Thomas Andrew "Tom" Felton is an English actor and singer. He is best known for playing the role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, the film adaptations of the best-selling Harry Potter novels by author J.K. Rowling, for which he auditioned at age twelve. Felto...
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Awards
MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain, MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo
Nominations
People's Choice Award for Favorite Movie Star Under 25, Shorty Award for Best Actor
Movies
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Risen, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Borrowers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Pris...
TV Shows
Murder in the First, Labyrinth, Home Farm Twins
Star Sign
Virgo
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Often plays villainous or mischievous characters
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It's a hard industry to have a long career regardless of what films you've been in but fingers crossed I can continue in it. Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.
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I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.
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Jason Isaacs always looked after me very well. Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham Carter - they're all wonderful people and very helpful and inspiring. I bored Alan Rickman for hours about Robin Hood. It was one of my favorite films when I was younger and I asked how he did certain scenes. He was very patient and charming. It took me six years to work up the courage to ask him. Helena gave me advice about crying in a scene. She said tell your brain you're not allowed to cry and then it's more likely to happen. No one was difficult. You hear stories about actors who demand their coffee to be served at a certain temperature but on Harry Potter if you wanted a cup of tea you had to get it yourself.
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So those of you that think filming is all glamor, you're so wrong! Really, only the premieres are the glitzy bits.
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[on playing a bad guy in Harry Potter's film]: I think it's more fun, there are a lot of goodies in the film and not a lot of baddies, so I like to be in the baddie group.
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I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.
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In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.
The London Sun claims that he is related to John Proctor, one of the accused witches in the 17th century Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Proctor's son Thorndike Proctor married a Hannah Felton. The elder Proctor appears in as a character in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible (1996), and is portrayed in the film by Daniel Day-Lewis. Tom himself, of course, plays a wizard in the Harry Potter films.
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Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine's Young Hollywood Issue (May 2010).
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Has a female Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Timberland, nicknamed Timber.
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Loves shopping in New York. He loves clothing from the Air Jordan collection.
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Has said he would enjoy studying fishery management in college, but admitted in interviews during the fall of 2009, that he would prefer to continue acting.
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as a boy, he owned a pet chinchilla named Stanley.
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Bleaches his hair blonde for the Harry Potter films. His natural hair color is light brown.
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Attended Howard of Effingham School, a comprehensive school located in Surrey. He left school at the age of 16 in May 2004 after completing his GCSEs. When he finishes filming the Harry Potter films, Tom hopes to follow in the footsteps of his elder brother and study fishing management at university.
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Hadn't read any of the Harry Potter books prior to being cast as Draco Malfoy.
His elder brother was his chaperon on the set of the earlier Harry Potter movies.
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He enjoys football (soccer), ice-skating, roller-blading, basketball, cricket, swimming, and tennis, but his first love is fishing. He was introduced to it through one of his brothers. His biggest catch so far has been a 37.14-pound common carp. He fishes using the catch-and-release system so as not to harm any fish. He hopes to study fisheries management in college after the filming of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
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He has three elder brothers: Jonathan, Ashley, and Chris.