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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final adventure in the

Harry Potter film series, is a motion picture event, told in two full-length parts.

Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to

track down and destroy the Horcruxes—the keys to Voldemort’s immortality. On their

own, without the guidance or protection of their professors, the three friends must now

rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten

to tear them apart.

Meanwhile, the Wizarding world has become a dangerous place for all enemies of

the Dark Lord. The long-feared war has begun and Voldemort’s Death Eaters seize

control of the Ministry of Magic and even Hogwarts, terrorizing and arresting anyonewho might oppose them. But the one prize they still seek is the one most valuable to

Voldemort: Harry Potter. The Chosen One has become the hunted one as Voldemort’s

followers look for Harry with orders to bring him to the Dark Lord…alive.

Harry’s only hope is to find the Horcruxes before Voldemort finds him. But as he

searches for clues, he uncovers an old and almost forgotten tale—the legend of the

Deathly Hallows. And if the legend turns out to be true, it could give Voldemort the

ultimate power he seeks.

Little does Harry know that his future has already been decided by his past when,

on that fateful day, he became “the Boy Who Lived.” No longer just a boy, Harry Potter

is drawing ever closer to the task for which he has been preparing since the day he first

stepped into Hogwarts: the ultimate battle with Voldemort.



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Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Heyday Films Production, a David Yates Film,

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1,” beginning the last chapter of the most

successful motion picture franchise of all time. Heading the cast, Daniel Radcliffe,

Rupert Grint and Emma Watson reprise the roles of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and

Hermione Granger. The film’s ensemble cast also includes Helena Bonham Carter,

Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Griffiths,

John Hurt, Rhys Ifans, Jason Isaacs, Bill Nighy, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Timothy

Spall, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Toby Jones, David

Legeno, Simon McBurney, Helen McCrory, Nick Moran, Peter Mullen, David O’Hara,

Clémence Poésy, Natalia Tena, Julie Walters, Mark Williams and Bonnie Wright.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” was directed by David Yates,

who also helmed “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the

Half-Blood Prince.” David Heyman, the producer of all of the Harry Potter films, again

produced the film, together with David Barron, and J.K. Rowling. Steve Kloves adapted

the screenplay, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling. Lionel Wigram is the executive

producer, with John Trehy and Tim Lewis serving as co-producers.

Behind the scenes, the creative team was led by director of photography Eduardo

Serra, production designer Stuart Craig, editor Mark Day, composer Alexandre Desplat,

visual effects supervisor Tim Burke, and costume designer Jany Temime.

Concurrently with the film’s nationwide theatrical release, the film will be

released in select IMAX®

theatres. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” has

been digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX

Experience® through proprietary IMAX DMR® technology. With crystal clear images,

laser-aligned digital sound and maximized field of view, IMAX provides the world’s

most immersive movie experience.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” will be distributed worldwide by

Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. It has been rated PG-13

for some sequences of intense action violence, frightening images and brief sensuality.

www.harrypotter.com

For downloadable general press information,please visit: http://press.warnerbros.com



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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

THE END BEGINS

From the moment he was introduced, people all over the globe have thrilled to the

adventures of Harry Potter, the boy wizard who changed both literary and cinema history.

For more than a decade, David Heyman has been immersed in that magical world, as the

producer of all the films based on the best-selling books by J.K. Rowling, who also

served as a producer on the film adaptation of her seventh and final title, “Harry Potter

and the Deathly Hallows.”

But as Heyman approached the last installment in the record-breaking film

franchise, he realized that it presented some unique challenges, not the least of which was

how to encompass all of the series’ interwoven story threads as they sped toward the

climactic conclusion.

Breaking from the tradition of the film series, the decision was made to split

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” into two full-length parts. “When Steve Kloves

began working on the screenplay, it became clear we would have to omit too much to do

justice to Jo’s book in one film,” Heyman explains. “There were simply too many details

that were integral to the resolution of the series.”

Producer David Barron adds, “With the previous books, the decision was always

to follow Harry’s journey, so it was possible to pinpoint specific scenes that, while

immensely enjoyable to read, didn’t necessarily advance his story. However, the seventh

book is all about resolution—the dotting of all the i’s and the crossing of all the t’s.”

Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the title role of Harry Potter, offers, “The intricacy of

the plot Jo had mapped out from the beginning is a fantastic feat of storytelling. It has

twists and turns, mystery and romance, comedy and action…all the brilliant things people

have responded to over the years. It was the only way we could tell the story in a

complete and fulfilling way.”

Helming his third Harry Potter feature, David Yates says that Part 1 of “Harry

Potter and the Deathly Hallows” also breaks tradition by taking the central characters

away from the familiar surroundings of Hogwarts. It is actually the first film in the



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franchise in which the iconic School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is never even seen. “I

think that’s one of the most intriguing things about Part 1,” the director states. “We’re

away from the magical environment of Hogwarts, which felt very safe even when the

characters were in utter jeopardy. Suddenly Harry, Ron and Hermione are trying to

survive out in the big, bad world, and it’s a dangerous place. They feel isolated and alone

and very vulnerable. It makes the adventure much edgier and more grownup, which

really appealed to me, and to Dan, Rupert and Emma as well.”

Radcliffe attests, “I think it gives the film a more adult tone because it’s harder to

see us as school kids when we’re no longer at school.”

Reprising the role of Ron Weasley, Rupert Grint comments, “Away from the

safety of Hogwarts and the protection of their parents and teachers, anything can happen.

They can be attacked at any moment, which gives the film a different energy.”

“Harry, Hermione and Ron don’t have a home anymore,” notes Emma Watson,

who returns to the part of Hermione Granger. “They are always on the move and, worse,

they are being hunted, so they don’t know who to trust. But the stakes are high, so they

have to be brave.”

In fact, the stakes have never been higher as the fates of both the Wizarding world

and the Muggle world rest in their young hands. Having learned the secret to

Voldemort’s power and immortality, Harry is on a mission to track down the Horcruxes:

items in which the Dark Lord has hidden pieces of his very soul. If even one remains,

Voldemort can never be defeated. Two of the Horcruxes have already been destroyed—

Tom Riddle’s diary and the ring that belonged to Marvolo Gaunt, Riddle’s maternal

grandfather. Harry and Dumbledore believed they had located the third Horcrux, Salazar

Slytherin’s locket, but it turned out to be a fake, and the real one stolen by someone with

the initials R.A.B.

And the others…? The problem is the Horcruxes can be virtually anywhere or in

anything. “I don’t think Harry understands how little he has to go on when he sets out,”

Barron says. “He just knows he has a job to do, and he has to get on with it. And Ron

and Hermione would never abandon him, so it becomes a huge journey for the three of

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The trail of the Horcruxes also has unexpected consequences for Harry, as it

discloses some painful truths about Dumbledore’s past. The revelation that his beloved

mentor and teacher, at one time, had more in common with Voldemort than Harry ever

imagined causes the young wizard to begin to doubt his own belief in the man he had

respected so much.

“The more Harry finds out about Dumbledore that he hadn’t known or that he

feels had been kept from him, the more his trust is eroded,” Radcliffe relates.

“It becomes a crisis of faith for Harry,” Yates confirms. “What makes it doubly

difficult for him is that Dumbledore gave him this mission without a clear plan—or really

any idea at all—of how to fulfill it, which is putting his friends in jeopardy. It leads to a

real test of their relationship, which is another interesting element of the story.”

“I’ve always believed that, for all the magic and action and adventure of the

Harry Potter stories, at the heart it’s about these characters,” Heyman emphasizes. “In

this film, their relationship is more complex than ever, and in exploring them more

deeply, Dan, Rupert and Emma are better than ever.”

Yates agrees, adding that Radcliffe, Grint and Watson felt a strong sense of

responsibility towards the roles they inhabited for almost half their lives. “They knew

intuitively how their characters would respond to certain things, often much better than

we did. I love that about them. As a director, it was wonderful to engage with them

because there were times I wasn’t just talking to the actor; I was actually talking to the

character.”

FAMILY GATHERINGS

Like Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort is also on a mission: to end the life of “the

Boy Who Lived.” Yates says, “Voldemort is on the cusp of absolute power. He’s been

hiding in the shadows, biding his time until he could come back and impose his will on

the rest of the world. Everything else in his master plan has come together; he just needs

to deal with this one tiny detail. Voldemort doesn’t understand how this ‘child’ has

become his strongest adversary, but he does know he must be the one to kill Harry Potter.



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First of all, it was destined and, secondly, there is the sheer satisfaction of it after being

thwarted so often. It’s beyond personal at this point.”

Ralph Fiennes, who is virtually unrecognizable in the role of Lord Voldemort,

says that his character is “driven by a deep rage. The only thing that fires him up is

power and more power—the ability to control, to manipulate and to destroy people. It’s

his addiction.”

Yates remarks, “Ralph is very scary when he’s playing Voldemort. He has the

capacity to tune into some very dark places as an actor; you can literally feel the

temperature in the room drop as he inhabits the character.”

The Death Eaters regard the Dark Lord with a mixture of reverence and fear,

knowing he needs little provocation to turn on even his most loyal followers. If they

need a reminder of that threat, it is there in the companion always at Voldemort’s side—

and the only living creature Voldemort treats with actual tenderness—the great snake

named Nagini.

Voldemort has summoned his most elite Death Eaters to Malfoy Manor to plan

when, where and how to ambush Harry Potter. The last to arrive is Severus Snape,

played by Alan Rickman. “Every time I watch Alan as Snape, I am amazed at the

complexity and all the nuances of his performance,” says Heyman. “He can convey

humor and venom in the same breath. And in this film, you begin to sense the

tremendous burden of the secret Snape is carrying.”

Snape informs those assembled when Harry will be leaving his Privet Drive

home, warning them that he will be “given every protection” by the Order of the Phoenix.

Nevertheless, Fiennes states, “Voldemort believes he is finally going to defeat Harry

Potter. He is enjoying his rule, emperor-like.”

However, Voldemort has discovered that he cannot kill Harry Potter with his own

wand. He has extracted from wand maker Ollivander (John Hurt) that his and Harry’s

wands are “twins,” possessing the same core and thereby robbing them of their power

against each other. In a voice dripping with thinly veiled malice, he suggests that Lucius

Malfoy have the “honor” of giving up his wand to Voldemort.

“Wands are an important part of the story in ‘The Deathly Hallows’—wand law

and how personal they are to wizards,” Yates specifies. “The properties of wands make



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them almost like characters in their own right. In the very first book, we learned from

Ollivander that ‘the wand chooses the wizard’; to them, losing a wand can be like losing

a part of oneself. So when Voldemort took Lucius Malfoy’s wand, it was like taking his

manhood, something that was vital to his self worth.”

When we met Lucius Malfoy in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” he

was a pompous wizard who did not bother to hide his disdain for most everyone he felt

was beneath him, and who was raising his son, Draco, in his image. But he has returned

from a brief imprisonment at Azkaban a shadow of his former self. He must now silently

endure the fact that he has been replaced at the head of his family table, and his own

home has been commandeered by Voldemort as his headquarters.

Jason Isaacs, who again assumes the role of Lucius Malfoy, says the loss of his

wand may be only the latest comeuppance to befall Lucius, but it is, by far, the worst.

“To take a wizard’s wand is to completely undermine him, and not only does Voldemort

take it, but he also snaps off the snake head—a flashy, personal family adornment—and

flings it on the table like a piece of dirt, which emasculates Lucius in front of all the other

Death Eaters. Lucius had always been an incredibly vain and arrogant peacock; he’d

always assumed he’d stand with Voldemort as his right-hand man. But after being

broken by prison, after Draco failed in his mission to kill Dumbledore, and after this

public humiliation, he has no idea what the future holds for him…if he has a future. All-

in-all, a just reward.”

Seated next to his father, Draco Malfoy is dealing with misgivings of his own.

Once the arrogant young bully of Slytherin, he is now faced with the cold-blooded reality

of being a Death Eater. Tom Felton, who plays Draco, offers, “In the last film, we saw

that, despite wanting to be the protégé of his father, to be the evil ‘Chosen One,’ if you

will, Draco doesn’t have it in him in the slightest. He’s realizing that these are not the

sort of people he wants to associate himself with, but he doesn’t really have a choice in

the matter. Make no mistake; Draco is not a nice guy by any standards. But he’s

definitely questioning what he’s witnessing, and not even he has a clue what he’s

ultimately going to do. We have a few opportunities to explore that in the story, which

was really interesting for me as an actor.”



