Biography
Harry Edward Melling is a popular British actor, famous thanks to the character Dudley Dursle in a series of films about Harry Potter. This image is so "baked" to the artist, that he decided to do everything possible to get rid of him. Harry lost much and eventually began to receive invitations from directors to completely different roles.Childhood and youth
Melling was born on March 13, 1989 in London in the family of artists. His grandfather - actor Patrick Trauton, whose most famous role was the second doctor in the cult series "Doctor Who". Other family members, in addition to the grandfather, are also associated with the world's world: his two uncle and cousin are actors.
Little Harry has always experienced a passion for the scene - already at 4 years old put the houses of mini performances for parents and brother Jack. He was moving, adored sing and dance.
In 15 years, Melling used a fee for shooting in films about the Wizard Potter to pay for study in the prestigious boarding school "Mill Hill". Educational institution, where Harry was transferred from the Hendon school, graduated from Denis Thatcher, whose wife was Margaret Thatcher, 71st Prime Minister of Britain.
Personal life
In October 2009, the network began to spread the news that Melling so thinned since the last appearance in Harry Potter, which became unrecognizable.To the filming of the last episodes, the actor managed to lose 30 kg, and now its weight is 73 kg with growth 175 cm. On questions about how he managed to lose weight, Melling replies:
"I was fat and considered this condition a disease, because I was constantly boredom, but I got bored quickly. In the National Youth Theater, I, 15-year-old, was constantly played to play old clumsy fatters. Once I thought that if I wish to build a normal career, I would have to lose weight. "It is known that some time the actor met Catherine friend, a couple lived in an apartment in West London, which Melling bought for the money earned on the set "Harry Potter". Now he is married to Lauren Melling, which does the actor's wife does not specify. He does not like to devote to the press in a personal life, and therefore Harry fans can only guess how happily it has developed.
Melling cannot be called an active user of social networks. Rare posts in their accounts Actor devotes events in the world of the theater. But his infrequent appearance on the red tracks (in particular, at the premiere of "the lost city of Z" in mid-February 2017) cause an excitement. Photos, he publishes mainly in Twitter, Harry's "Instagram" pages.
Films
The acting road Harry began with the role of Dudley Dursly, a cousin Harry Potter, which was played by Daniel Radcliffe. The role of a selfish and self-excited schoolboy, brought up in an atmosphere of permissiveness, 10-year-old melling received after his mother sent a photo of a teenager of the project casting director. It is thanks to this role that the actor earned worldwide recognition and glory.
Harry starred in five of the eight films about the young wizard: "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (2001), "Harry Potter and a Secret Room" (2002), "Harry Potter and Prisoner Azkaban" (2004), "Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix "(2007) and" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Part I "(2010).
Between the shooting in movies based on novels Joan K. Rowling, the actor managed to participate in other no less interesting film projects. In 2005, 16-year-old Melling starred in the Drama "Friends and Crocodiles" (director - Stephen Polyakoff).
In 2010, the actor received the role of Kordun Gili in the popular British TV show "Merlin" (Episode "Shadow Correction"). And then showed himself as George Pinnok in the TV series "Garrow Law", which was based on real events from the life of British lawyer William Garro.
After that, the actor starred in four short films remaining unknown to the public, and appeared in the episode of the "Musketeers" series.
And in 2016, the creative biography of Melling was replenished with a role in the full-length adventure film "The Lost City Z" about the researcher, which went in the 1920s in search of the mysterious capital of the Inca in the Amazonian Debries.
In the summer of 2018, the premiere of the Moviel'naman of the Joela brothers and Itan Koenov "Bastera Skrangs Bastera" was held. The picture consists of six not connected by the story of the novel, continuing the theme of the Wild West. Melling starred in the 3rd part of the "Entrance to the food", where he performed the role of Artist Harrison, the second major role was given to Liam Nison, who was playing impresario.
This is a gloomy story about a pair of wandering artists who go on the cart and, arriving in the next city, turn it into a small scene. From her, Harrison declares the classics than partners and earn money.
A year later, Harry called to act in the mini-series "War of the Worlds", consisting of three issues. The main characters are George and Amy, they have love relationships. Young people plan to start a joint life. But suddenly everyone covers the horror caused by the invasion of alien creatures. The main roles were performed by Eleonor Tomlinson and Rif Spoll, Melling played an artilleryist.
In the same year, Harry was invited to the American-British series in the genre of fantasy "Dark beginnings", however, Melling got there only as an invited actor, playing Sisselman.
Theater
In adolescence, Melling studied in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art leading in the UK. Then he joined the troupe of the National Youth Theater - this is the world's first youth theater, founded in 1956, gripped Daniel Craig, Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley and Kate Winslet.Despite the extensive filmography, the main vocation Melling still considers the theater. From the film studio, the artist preferred to move to the theatrical scene of the West-End in London (the analogy of New York Broadway), and in 2014 he made his debut on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the role of a fir stage in the "King Lear" together with Lauren O'Neill, Isabella Loland and Max Bennet.
In April 2014, in the framework of the Theater Festival Hightide Festival Melling introduced the first one's own play called Peddling, supplied by the director Stephen Atkinson. She also had success in the extra-competitive scene in New York. The actor shared:
"I fell in love with the theater in childhood, watching Uncle David on the scene of the Royal Shakespearean Theater. But then I was still too young to create something my own. "Today the actor works in the National Youth Theater - speaks and writes plays.
Harry Melling now
2020 was outstanding for the actor even more productive than last one. In the summer, the film directed by Gina Prince-Baitvood "Immortal Guard" directed to the screens, where he appeared in the image of Stephen Merrick, the villain-pharmacist. Head with the warrior Amy (Charlize Teron), a group of immortal mercenaries with centuries protects the world of people. Once at a special mission, their unusual abilities are randomly revealed. Now the group will have to be saved from a large pharmaceutical company, which is deadly for them.
The next major role got Melling in the drama "Waiting for Varvarov", where he starred with Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Greta Skakki, David Densikom, Sam Reed.
In the center of the plot - the Empire, which reaches rumors about the preparing uprising of local tribes. On the southern outskirts there is a border town of the fortress, where Colonel Joll arrives. His meetings with prisoners end in ruthless torture and murder. Such actions cause indignation by the magistrate of the city, encouraging his rebel against the empire. The last drop is the death of a girl who loved the magistrate.
And in mid-September, the premiere of the psychological thriller "The Devil is always here" took place. Events unfold in Ohio state at the interval between the end of World War II and the beginning of Vietnamese. The plot of the paintings is developing around different groups of people suffering from crime, hunger and post-war injuries.
Melling got the role of Roy Laferti. Rev. Preston Tugardin performed Robert Pattinson. That Hollanda got the image of Arvina Russell, and Riley Kio played Sandy Henderson.
Filmography
- 2001 - "Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone"
- 2002 - "Harry Potter and a Secret Room"
- 2004 - "Harry Potter and a prisoner of Azkaban"
- 2005 - "Friends and Crocodiles"
- 2007 - "Harry Potter and Order of Phoenix"
- 2008-2012 - "Merlin"
- 2009-2011 - "Garrow Law"
- 2010 - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I"
- 2010 - "Just William"
- 2014-2016 - "Musketeers"
- 2016 - "The Lost City Z"
- 2018 - "Basher Skranggs Ballad"
- 2018 - "Goalkeeper"
- 2019 - "Waiting for Varvarov"
- 2019 - "War of the Worlds"
- 2019-2020 - "Dark Beginning"
- 2020 - "Immortal Guard"
- 2020 - "The Devil is always here"
- 2020 - "Queen's Structure"