Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint is an English actor.
38 Facts About Rupert Grint
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Rupert Grint starred in the dramedy Driving Lessons and the drama Cherrybomb and co-starred in the comedy Wild Target.
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Rupert Grint made his stage debut in 2013 in Mojo at the Harold Pinter Theatre.
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Rupert Grint executive-produced and starred in the television series Snatch, based on the film of the same name.
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Rupert Grint has starred in the black comedy series Sick Note, the mystery thriller miniseries The ABC Murders, and the psychological horror series Servant.
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Rupert Grint has said that his earliest goal in life was to become an ice cream man.
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Rupert Grint grew up in Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, and was educated at Richard Hale School, in Hertford.
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Rupert Grint began performing in school productions and joined the Top Hat Stage and Screen School, a local theatre group that cast him as a fish in Noah's Ark and a donkey in a nativity play.
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Rupert Grint continued participating in school plays as he moved into secondary school.
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Rupert Grint left school at sixteen to focus on his acting career, saying he "didn't really like school that much".
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On 8 August 2000, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and an 11-year-old Rupert Grint were selected to play Harry, Hermione Granger, and Ron.
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Rupert Grint won a Satellite Award in the category of Outstanding New Talent, and a Young Artist Award for Most Promising Young Newcomer.
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Rupert Grint said the laid-back director was "really good" and helped keep the material fresh.
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Rupert Grint observed a change in Ron in this entry, pointing out that his once insecure, often overshadowed character started to become more secure and even began to show a dark side.
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Rupert Grint found it fun to personify a more emotional Ron.
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However, by March 2007, Rupert Grint agreed to return for the last installments.
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Rupert Grint's performance brought him nominations from the MTV Movie Awards and National Movie Awards for Best Fight and Performance of the Year in 2011.
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Rupert Grint said that there were seven Harry Potter film series cast members whom she called "The Big Seven"; Grint was one of them, with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch and Bonnie Wright.
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In 2002, Rupert Grint starred in his first non-Harry Potter film, Thunderpants, which revolves around Patrick whose remarkable capacity for flatulence scores him a job as an astronaut.
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Rupert Grint found shooting this film very different from the Harry Potter films, as he had to adjust to doing a dozen scenes per day.
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In January 2011, Rupert Grint made a cameo appearance on the BBC popular comedy show Come Fly with Me, starring comedy duo Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
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Rupert Grint appears in the music video for Ed Sheeran's song "Lego House", released on 20 October 2011.
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Later that month, Variety reported that Rupert Grint had been cast alongside Chloe Grace Moretz in The Drummer, a biopic film about drummer Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.
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On 25 July 2012, Rupert Grint carried the 2012 London Olympic torch during the Olympic Torch Relay, part of the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
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In July 2013, it was confirmed that Rupert Grint would make his stage debut in the second run of Jez Butterworth's black comedy Mojo, with Rupert Grint playing Sweets, a hood who "pops amphetamines like Smarties" and "does a sort of double act, full of comic menace".
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Rupert Grint won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best London Newcomer for his role.
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In June 2014, it was announced that Rupert Grint would make his Broadway debut as Frank Finger in the play It's Only a Play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, appearing with Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, and Megan Mullally.
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Since 2019, Rupert Grint has starred as Julian Pearce in the Apple TV+ psychological horror series Servant.
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Rupert Grint reunited with multiple cast members of the Harry Potter film series for an HBO Max special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, which premiered on 1 January 2022.
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Rupert Grint has been in a relationship with actress Georgia Groome since 2011.
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Rupert Grint took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay, carrying the flame through Hendon in northwest London to outside Middlesex University.
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Rupert Grint joined Instagram in November 2020, posting a photo of himself holding his newborn daughter.
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Rupert Grint reached one million followers within four hours and one minute of creating his account, breaking the previous Guinness World Records title for the fastest time to reach one million followers on the platform.
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Rupert Grint is a keen football fan and an avid supporter of Tottenham Hotspur.
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Rupert Grint has supported various charitable organisations, including donating personal items to charity auctions.
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Rupert Grint participated in the Wacky Rally in 2010 with James and Oliver Phelps, which raised money for Britain's Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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Rupert Grint was one of more than 40 people to produce designs for the Chrysalis Collection for Keech Hospice Care in Luton.
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Rupert Grint's ads were seen on posters and the sides of thousands of buses across the United Kingdom.