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Draco’s aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange, has no such compunctions. Returning to the

part, Helena Bonham Carter declares that Bellatrix is in her glory as Voldemort’s most

obsequious and bloodthirsty disciple. “She just loves his supremacy, his superiority and

particularly his no-nose. It’s so sexy,” she laughs. “Bellatrix is a fanatic, not to mention

completely mad. She has no limits; she’s always full-out so she took all my energy. It

could be quite exhausting, but that’s a big part of why she was so much fun to play.”

“Helena had a ball with this character,” Barron says. “I think it’s a testament to

her skill that she makes us love Bellatrix even though she’s a nasty piece of work.”

With Voldemort in control, the danger reaches beyond Harry Potter to everyone

associated with him, as well as their families. Being wizards, the Weasleys are able to

fight magic with magic, but Harry’s and Hermione’s Muggle families are especially

vulnerable.

To save her parents, Hermione makes an impossible choice. In a scene that is

only alluded to in the book, she leaves her home behind, taking her parents’ memories of

their only child with her. Watson says, “Hermione knows that by siding with Harry she

is putting her parents in danger. The only way she can protect them is by completely

cutting them off, so she removes their memories of her, which is tragic because she is

losing her mum and dad forever. I was really charmed by the way Steve Kloves wrote

the scene. It was moving and also brings home the magnitude of the sacrifice Hermione,

and also Ron, are making for their friend Harry.”

While it is decidedly less of a sacrifice, Harry must also say goodbye to his

Muggle family: his insufferable Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin, Dudley. As the

Dursleys drive away from their now-empty home on Privet Drive, Harry doesn’t have

long to reminisce about his childhood spent in the cupboard under the stairs.

A noise at the front door alerts him to the arrival of his security escort: Ron and

Hermione; Arthur Weasley; Mad-Eye Moody; Tonks and Lupin; twins Fred and George

Weasley; their oldest brother, Bill, and his fiancé, Fleur Delacour; Mundungus Fletcher;

Kingsley Shacklebolt; and last, but never least, Rubeus Hagrid. They have all come to

transport Harry to a safe house.

There is no safety in numbers when battling Death Eaters, so Mad-Eye has

devised a decoy scheme. Six of the group will take Polyjuice Potion, resulting in seven



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identical “Harry Potters” departing in seven different directions. “The name of the game

is confusion,” states Brendan Gleeson, who plays Mad-Eye Moody, the leader of the

group. “Mad-Eye may be a bit daft, but he’s a force to be reckoned with. He’s a man of

limited sentimentality, but there is a certain poignancy to the fact that beneath his gruff

exterior, his heart has always been in the right place.”

The scene presented both a filmmaking and acting challenge. As Hermione, Ron,

Fred, George, Fleur and Mundungus morphed into six counterfeit Harrys, Radcliffe had

to portray their individual personas. The actor clarifies, “The Polyjuice Potion transforms

them into Harry on the outside. It doesn’t change who they really are, so I had to do a bit

of impersonation of the other characters.”

“We had each of the actors play out the scene so Dan could observe them,” Yates

adds. “For example, we discovered that Andy Linden, who plays Mundungus, walks as if

he’s on skis, so I asked Dan to exaggerate that slightly. Normally, I prefer actors to look

for the truth—be natural and the camera will find the performance. But in this instance, I

realized it would be more playful to push it. So the truth took a backseat,” he smiles. “I

kept telling Dan, ‘Just work it.’ I think he really enjoyed that.”

From a technical standpoint, Yates, visual effects supervisor Tim Burke, and

cinematographer Eduardo Serra utilized a Motion Control rig to capture multiple passes

as Radcliffe portrayed each of Harry’s “doubles.” The shots were then melded together

to complete the illusion that seven Harry Potters were occupying the same room at the

same time. The director recounts, “It was very time consuming. The whole thing took

about three days and almost 100 takes to complete.”

As soon as all of the decoys are identically dressed and appropriately

bespectacled, each Harry is partnered with another member of the team as his protector.

Bringing him full circle, the real Harry is paired with Hagrid, who had delivered him to

Number 4 Privet Drive as a baby. Once again playing the part of the beloved half-giant,

Robbie Coltrane comments, “It was Hagrid who brought him there 16 years before. It

was Hagrid who told Harry he was a wizard and informed him of his very important

place in the Wizarding world. They have always had a very special relationship, so it’s

only fitting that he be the one to take Harry away.”



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Some of the pairs fly away on brooms, others on the winged horse-like creatures

called thestrals, but Harry is relegated to the sidecar of the same motorbike in which

Hagrid had brought him to Privet Drive years ago. Almost as soon as they take off, the

Death Eaters are upon them, leading to a breakneck chase through the air and down onto

the streets, careening in and around cars.

Muggle drivers are completely oblivious to their presence; otherwise, they would

be astounded to see the gravity-defying motorbike reeling up and along the walls of

traffic tunnels. The tunnel section of the chase was filmed at two separate locations:

Dartford Tunnel, in London; and the Mersey Tunnel, in Liverpool. Accomplishing the

action-packed pursuit involved a close collaboration between the director, the cast and

the behind-the-scenes team, including Tim Burke, second unit director Stephen

Woolfenden, special effects supervisor John Richardson, and stunt coordinator Greg

Powell.

Powell himself served as the stunt double for Hagrid, admitting, “I volunteered

myself for the job because the other stunt guys are not as big as me. I started to regret it

though when I put the costume on because it gets so hot. We’d have to turn the fans on

because the goggles would steam up and I couldn’t see.”

Richardson and his team configured several motorcycles and facsimiles, based on

how they were going to be utilized, with the comfort and safety of the actors coming first

and foremost. He details, “We had motorbikes that could roar down the road, others to fit

onto Motion Control rigs, and another for the scene where it turns upside-down in the

tunnel, which was rigged to revolve against a green screen. We also built a bike to

sustain the crash landing into the reed bed at the Burrow. Several of the motorbikes had

padded seats with harnesses that were securely mounted to the frame so that we could

throw them around without any risk to life and limb.”

The seven Harrys and their guardians head for the Weasley home, which was

burned by Death Eaters in the last film. In rebuilding the Burrow, production designer

Stuart Craig and his team made sure to preserve the family’s eclectic style. “It has new

timbers and it’s freshly painted, so it’s less eccentric than it was before…but only

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Arriving at the Burrow, Harry is reunited with Mrs. Weasley, played by Julie

Walters, and Ginny Weasley, whose relationship with Harry has blossomed into an

unabashed romance. Bonnie Wright, who reprises the role says that, despite her

concerns, “Ginny has an understanding of what Harry has to do, and she is willing to let

him go and to wait for him to return to her.”

When only six of the seven pairs that left Little Whinging make it to the Burrow,

it becomes apparent that the escape has come at a high price. Two friends have been lost

and George Weasley badly wounded by a blast that took off his left ear. The twins

handle it, however, with their trademark humor. “They always try to make the best of

things,” confirms Oliver Phelps, who plays George. “The good news is people can now

tell the difference between them.”

“It could have been worse. Actually, I think it’s quite an improvement on him,”

teases James Phelps, who portrays Fred.

The Weasley family and friends can’t dwell on tragedy as they gather to celebrate

the wedding of eldest son, Bill, and the lovely Fleur Delacour. A newcomer to the cast,

Domhnall Gleeson, who plays Bill, already had a familial connection to the franchise,

being the son of Brendan Gleeson. Clémence Poésy appears as Fleur, who competed in

the Tri-Wizard Tournament in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Another newlywed

couple attending the wedding are the werewolf Lupin and his wife, Tonks, played by

David Thewlis and Natalia Tena, respectively.

The wedding is held in a magnificent tent, magically raised by Arthur Weasley

(Mark Williams). Juxtaposed with the Burrow, the elegant affair is in obvious contrast to

the Weasleys’ tastes. “But,” Craig counters, “we came to the conclusion that the

wedding would have been paid for by the bride’s family, so it’s more in the French

Delacour style. Of course, there are also magical elements, like the champagne glasses

that fill themselves.”

Before the wedding gets underway, an uninvited guest arrives: the Minister of

Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, whom we first see delivering a rallying speech to the

Wizarding world at the start of the film. Cast in the role of Scrimgeour, Bill Nighy jokes

that his addition to the ensemble was long overdue. “For a while, I thought I would be

the only English actor of a certain age who wasn’t in a Harry Potter film. It was sweet to



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finally be a part of it, but the fact that David Yates was directing made it doubly

attractive. He’s one of the smartest and coolest directors around, so I’m always eager to

work with him.”

Yates was equally delighted to welcome Nighy to the cast. “Bill is such a

versatile actor, and I’ve always wanted him to be in this world. When the part of Rufus

Scrimgeour came along, I thought, ‘That’s Bill!’ The way Jo describes the character,

he’s like a rusty old lion of a soldier, and I knew Bill could play that so well.”

“Rufus had been an Auror and therefore a soldier, and now he’s been required to

adapt uneasily to the world of politics,” says Nighy.

Scrimgeour is not there for the nuptials. He has come to deliver presents of a

different sort: the final bequests of Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter and, perhaps more

surprisingly, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

“It’s somewhat puzzling,” Emma Watson affirms, “because Ron and Hermione

never really had a close relationship with Dumbledore, other than when Harry, Hermione

and Ron were in trouble. He left Hermione a children’s book, The Tales of Beetle the

Bard , which would, on its face, appear to be because he knew she likes books.”

To Ron, “Dumbledore leaves a thing called a Deluminator,” Rupert Grint reveals.

“You click it and it sucks all the light out of the room and when you click it again, it sort

of shoots the light back out. Ron thinks it’s cool, but none of them are quite sure what to

make of it.”

Finally, to Harry, Dumbledore leaves the Snitch, the golden, winged orb he

caught in his first Quidditch match at Hogwarts. But that’s not all. Professor

Dumbledore also bequeathed to Harry the sword of Godric Gryffindor. Unfortunately,

the sword is missing, and it appears the Minister would have been reluctant to hand the

valuable artifact over to Harry even if he’d had it on hand.

“As they receive the bequests, all three believe there is some meaning behind

them…something that is going to be of great significance,” Radcliffe observes. “For the

time being, they are left with more questions than answers, which is particularly

frustrating to Harry.”

In the meantime, there is a wedding to attend, which reunites old friends and

introduces some new ones, including Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna’s father and the editor



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of The Quibbler , “an underground publication that bravely champions Harry Potter and

his cause,” offers Rhys Ifans, the actor cast in the role. “He lost his wife, so he is a single

father and he dotes on his daughter. They both inhabit the same kooky, creative world.”

David Heyman notes, “Evanna (Lynch) brought such an idiosyncratic and original

approach to the character of Luna that we needed someone who could mirror her

eccentricity. As soon as Rhys’s name was mentioned, we knew he’d be wonderful in the

part.”

At the reception, Harry is drawn into an exchange between two of Dumbledore’s

peers: Elphias Doge, who wrote his obituary for the Daily Prophet , and the Weasley’s

Aunt Muriel. Their conversation soon turns to Rita Skeeter’s unauthorized and

unflattering biography, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, which begins to let Harry

in on some unknown, and somewhat disturbing, facts about Dumbledore’s history,

including that he had lived in Godric’s Hollow, the same place Harry was born and where

his parents were murdered.

Barron remarks, “Harry learns that there’s a side to Dumbledore that he’d never

suspected, and may not be particularly likeable, and it’s uncomfortable for him. Harry

knew Dumbledore was fallible, but he’s starting to realize how much was withheld from

him and can’t help but wonder why.”

Before Harry can get answers to his many questions, the stunning news arrives:

The Ministry has fallen… They are coming.

The reference to they needs no explanation. Within seconds, the Death Eaters

begin their attack, and Harry, Ron and Hermione are barely able to escape.

NOWHERE IS SAFE

The trio Apparates to Shaftsbury Avenue in the heart of London’s bustling

Piccadilly Circus and the West End theatre district. The scene was shot on the actual site,

which Watson says was “surreal. It was incredible to see traffic at a standstill on one of

the busiest streets in one of the biggest cities in the world.”

Although the filming was done in the pre-dawn hours, hundreds of fans turned out

to catch a glimpse of the cast. “The fans were terrific,” Heyman states. “They didn’t



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intrude and really got into the spirit of it. Shooting in such a busy location was not

without its challenges, but we also had a great time.”

Yates agrees. “It was actually very touching that there were so many people

standing out there for so long at that hour of the night. It was a wonderful thing.”

In a nod to Radcliffe’s recent stage work, astute moviegoers might notice an

“Equus” poster on the wall of the café where the three briefly stop to regroup. But their

respite is short-lived, as they are nearly ambushed. Hunted in both the Wizarding and

Muggle worlds, they go to the only haven Harry can think of: Number 12 Grimmauld

Place, the ancestral home of the Black family, as well as the former headquarters of the

Order of the Phoenix.

