HBO’s “Harry Potter” TV series is filling out Hogwarts’ staff and students.
“Harry Potter” alum Warwick Davis, who played Charms Professor Filius Flitwick across all eight original films, is reprising the role for the HBO series. While Davis was double-billed in the Potter films as both Flitwick and Griphook, he’ll only play the former this time around. The goblin banker will instead be played by Leigh Gill.
Joining the Hogwarts staff alongside Davis are Sirine Saba as Herbology Professor Pomona Sprout, Richard Durden as the ghostly Professor Cuthbert Binns and Bríd Brennan as Madam Poppy Pomfrey.
As for the students, Elijah Oshin joins the cast as half-blood Dean Thomas, while Finn Stephens and William Nash join as Draco Malfoy’s cronies, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, respectively.
Production is now underway at Warner Bros.’ Leavesden Studios in the U.K., and HBO has been slowly rolling out its expansive cast for the Wizarding World. The most recent casting announcement was for Ron Weasley’s siblings: Fred, George, Percy and Ginny. Twins Tristan and Gabriel Harland will star as Fred and George Weasley, Ruari Spooner is Percy Weasley and Gracie Cochrane is Ginny Weasley.
Leading HBO’s “Harry Potter” series are Dominic McLaughlin as the titular boy wizard, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. Other cast members include John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge. Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley and Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley. Additional names revealed on Monday were Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.
HBO’s “Harry Potter” series is set to premiere in 2027 on HBO and HBO Max. The production is led by showrunner and writer Francesca Gardiner (“His Dark Materials,” “Killing Eve”) and director Mark Mylod (“Succession”). Gardiner and Mylod also serve as executive producers alongside series author J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV, and David Heyman of Heyday Films.
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See headshots for Oshin, Stephens, Nash, Saba, Durden, Brennan and Gill below.
From Variety US