into secondary school. He began performing in school productions and joined the Top Hat Stage and Screen School, a local theatre group that cast him as a fish in Noah's Ark and a donkey in a nativity play. While in school, he took an avid interest in theatre. He grew up in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, and was educated at Richard Hale School, in Hertford. He has said that his earliest goal in life was to become an ice cream man. Grint was born on 24 August 1988 in Harlow, Essex, to Nigel Grint, a dealer in racing memorabilia, and Joanne Grint (née Parsons).

He has also starred in the black comedy series Sick Note, the mystery thriller miniseries The ABC Murders, and the psychological horror series Servant. He executive-produced and starred in the television series Snatch, based on the film of the same name. He made his stage debut in 2013 in Mojo at the Harold Pinter Theatre. After the Harry Potter series concluded, he appeared in the films Into the White (2012), Charlie Countryman (2013), CBGB (2013), and Moonwalkers (2015). He starred in the dramedy Driving Lessons (2006) and the drama Cherrybomb (2009) and co-starred in the comedy Wild Target (2010).

Since then, he continued his work on film, television, and theatre.īeginning in 2002, he began to work outside of the Harry Potter franchise, with a co-leading role in Thunderpants. Grint rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, for which he was cast at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group. Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint ( / ɡ r ɪ n t/ born 24 August 1988) is an English actor.

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