The Grimmauld Place set that had been constructed for the fifth film had long

since been torn down, so it had to be recreated, but this time made to feel even older and

mustier, and abandoned. Set decorator Stephenie McMillan says, “We wanted to

maintain the impression that it’s a very tall, thin house, but we also added space to it, like

the drawing room. All the rooms have been ransacked and everything is covered in dust

because the home doesn’t have Mrs. Weasley there to keep it clean.”

Under the cobwebs and dust remain memories of friends and family, including

Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black, as well as Sirius’s brother, Regulus Acturus Black.

R. A. B.

The three no sooner make that critical connection when they discover they are not

alone. Spying from the shadows is the house elf Kreacher, who is forced to divulge vital

information about the location of the genuine Horcrux locket. Kreacher also brings about

a reunion with an old friend: Dobby, the elf who owes his freedom to Harry Potter.

Bringing the elves to life involved a combination of visual effects and the human

performances of Toby Jones, as Dobby, and Simon McBurney, as Kreacher. Visual

effects supervisor Tim Burke explains, “Dobby and Kreacher have to be distinct

characters, and shooting real actors helped us achieve that. We filmed Toby and Simon

acting out their roles and then used their facial performances as a reference to relay all of

the emotion and personality they delivered back to the little CG characters.”

“David (Yates) and Tim are great collaborators and went above and beyond to

help me enrich the character beyond just the lines,” Jones says. “Dobby has always had a



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vulnerability and humility, and I think that has endeared him to audiences. It also fits

within the hierarchy established in J.K. Rowling’s books. Dobby, in terms of his size and

authority, is very low on that hierarchical scale, but that isn’t related to the level of his

bravery and loyalty and his capacity for good.”

Thanks to Dobby and Kreacher, Harry, Hermione and Ron learn that the real

locket is in the possession of one Dolores Umbridge, who is now the head of the

Ministry’s Muggle-Born Registration Committee.

Imelda Staunton says she was thrilled to be back in the pink for the part she calls

“delicious,” adding, “Dolores loves to make the most of what little power she thinks she

has, which means clearing out those people who are not true wizards and witches because

the world will be a better place without them. She considers herself to be pure and right

and proper and has no tolerance for anything less. Her mind is completely closed; there’s

no empathy, no soul, no heart.”

Dolores Umbridge has only one color scheme in life, so costume designer Jany

Temime dressed Staunton, from head to toe, in pink outfits. Similarly, Stuart Craig refers

to her office as “another essay in pink.”

The rest of the Ministry maintains the polished, black-tiled corridors that Craig

had originally based on an old London Tube station. The most significant change is to

the massive atrium, where the centerpiece is a towering sculpture, depicting the

supremacy of wizards over the cowering Muggles they are crushing beneath them, and

engraved with the words “Magic is Might.”

But there is a more insidious change to the Ministry. An atmosphere of

oppression hangs over everything, as good wizards do their best to avoid being noticed.

Uniformed guards and mercenaries, known as Snatchers, are constantly on the lookout

for those deemed “Undesirable.”

Nevertheless, in order to retrieve the Horcrux, Harry, together with Ron and

Hermione, will have to risk going into the Ministry, although it will be especially difficult

for Harry, whose face is on Wanted posters, naming him “Undesirable #1.” With the

help of some Polyjuice potion, the trio take on the more innocuous identities of wizards

Albert Runcorn, Reg Cattermole and Malfalda Hopkirk and head into enemy territory.



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By the time they find the locket—hanging around Dolores Umbridge’s neck—

their disguises are starting to melt away. With no time to spare, the three go on the

offensive, snatch the Horcrux, and flee.

THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

At last, Harry is in possession of the third Horcrux, but its very presence has

unexpected consequences for the three best friends, who had shared an unbreakable

bond…until now.

By definition, a Horcrux is a piece of Voldemort’s evil soul, so its entity preys on

and intensifies the negative emotions of anyone close to it. Radcliffe discloses, “If

someone is actually wearing it, the effect it has on them is that they become angry and

paranoid and rather horrible, generally speaking.”

Making matters worse, when the young wizards try to destroy it, the Horcrux is

impervious to their spells. “They figure out it can be destroyed by the sword of

Gryffindor, which, of course, is missing,” Radcliffe says.

Ron seems especially susceptible to its powers. Grint relates, “It’s quite a tense

time, because they’re alone and Ron is worried about his family and frustrated by how

little progress they’ve made. But the locket escalates everything he’s feeling. And

because of that, he also gets it in his head that there could be something going on between

Harry and Hermione. It leads to an intense argument between Ron and Harry where they

both explode in anger.”

David Barron states, “They’ve never quite been on their own in the way they are

in Part 1 of ‘The Deathly Hallows.’ They’ve always had the protection of somebody,

somewhere, no matter how tenuous it was. When they are separated from everyone and

in mortal danger all the time, the triumvirate of Harry, Ron and Hermione is more easily

sundered, especially when being influenced by the malign powers of the Horcrux.”

Completely isolated in a forest clearing, they at least have shelter, thanks to

Hermione’s ingenuity. Before leaving the Burrow, she had used an extension charm to

turn her small, beaded bag into a proverbial bottomless pit, containing every necessity,

from fresh clothing to books, a radio, and even a camping tent. “Every woman would



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love Hermione’s bag because you could carry anything you could possibly need or wish

for and it wouldn’t weigh anything,” Watson laughs. “She’s very clever, that one—

always so prepared, always one step ahead.”

Nevertheless, Hermione is unprepared for the fight that erupts between Ron and

Harry. When Ron ends it by deserting them, she is heartbroken. Watson attests, “She is

devastated and feels abandoned. His jealousy and accusations also betrayed her trust.”

Left alone, Harry and Hermione share a moment that Yates says “kind of

encapsulates their relationship. Steve (Kloves) and I wanted to do a scene that showed

how close they are without words. Hermione is distraught that Ron has left. There’s

some music on the radio, so Harry tries to alleviate some of her pain by doing something

that ordinary young people do: dancing. It’s what you might do for a friend, and Dan and

Emma made it very tender and moving.”

The initial forest scenes were filmed on location at Burnham Beeches, in

Buckinghamshire. In designing their tent, Craig wanted the outside to be a simple,

triangular, two-man camping tent. Magically, however, the inside is not so modest, with

multiple rooms that are all furnished. Stuart Craig mentions, “I have to give credit to

Eduardo Serra, who photographed the tent perfectly. The lighting was beautiful and

subtly varied from day to night and season to season. It’s amazing how much richness

and visual interest you can get out of a few sheets of canvas.”

WHERE IT BEGAN

Harry’s quest has expanded from the Horcruxes to the means to destroy them.

Where better to find the sword of Godric Gryffindor than its namesake’s birthplace,

Godric’s Hollow? But Hermione warns him that any place that means something to

Harry might be someplace the Dark Lord would expect him to go.

“Godric’s Hollow is where Harry was born and also where his parents were

killed,” Yates notes. “And he recently learned that Dumbledore had also lived there,

which was something he hadn’t known. So there’s a real confluence of reasons to go

there: strategically, he thinks there could be something in that place that could help them

on their mission, and, emotionally, he needs to go back.”



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The set for the village was designed in a Tudor style and constructed at Pinewood

Studios. Craig says, “It has the half-timbered, brick and plastered look that is different

from what we’ve done before, so I was very pleased to embrace it as the style of Godric’s

Hollow. Pinewood has a splendid garden—part of the original estate before it was ever a

studio—with one magnificent, old cedar tree. We decided to build the entire village

around that one tree.”

Under the branches of the cedar, Harry and Hermione see the cemetery where

Harry’s parents are buried. Standing by their graves for the first time, he is overcome by

emotion. “There is a real dichotomy within Harry,” says Yates. “Being at his parents’

gravesite is as close as he has gotten to anything tangible of them, and yet it also brings

home the reality of their deaths.”

Meanwhile, something else has caught Hermione’s eye, a headstone with a

strange symbol on it: a circle in a triangle with a line through it. Before she can show

Harry, however, she senses they are being watched. Surprisingly, the figure that emerges

from the darkness is a frail, old woman, who beckons them to follow her.

Harry soon surmises that she is Bathilda Bagshot (Hazel Douglas), author of A

History of Magic. He goes along with her, believing she could be an invaluable source,

not only about the whereabouts of the sword but also about the family secrets of the man

he used to think he’d known so well: Professor Dumbledore.

Bathilda’s house is as old and decrepit as she is, but there are worse things lying

beneath the clutter. Hermione’s warnings prove more horribly accurate than Harry’s

worst nightmares, and they are forced to retreat without getting the answers they seek.

THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

Narrowly escaping back to the forest, Harry and Hermione are soon reunited with

Ron, who turns up just in time to save Harry from a cold, watery grave. “It’s really

Ron’s big moment,” Grint says. “He steps up and becomes the hero by believing what’s

in his heart and not what’s in front of his eyes.”

Turning their attention back to the hunt for the Horcruxes, there are new clues to

piece together, specifically about the peculiar symbol that keeps cropping up—the circle



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within the triangle with a line through the center. It is Harry who remembers the first

time they ever saw it: on a pendant worn by Xenophilius Lovegood.

The three have been focused on finding and destroying the Horcruxes, but

suddenly a new mystery presents itself. They don’t know if the symbol they’ve been

seeing is somehow connected to their search, but it does appear to be significant, so

Harry, Hermione and Ron set out for the Lovegood house.

Stuart Craig says that the home was patterned after Rowling’s description in the

book, noting, “Jo specified that the house is a black tower, so I wanted to be true to that.

We gave it a deliberate taper and then made it lean, and the interior is as skewed as the

exterior.”

Dominating the main floor of the house is an old-fashioned printing press, with

belts of paper running the length of the ceiling. Since it is also the home of Luna

Lovegood, her artwork is proudly displayed on every wall. Evanna Lynch was also asked

to lend her inspiration to the décor. McMillan says, “Evanna has a wonderful eye and

came up with some great ideas. The end result is wonderfully eclectic, but homey.”

When Harry asks Xenophilius about the symbol he wears, it turns out they had the

answer with them all along. It is the sign of the Deathly Hallows from an old fable in The

Tales of Beetle the Bard , the book left to Hermione by Dumbledore.

As she reads the story aloud, the symbol’s meaning is revealed: the triangle is the

Invisibility Cloak, to shield the wearer from Death; the circle represents the Resurrection

Stone, to recall loved ones from Death; and the straight line denotes the Elder Wand, one

more powerful than any other wand in existence. Two of the Deathly Hallows—the

Invisibility Cloak and the Resurrection Stone—seem to have some basis in fact. So if the

fable is true and the Elder Wand does exist, then Voldemort will stop at nothing to obtain

it. And if he does, it might render the search for the Horcruxes meaningless.

Just as the significance of the story becomes clear, so does the danger they’re in.

Harry, Ron and Hermione must run for their lives, with the Snatchers, led by Scabior

(Nick Moran), in close pursuit. The pulse-pounding foot chase was shot in the Swinley

Forest in Berkshire, where both David Yates and Greg Powell admit they initially

underestimated the athletic abilities of their young cast. The director explains, “I figured



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I’d have to do one take just to let them get a feel for the rough terrain before telling them

they’d have to run faster. Then I called ‘Action,’ and, whoosh, they were gone!”

Powell echoes, “To be honest, I had told the stuntmen they would have to slow

down because they would outpace the actors, but that went completely out the window on

the first shot, because the three of them took off like gazelles and left my guys standing in

the dust.”

Filming the scene also generated some healthy competition between Daniel,

Emma and Rupert, who regarded it as more of a race than a chase. “All those years of

training with the stunt team finally paid off. There was no question in my mind that I

could beat them…not that I’m competitive or anything,” Radcliffe deadpans.

“It got quite intense,” Grint adds, “especially since we were having to dodge

between trees and jump over logs. It was a lot of fun though.”

Watson confirms, “It was pretty funny, especially when David had to take us

aside and say, ‘I just want to remind you that this scene is not about which one of you can

run the fastest.’ But I definitely gave the boys a run for their money,” she smiles.

In the instant the Snatchers are about to overtake them, Hermione flattens Harry

with a Stinging Jinx to hide his identity behind extremely swollen features. Special

make-up effects designer Nick Dudman and his team used a silicone material to distend

Radcliffe’s face. “It was tricky,” Dudman says “because the only thing on Dan’s face

that’s actually him is one eye. Every detail had to be perfect, down to his eyebrows and

stubble, which had to be inserted into the make-up, one hair at a time. My people, Steve

Murphy and Paula Eden, did a fantastic job. It took three hours to apply, but Dan was a

trouper.”

