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Tom Felton

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Tom Felton is an English actor and author best known for portraying Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films and for his memoir Beyond the Wand.

Biography

Thomas Andrew Felton (born 22 September 1987) is an English actor from Surrey who began appearing in commercials and made his screen debut as Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers (1997). He portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in Anna and the King (1999) and was cast as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, appearing from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011).

After Harry Potter he appeared in films including Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), From the Rough (2011) and The Apparition (2012), and took roles on television and in independent and historical projects such as the miniseries Labyrinth (2012), Belle (2013), and a recurring role on TNT's Murder in the First. He portrayed Doctor Alchemy on The Flash, co-starred in Feed, Stratton and Megan Leavey (2017), and appeared in Origin, Ophelia (2018) and A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020). In 2022 he published the memoir Beyond the Wand.

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Books by Tom Felton

Beyond the Wand
Beyond the Wand (2022) is a memoir in which Felton reflects on growing up during a decade of Harry Potter films and offers backstage stories from set. He recounts early acting anecdotes (including being mistaken for Macaulay Culkin and admitting he initially fudged how well he knew the books), discusses working with actors such as Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith and Ralph Fiennes, and reflects on lasting relationships formed during filming, including with Emma Watson.