HBO’s “Harry Potter” TV series is filled out for Hogwarts staff and students.
“Harry Potter” alumni Warwick Davis has changed his role in the HBO series as Professor Charms Filius Flitwick in all eight original films. Davis was double billed in the Potter film as both Flitwick and Glyphook, but he will only play the former this time. Instead, the Goblin banker is played by Lee Gill.
Joining the Hogwarts staff along with Davis are Shirin Saba as Professor Pomona Sprout of Herblogy, Richard Darden, and Ghostly Professor Cuthbert Binz and Breed Brennan as Madame Poppy Pomphrey.
As for the students, Elijah Osin will join the cast as half-blooded Dean Thomas, while Finn Stevens and William Nash will join as Draco Malfoy peers, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, respectively.
Production is currently underway at Warner Bros. British Leavesden Studios and HBO are slowly unfolding their vast cast for the world of wizards. The latest casting announcement was for Ron Weasley’s brothers, Fred, George, Percy and Ginny. Twins Tristan and Gabriel Haaland are Fred and George Weasley, Luri Spooner is Percy Weasley, and Gracie Cochran is Ginny Weasley.
The major HBO “Harry Potter” series are Dominic McLaughlin as the honorable boy wizard, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. Other cast members include John Lithgow of Albus Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid, Janet Mactar as Minneva McGonagall, Paapa Essaydo as Severus Snape, Katherine Parkinson as Katherine Parkinson, Draco Malfoy, Johnny Frye as Lucius Malfoy, Johnny Frye as Leo Airy as Siena Musa as Lavender Brown and Bertie Carbell as Cornelius Fudge. Bell Pauly as Petunia Darthley and Daniel Rigby as Vernon Darthley. Additional names revealed Monday were Rory Wilmott as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Darthley, Louise Briley as Madame Laurenta Hooch and Anton Lesser as Garlic Ollivander.
HBO’s “Harry Potter” series is scheduled to premiere on HBO and HBO MAX in 2027. The production is led by showrunner and writer Francesca Gardiner (“His Dark Materials”, “Killing Eve”) and director Mark Mirodo (“Succession”). Gardiner and Myrod are executive producers along with series authors J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley Letz of the Bronte films, and David Heyman of the heyday films.
Check out Oshin, Stephens, Nash, Saba, Durden, Brennan and Gill headshots.
