

He was starring in Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Old Vic in London when live theater and everything else was shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. To be sure, if there's some dark humor to be found, Radcliffe is into it, whether on TV playing a morphine-addicted physician in A Young Doctor's Notebook or a low-level angel trying to prevent God from ending the world in Miracle Workers-or playing a flatulent corpse in 2016's Swiss Army Man.

For years he has alternated between theater ( The Cripple of Inishmaan, Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead) and film ( The Woman in Black, Victor Frankenstein), leaning heavily into the dramatic and/or the absurd.

The boy who played Harry Potter is ever grateful for the role that knocked down all the doors for him, but he's also been busy scrubbing any child-star residue from his acting image, starting with his raw, nudity-requiring Broadway debut in Equus in 2007. He followed that up with the more chipper How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2011. Pictures/Entertainment Pictures via ZUMA Press, Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock Daniel Radcliffe
