When people mention Daniel Radcliffe, the first thing that definitely comes to mind is Harry Potter. For ten years, he played the role of the young wizard in J.K. Rowling’s big-screen adaptation of the books. When the story ended, the actor admitted not knowing where his career would head next.
Radcliffe continued making movies, starring mostly in independent films. Still, he could not shake off the typecast he was boxed in. Soon after, he branched out to stage acting in 2008, appearing in West End and Broadway productions.
Daniel Radcliffe Wins His First Tony Award
Daniel Radcliffe recently received his first-ever Tony Award for Featured Actor in a Musical category for his role as Charley Kringas in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along. In his acceptance speech via Independent, he expressed gratitude to everyone who helped him achieve his win.
I’m going to talk fast and try not to cry. Thank you so much to our cast, everybody on that stage. It is an honor to be on stage with you every single night, and I will miss it so much.
He gave thanks to his parents and his partner, Erin Darke. Radcliffe also mentioned his cast mates Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.
I don’t really have to act in this show, I just have to look at you and feel everything I want to feel. I will never have it this good again.
The 34-year-old actor told USA Today that he initially did not know what he would be doing after working for so long in the Harry Potter franchise. He recalled genuinely crying on the last day of filming because he was thinking, “I don’t know what happens now. This has been all my life has been and I don’t know where I go from here,” he admitted.
Radcliffe knew in himself that acting had always been his passion, although he had no idea how long he would be doing it. “So, to be here now, doing this show, I couldn’t have wished for anything more,” he said of the stage production.
Other Stage Productions Daniel Radcliffe Starred In
Radcliffe shared via The New York Times that he was in the middle of preparing breakfast while tending to his son for his morning nap when he got a text from one of the cast to let him know he had been nominated for the Tony Award.
Charley Kringas is Radcliffe’s fifth Broadway role since 2008’s Equus, but this is his first-ever Tony nomination – and win.
Aside from Merrily We Roll Along, he has appeared in other Broadway roles such as Martin McDonagh’s drama The Cripple of Inishmaan (2014). In London, he has also starred in the revivals of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2017) and Samuel Becket’s Endgame (2020).
Merrily We Roll Along was first revived by the cast in November 2022 for a two-month off-Broadway run. Now, it has been transferred to the Hudson Theatre, and fans will be able to catch it until July 7.
