Inside Ron Weasley Actor's Perfect Day.

He played harry potter's best pal ron weasley in all seven hit films spanning a decade. So it must have been a little surreal for rupert grint to meet actor paul thornley who plays the older. Rupert alexander lloyd grint[2] (/ rnt / ; ) is an english actor. He rose to fame for his role as ron weasley in the harry potter film series, for which he was cast at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group.

The actor, 34, bagged the part of the young wizard at the age of just. For 10 years, between 2001 and 2011, grint was a permanent fixture in peoples lives. Over the course of eight films, the nation watched as his character, ron weasley, underwent the. Gleesons initial panic, where he even slipped into an australian accent, was a hurdle he had to overcome.