Broadway BUZZ

Daniel Radcliffe most recently completed a record-breaking run of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along at The Hudson Theatre, a role which garnered him a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Maria Friedman’s Tony Award-winning Best Revival also garnered Radcliffe his second Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album (the first being in 2011 for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying). The show starring Radcliffe as Charley Kringas, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez was first seen at the New York Theatre Workshop. Radcliffe is currently filming the NBC comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins opposite Tracey Morgan. Prior to this, in 2023, Radcliffe starred in Miracle Workers: End Times, the fourth and final season of TBS’s comedy series in which he continued his role as executive producer. In 2022 he starred in the titular role in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story opposite Evan Rachel Wood. His performance garnered Radcliffe Best Actor Emmy and BAFTA Award nominations, a further Hollywood Critics’ Association nomination and a Critics’ Choice Award. He also starred opposite Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in Paramount’s box office no. 1 hit The Lost City. In 2020, Radcliffe starred in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend alongside Ellie Kemper and Jon Hamm. He also returned to London’s West End starring opposite Alan Cumming in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame at The Old Vic theatre – a double bill with Radcliffe and Cumming also starring in Rough for Theatre II.  2019 saw the release of the true-life prison break feature Escape From Pretoria in which Radcliffe played the role of Tim Jenkin. Radcliffe also starred in the comedic action film Guns Akimbo opposite Samara Weaving, playing Miles, a mild-mannered video game developer.

Upon completion of the final installment in the series of eight Harry Potter films in 2011, Radcliffe starred in a 10-month sell-out run of the Broadway musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, followed by the horror/thriller feature The Woman in Black. He also starred opposite Jon Hamm in two seasons of “A Young Doctor’s Notebook,” a comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. Prior to this Radcliffe starred in the TV feature film My Boy Jack alongside Carey Mulligan, Kim Cattrall and David Haig. Other notable film credits include: The indie hit and the Daniels’ feature film directorial debut, Swiss Army Man; The survivalist film Jungle; Now You See Me 2 opposite Michael Caine; the thriller Imperium; and Kill Your Darlings. Radcliffe starred opposite James McAvoy in Victor Frankenstein; opposite Juno Temple in Horns, with Zoe Kazan and Adam Driver What If, and he made a cameo appearance in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck written by and starring Amy Schumer. Radcliffe first appeared on stage in 2007 playing opposite Richard Griffiths, in Peter Shaffer’s Equus. Directed by Thea Sharrock, the play then transferred from London’s West End to Broadway. Radcliffe also starred alongside Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale in the Broadway production of The Lifespan of a Fact. Other Broadway credits include Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan which also transferred from London’s West End, and Privacy, a timely play about the digital age. Prior to this he starred as Rosencrantz, opposite Josh McGuire’s Guildenstern, in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at The Old Vic Theatre, London. Radcliffe has lent his voice to The Simpsons multiple times including the Treehouse of Horror XXI special Tweenlight.  Other voice credits include Mulligan, Rick and Morty and Andy Samberg’s Digman. He is also executive producer on HBO’s Emmy and BAFTA Award nominated feature documentary David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived.