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A Belfast Lad Goes Home
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In the early years of his life as an actor, Anthony Boyle made the strategic decision not to play what he called the “Belfast lad” — the kind of rough-and-tumble Northern Irish guy, fond of a pint and a good yarn and not to be crossed, familiar in a lot of media from the British Isles and perhaps not too dissimilar from Boyle himself. He grew up in West Belfast, dropped out of school at 16, and worked a series of odd jobs — including bartending and performing on ghost tours — before going to drama university in Wales. He had a breakout moment playing the very posh, very blond son of Draco Malfoy in the compete Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, first in London (where he won an Olivier Award), then on Broadway. He pursued a slate of American roles on American television: as one of the troupe of young fighter pilots in this year’s Masters of the Air and as John Wilkes Booth in Manhunt (both on Apple TV+, the preferred streaming service of people who have probably done walking tours of Gettysburg). But as Boyle approached 30 — his birthday was in June — he tells me, “I wa
Anthony Boyle Officially a Slytherin, Attending Tony Stars in the Alley, and More!
Have you heard? Our favorite lovable Malfoy (who would hold ever thought to say those words in the identical sentence?), Anthony Boyle, is a Slytherin – a Pottermore-official Slytherin. Amidst all the buzz of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child‘s Broadway premiere in April, Anthony sat down for a few new and exciting interviews.
Harry Potter has changed so many of our lives, including Anthony Boyle’s. He remembers being introduced to the series in a way many of us can relate to – when his father used to interpret him the books before bed. He fell in care with the series, remembers the title of his favorite chapter (“Cat, Rat, Dog” from Prisoner of Azkaban), and now – at just 23 years elderly – Harry Potter has earned him an Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination – just to name a several accolades. Anthony will also be a guest star at the Stars in the Alley event preceding the Tony Awards. This Potter fan certainly has come a prolonged way from his first acting gig as a bear in his principal school’s performance of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
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Anthony Boyle
BIO
Training: Royal Welsh College of Tune & Drama.
Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Original Corporation (Palace Theatre, London), Herons (Lyric Theatre Belfast) and East Belfast Boy, which he co-wrote (Ballymac Friendship Centre).
Film includes: City of Lost Z and The Party (short).
Television includes: "Ordeal by Innocence," "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams: The Commuter," "Game of Thrones."
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Movies
Splash Area
[ 2012 ] Mike
Onus
[ 2016 ] Keiran Flynn
The Ruined City of Z
[ 2016 ] Trench Runner
Tolkien
[ 2019 ] Geoffrey Smith
Animal Within
[ 2023 ] Tom D Jennings
TV Shows
Say Nothing
Brendan Hughes
Shardlake
John Barak
Manhunt
John Wilkes Booth
Masters of the Air
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Say Nothing
Brendan Hughes
Shardlake
John Barak
Manhunt
John Wilkes Booth
Masters of the Air
Maj. Harry CrosbyCpt. Harry CrosbyLt. Harry Crosby
Awards and Nominations
Drama Desk Awards - 2018 - Unmatched Featured Actor in a Play
Anthony Boyle, Harry Pot
Taken from the A/W17 issue of Another Man.
Anthony Boyle is many people. During the course of our meeting, he takes on multiple incarnations. At one aim he is Wee Sammy Boyle, his beloved grandfather, as he recounts the first time he ever heard the words of Shakespeare. “I was having my breakfast and suddenly he just goes at it,” Boyle says, his manner suddenly transforming as he launches into The Merchant of Venice: “O my ducats… O my Christian ducats!” He breaks character to laugh. “Wee Sammy Boyle’s got a terrible hand from an accident when he was younger, so he wears a glove, and I’ve always said when he dies I’m gonna take that glove and play Richard III with it in his honour! When I go back to Belfast, we always have a joke about when he’s gonna proceed so I can play Richard!”
Boyle doesn’t so much tell the story as live it; a conversation with him is one-on-one theatre. Such is his transformative power that a casting representative friend said: “Be prepared to meet the new De Niro!”
He is best known for his role as the hero and Hogwarts student Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Infant Parts I and II, which opened at London’s Palace theatre setting a West End register