Full Name Daniel Radcliffe
Birthday July 23, 1989
Nationality（国籍） English
Nickname（绰号） Danny
First Major Role David in the BBC-TV adaptation（改编剧）of “David Copperfield”(1999 ，“大卫·科波菲尔”)
Also Starring The movie “The Tailor of Panama” (2000 ，“巴拿马裁缝”), a spy thriller（谍幻片） that was shown in the spring of 2001.
Daniel Radcliffe, at twelve, is about to be a global superstar7. For him, it seems still unbelievable that he was picked as an actor to play Harry Potter more than a year ago. He remembers the night he was told he won the part of Harry: It was a Friday and he was in the bath. “My dad came in and said, 'Dan, guess who they have chosen to play Harry Potter'. I said the name of another actor, because I totally did not think in a million years that they would pick me. 'Someone else?' he said. When he said that, I suppose I did have a tiny bit of hope that I might have got it, but I didn't want to count my chickens8. And then he said, 'Dan9, it's you.' I actually cried with joy. It was the biggest shock of my life. ”
Playing Harry Potter is obviously a huge, lucrative10, golden opportunity for Daniel. He has made one film, is waiting to make the second film, The Chamber of Secrets, and is being considered for the next five films. This means he could be playing Harry Potter until he's almost twenty. He will earn a large amount of money from the films. Exactly how much is a secret that he and his parents will keep to themselves, but it could be about one million pounds for each movie. That's a lot of money for a 12-year-old. “I think I'll save it,” says Daniel matter-of-factly11. “I don't know how much I'm getting, and I don't want to know because I don't think that's important. It's not about the money, it's about having fun and meeting people.” This is perhaps why Daniel has done so well in the acting. Robbie Coltrane, who worked alongside the boy playing Hagrid the giant, says of him, “Daniel's a very good actor. And I think that's the key to it, because if he decides to pursue12 it he will do very well. He has a grown-up attitude in a way, and a throw-away attitude13 at the same time. In fact, it's exactly the same kind of attitude that gets us all through it.”
For Daniel, acting is exciting and fun and could easily lead to a career as an adult actor. But his parents have a lot to worry. Before agreeing to let him audition and take the role of Harry Potter, they thought it over painfully for a long time. They worry about his normal school life and what his teachers' actions would be to his acting. As they are also in the show business—his mother Marcia Gresham is a casting director they have the inside knowledge of the way the “business” works, they know what it means for a 12-year-old boy to be an actor. They want to protect their son from possible dangers. His father, who worked for one of the biggest and most powerful agencies on both sides of the Atlantic14, has now given up his job as an agent to represent Daniel fulltime. And when he's on the set, either his mum or dad was there all the time.
While quickly becoming a star, Daniel comes to see more of the world. He says, “It's really funny, but there were a couple of people at school and they had never talked to me before, but as soon as I got the part they started e-mailing me and pretending we were best friends. But my close friends have been totally cool about it. At least I hope they have. And anyway, mum and dad keep me leading a normal life. I have some close friends, and they are the same as before I did this. They want to know about it, of course they do, and some of them have come on set to have a look and see it. But nothing's changed.”
Star as he is, he's not all like those Hollywood stars who talk a lot about themselves and expect people to give them all the importance of stardom15. Daniel is exceedingly16 polite, bright and lovely. He'll tell you that he loves the Simpsons, Ali G and WWF wrestling, supports his local team, Fulham, and likes gym and science best at school and e-mailing his best friends. As one reporter puts it, “When you meet Daniel himself, it's impossible not to like him.”
