About the HP Star Rupert Grint
ABOUT RUPERT:
Full name: Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint
Nicknames: Rupe
Date of birth: August 24, 1988
Birth Place: Hertfordshire, England
Age: 19
Star sign: Virgo
Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Lives: Hertfordshire, UK
Brothers/Sisters: James (born 1990), Georgina (born 1993), Samantha (born 1996) and Charlotte (born 1999)
Parents: Nigel and Jo Grint
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
Pets: Ruby (a black Labrador) and Fudge (a chocolate lab)
Personal Favorites
Food: Burger, Ham sandwiches
Color: Green
Clothing: Jeans
Cartoon Character: Sponge Bob Square Pants
Snacks: Sweets!
Car: Hot Rod
Birthday Present: Unicycle for his 14th birthday
School Subject: Art
Sports: rugby, football, golf
Pastimes: golf, sleeping
Entertainment Favorites
Music: Rock
Movies: The Life Aquatic , Star Wars, Shrek, Ace Ventura, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dumb and Dumber
Actor: Jim Carrey
Sports Team: Tottenham HotSpur (Spurs) football/soccer team (they are from North London)
School Subject: Art
Video Game: Need for Speed
Kind of books: Comedy and horror
Books: Darren Shan’s Cirque Du Freak series, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Author: J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter Favorites
Books: Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire
Scenes: The chess scene in Philosopher’s Stone; the slug scene and when the flying car bashed into the Whomping Willow in Chamber of Secrets
Character: Ron
Animal: Scabbers
Line of Dialogue: “Bloody Brilliant!”
Magic Power: Flying Car
Random
Fears: spiders, the dark
Coolest Thing He Bought: Ice-Cream Van
Gadget: Sony Viao Laptop
Cell: Motorola v3
Super Power: Rupert said he would like to be invisible, so he could sneak out of detention at school
Childhood Dream Job: ice-cream man
Longer version (includes filmography):
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint was born in Hertfordshire, England on August 24, 1988. Rupert is the eldest child of Jo and Nigel Grint and he has four siblings: one brother, James and three sisters, Georgina , Samantha and Charlotte. When Rupert isn’t filming or in school, he plays golf, football (soccer), PlayStation, guitar, rides his unicycle and his bike. His favorite sports is football. Rupert also likes drawing and arts is one of his favorite subjects in school. He has also stated, that if he’s not going to be an actor, he would like to have a career somehow related to arts. At the moment, Rupert is attending to all boys -school in his hometown and is currently taking his CGSE exams (that’s the reason why Rupert hasn’t been in so many TV programs as Daniel and Emma have lately).
Rupert had only acted in one school play before he got his first change to act in a movie. He had read J.K. Rowling’s magical wizard series, Harry Potter, and he had always had one favorite character: Ron Weasley. Rupert has many times said, that he felt somehow related to Ron; he thought that there were many similarities between him and Ron. So when Rupert heard, that they were going to make a movie of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone, he definitely wanted to be in it. He send in an image of himself and waited. After he received no answer, he decided to show them how much he really wanted the part. Rupert made an audition tape first performing as his drama teacher (who happened to be a woman) and finally came up with a rap song that promoted the character he was auditioning for, Ronald Weasley. Rupert was then called to audition for the role. After several auditions, he was called to David Heyman’s office and sat down with a girl called Emma Watson. They were then told, that they had been cast to play the roles of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Rupert’s first thought was ‘cool.’
After the release of ?Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone? in 2001 Rupert became known all over the world. He had proved himself one of the most recognized actors on the big screen. His performance was probably the most liked of all trio in the first movie as well as in the second. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was released in 2002 and Rupert returned to screen as Ron Weasley. Rupert also, unlike Emma and Daniel, appeared in totally a film totally different from Harry Potter. Thunderpants was released in 2002 a bit before the Chamber of Secrets.
Like his co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, Rupert made several TV appearances after the release of the second Potter movies. He visited many talk shows and other events, talking about making Harry Potter and how has his life changed. It seems, though, that Rupert is the one of the trio who gets least publicity.
In June 2004, the third Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was released. It became a huge hit, even bigger than the two movies before it. The trio, Daniel, Rupert and Emma returned to film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which was released on November 5, 2005. During this time, Rupert decided to step away from Harry Potter and do a comedy film with director, Jeremy Brock. The film is called Driving Lessons and Rupert plays a shy boy named Ben. Click here to find out more about Driving Lessons.
After finishing filming Driving Lessons, Rupert came back to his Harry Potter role as Ron Weasley in the fifth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The film will be released on July 13, 2007 in the United States and the United Kingdom. Click here to find more information on the film
About a month after celebrating his 19th birthday, Rupert returns to the Harry Potter set to film the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
More Rupert, please?
My favorite Rupert site: RupertGrint.net
