Looking Back
Hot Gallery: Daniel Radcliffe’s Career from “The Boy Who Lived” to Shirtless Heartthrob
Over the past 10 years, we have watched Daniel Radcliffe transform from the precocious preteen boy wizard to the star of one of the biggest movie franchises in history. As the last installment in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, flies into theaters, we look back at some of Radcliffe’s career highlights. By Nina Hämmerling Smith
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David Copperfield (1999)
Radcliffe’s debut found him playing a shaggy-haired boy trying to find his way after the death of his parents, in a movie also starring Maggie Smith…sound familiar? (Smith, who plays Professor McGonagall in the Potter films, was David’s eccentric Aunt Betsey in Copperfield.) No wonder director Chris Columbus, who was deeply involved in casting, said, "This is who I want! This is Harry Potter" upon seeing the David Copperfield video box.