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->''"After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before."''

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born August 24, 1988 in Harlow, England) is a British actor, best known for playing Ron Weasley] in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films. Of the three principles, he's the most similar to his character in RealLife, including the easy-going personality, the large family, and even the fear of ginormous spiders. Grint got an audition for the part of Ron by sending in a tape of himself performing a rap while dressed as his female drama teacher. Much to the disappointment of his fans (though presumably to Grint's relief), this tape has failed to turn up on the Internet.

Within the world of ''Harry Potter'', Ron is OvershadowedByAwesome and is often thought of simply as his best friend Harry Potter's sidekick. As it happens, Grint is in a similar situation in RealLife as the media tends to ignore him in favor of Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Creator/EmmaWatson. However, while Ron sometimes gets touchy or jealous about his sidekick status, Grint seems to lack his character's inferiority complex. On the plus side, the situation gives him the ability to slip under the radar. After all, Radcliffe caused a stir by appearing naked in ''Theatre/{{Equus}}'', while Grint made the very mature independent film ''Film/Cherrybomb2009'' to less fanfare.

His post-Potter career, like his two Potter co-stars, has found him trying several more diverse roles to avoid typecasting. He starred in Norwegian anti-war film ''Film/IntoTheWhite'', played Jonny, the loser manager of a hippie rock band in ''Film/{{Moonwalkers}}'', and appeared as Inspector Crome opposite Creator/JohnMalkovich as Literature/HerculePoirot in ''Series/TheABCMurders''. He currently stars as Julian Pearce in the horror series ''Series/{{Servant}}'' and can next be seen in the anthology series ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities'' and in the film ''Film/KnockAtTheCabin''.
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!!Selected Filmography:
* ''Film/HarryPotter'' series (2001–2011) as Ron Weasley:
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' (2001)
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' (2002)
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' (2004)
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' (2005)
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' (2007)
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' (2009)
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows -- Part One'' (2010)
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows -- Part Two'' (2011)
* ''Film/{{Thunderpants}}'' (2002) as Alan A. Allen
* ''Film/DrivingLessons'' (2006) as Ben Marshall
* ''[[Film/Cherrybomb2009 Cherrybomb]]'' (2009) as Malachy [=McKinney=]
* ''Film/WildTarget'' (2010) as Tony
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' (2012) as Liam (voice) (1 episode)
* ''Film/IntoTheWhite'' (2012) as Gunner Robert Smith
* ''Film/{{CBGB}}'' (2013) as Cheetah Chrome
* ''[[WesternAnimation/PostmanPat Postman Pat: The Movie]]'' (2014) as Josh (voice)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdogs}}'' (2014) as Amadeo (voice, UK dub)
* ''Film/{{Moonwalkers}}'' (2015) as Jonny Thorpe
* ''Series/TheABCMurders'' (2018) as Inspector Crome (main role)
* ''Series/{{Servant}}'' (2019-23) as Julian Pearce (main role)
* ''Series/GuillermoDelTorosCabinetOfCuriosities'' (2022) as Walter Gilman (1 episode)
* ''Film/KnockAtTheCabin'' (2023) as Redmond
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!!Tropes associated with Rupert Grint's roles:
%%* CoveredInGunge: He and Creator/EmmaWatson had this happen to them live on American TV.
* IAmNotSpock: Along with almost everyone else to act in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It might not be so bad for him, considering he and Ron are basically the same person by most accounts.
* PlayingAgainstType:
%%** His role in ''Film/Cherrybomb2009''.
** Also from his early film career, playing the nerdy, MadScientist best friend in ''{{Film/Thunderpants}}''.
** A non-film example - playing a creepy, obsessed stalker in the music video for Music/EdSheeran's song "Lego House". It really says something about how good an actor he is when he can play a role like that and still sell it with no dialogue to work with.
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