The one feature the Stinging Jinx cannot mask is Harry’s lightning scar, which,

while distorted, is still barely visible. Believing they may have caught the ultimate prize,

the Snatchers deliver their quarry to Malfoy Manor.

The design for the outside of the house was inspired by Hardwick Hall, a Tudor-

era mansion that Craig has long admired. He elaborates, “It has these enormous

windows, which, especially at night, have a mysterious, slightly threatening, and magical

quality to them—huge areas of glass with seemingly nothing but darkness behind them.

So the exterior was terrific, and then we invented an interior to match.”



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At the manor, Bellatrix Lestrange and the Malfoys are waiting. Now the only

thing standing between Harry and certain death is his Hogwarts nemesis, Draco, who is

faced with a life-altering choice between identifying his former classmate and thereby

restoring his family’s standing with the Dark Lord, or restoring his own soul.

Radcliffe observes, “What’s great about the story is the complexity of good

versus evil. It isn’t always a clear split between the characters. Even Harry is obviously

connected to Voldemort, so there are people we have always seen as evil who have good

in them and good people who are seriously flawed.”

It turns out that Harry, Hermione and Ron are not the only ones imprisoned at

Malfoy Manor. The Death Eaters are also holding Luna Lovegood, the goblin Griphook

(Warwick Davis), and the wand maker, Ollivander. A possible rescue comes from an

unlikely source…but only at a great sacrifice.

The last house seen in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” stands in

stark contrast to the grandeur of Malfoy Manor: a cottage that appears to be made entirely

out of shells. Prefabricated in workshops at Leavesden, the house was then constructed

on a beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Craig recalls, “We chose that beach because it had

great sand dunes and also because David wanted white water and the sound of crashing

waves. But those waves came at a price because the beach had incredibly high winds.

The entire structure had to be heavily fortified and weighted down with giant water

bottles that were several tons each just to keep the whole thing stabilized and stop it from

blowing over.”

David Heyman remarks, “Being out on location for this film provided a sense of

scale and verisimilitude, especially since the story takes us away from the familiar setting

of Hogwarts and puts us on the road with Harry, Ron and Hermione.”

Composer Alexandre Desplat, who created his first Harry Potter score for “The

Deathly Hallows – Part 1,” agrees. “Our heroes are constantly in motion, so I wanted the

music to follow the thread of their journey, and find just the right balance between the

action, suspense and emotion.”

“Alexandre’s music expresses so many different colors and emotions,” says

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“My goal was to give the film an original musical imprint,” Desplat continues.

“At the same time, I wanted to carry on the rich musical tradition of the composers who

have scored the previous Harry Potter films in keeping with the series’ great heritage.”

David Barron reflects, “That is what makes these films so incredible to work on—

that they have a rock solid foundation, which began with Jo’s books. The most important

thing to us was to make a film fitting the material she created.”

“It all begins and ends with Jo; we wouldn’t be here without her,” Heyman states.

“I feel privileged to have worked on Harry Potter for more than a decade. It has been

inspiring, challenging and an awful lot of fun.”

Yates says, “I’m particularly thrilled and proud that I’m the director who gets to

bring the climax of her great story to the audience. That’s what I’m looking forward to.”

To be continued…



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ABOUT THE CAST

DANIEL RADCLIFFE has played the title role in all of the blockbuster films

based on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter books, beginning with 2001’s “Harry

Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” He reprised his role in “Harry Potter and the Chamber

of Secrets,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of

Fire,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood

Prince.” He will complete his portrayal of Harry Potter in the much-anticipated final

installment of the film franchise, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” which

opens on July 15, 2011.

In 2008, Radcliffe made his Broadway debut as Alan Strang in Peter Shaffer’splay “Equus,” winning the award for Best Leading Actor at the Annual Theatre Fan

Choice Awards, organized by Broadway World, as well as Best Leading Actor and

Breakthrough Performance Awards at the annual Broadway.Com Audience Awards. He

also garnered both Drama League and Drama Desk nominations for his performance in

the play. The year before, Radcliffe had received acclaim when he first starred as Alan

Strang in the London revival of “Equus,” which marked his West End debut. Both the

London and Broadway productions of “Equus” were directed by Thea Sharrock and also

starred Tony Award winner Richard Griffiths.

In Spring 2011, Radcliffe will return to Broadway to star in the revival of “How

to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” which marks his first Broadway musical.

The show will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Rob Ashford.

On the screen, Radcliffe will next star in the independent horror thriller “The

Woman in Black,” directed by James Watkins. His other film credits include the

Australian independent feature “December Boys,” and the title role of Jack Kipling in the

true-life telefilm “My Boy Jack,” about Rudyard Kipling’s 17-year-old son and the

devastating effect his death, in World War I, had on his family. The film also starred

Kim Cattrall, Carey Mulligan and David Haig.

A lifelong fan of the hit series “The Simpsons,” Radcliffe just lent his voice to the

character of a brooding vampire named Edmund for the show’s “Treehouse of Horror



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XXI” special, entitled “Tweenlight,” airing November 7, 2010. Previously, he made a

guest appearance as himself in the award-winning BBC/HBO series “Extras,” starring

Ricky Gervais. He first appeared on screen as the young David Copperfield in the

BBC/PBS presentation of the classic Charles Dickens novel.

RUPERT GRINT has starred as Ron Weasley, Harry Potter’s classmate and

loyal best friend in all the Harry Potter films. He plays the role for the final time in

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.”

This fall, Grint stars in the independent action comedy “Wild Target,” directed by

Jonathan Lynn and also starring Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt. Grint plays a young

apprentice to a man he believes is a private detective, but who is really a hit man in the

movie, based on the 1993 French film “Cible émouvante.”Grint made his professional acting debut when he won the role of Ron Weasley in

2001’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” His performance in that film brought

him a British Film Critics’ Circle Award nomination for Best Newcomer and a Young

Artist Award for Most Promising Newcomer. He has since starred in “Harry Potter and

the Chamber of Secrets,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and

the Goblet of Fire,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and

the Half-Blood Prince.”

In 2006, the U.K.’s leading film magazine, Empire, presented Grint, Daniel

Radcliffe and Emma Watson with the prestigious Outstanding Contribution Award in

recognition of their performances in all of the Harry Potter films.

Grint’s other film credits include Peter Hewitt’s “Thunderpants,” alongside

Simon Callow, Stephen Fry and Paul Giamatti; Jeremy Brock’s “Driving Lessons, with

Julie Walters and Laura Linney; and the indie film “Cherrybomb,” which screened to

critical acclaim at film festivals in the U.K. and Europe.

EMMA WATSON has starred as Hermione Granger, devoted friend to both

Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, in each of the Harry Potter films. She plays the role for

the final time in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.”



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Watson was heard as the voice of Princess Pea in the 2008 animated adventure

“The Tale of Despereaux.” She also starred opposite Victoria Wood, Richard Griffiths

and Emilia Fox in the role of Pauline Fossil in the BBC’s television drama “Ballet

Shoes.”

Watson made her professional acting debut in the first Harry Potter film, “Harry

Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” winning a Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young

Actress for her performance. Watson has also garnered two Critics’ Choice Award

nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her work in “Harry Potter

and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

In addition, Watson won two consecutive AOL Awards for Best Supporting

Actress, the first for “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and another for “Harry

Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” The readers of Total Film magazine also voted her

Best New Performer for her work in the latter. In 2006, Empire, the U.K.’s leading film

magazine, honored Watson and her co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, with the

Outstanding Contribution Award in recognition of their work, collectively, in the Harry

Potter films.

Apart from acting, another of Watson’s passions is fashion. She worked closely

with Fair Trade and organic clothing producer People Tree in helping them create a new

teenage fashion line, and fronted the Autumn-Winter 2009 and Summer-Spring 2010

campaigns for Burberry.

Watson is currently in the U.S. studying for a Liberal Arts degree at Brown

University.

HELENA BONHAM CARTER returns as Death Eater and fanatical Lord

Voldemort follower Bellatrix Lestrange. She originated the role in the 2007 hit “Harry

Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” and played her in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood

Prince.” She again stars as Bellatrix in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.”

Bonham Carter has starred in a wide range of film, television and stage projects

both in the United States and in her native England. Earlier this year, she starred as the

Red Queen in Tim Burton’s fantastical adventure hit “Alice in Wonderland.” She also



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stars in the independent historical drama “The King’s Speech,” which has screened at

several international film festivals and is slated to be release in theatres later this fall.

Recently, she earned a Golden Globe nomination and won an Evening Standard

British Film Award for Best Actress for her performance as Mrs. Lovett in Tim Burton’s

screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber

of Fleet Street,” starring Johnny Depp in the title role.

Bonham Carter was previously honored with Oscar®, Golden Globe, BAFTA and

Screen Actors Guild Award® nominations for her work in the 1997 romantic period

drama “The Wings of the Dove,” based on the novel by Henry James. Her performance

in that film also brought her Best Actress Awards from a number of critics organizations,

including the Los Angeles Film Critics, Broadcast Film Critics, National Board of

Review and London Film Critics Circle.

She had made her feature film debut in 1986 in the title role of Trevor Nunn’s

historical biopic “Lady Jane.” She had barely wrapped production on that film when

director James Ivory offered her the lead in “A Room with a View,” based on the book by

E.M. Forster. She went on to receive acclaim in two more screen adaptations of Forster

novels: Charles Sturridge’s “Where Angels Fear to Tread” and James Ivory’s “Howard’s

End,” for which she earned her first BAFTA Award nomination.

Bonham Carter’s early film work also includes Franco Zeffirelli’s “Hamlet,”

opposite Mel Gibson; “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” directed by and starring Kenneth

Branagh; Woody Allen’s “Mighty Aphrodite”; and “Twelfth Night,” which reunited her

with Trevor Nunn. She went on to star in David Fincher’s “Fight Club,” with Brad Pitt

and Edward Norton; the Tim Burton-directed films “Big Fish,” “Planet of the Apes” and

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”; and the actioner “Terminator Salvation,” directed

by McG. In addition, she has starred in such independent features as “Novocaine,” “The

Heart of Me,” “Till Human Voices Wake Us” and “Conversations with Other Women.”

She also lent her voice to the animated features “Carnivale”; Tim Burton’s “Corpse

Bride,” in which she played the title role; and the Oscar®-winning “Wallace & Gromit in

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.”

On the small screen, Bonham Carter earned both Emmy and Golden Globe Award

nominations for her performances in the telefilm “Live from Baghdad” and the miniseries



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“Merlin,” and a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Marina Oswald in the

miniseries “Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald.” She also starred as Anne Boleyn

in the British miniseries “Henry VIII,” and as the mother of seven children, including

four autistic sons, in the BBC telefilm “Magnificent 7.” More recently, she starred in the

BBC biopic “Enid,” playing renowned children’s storyteller Enid Blyton.

Bonham Carter’s stage credits include productions of “The Woman in White,”

“The Chalk Garden,” “The House of Bernarda Alba” and “Trelawny of the Wells,” to

name a few.

ROBBIE COLTRANE again appears as Hogwarts’ beloved caretaker Rubeus

Hagrid, who looks after all creatures, great and small. Coltrane originated the part of

Hagrid in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” for which he earned BAFTA and Los

Angeles Film Critics Circle Award nominations. He reprised his role in “Harry Potter

and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Harry Potter

and the Goblet of Fire” and “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” He will play

Hagrid for the last time in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.”

Coltrane’s long list of film credits also includes “The Brothers Bloom”; “Ocean’s

Twelve,” for director Steven Soderbergh; the Stephen Sommers-directed films “Van

Helsing” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”; the Hughes brothers’ “From Hell,”

with Johnny Depp; the James Bond films “The World is Not Enough” and “Goldeneye”;

Luis Mandoki’s “Message in a Bottle”; “Buddy”; “The Pope Must Die”; “Nuns on the

Run,” for which he won The Peter Sellers Comedy Award at the 1991 Evening Standard

British Film Awards; Kenneth Branagh’s “Henry V”; “Let It Ride”; Carl Reiner’s “Bert

Rigby, You’re a Fool”; “Mona Lisa,” directed by Neil Jordan; “Absolute Beginners”; and

“Defense of the Realm,” among others.

