Hogwarts Alumni

Cho Chang is trading the Room of Requirement for a London stage. Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films from Goblet of Fire onward, has joined the cast of Expecting, a new play getting its world premiere at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, west London. Producers ABS Productions announced the full cast…

When you have been both a Weasley and a First Order general, a couple of franchises are off the table. Domhnall Gleeson — Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 — has explained why his new film, The Incomer, steers well clear of Hogwarts. In one scene his character…

Severus Snape spent eight films making it clear he’d rather be anywhere than surrounded by children. Alan Rickman, it turns out, spent those same eight films doing the exact opposite. Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday during a retrospective presentation on his career, Gary Oldman — Sirius Black across four Harry Potter…

He Who Must Not Be Named has hung up the robes for good. Ralph Fiennes used a fan convention panel in Paris last weekend to give his firmest answer yet on whether he’d ever play Lord Voldemort again. Asked about returning to the role, whether in HBO’s series or on stage, Fiennes described the Harry…

Dusting off the old robes, indeed. Rupert Grint is returning to Ron Weasley — this time on a Broadway stage. Grint will play the grown-up Ron in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at New York’s Lyric Theatre for a strictly limited 17-week run, beginning Tuesday, February 2, 2027 and continuing through Sunday, May 30,…

The Hogwarts professors did, in fact, have a life after curfew — and Kenneth Branagh was there for one of the good ones. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Branagh — Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — described a night at a hotel outside Cheltenham during the production’s shoot…

Every wizard remembers who taught them the Levitation Charm — and on Thursday night, Draco Malfoy’s Charms professor was sitting in a Broadway audience watching him cast it. Tom Felton shared a set of photos from the Lyric Theatre after Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, where his surprise guest was Warwick Davis, who played…

A piece of Wizarding World history has passed. Michael Byrne, the actor who played the elderly, imprisoned Gellert Grindelwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, has died at age 82. Byrne appeared in the 2010 film during one of its most chilling scenes: Voldemort visiting the aging dark wizard in his…

Sybill Trelawney could read the future in tea leaves and crystal balls — but Emma Thompson says her own time in the wizarding world was far shorter than most fans might guess. Speaking on the Smartless podcast with hosts Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, the Oscar-winning actress reflected on playing Hogwarts’ eccentric Divination…