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Dominic McLaughlin
| Plays | Harry Potter |
| Born | Not public (11 when he was cast, in May 2025) |
| Age when filming began | 11 or 12 (July 2025) |
| Age at the premiere | 12 or 13 (25 December 2026) |
| From | Scotland |
| Casting announced | 27 May 2025 |
| IMDb | Dominic McLaughlin |
Photo: HBO
Dominic McLaughlin is the Scottish actor who plays Harry in HBO’s Harry Potter. He was one of the more than 30,000 children who answered the open casting call of September 2024, for children aged 9 to 11 living in the United Kingdom or Ireland, and was announced as Harry, with Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout, on 27 May 2025, when he was 11. He auditioned in Glasgow.
Before Harry Potter he spent about five years at Performance Academy Scotland, appeared on stage in Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes in Edinburgh, and had parts in the Sky comedy film Grow and the BBC series Gifted [STV].
In Finding Harry, the HBO special of April 2026, the casting team revealed that for his audition tape he recited a rhyming poem he had written himself, “My Weekend”. The casting director Lucy Bevan said “Dom just had this sort of quiet confidence in himself” [TV Guide].
How the books describe Harry Potter, and every difference so far, is on the character page.
Other roles
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| – | Macbeth (stage, Edinburgh) | – |
| – | Grow (Sky) | – |
| – | Gifted (BBC) | – |
In interviews
He told the BBC’s Saturday Mash-Up! that he received a letter from Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry of the films: “It was insane” [TheWrap].
He talked about the auditions and the day he got the part to Scholastic News: see the interview.
Sources: STV, HarryPotter.com.
More of the cast
Arabella Stanton · Alastair Stout · John Lithgow · Janet McTeer · Paapa Essiedu · Nick Frost · Lox Pratt · Daniel Rigby · Bel Powley · Amos Kitson · Rory Wilmot · Luke Thallon · Katherine Parkinson · Ruari Spooner · Gracie Cochrane · Anton Lesser · Warwick Davis · Sirine Saba · Louise Brealey · Orson Matthews · Paul Whitehouse · Johnny Flynn · Kit Harington · Rafe Spall. See also the ages of the cast and the full cast.
