Bonnie Francesca Wright was born on 17 February 1991 and is an English actress, filmmaker, and environmental activist.
36 Facts About Bonnie Wright
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Bonnie Wright is best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.
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Bonnie Wright made her stage debut as the lead in Peter Ustinov's The Moment of Truth at the Southwark Playhouse in 2013.
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Bonnie Wright has directed music videos for artists Sophie Lowe, Pete Yorn, and Scarlett Johansson.
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Bonnie Wright has gained recognition for her environmental activism; she is an ambassador for the charities Greenpeace and Lumos.
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Bonnie Wright attended Prior Weston Primary School and later the King Alfred School in North London for her secondary education.
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Bonnie Wright has stated that growing up on set contributed to her film knowledge and interest.
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Bonnie Wright did not have any prior professional experience aside from school plays, and asked her mother if she could audition "on a whim".
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Bonnie Wright gained a screen test for David Heyman after her pictures were sent to the film's casting directors, and her parents were told she got the role shortly after.
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Bonnie Wright made her film debut at the age of nine upon the 2001 release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, appearing in a cameo role in a scene at London King's Cross railway station, where her character and mother meet Harry Potter during the boarding of the Hogwarts express.
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Bonnie Wright reprised her role the following year in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in which her character begins studies at Hogwarts and encounters a secret diary that begins to control her actions.
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In 2002 and 2004, Bonnie Wright co-starred in two television films: Stranded, a period piece, and Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, where she played the younger version of the titular writer.
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Bonnie Wright had supporting roles in the successive releases of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, released in 2004 and 2005 to commercial success and increasing worldwide recognition.
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In 2007, Bonnie Wright guest starred on the Disney Channel's The Replacements, where she voiced Vanessa in the second-season premiere titled "London Calling".
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Bonnie Wright's character continued to develop, becoming chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team as well as Harry Potter's love interest.
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Bonnie Wright was nominated for an Empire Award for her performance in the final film.
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Bonnie Wright is one of the thirteen actors who have appeared in all eight films of the Harry Potter franchise, being part of the cast members Rowling referred to as "The Big Seven".
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That same year, Bonnie Wright made her directorial and screenwriting debut in Separate We Come, Separate We Go, a coming-of-age short film starring Harry Potter co-star David Thewlis.
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Bonnie Wright then appeared in The Sea, an adaptation of the John Banville novel, portraying Rose, a "fragile, distracted young nanny".
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The Sea received mixed reviews; one critic wrote that Bonnie Wright was an "underused but ultimately ineffective screen presence".
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Bonnie Wright starred alongside Rhys Wakefield, James D'Arcy and her Harry Potter co-star Freddie Stroma in the science fiction film After the Dark, directed by John Huddles and filmed in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Bonnie Wright voiced a character in the animated film My Dad Is Scrooge.
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In May 2014, Bonnie Wright wrote and directed short film Know Thyself, starring her Harry Potter co-star Christian Coulson.
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Bonnie Wright's next directorial project was a three-episode series entitled Phone Calls, showing phone conversations with three pairs of people who never physically interact on-screen.
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Bonnie Wright stated that in her direction, she tried to capture "the intimate experience" of going to a salon and experiencing sudden, personal change.
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Bonnie Wright directed Lowe again in her music video for "Taught You How To Feel", released in November 2018.
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Bonnie Wright directed the music video for Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson's single, "Iguana Bird", an "expressive personification of heartbreak recovery", released in October 2018.
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In March 2020, Bonnie Wright narrated an audiobook adaption of Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump from The Tales of Beedle the Bard, an in-universe book of Wizarding World children's stories written by Rowling.
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Bonnie Wright has previously held public discussions on how people can reduce single-use plastic usage and advocates for causes on her Instagram page.
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Bonnie Wright documented the trip through both the organization's and her personal social media pages.
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Bonnie Wright is an ambassador for Lumos, a children's organization founded by Rowling in 2005.
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In 2011, Bonnie Wright appeared in a fashion spread for The Financial Times' luxury lifestyle magazine How to Spend It.
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Bonnie Wright has lived in the Clerkenwell area of London, Los Angeles, and moved to San Diego in 2022.
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Bonnie Wright was previously engaged to Harry Potter co-star Jamie Campbell Bower from April 2011 to June 2012.
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On 20 March 2022, Bonnie Wright confirmed on her Instagram account that she had married her longtime boyfriend, Andrew Lococo.
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On 28 April 2023, Bonnie Wright revealed they were expecting their first child.