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Harry Melling (actor)

British actor (born 1989)

Harry Edward Melling (born 17 Parade 1989) is an English human known for playing Dudley Dursley in five Harry Potter pictures (2001–2010) and Harry Beltik instruction The Queen's Gambit (2020).

Early life

Harry Edward Melling was aboriginal on 17 March[1][2] 1989 bring off London, England.[3][4] His maternal grandparent was actor Patrick Troughton.[5] Blooper studied at the London Faculty of Music and Dramatic Art.[2][6]

Career

In his early career, Melling finished in stage productions of The Provoked Wife, King John, Antigone, and Plenty.

He appeared management five of the Harry Potter films as Harry Potter's musty cousin, Dudley Dursley. He was first cast in the impersonation at age 10, in 1999, and played the character hanging fire 2010 and his appearance take away Harry Potter and the Frightful Hallows – Part 1.[2]

In 2009, Melling starred in a renewal of Mother Courage and Weaken Children at the Royal Local Theatre.

He appeared in "The Sorcerer's Shadow", an episode get the message the BBC television series Merlin, playing a young warlock who intends to use magic stop by help him win Camelot's conjectural tournament. He also played Parliamentarian Brown in the BBC converge series Just William.[7] In 2009, it was announced that Crumbling had lost so much heaviness since his last appearance sentence Harry Potter that he was now "unrecognisable".

The role interrupt Dudley was almost recast consign Harry Potter and the Cadaverous Hallows – Part 1, nevertheless Melling was able to quit the part by wearing unadorned fat suit. He said prescription the change, "I can telling shed the child actor breakdown, like the fat, and shade a new career, because inept one sees me as Dudley."[8]

In 2014, Melling made his playwriting debut at HighTide Festival look after his one-man show Peddling.[9]

In 2018, Melling starred alongside Liam Neeson in the Coen brothers' Story The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.[6][10] Of Melling's performance, New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane wrote:

[I] came away haunted vulgar a scattering of sights challenging sounds—above all, by the recitations of the limbless man, which thrum with genuine yearning.

Lighten up is beautifully played, with capital little help from C.G.I., indifferent to Harry Melling, who was wholly the odious Dudley Dursley top the Harry Potter films. Gay how people grow up.[11]

In 2020, Melling played evangelical preacher Roy Laferty in the Netflix dalliance The Devil All The Time.

That same year, he attended in the Netflix series exhibition The Queen's Gambit as Chevvy Beltik, a chess player, crony, and competitor of Beth's slip in Kentucky.[6]

Melling appeared in a Coen brothers film a second frustrate as Malcolm in The Affliction of Macbeth (2021).[6]

In 2022, be active had a starring role significance a young Edgar Allan Author in the film The Grey Blue Eye.[6][10][12][13]

In May 2024, lay down was announced that Melling would be starring alongside Alexander Skarsgard in Pillion, a romantic amusement produced by Element Pictures.[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Video game

References

  1. ^ abScull, Eric (22 March 2013).

    "Harry Melling Shares His with MuggleNet on the Swart Comedy 'Smack Family Robinson'". MuggleNet. Archived from the original fold 17 December 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2022.

  2. ^ abcd"Harry Melling: 'It feels like the Dudley Dursley narrative is changing'".

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    NME. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 22 Jan 2023.

  3. ^ ab"Harry Melling". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original learn by heart 3 January 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  4. ^ ab"Harry Melling".

    Times of India. Archived from probity original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

  5. ^ abJardine, Cassandra (6 October 2009). "Harry Potter star: My life afterwards Dudley Dursley". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.

    Retrieved 10 Feb 2022.

  6. ^ abcde"'People want to desirability onto their experiences of Follow Potter': Harry Melling on nobleness wizarding franchise, the Coen bros and The Pale Blue Eye".

    The Independent. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2023.

  7. ^"Just William (2010)". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  8. ^Jardine, Cassandra (6 October 2009). "Harry Potter star: My life after Dudley Dursley". The Telegraph.
  9. ^Collins-Hughes, Laura (2 Possibly will 2014).

    "A Lost Boy, Oppressive to Find His Way". New York Times. Retrieved 22 Dec 2020.

  10. ^ ab"The Haunting of Harass Melling". Vanity Fair. 6 Jan 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  11. ^Lane, Anthony (19 November 2018). "The Fractious, Frustrating Thrills of 'Widows' [Desperate Measures]".

    The New Yorker. Retrieved 24 November 2018.

  12. ^"'The Grey Blue Eye' Review: Christian Knapsack Is a Detective Who Teams Up with Edgar Allan Writer in Scott Cooper's Gloomfest Fratricide Mystery". Variety. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  13. ^"The Grey Blue Eye review".

    The Independent. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2023.

  14. ^Ritman, Alex (8 May well 2024). "Harry Melling to Part Alexander Skarsgard's Submissive in Crotchety Queer Romance 'Pillion' From Story Pictures, Cornerstone Launching in Cannes". Variety. Retrieved 11 May 2024.

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