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ACTOR · BORN 1987

Tom Felton

Born
22 September 1987, Kensington, London, England, UK
Known for
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

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  1. #001

    Tom Felton's natural hair color is dark blond. He dyed his hair platinum blond for all eight Harry Potter films. It was said that during the 10-year span in which the series was made, he had to dye his hair every ten days. In an interview he gave when the series ended, he said he was looking forward to no longer having to dye his hair.

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    One of Tom Felton's older brothers was his chaperone on the set of the earlier Harry Potter films.

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    In many interviews over time, Tom Felton has stated that his favorite film in the Harry Potter series is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009).

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    Tom Felton said he would enjoy studying fisheries management at university, but in interviews in the fall of 2009 he admitted he would choose to continue acting.

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    Tom Felton had not read any of the Harry Potter books before he was cast as Draco Malfoy.

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    The London Sun claims that Tom Felton is related to John Proctor, one of the witches accused in the 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts witch trials. Proctor's son Thorndike Proctor married Hannah Felton. The elder Proctor appears as a character in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible (1996) and is played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the film. Tom himself, of course, plays a wizard in the Harry Potter films.

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    Tom Felton describes himself as an "indecisive agnostic." Before working on the 2016 film Risen (2016), he saw himself as an "out and out atheist," and in an interview he stated that the experience of working on the film changed his views about Jesus and his final days.

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    Tom Felton likes hip-hop and acoustic-based music, and claims Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Jason Mraz and Eminem as inspirations.

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    In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Tom Felton wrote the line "I didn't know you could read."

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    From 2008 to January 2016, Tom Felton was in a relationship with production assistant Jade Gordon. The two met on the set of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). Before his relationship with Gordon, he was with singer/songwriter Melissa Tamschick from 2004 to 2007.

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    Tom Felton attended Howard of Effingham School, an academy school in Effingham, Leatherhead, Surrey, England. After completing his GCSEs, he left school in May 2004 at the age of sixteen.

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    Tom Felton is a close friend of his Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

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    As a child, Tom Felton had a pet chinchilla named Stanley.

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    Tom Felton enjoys football (soccer), ice skating, roller skating, basketball, cricket, swimming, tennis and fishing.

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    Tom Felton is the youngest of four children. He has three older brothers: Ashley, Chris and Jonathan.

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  16. #016

    Tom Felton likes shopping in New York. He is very fond of the clothes in his Air Jordan collection.

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  17. #017

    Tom Felton's Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Timberland (Timber), died in 2014 due to health problems.

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  18. #018

    Tom Felton was named one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue (May 2010).

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  19. #019

    The filming schedule of the Harry Potter films was as follows: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) (July 2003), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) (April 2004), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) (March 2006), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) (May 2008), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) (March 2010).

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