Creator / Harry Melling

Harry Edward Melling (born 17 March 1989 in London) is an English actor.

He's best known for playing Harry Potter's obnoxious and heavyset cousin Dudley Dursley on film. After the conclusion of that franchise, he did stage for some time before reemerging in the late 2010s as a character actor in various genre films and shows, including a threefer of major supporting roles for Netflix in 2020: The Queen's Gambit, The Old Guard, and The Devil All the Time.

Melling's maternal grandfather is the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he's a cousin of Sam Troughton.

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Filmography:

• Harry Potter: Dudley Dursley
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2003)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2011)
• Just William (2010): Robert Brown
• Garrow's Law (2011): George Pinnock
• The Lost City of Z (2016): William Barclay
• The Current War (2017): Benjamin Vale
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018): Harrison
• The War of the Worlds (2019): Artilleryman
• The Old Guard (2020): Steven Merrick
• The Devil All the Time (2020): Roy Laferty
• The Queen's Gambit (2020): Harry Beltik
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021): Malcolm
• The Pale Blue Eye (2022): Edgar Allan Poe

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