Coltrane is perhaps best known for his work in the award-winning and

internationally popular television series “Cracker,” which has also spawned several

television movies, the latest airing in Fall 2006. His portrayal of the tough, wisecracking

police psychologist Dr. Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald has brought Coltrane numerous acting

honors, including three consecutive BAFTA Awards for Best Television Actor in 1994,

1995 and 1996; the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Television Actor in 1993; a



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Silver Nymph Award for Best Actor at the 1994 Monte Carlo Television Festival; the

Royal Television Society Award for Best Male Performer in 1994; FIPA’s Best Actor

Award; and a Cable ACE Award for Best Actor in a Movie or Miniseries.

Coltrane first gained popularity in the early 1980s for his comedy appearances on

such shows as “Alfresco,” “Kick Up the Eighties,” “Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence

Fee” and “Saturday Night Live.” He went on to star in 13 “Comic Strip” productions and

numerous television shows, including “Blackadder the Third” and “Blackadder’s

Christmas Carol.” Coltrane received a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of

Danny McGlone in the series “Tutti Frutti.” His other television credits include the

telefilms “The Ebb-Tide,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Planman,” which he also

executive produced, and the recent ITV miniseries “Murderland.”

Coltrane was awarded the OBE in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List for his

Services to Drama.

RALPH FIENNES returns as the evil Lord Voldemort, one of modern

literature’s, and cinema’s, most terrifying and merciless villains. He first appeared as

Voldemort in 2005’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and returned to the role in the

2007 blockbuster “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”

A two-time Academy Award®

nominee, Fiennes received his first nomination in

1994 for his performance in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar®-winning Best Picture,

“Schindler’s List.” Fiennes’ chilling portrayal of Nazi Commandant Amon Goeth also

brought him a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Award, as well as Best

Supporting Actor honors from numerous critics groups, including the National Society of

Film Critics, and the New York, Chicago, Boston and London Film Critics associations.

Fiennes earned his second Oscar® nomination, for Best Actor, in another Best Picture

winner, Anthony Minghella’s “The English Patient.” He also garnered Golden Globe and

BAFTA Award nominations, as well as two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award®

nominations, one for Best Actor and another shared with the film’s ensemble cast.

In addition, Fiennes won a British Independent Film Award, an Evening Standard

British Film Award and a London Film Critics Circle Award and earned a BAFTA

Award nomination for his work in the 2005 drama “The Constant Gardener,” directed by



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Fernando Meirelles. In 2008, he received dual British Independent Film Award

nominations, both for Best Supporting Actor, for his performances in “The Duchess,” for

which he also received a Golden Globe nomination, and “In Bruges.” In addition, he

earned Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award® nominations for his work in the HBO

movie “Bernard and Doris,” opposite Susan Sarandon.

In 2010, Fiennes made his feature film directorial debut with a contemporary

version of Shakespeare’s dangerous political thriller “Coriolanus,” in which he also stars

with Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave.

His many other film credits include “Nanny McPhee Returns”; “Clash of the

Titans”; “The Reader,” with Kate Winslet; Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker”; James

Ivory’s “The White Countess”; Aardman’s Oscar®

-winning animated film “Wallace &

Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”; “Red Dragon”; the Neil Jordan-directed films

“The End of the Affair” and “The Good Thief”; David Cronenberg’s “Spider”; Martha

Fiennes’ “Chromophobia” and “Onegin”; István Szabó’s “Sunshine”; “Maid in

Manhattan”; the animated “The Prince of Egypt”; “The Avengers”; “Oscar and Lucinda”;

Kathryn Bigelow’s “Strange Days”; Robert Redford’s “Quiz Show”; and “Wuthering

Heights,” in which he made his film debut.

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Fiennes began his career on

the London stage, including two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).

In 1995, Fiennes opened as Hamlet in Jonathan Kent’s production of the Shakespeare

play, winning a Tony Award when the production moved to Broadway. His subsequent

theatre credits include “Ivanov,” again under Kent’s direction; the title roles of

Shakespeare’s “Richard II” and “Coriolanus”; Christopher Hampton’s “The Talking

Cure,” in which he originated the role of Carl Jung; the title role in Ibsen’s “Brand” at the

RSC; and “Julius Caesar,” playing Mark Anthony.

In 2006, he reunited with Jonathan Kent to star in Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer,”

which opened in Dublin before moving to Broadway, where Fiennes earned a Tony

nomination for his performance. More recently, Fiennes starred in the 2008 West End

debut of Yasmina Reza’s play “The God of Carnage,” and, later that year, starred in

Kent’s production of “Oedipus,” at the National Theatre.



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BRENDAN GLEESON returns as Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, the role he first

played in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and reprised in “Harry Potter and the

Order of the Phoenix.”

Gleeson recently received Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and British Independent

Film Award nominations for his performance in Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges.” He

also won an Emmy and received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Winston

Churchill in the 2009 HBO movie “Into the Storm.”

Upcoming, Gleeson can be seen in “The Guard,” opposite Don Cheadle, and the

Simon Wincer-directed indie “The Cup.” Both films are slated for release in 2011.

Gleeson made his feature film debut in Jim Sheridan’s “The Field,” followed by

small roles in such films as Mike Newell’s “Into the West” and Ron Howard’s “Far and

Away.” He first gained attention for his performance in Mel Gibson’s Oscar®-winning

Best Picture “Braveheart.” He went on to appear in Neil Jordan’s films “Michael

Collins” and “The Butcher Boy,” and starred in the independent film “Angela Mooney,”

executive produced by John Boorman.

In 1998, Boorman directed Gleeson in the role of real-life Irish folk hero Martin

Cahill in the biopic “The General.” For his performance, Gleeson won several acting

honors, including the London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor. He has since

collaborated with John Boorman on the films “The Tailor of Panama,” “In My Country”

and “The Tiger’s Tail.”

Gleeson’s additional film credits include John Woo’s “Mission: Impossible II,”

“Harrison’s Flowers,” “Wild About Harry,” Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial

Intelligence,” Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later…,” Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New

York,” Anthony Minghella’s “Cold Mountain,” Wolfgang Petersen’s “Troy,” M. Night

Shyamalan’s “The Village,” Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven,” Neil Jordan’s

“Breakfast on Pluto,” Robert Zemeckis’ “Beowulf,” Paul Greengrass’ “Green Zone,” and

“Perrier’s Bounty.”

Born in Ireland, Gleeson started out as a teacher but left the profession to pursue

an acting career, joining the Irish theatre company Passion Machine. His theatre credits

include productions of “King of the Castle,” “The Plough and the Stars,” “Prayers of

Sherkin,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “Juno and the Paycock” and “On Such As We.”



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RHYS IFANS joins the Harry Potter cast as Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna

Lovegood’s father and the editor of The Quibbler .

He recently completed work on Roland Emmerich’s “Anonymous,” in which he

portrays Edward de Vere, who some believe is the true author of William Shakespeare’s

plays. Ifans stars with Vanessa Redgrave in the film, slated to open in Fall 2011. His

latest films also include “Mr. Nice,” in which he plays notorious British drug dealer

Howard Marks; the indie “Passion Play”; and “Nanny McPhee Returns.”

Born and raised in Wales, Ifans began his acting career in Welsh-language

television programs before making his film debut in Karl Francis’ “Streetlife.” His other

early films include Anthony Hopkins’ “August,” Kevin Allen’s “Twin Town,” Pat

O’Connor’s “Dancing at Lughnasa” and Charles McDougall’s “Heart.”

His breakout performance came in 1999, in Roger Michell’s romantic comedy hit

“Notting Hill,” with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, for which Ifans received a BAFTA

Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Over the next two years, he appeared in a

dozen films, including the independent features “Janice Beard,” “You’re Dead” and

“Rancid Aluminum”; “Love, Honor and Obey”; Howard Deutch’s “The Replacements”;

the Adam Sandler comedy “Little Nicky”; Michael Gondry’s “Human Nature”; Mike

Figgis’ “Hotel”; Ronny Yu’s “Formula 51”; and Lasse Hallström’s “The Shipping

News.”

His subsequent film credits include Mira Nair’s “Vanity Fair”; Roger Michell’s

“Enduring Love,” for which he earned an Empire Award nomination for Best Supporting

Actor; Martha Fiennes’ “Chromophobia”; Peter Webber’s “Hannibal Rising”; Shekhar

Kapur’s “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”; Richard Curtis’ “Pirate Radio”; and Noah

Baumbach’s “Greenberg.”

On television, Ifans won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of

Peter Cook in the telefilm “Not Only But Always.” His more recent television credits

include the HBO movie “A Number,” directed by James MacDonald. In 2005, Ifans

appeared in the music video for the rock band Oasis’s single “The Importance of Being

Idle,” and accepted their award for Video of the Year at the 2005 NME Awards.



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Ifans has also worked extensively on the British stage. He appeared at the

Donmar Warehouse in Dario Fo’s “Accidental Death of an Anarchist,” Patrick Marber’s

“Don Juan in Soho” and Simon Harris’ “Badfinger”; at the National Theatre in Dylan

Thomas’ “Under Milk Wood,” for director Roger Michell, and “Volpone”; at the Duke of

York’s Theatre in “Beautiful Thing,” directed by Hettie MacDonald; at the Royal Court

Theatre in “Thyestes,” directed by James MacDonald; and at the Royal Exchange in

Braham Murray’s production of “Smoke” and Ronald Harwood’s “Poison Pen.”

JASON ISAACS returns in the role of Lucius Malfoy, the supercilious Death

Eater he previously played in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Harry Potter

and the Goblet of Fire” and “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”

His upcoming films include “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” andhe co-stars with Taylor Lautner in the thriller “Abduction,” directed by John Singleton.

Isaacs recently co-starred with Matt Damon in Paul Greengrass’s action thriller

“Green Zone,” and starred in the indie film “Skeletons.” He also starred in, with Viggo

Mortensen, and executive produced the Nazi-themed drama “Good,” for which he earned

a London Film Critics Circle Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His recent

acting honors also include a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for his work in the

BBC miniseries “The State Within,” and a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actor

for his role in the BBC telefilm “The Curse of Steptoe.”

Isaacs first gained fame in 2000 with his portrayal of the cruel Colonel William

Tavington in Roland Emmerich’s Revolutionary War drama “The Patriot,” which

brought him a London Film Critics’ Circle Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor

and a Blockbuster Award nomination for Best Villain. In 2001, he played a drag queen

in the remake of “Sweet November,” with Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron, and was

equally unrecognizable as the bullet-headed Captain Mike Steele in Ridley Scott’s war

drama “Black Hawk Down.” He went on to star in John Woo’s World War II drama

“Windtalkers,” the romantic comedy “Passionada,” and the action comedy “The

Tuxedo,” with Jackie Chan. In 2003, Isaacs starred in the dual roles of Captain Hook and

Mr. Darling in the live-action “Peter Pan,” directed by P.J. Hogan.



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Isaacs has also made several movies with his friend, director Paul Anderson,

appearing in “Event Horizon,” “Soldier” and “Shopping,” as well as in a cameo in

“Resident Evil.” His other film credits include “The End of the Affair,” “Armageddon”

and “Dragonheart,” as well as the independent features “Friends with Money,” “Tennis,

Anyone?,” “The Chumscrubber,” “Nine Lives,” “Hotel,” “The Last Minute” and

“Divorcing Jack.”

On the small screen, Isaacs starred for three seasons of the Peabody Award-

winning Showtime series “Brotherhood,” playing Irish-American gangster Michael

Caffee, for which he earned a Satellite Award nomination. His other television work

includes the Channel 4 telefilm “Scars,” a recurring role on the NBC series “The West

Wing,” and a guest appearance on “Entourage.” Early in his career, he starred for two

seasons on the hit British series “Capital City,” and was also seen in the controversial

BBC miniseries “Civvies.” He is currently filming the BBC miniseries “Case Histories,”

based on the best-selling Kate Atkinson crime novels, in which he plays her iconic

detective Jackson Brodie.

Born in Liverpool, England, Isaacs attended Bristol University, where he directed

and/or starred in over 20 theatre productions. He went on to graduate from London’s

prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama.

On the stage, he created the role of Louis in the Royal National Theatre

production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angels in America - Parts 1 & 2.” He has

appeared at five Edinburgh Festivals, and in London at the Royal Court, the Almeida and

the King’s Head. Isaacs more recently starred opposite Lee Evans in the West End

revival of Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter.”

BILL NIGHY joins the Harry Potter cast as Minister of Magic Rufus

Scrimgeour.

An award-winning actor of the stage and screen, Nighy won a BAFTA Award, a

London Film Critics Circle Award, and an Evening Standard British Film Award for his

performance as an aging rock star in Richard Curtis’s 2003 ensemble comedy hit “Love

Actually.” He also won a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for his collective work in that

film, as well as “AKA,” “I Capture the Castle” and “Lawless Heart.”



