Rupert Grint to Join Broadway Cast of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’

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Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley across all eight Harry Potter films, will bring the character back to the stage in Broadway's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, joining the production this winter. He becomes the second Harry Potter film actor to sign on, following Tom Felton's turn as Draco Malfoy, which has driven a sharp rise in box office demand and is expected to have a similar effect on ticket sales for Grint's run.

Grint takes over the role on 2 February 2027 at the Lyric Theatre in New York, once Felton's engagement ends on 3 January 2027, and will perform for a 17-week run through to 30 May. He has prior stage experience, including Broadway's It's Only a Play alongside Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, and the West End's Mojo with Ben Whishaw, alongside recent screen work in Nightborn and the upcoming Ebenezer. Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said his casting bridges the original film story with the play's themes of family and legacy, while Grint described returning as Ron "full circle," noting that both he and the character are now fathers.

Rupert Grint to play adult Ron Weasley on Broadway from 2 February 2027
Second Potter film star to join, after Tom Felton's Draco Malfoy
17-week run at the Lyric Theatre through 30 May 2027

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Rupert Grint's casting continues the West End and Broadway play's practice of bringing in actors from the original Harry Potter film series. Grint played Ron Weasley in all eight films, and he now takes over the same character in the stage production, which is a separate story set nineteen years after the books and films end. He follows Tom Felton, who already plays Draco Malfoy in the same production.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a long-running play performed in two parts, currently staged on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre in New York, as well as in London and elsewhere. It follows the children of the original Harry Potter characters, while also bringing back the adult versions of Harry, Ron, Hermione and others. Casting well-known film actors in these adult roles has previously drawn extra public and media interest to the production.

The producers behind the casting, Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender, have overseen the play since it first opened, and they frame these appearances as a way of connecting the stage story to the original films. Grint has stage experience from earlier Broadway and West End productions, alongside his ongoing screen career.

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Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley throughout the eight Harry Potter films, is to take on the role again on stage, joining the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child this winter. He will appear at the Lyric Theatre in New York from 2 February 2027, for a run of 17 weeks concluding on 30 May 2027, playing the character as an adult in the play that continues the story beyond the film series.

Grint described the casting as a full-circle moment, noting that Ron Weasley has been part of his life since he was 11 and that returning to the role now, as a father himself, felt both familiar and new. He said he was looking forward to being back on Broadway in a part that shaped much of his career, with one outlet also quoting him saying he was eager to "set foot back on Platform 9¾" and that he was overjoyed to be joining the show's cast and crew.

Grint becomes the second actor from the original film franchise to join the stage production, following Tom Felton, who plays the grown-up Draco Malfoy. Felton's casting, announced last autumn, is reported to have driven a marked rise in ticket sales and audience numbers, and he is due to leave the production on 3 January 2027, meaning the two will not overlap on stage. Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender welcomed Grint's arrival, framing it as more than a nostalgic return, saying he was carrying forward a journey begun as a child and forming a link between the story audiences first knew and the play's themes of family, legacy and time passing.

Grint is no stranger to the stage or to Broadway, having made his debut there in 2014 in It's Only a Play alongside Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, and having appeared in the West End in Jez Butterworth's Mojo opposite Ben Whishaw. His screen work has continued alongside these theatre credits: he recently starred in Hanna Bergholm's Nightborn, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, features in Paramount's forthcoming film Ebenezer, and previously had a leading role in Apple TV's Servant.

Where outlets differ

Source 2 gives the most detail on the producers' joint statement, including additional praise for the qualities Grint brought to Ron Weasley (humour, bravery, the character's 'cheeky grin') and a second Grint quote about Platform 9¾ and joining the cast and crew, which the other two sources omit.

Source 2 specifies that Tom Felton's casting was announced 'last November' and had an 'immediate' box office impact; Source 1 also notes the box office effect but without the date, while Source 3 does not mention Felton's box office impact at all, only that he was the first alum to join.

Source 1 is the only report detailing Grint's other current and recent screen projects (Nightborn, Ebenezer, Servant) and his West End credit in Mojo.

Source 3 is by far the briefest account, omitting the producers' statement, Felton's exit date, and most biographical detail on Grint.

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