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Adrian Rawlins
Adrian John Rawlins (born 27 March 1958, Stoke-on-Trent) is an English actor who studied art and acting at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been active since 1980. He is best known for playing James Potter across all eight Harry Potter films (2001–2011), Arthur Kidd in the 1989 TV film The Woman in Black, and Nikolai Fomin in the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl. He also appeared in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), and Darkest Hour (2017) as Air Chief Marshal Dowding. His broader filmography includes Revolution (1985), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Living (2022), One Life (2023), and the upcoming The Brink of War (2026). On television he has had recurring roles in Soldier Soldier (1993), Dickensian (2015–2016), Slow Horses (2022), Moonflower Murders (2024), and Patience (2025). Since 2017 he has served as artistic director of East Riding Theatre.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 22011as James PotterOur takeThe finale’s most meaningful victory comes after the spectacular confrontation. Harry must decide what to do with power once he has the right to possess it. Our reading is that his refusal to keep the Elder Wand completes a moral distinction the battle alone cannot settle: defeating a tyrant does not automatically…
Chernobyl2019as Nikolai FominOur takeChernobyl is most powerful when it treats truth as physical matter. Lies do not erase radiation; they merely transfer the cost to firefighters, miners, nurses, soldiers, families, and future victims. Legasov's final victory is not that he escapes the system. It is that he leaves the system unable to bury what happened.Profile and filmography data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.