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His more recent film work includes the “Wild Target,” with Rupert Grint and

Emily Blunt; “Pirate Radio,” which reunited him with Richard Curtis; and Bryan Singer’s

“Valkyrie,” with Tom Cruise. His long list of film credits also includes Richard Eyre’s

“Notes on a Scandal,” for which he earned a London Film Critics Circle Award

nomination; “Underworld” and “Underworld: Evolution”; Fernando Meirelles’ “The

Constant Gardener,” garnering a British Independent Film (BIF) Award nomination;

“Lawless Heart,” which brought him a BIF Award nomination; and “Still Crazy,” for

which he won an Evening Standard British Film Award. He is also unrecognizable as the

tentacled pirate captain Davy Jones in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” and

“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” and lent his voice to several animated

features, including “Flushed Away.”

Well known for his work on the small screen, Nighy has worked several times

with director David Yates, including the acclaimed BBC project “State of Play,” for

which he won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. Yates also directed him in the BBC

telefilm “The Young Visiters,” and HBO’s “The Girl in the Café,” which brought him a

Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. He

later won a Golden Globe in the same category for his performance in the 2005 telefilm

“Gideon’s Daughter.” His television work also includes dozens of series guest roles and

longform projects, including the one for which he first gained attention, 1991’s “The

Men’s Room.”

Born in England, Nighy began his career on the British stage and has since earned

acclaim for his work in numerous plays, including David Hare’s “The Vertical Hour,”

“Pravda” and “A Map of the World.” He has also performed in plays by other leading

dramatists, including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, Anton Chekhov and

Peter Gill. He received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance

in Joe Penhall’s “Blue/Orange.” On Broadway, he starred in the 2006 premiere of David

Hare’s “The Vertical Hour,” directed by Sam Mendes.

ALAN RICKMAN portrays Hogwarts’ enigmatic Professor Severus Snape, the

role he originated and has played in all of the Harry Potter movies.



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Rickman was already an award-winning stage actor in his native England when he

made his feature film debut in the 1988 action blockbuster “Die Hard.” Since then, he

has repeatedly been honored for his work in films and on television.

In 1992, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of

the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” and also earned a second

BAFTA Award nomination, for Best Actor, for his role in Anthony Minghella’s “Truly

Madly Deeply.” Also that year, he won both the Evening Standard British Film Award

and the London Film Critics Circle Award for his work in those two films, as well as

Stephen Poliakoff’s “Close My Eyes,” with the London Film Critics Circle adding his

performance in “Quigley Down Under” for good measure. He later earned BAFTA

Award nominations for his performances in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” and Neil

Jordan’s “Michael Collins.”

In 1997, Rickman won Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards®

for his performance in the title role of HBO’s “Rasputin.” He received another Emmy

nomination for his starring role in the 2004 HBO movie “Something the Lord Made.”

Rickman more recently starred as Judge Turpin in Tim Burton’s screen version of

the Stephen Sondheim musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” He

reunited with Burton to provide the voice of the Blue Caterpiller in the 2010 blockbuster

fantasy “Alice in Wonderland.” His additional film credits include “Bottle Shock,” for

which he won the Best Actor Award at the 2008 Seattle Film Festival; “Nobel Son”;

“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”; “Snow Cake”; “Love Actually”; “Blow Dry”;

“Galaxy Quest”; “Dogma”; “Judas Kiss”; and “Mesmer,” for which he was named Best

Actor at the 1994 Montreal Film Festival.

In 1997, Rickman made his feature film directorial debut with “The Winter

Guest,” starring Emma Thompson, which he also scripted with Sharman Macdonald,

based on Macdonald’s original play. An official selection at the Venice Film Festival,

the movie was nominated for a Golden Lion and won three other awards, and was later

named Best Film at the 1997 Chicago Film Festival. Rickman also directed the play

version of “The Winter Guest” for the British stage. In addition, he directed “My Name

is Rachel Corrie” in the West End, winning Best New Play and Best Director at the

Theatregoers’ Choice Awards before the production transferred to New York. He



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recently directed a production of August Strindberg’s “Creditors” at London’s Donmar

Warehouse, which was also presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2010.

Rickman studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before joining the Royal

Shakespeare Company for two seasons. In 1985, he created the role of the Vicomte de

Valmont in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” and, in 1987, he earned a Tony Award

nomination when he reprised the role on Broadway. In 2001 and 2002, Rickman starred

in the West End production of Noel Coward’s “Private Lives,” for which he won a

Variety Club Award and earned Olivier and Evening Standard Award nominations for

Best Actor. When the play moved to Broadway, Rickman received his second Tony

Award nomination for Best Actor.

Most recently, he reunited with Emma Thompson in the BBC telefilm “The Song

of Lunch.” He also returns to the stage in Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Borkman,” which opens

at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and will move to New York, at the Brooklyn Academy, in

January 2011.

IMELDA STAUNTON reprises the role of Dolores Umbridge, whose “pink”

veneer does little to mask her true dark nature. She first played the role of Dolores in

“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”

In 2004, Staunton portrayed the title role in Mike Leigh’s drama “Vera Drake,”

delivering a performance that was heralded by both critics and audiences. For her work

in the film, Staunton earned numerous Best Actress honors, including Academy Award®

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Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® nominations. She also won a

BAFTA Award, an Evening Standard British Film Award, a British Independent Film

Award, a European Film Award and the 2004 Venice Film Festival Award for Best

Actress. In addition, Staunton was named the Best Actress of the year by many top

critics groups, including the New York Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics, London

Critics Circle, Toronto Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics and National Society of Film

Critics, among others.

Staunton’s most recent film work includes Mike Leigh’s “Another Year” and Ang

Lee’s “Taking Woodstock,” and she also lent her voice to Tim Burton’s blockbuster

“Alice in Wonderland.” Her additional film credits include Richard LaGravenese’s



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“Freedom Writers”; Kirk Jones’ “Nanny McPhee,” with Emma Thompson; Stephen Fry’s

“Bright Young Things”; John McKay’s “Crush”; John Madden’s Oscar®-winning

“Shakespeare in Love,” for which she shared in a SAG Award® for Outstanding Cast

Performance; Trevor Nunn’s “Twelfth Night”; Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility”; the

Kenneth Branagh films “Peter’s Friends” and “Much Ado About Nothing”; and Beeban

Kidron’s “Antonia & Jane.” Her voice has also been heard in several animated features,

most notably the clay animation hit “Chicken Run.”

Recognized for her work on the London stage, Staunton received her seventh

Olivier Award nomination this year for her role in “Entertaining Mr. Sloane.” She has

also won three Olivier Awards, for her performances in “A Chorus of Disapproval,” “The

Corn is Green” and “Into the Woods,” and three more nominations for her work in

“Uncle Vanya,” “The Wizard of Oz” and “Guys and Dolls.” Her theatre repertoire also

includes “There Came a Gypsy Riding,” “Calico,” “The Beggar’s Opera,” “The Fair

Maid of the West,” “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,” “Habeas Corpus,” “Travesties,”

“Electra,” “A Little Night Music,” “Mack and Mabel” and “She Stoops to Conquer.”

Staunton is also well-known to British television audiences for her roles in such

projects as “Return to Cranford,” “Big and Small,” “The Wind in the Willows,” “My

Family and Other Animals,” “Little Britain,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,”

“Fingersmith,” “Cambridge Spies,” “David Copperfield,” “Citizen X” and “The Singing

Detective.”

In 2006, Staunton received an OBE on the Queen’s New Year’s honours list.

JULIE WALTERS reprises her role as the maternal Mrs. Weasley, the character

she has portrayed in all of the Harry Potter films.

A two-time Academy Award® nominee, Walters gained her first nomination in

1984 for her feature film debut in the title role of “Educating Rita,” also winning BAFTA

and Golden Globe Awards for her performance. She earned her second Oscar®

nod for

her work in Stephen Daldry’s “Billy Elliot.” Her portrayal of Billy’s ballet teacher in that

film also brought her BAFTA, Empire, Evening Standard Film and London Film Critics

Circle Awards, in addition to Golden Globe and European Film Award nominations and

two Screen Actors Guild Award® nominations, one for Supporting Actress and a second,



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shared with her castmates, for Outstanding Cast Performance. Walters has also earned

BAFTA Award nominations for her roles in “Personal Services” and “Stepping Out,”

winning a Variety Club Award for the latter.

Walters more recently co-starred with Meryl Streep in the worldwide musical

smash hit “Mamma Mia!” She includes among her other film credits Julian Jarrold’s

“Becoming Jane”; “Driving Lessons,” with her Harry Potter son Rupert Grint; “Wah-

Wah”; “Calendar Girls”; “Before You Go”; Roger Michell’s “Titanic Town”; “Girls’

Night”; “Intimate Relations”; “Sister My Sister”; “Just Like a Woman”; “Buster”; and

Stephen Frears’ “Prick Up Your Ears.”

Walters is also well known to British television audiences. This year, she earned

dual BAFTA TV Award nominations, both in the category of Best Leading Actress, for

her work in the telefilms “A Short Stay in Switzerland” and “Mo,” winning the award for

the latter. She previously won three consecutive BAFTA TV Awards, in 2002, 2003 and

2004, for her roles in “Strange Relations”; “Murder,” for which she also won a Royal

Television Society Award; and the series “The Canterbury Tales,” also winning a

Broadcasting Press Guild Award. She has earned four more BAFTA TV Award

nominations: in 1983, for the miniseries “Boys From the Blackstuff”; in 1987, for the

series “Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV”; in 1994, for the telefilm “The Wedding Gift”;

and in 1999, for the series “Dinnerladies.” Her many other television credits include

“Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story,” “The Ruby in the Smoke,” “Ahead of the Class,”

“The Return,” “Oliver Twist,” “Jake’s Progress,” “Pat and Margaret,” “The Summer

House,” “Julie Walters and Friends,” “Talking Heads” and “The Birthday Party.”

An accomplished stage actress, Walters won an Olivier Award in 2001 for her

performance in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” and was earlier nominated for an Olivier

for her work in Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love.” She had made her London stage debut

in “Educating Rita,” creating the role that she would later bring to the screen. Her theatre

credits also include productions of such plays as “Jumpers,” “Having a Ball,” “Frankie

and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” “When I was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout,”

Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo” and the musical “Acorn Antiques.”

In addition to her acting work, Walters’ first novel, Maggie’s Tree, was published

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MARK WILLIAMS returns as Arthur Weasley, the Weasley family patriarch,

whom he has portrayed in all of the Harry Potter films.

His additional film credits include Matthew Vaughn’s “Stardust,” Michael

Winterbottom’s “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story,” Metin Hüseyin’s “Anita and

Me,” Peter Hewitt’s “The Borrowers,” Stephen Herek’s “101 Dalmatians,” Carine

Adler’s “Fever,” Gabriel Axel’s “Prince of Jutland,” Clare Peploe’s “High Season,” the

British Film Institute’s “Out of Order” and Michael Hoffman’s “Privileged.”

Williams is perhaps still best known in the U.K. as a regular on the BBC TV

series “The Fast Show,” on which he appeared for four seasons, as well as a Christmas

special. His more recent television work includes the miniseries adaptation of Jane

Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility”; the telefilms “Blood in the Water,” “Marple: Why

Didn’t They Ask Evans?,” “A Room with a View,” “Viva Blackpool” and “Shackleton”;

and the series “Carrie & Barry” and “Grass.” He has also guest starred on numerous

series, and was a team host on the quiz show “Jumpers for Goalposts.”

In 2002, Williams presented a 10-part series for the Discovery Channel, entitled

“Industrial Revelations with Mark Williams,” followed by 2004’s “On the Rails with

Mark Williams” and 2005’s “More Industrial Revelations with Mark Williams.” His

most recent documentary was “Mark Williams’ Big Bangs,” a four-part series for Sky

One. In addition, Williams has directed for the Channel 4 sitcom “Festival” and co-

produced the Channel 4 sitcom “In Exile.”

A graduate of Oxford University, Williams has also worked extensively on the

stage. He spent three years touring by narrowboat with the Mikron Theatre Company.

His credits also include the title role in “William” for the Royal Court Theatre’s Young

Writers Festival; “Fanshen” at the National Theatre; “Doctor of Honour,” for the Cheek

by Jowl Theatre Company; “The City Wives Confederacy” at Greenwich Theatre;

“Moscow Gold,” “Singer,” “A Dream of People” and “As You Like It,” for the Royal

Shakespeare Company; “Art” in the West End; and “Toast” at the Royal Court Theatre.