12岁的丹尼尔·雷德克利弗即将成为全球超级明星了。一年多以前他被选中扮演哈利·波特，这件事他现在看来仍觉得难以置信。他回忆起那天晚上他被告知赢得这个角色的情景：那是星期五，他正在洗澡。“我爸爸进来说，‘丹，猜猜他们挑了谁演哈利·波特？’我说了另外一个演员的名字，因为我做梦也没想到他们会选我。‘再猜，’爸爸说。他说这话时，我想我可能有一点点希望了，不过没把握的话我不想说。这时爸爸说了，‘丹，是你……’我高兴得哭了起来，真的。那是我一生中最大的意外之喜。”
对丹尼尔来说，扮演哈利·波特是一个大好的、有利可图的黄金机会。他已经拍了一部影片，正等着拍第二部《秘室》，还有五部片子也考虑让他拍。这意味着他可以扮演哈利·波特一直到20岁为止。拍这些影片他将赚到很多钱，到底有多少钱是他和父母严格保守的一个秘密，但每部片子的片酬大约是一百万英镑。对一个12岁的孩子来说，这是很多钱了。“我要把钱存起来，”丹尼尔语气平淡地说。“我不知道我赚了多少钱，我也不想知道，因为我觉得这个并不重要。重要的不是赚钱，是玩得开心，是结交人。”这或许是丹尼尔表演得很出色的原因。跟丹尼尔搭档，扮演巨人海格的罗比·科尔淳斯这样评价丹尼尔，“丹尼尔是个出色的演员。这是关键，因为如果他有志追求演艺，他就会干得很好。可以说，他有成年人的态度，而同时又不是太在乎。事实上，正是这种态度让我们大家挺了过来。”
在丹尼尔看来演电影既刺激又有趣，很可以就此走上职业演艺生涯。不过他的父母有颇多担心。在让他试演并出演哈利·波特这个角色之前，他们痛苦地考虑了很长时间。他们为他正常的学习生活和老师对他演戏的反应而担心。由于他们也是演艺界出身——他的妈妈玛霞·格雷沙姆是一个负责分配角色的导演——他们对演艺界运作的内幕十分了解，知道对于一个12岁的孩子来说当演员意味着什么。他们要保护他，使他免遭可能的危险。他的父亲曾在一家经纪公司工作——那家公司在大西洋两岸都是最大、最有实力的公司之一。现在他辞职专门给丹尼尔当经纪人。丹尼尔在摄影棚里时，要么妈妈，要么爸爸一直全场陪同。
在他迅速成为明星之时，丹尼尔也对世界有了更多的了解。他说，“真是好笑，有些人以前在学校里跟我话都没说过，可一旦我得到那个角色，他们就给我发电子邮件，装成是我最好的朋友。而我真正的好朋友对这事儿倒看得很淡。至少我希望他们这样。而且不管怎样，爸妈一直都让我过着正常的生活。我有些很亲密的朋友，他们对我还像从前一样。他们当然也想了解拍戏是怎么回事，有的人就到摄影场来看。不过，我们之间一切都照旧。”
虽是明星，他可不像好莱坞的明星那样自吹自擂，指望人们把他们当明星捧着。丹尼尔非常有礼貌，聪明可爱。他会跟你说他喜欢辛普森、阿里·G和世界摔跤联合会的摔跤比赛，支持本地的Fulham球队，在学校最喜欢体育和自然科学，喜欢给朋友们发电子邮件。正如一位记者所说，“当你见到丹尼尔本人时，不喜欢他是不可能的。”
1. sorcerer n．魔术师
2． wizardry n．巫术
3． witchcraft n．魔法,魔力
4． occasion n．场合,时机
5． orphan v．使成孤儿
6． fame [feim] v．(常用被动语态)使闻名
7． superstar n．超级明星
8． to count my chickens 由习语count one＇s chickens before they are hatched 缩减而来，意为“高兴过早”
9． Dan乃Daniel的昵称，标题中的Danny是另一种昵称形式
10．lucrative adj．有利的
11．matter－of－factly 就事论事地，不带感情色彩地
12．pursue v．追求，从事
13．a throw－away attitude： throw－away后接物质名词，通常表示“一次性的”， 例如throw－away cups (一次性的杯子)。对于一次性的用品人们自然不会抱着依依不舍的态度。文中说话者所谓a throw－away attitude就是指一种拿得起、放得下的态度。
14．on both sides of the Atlantic：指欧洲和美洲
15．give them all the importance of stardom：give sb． all the importance of．．．意为“把某某当作……来重视／尊崇”；stardom [?謖st?藁?蘼d?藜m]意为“演员的身份，演员们”
16．exceedingly adv．非常地,极度地