In 1988, he enjoyed a sold-out run in “The Fast Show Live on Stage.” In 2002, “The Fast

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TOM FELTON has played the role of Harry Potter’s arch-enemy and Slytherin

ringleader, Draco Malfoy, in all of the Harry Potter films. He won the MTV Movie

Award for Best Villain for his performance in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

He next begins work on the indie sports drama “From the Rough,” based on the

story of coach Santana Sparks, starring Taraji P. Henson. Felton’s upcoming films also

include the supernatural thriller “The Apparition,” in which he stars with Ashley Greene

and Sebastian Stan; and the sci-fi actioner “Rise of the Apes,” a prequel to the “Planet of

the Apes” story, with James Franco and Freida Pinto. Both films are planned for release

in 2011. He also had a cameo role in the 2010 comedy “Get Him to the Greek,” starring

Russell Brand.

Felton has been acting professionally since the age of nine, when he starred as

Peagreen Clock in Peter Hewitt’s fantastical tale “The Borrowers.” The role brought him

to the attention of director Andy Tennant, who cast Felton as Jodie Foster’s screen son,

Louis Leonowens, in the epic 1999 feature “Anna and the King.”

Two years later, he landed the coveted part of Draco Malfoy in the first Harry

Potter film, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” Felton concludes his portrayal of

Draco in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” which marks the finale of the

film franchise.

In addition to his acting, Felton devotes time to his other passion, music. He

taught himself to play guitar, and writes and performs his own songs.

TOBY JONES returns as the actor behind the character of the house elf Dobby,

who he first voiced in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”

Jones won a London Film Critics Circle Award for his performance as Truman

Capote in Douglas McGrath’s 2006 biopic “Infamous.” He has also been recognized by

the London Film Critics Circle with nominations for his work in “The Painted Veil,” as

well as for his roles in two political dramas: Karl Rove in Oliver Stone’s “W.”; and

Swifty Lazar in Ron Howard’s “Frost/Nixon.” In addition, he shared a Screen Actors

Guild Award® nomination for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast Performance for the last.

Upcoming, Jones has a number of films due out in 2011, including Mikael

Håfström’s thriller “The Rite,” with Anthony Hopkins; David Gordon Green’s comedy



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“Your Highness”; Joe Johnston’s actioner “Captain America: The First Avenger”; and

Steven Spielberg’s motion-capture film “Tintin,” based on the classic comic strip by

Hergé. He is currently filming “My Week with Marilyn,” with Michelle Williams, and

Tomas Alfredson’s “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” with Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.

Jones recently appeared in several independent films, including “City of Ember,”

produced by Tom Hanks; Jon Amiel’s “Creation”; and “What’s Wrong with Virginia,”

which premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Among his other film credits are

Frank Darabont’s “The Mist”; Peter Greenaway’s “Nightwatching”; Michael Apted’s

“Amazing Grace”; Stephen Frears’ “Mrs. Henderson Presents”; Marc Forster’s Oscar®

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nominated “Finding Neverland”; Luc Besson’s “The Messenger: The Story of Joan of

Arc”; Andy Tennant’s “Ever After”; Bille August’s “Les Misérables”; and “Orlando,”

which marked his feature film debut.

An award-winning stage actor, Jones won an Olivier Award for his performance

in the West End comedy “The Play What I Wrote,” directed by Kenneth Branagh. He

reprised his role in the Tony-nominated Broadway production of the play. His work in

London’s West End also includes Simon McBurney’s production of “Measure for

Measure,” and, more recently, “Parlour Song” and “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.”

On television, Jones co-starred with Helen Mirren in HBO’s acclaimed miniseries

“Elizabeth I.” His credits also include such longform projects as “Mo,” “The Old

Curiosity Shop,” “The Way We Live Now,” “In Love and War” and “Victoria & Albert.”

Earlier this year, he was seen in guest roles on “Dr. Who” and “Christopher and His

Kind.”

BONNIE WRIGHT has grown up in the role of Ginny Weasley, the youngest of

the Weasley siblings, in all of the Harry Potter films. She has taken her character from

Ron’s baby sister to a gifted and courageous young witch, who is also Harry Potter’s love

interest. Wright will complete the role of Ginny in “Harry Potter and the Deathly

Hallows – Part 2.”

Wright also stars in the upcoming independent film “Geography of the Hapless

Heart.” Her previous acting credits include several television productions. She played a

young Agatha Christie in the BBC telefilm “Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures,” and



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also appeared in the adventure drama “Stranded,” a Hallmark production that aired in the

U.S. and U.K. In addition, she lent her voice to an episode of the Disney Channel

animated series “The Replacements.”

Apart from her acting work, Wright also has an affinity for music and plays both

the guitar and saxophone.

JAMES PHELPS and OLIVER PHELPS are real-life twins who play the roles

of mischievous wizarding twins Fred and George Weasley, respectively.

The Phelpses were 15 years old when they first appeared as Fred and George, the

most comedic and entrepreneurial members of the large Weasley clan, in the 2001

blockbuster “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” They have since reprised their roles

in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of

Azkaban,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the

Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” They will bring their portrayals

to a conclusion in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.”

In addition to their roles in the Harry Potter films, the Phelpses appeared in an

episode of the ITV series “Kingdom,” with Stephen Fry.

EVANNA LYNCH made her acting debut in the role of Luna Lovegood in

“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” and was also seen in the part in “Harry

Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

A native of Ireland, Lynch was already a dedicated Harry Potter fan when she

won the role of Luna over 15,000 other young hopefuls through an open casting call in

early 2006. Lynch’s affinity for the offbeat character caused her to stand out among the

thousands of other girls and she ultimately landed the coveted role.



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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

DAVID YATES (Director) previously directed the blockbuster “Harry Potter and

the Order of the Phoenix,” for which he won an Empire Award for Best Director, and

“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” As the director of “Harry Potter and the

Deathly Hallows,” he helmed both Parts 1 and 2.

An award-winning television director, Yates won his first BAFTA TV Award for

his work on the BBC miniseries “The Way We Live Now,” a period drama starring

Matthew Macfadyen and Miranda Otto. In 2003, he directed the drama series “State of

Play,” for which he received a BAFTA TV Award nomination and won the Directors

Guild of Great Britain (DGGB) Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. The

project also won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award, the Royal Television Society

(RTS) Award, and Banff Television Festival’s Rockie Award for Best Series.

The following year, Yates directed the gritty two-part drama “Sex Traffic,” for

which he won another BAFTA TV Award and earned his second DGGB Award

nomination. The unflinching look at sex trafficking also won a number of international

awards, including eight BAFTA TV and four RTS Awards, both including Best Drama,

as well as the Jury Prize for Best Miniseries at the Reims International Television

Festival, and a Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.Yates earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Directing for a

Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special for his work on the 2005 HBO movie “The Girl in

the Café,” a love story starring Bill Nighy and Kelly Macdonald. His other television

credits include the telefilm “The Young Visiters,” starring Jim Broadbent and Hugh

Laurie, and the miniseries “The Sins,” starring Pete Postlethwaite and Geraldine James.

Yates grew up in St. Helens, Merseyside, and studied Politics at the University of

Essex and at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He began his directing career

with the short film “When I Was a Girl,” which he also wrote. The film brought him the

prize for Best European Short Film at the Cork International Film Festival in Ireland and

a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. It also assured his entrance into

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His graduation film, “Good Looks,” won a Silver Hugo at the Chicago

International Film Festival. In 1998, Yates made his feature film directorial debut with

“The Tichborne Claimant,” starring Stephen Fry and John Gielgud. His most recent short

film, 2002’s “Rank,” was nominated for a BAFTA Award.

DAVID HEYMAN (Producer) is the producer behind all of the film adaptations

of J.K Rowling’s hugely successful Harry Potter books. With “Harry Potter and the

Deathly Hallows – Parts 1 and 2,” he brings to a close the most successful film franchise

of all time.

Heyman is currently producing several upcoming film projects, including Alfonso

Cuarón’s “Gravity,” starring Robert Downey Jr., and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in

the Night-Time,” based on the book by Mark Haddon, to be scripted and directed by

Steve Kloves.

Apart from the Harry Potter films, Heyman’s recent producing credits include the

comedy “Yes Man,” starring Jim Carrey; Francis Lawrence’s hit science fiction thriller “I

Am Legend,” starring Will Smith; Mark Herman’s acclaimed drama “The Boy in the

Striped Pyjamas,” starring Vera Farmiga and David Thewlis; and the independent drama

“Is Anybody There?,” directed by John Crowley and starring Michael Caine.

Educated in England and the United States, Heyman began his career as a

production runner on Milos Forman’s “Ragtime” and David Lean’s “A Passage to India.”

In 1986, Heyman went to Los Angeles to become a creative executive at Warner Bros.,

where he worked on such films as “Gorillas in the Mist” and “GoodFellas.” He moved

on to become a Vice President at United Artists in the late 1980s.

Heyman subsequently embarked on a career as an independent producer, making

several films, including Ernest R. Dickerson’s “Juice,” starring Tupac Shakur and Omar

Epps, and the low-budget classic “The Daytrippers,” directed by Greg Mottola and

starring Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey, Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott.

Having spent many years working in the States, Heyman returned to the U.K. in

1996 to set up Heyday Films, with the intention of building on his unique relationships in

the U.S. and Europe to produce international films and television programs.



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Heyman won ShoWest’s Producer of the Year Award in 2003, becoming the first

British producer to have ever been presented with this honor.

DAVID BARRON (Producer) previously served as a producer on “Harry Potter

and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” He was

also an executive producer on both “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and

“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

Barron has worked in the entertainment industry for more than 25 years,

beginning his career in commercials before moving into television and film production.

In addition to his work as a producer, he has held a wide range of posts, including

location manager, assistant director, production manager and production supervisor,

working on such films as “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” “The Killing Fields,”

“Revolution,” “Legend,” “The Princess Bride,” “The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,”

“Hellbound,” “Night Breed” and Franco Zeffirelli’s “Hamlet.”

In 1991, Barron was appointed executive in charge of production on George

Lucas’ ambitious television project “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.” The

following year, he served as the line producer on the feature “The Muppet Christmas

Carol.”

In 1993, Barron joined Kenneth Branagh’s production team as associate producer

and unit production manager on “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” That film began an

association with Branagh, with Barron going on to produce the director’s films “A

Midwinter’s Tale,” “Hamlet” and “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Barron also produced Oliver

Parker’s “Othello,” in which Branagh starred with Laurence Fishburne.

In spring 1999, he formed his own company, Contagious Films, with British

director Paul Weiland. Barron more recently launched a second company, Runaway

Fridge Films.

J.K. (JOANNE KATHLEEN) ROWLING (Author/Producer) is the author of

the best-selling Harry Potter series of books, enjoyed by millions of children and adults

around the world. The first, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was published in

1997, with the seventh and final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, published



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ten years later, in 2007. Each book has broken sales records, with the series to date

having sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, being distributed in over 200

territories and translated into 69 languages, as well as being turned into blockbuster films.

Additionally, J.K. Rowling has written two small volumes, which appear as the

titles of Harry’s school books within the novels. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find

Them and Quidditch Through the Ages were published in March 2001 in aid of Comic

Relief.

In December 2008, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was published, raising millions

for The Children’s High Level Group, which aims to make life better for young people in

care, in Europe and, ultimately, all over the world.

As well as an OBE for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling is the

recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, including Spain’s prestigious Prince

of Asturias Award for Concord, France’s Légion d’honneur and, more recently,

Denmark’s Hans Christian Andersen Award. In June 2008, she was the Commencement

Speaker at Harvard University.

J.K. Rowling set up the Volant Charitable Trust, which supports a wide number of

causes related to social deprivation and associated problems, particularly as they affect

women and children. The Trust has funded a variety of projects in the UK and abroad. It

also supports research into the causes and treatment of multiple sclerosis.

For seven years she was an Ambassador of One Parent Families, now called

Gingerbread, a charity working with lone parents and their children. In 2007, she took an

honorary position as President for the charity.

In 2010, she founded, Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of

disadvantaged children.

STEVE KLOVES (Screenwriter) wrote the screenplays for six of the seven films

in the blockbuster Harry Potter film franchise, based on the bestselling books by J.K.

Rowling. He shared in BAFTA Children’s Award nominations for Best Feature for his

work on “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and “Harry Potter and the Chamber of

Secrets.” He went on to script “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” and “Harry

Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”



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Kloves previously earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted

Screenplay for Curtis Hanson’s acclaimed 2000 drama “Wonder Boys,” starring Michael

Douglas, Tobey Maguire and Frances McDormand. He also won a Critics’ Choice

Award and earned BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and Writers Guild of America (WGA)

Award nominations for his screenplay for the film.

Kloves began his film writing career in 1984 with the screenplay for “Racing with

the Moon,” a World War II-era coming-of-age story, directed by Richard Benjamin and

starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern and Nicolas Cage.

In 1989, he made his directorial debut with “The Fabulous Baker Boys,” starring

Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer. The film, which Kloves also wrote,

garnered four Academy Award®

nominations, including one for Michelle Pfeiffer, who

also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for her performance. Additionally,

Kloves won a British Film Institute Award and received a WGA Award nomination for

Best Original Screenplay.

He also wrote and directed the psychological thriller “Flesh and Bone,” starring

Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Gwyneth Paltrow.

LIONEL WIGRAM (Executive Producer) was previously the executive

producer on “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the Half-

Blood Prince.”

He started his production company, Wigram Productions, in 2006 with a deal at

Warner Bros. Last year, he produced Guy Ritchie’s international blockbuster “Sherlock

Holmes,” starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams, which grossed

more than $520 million worldwide. He also served as an executive producer on “August

Rush” and, more recently, this fall’s animated adventure “Legend of the Guardians: The

Owls of Ga’Hoole,” directed by Zack Snyder.

Wigram was educated at Oxford University, where he was one of the founding

members of the Oxford Film Foundation. He started working in the film business while

still at Oxford, serving as a production assistant for producer Elliott Kastner during

summer holidays. Following graduation, he went to work for Kastner in California.

Wigram produced his first film, “Never on Tuesday,” in 1987, followed by “Cool Blue,”



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starring Woody Harrelson, and “Warm Summer Rain,” starring Kelly Lynch, in 1988. In

the same period, Wigram was involved in the development of the early drafts of what

would become “Carlito’s Way.”

In 1990, Wigram became a development executive at Alive Films, where he

worked on films by Wes Craven and Sam Shepard. He also produced “Cool as Ice,” and

was an executive producer on Steven Soderbergh’s “The Underneath.” In 1993, he

started a chef management company, Alive Culinary Resources, with Alive owner Shep

Gordon. In addition to managing most of the top chefs in the U.S., they produced a

cooking video series for Time Life, which featured Emeril Lagasse for the first time.

In 1994, Wigram joined Renny Harlin and Geena Davis’s company, The Forge,

where he headed up development. Some of the projects on which he worked include

“The Long Kiss Goodnight,” “Cutthroat Island” and the HBO film “Mistrial.”

Before his producing deal, Wigram was Senior Vice President of Production at

Warner Bros for 10 years. During his tenure, he was responsible for buying the Harry

Potter book series for the studio and subsequently overseeing the film franchise. In

addition, he supervised such projects as “The Avengers,” “The Big Tease,” “Charlotte

Gray,” “Three Kings” and “The Good German.”

EDUARDO SERRA (Director of Photography) is a two-time Academy Award®

nominee for his work on “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “The Wings of the Dove.” In

addition, he earned BAFTA Award nominations for both films, winning the award for the

latter. For his cinematography on “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” he was also honored by a

number of critics groups, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and won

several international film awards.

Born in Portugal, Serra has worked extensively on both sides of the Atlantic,

including 40 films in France, which is his adopted home. He received a César Award

nomination for his work on “Le Mari de la coiffeuse,” one of five collaborations with

Patrice Leconte. He has also lensed seven films for director Claude Chabrol, most

recently including “Bellamy.”

His other film credits include “Defiance” and “Blood Diamond,” both for director

Edward Zwick; “Beyond the Sea,” directed by and starring Kevin Spacey; M. Night



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Shyamalan’s “Unbreakable”; Michael Winterbottom’s “Jude”; and the Vincent Ward-

directed features “What Dreams May Come” and “Map of the Human Heart,” to name

only a few.

Serra will next serve as the cinematographer on “Belle du Seigneur,” the film

adaptation of Albert Cohen’s best-selling novel.

STUART CRAIG (Production Designer), who has worked on all of the Harry

Potter films, is one of the industry’s most honored production designers. A three-time

Academy Award®

winner, he has also received five additional Oscar®

nominations,

including two for his work on “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and “Harry Potter

and the Goblet of Fire,” winning a BAFTA Award for the latter. Additionally, Craig has

garnered BAFTA Award nominations for each of the previous Harry Potter movies, most

recently including “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

He won his first Academy Award® for his work on Richard Attenborough’s

acclaimed biopic “Gandhi.” He subsequently won Oscars® for his production design

work on Stephen Frears’ “Dangerous Liaisons” and Anthony Minghella’s “The English

Patient,” also winning an Art Directors Guild Award for the latter. In addition, he has

been Oscar®-nominated for his production designs for David Lynch’s “The Elephant

Man,” for which he also won his first BAFTA Award; Roland Joffe’s “The Mission”; and

Attenborough’s “Chaplin.” Craig was also recognized with BAFTA Award nominations

for all of those films, as well as Hugh Hudson’s “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord

of the Apes.”

Craig had a long creative partnership with director Richard Attenborough, with

whom he first worked as an art director on “A Bridge Too Far.” Craig went on to serve

as the production designer on Attenborough’s “Cry Freedom,” “Shadowlands” and “In

Love and War,” in addition to the aforementioned “Gandhi” and “Chaplin.”

Craig’s other film credits as a production designer include Robert Redford’s “The

Legend of Bagger Vance,” Roger Michell’s “Notting Hill,” Jeremiah Chechik’s “The

Avengers,” Stephen Frears’ “Mary Reilly,” Agnieszka Holland’s “The Secret Garden,”

Michael Caton-Jones’ “Memphis Belle” and Pat O’Connor’s “Cal.” Earlier in his career,

Craig served as art director on Richard Donner’s “Superman.”



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MARK DAY (Editor) has previously collaborated with David Yates on a wide

range of film and television projects, including “Harry Potter and the Order of the

Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” He is currently in the process of

completing work on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.”

An award-winning editor, Day won a BAFTA Award and also earned a

nomination for a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for his collaboration with Yates

on the 2003 miniseries “State of Play.” The following year, Day won a BAFTA TV

Award and an RTS Award for Best Editor for his work on the Yates-directed telefilm

“Sex Traffic.” Day’s work with Yates has also brought him RTS and BAFTA Award

nominations for the miniseries “The Way We Live Now,” another RTS Award

nomination for the telefilm “The Young Visiters,” and an Emmy Award nomination for

the television movie “The Girl in the Cafè.” Day has also worked with Yates on the

miniseries “The Sins” and the short film “Rank.”

Day has also had multiple collaborations with other directors, including David

Blair on the feature “Mystics,” and the television projects “Anna Karenina,” “Split

Second” and “Donovan Quick”; Paul Greengrass on the feature “The Theory of Flight”

and the television movie “The Fix”; and John Schlesinger on the telefilms “The Tale of

Sweeney Todd,” “Cold Comfort Farm” and “A Question of Attribution.”

Day’s additional television credits include such longform projects as Julian

Farino’s “Flesh and Blood,” Paul Seed’s “Murder Rooms,” Richard Eyre’s “Suddenly

Last Summer,” and Jack Clayton’s “Memento Mori,” for which he was nominated for a

BAFTA TV Award.

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (Composer), a three-time Academy Award®

nominee, received his most recent Oscar® nod for his score for the 2009 animated feature

“Fantastic Mr. Fox,” for which he also earned a BAFTA Award nomination. He

previously garnered Oscar®, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his score

for David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” and Oscar® and BAFTA

Award nominations for Stephen Frears’ “The Queen.”



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In addition, Desplat won a Golden Globe Award for John Curran’s “The Painted

Veil,” and also received Golden Globe nominations for his scores for Stephen Gaghan’s

“Syriana” and Peter Webber’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” In his native France, Desplat

won a César Award for his score for “The Beat That My Heart Skipped,” which also

earned him a Silver Bear from the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. He has also received four

more César Award nominations, the latest coming for his work on the Oscar ®-nominated

2009 French film “A Prophet.”

Desplat’s music will soon be heard in the upcoming films “The King’s Speech,”

directed by Tom Hooper and starring Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth and Michael Gambon,

and “The Tree of Life,” directed by Terrence Malick and starring Brad Pitt and Sean

Penn. He next starts work on “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” the

conclusion of the Harry Potter franchise.

His other recent film work includes Stephen Frears’ “Tamara Drewe”; Roman

Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer”; the Chris Weitz-directed films “The Twilight Saga: New

Moon” and “The Golden Compass”; Nora Ephron’s “Julie & Julia”; “Coco Before

Chanel”; and Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution.”

JANY TEMIME (Costume Designer) has designed the costumes for “Harry

Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”; “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”; “Harry Potter

and the Order of the Phoenix,” for which she received a Costume Designers Guild Award

nomination; and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”

Temime’s recent credits also include Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges,” starring

Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson; Alfonso Cuarón’s “Children of Men,”

starring Clive Owen; Agnieszka Holland’s “Copying Beethoven,” starring Ed Harris; and

Beeban Kidron’s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” starring Renée Zellweger.

Temime earned a British Independent Film Award nomination for her costume

designs for “High Heels and Low Lifes,” starring Minnie Driver. She had earlier won a

BAFTA Cymru Award for her work on Marc Evans’ “House of America,” and the 1995

Utrecht Film Festival’s Golden Calf for Best Costume Design for Marleen Gorris’

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Her additional credits encompass more than 40 international motion picture and

television projects, including Werner Herzog’s “Invincible,” starring Tim Roth; Todd

Komarnicki’s “Resistance”; Marleen Gorris’ “The Luzhin Defense”; Paul McGuigan’s

“Gangster No. 1”; Edward Thomas’s “Rancid Aluminum”; Mike van Diem’s “The

Character,” the 1998 Oscar® winner for Best Foreign Language Film; Danny Deprez’s

“The Ball”; George Sluizer’s “The Commissioner” and “Crimetime”; Ate de Jong’s “All

Men Are Mortal”; and Frans Weisz’s “The Last Call.”

TIM BURKE (Visual Effects Supervisor) earned Academy Award®

and BAFTA

Award nominations for his work as a visual effects supervisor on “Harry Potter and the

Prisoner of Azkaban.” In addition, the film won the Visual Effects Society Award for

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture. Burke has since

received BAFTA Award nominations, for Best Special Visual Effects, on both “Harry

Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” He

joined the franchise as one of the visual effects supervisors on “Harry Potter and the

Chamber of Secrets” and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

Burke previously won an Academy Award® and received a BAFTA Award

nomination as a member of the visual effects team on Ridley Scott’s epic “Gladiator.”

He also collaborated with Scott as the visual effects supervisor on “Black Hawk Down”

and “Hannibal.”

In addition, Burke was the visual effects supervisor on “A Knight’s Tale” and was

the digital effects supervisor on “Enemy of the State.” His other credits include the films

“Babe: Pig in the City” and “Still Crazy,” and the television movies “Merlin” and “The

Mill on the Floss.”

Prior to segueing to the film industry, Burke worked for 10 years creating visual

effects for television and commercials.

NICK DUDMAN (Special Make-up Effects) and his team have created the

make-up effects and the magical animatronic creatures in all of the Harry Potter films to

date, garnering BAFTA Award nominations for the first four films in the series.



Dudman got his start working on the Jedi master Yoda as a trainee to famed

British make-up artist Stuart Freeborn, on “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes

Back.” After apprenticing with Freeborn for four years, he was asked to head up the

English make-up laboratory for Ridley Scott’s “Legend.” He subsequently worked on

the make-up and prosthetics for “Mona Lisa,” “Labyrinth,” “Willow,” “Indiana Jones and

the Last Crusade,” “Batman,” “Alien3” and “Interview with the Vampire,” among others.

In 1995, Dudman’s career path widened into animatronics and large-scale

creature effects when he was asked to oversee the 55-man creature department for the

Luc Besson film “The Fifth Element,” for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best

Special Visual Effects. Since then, he has lead the creatures/make-up effects departments

on several blockbusters, including “Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace,” “The

Mummy” and “The Mummy Returns,” and consulted on the prosthetics and costume

effects for “Batman Begins.”

Dudman recently worked on the animatronics for Peter Howitt’s “Dangerous

Parking” and Alfonso Cuarón’s “Children of Men.” In 2007, the Canadian Academy

awarded him a special achievement Genie for the make-up on “Beowulf & Grendel.”

Dudman’s company, Pigs Might Fly Ltd., creates and sells non-staining blood.

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