Adrian Rawlins

Known for ActingBorn 1958-03-27 (age 68)Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

Adrian John Rawlins (born 27 March 1958, Stoke-on-Trent) is an English actor who studied art and acting at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been active since 1980. He is best known for playing James Potter across all eight Harry Potter films (2001–2011), Arthur Kidd in the 1989 TV film The Woman in Black, and Nikolai Fomin in the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl. He also appeared in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), and Darkest Hour (2017) as Air Chief Marshal Dowding. His broader filmography includes Revolution (1985), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Living (2022), One Life (2023), and the upcoming The Brink of War (2026). On television he has had recurring roles in Soldier Soldier (1993), Dickensian (2015–2016), Slow Horses (2022), Moonflower Murders (2024), and Patience (2025). Since 2017 he has served as artistic director of East Riding Theatre.Read more

Movies & web series

The Inner Sanctuary

She's Out

Chernobyl

Running Late

Andor

All Creatures Great & Small

Slow Horses

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Mrs Biggs

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

One Life

A Discovery of Witches

Agatha Christie's Marple

Mrs Biggs

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

The White Princess

Star City

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I Live With Me Dad

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Father Brown

The Capture

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Moonflower Murders

Spooks

Misfits

Lewis

War and Peace

Doctor Who

Death in Paradise

Darkest Hour

Silent Witness

Breaking the Waves

Ahead of the Class

Patience

Midsomer Murders

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

Hunter

The Four Minute Mile

J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life

New Tricks

Mary & George

Widows

Living

Innocent

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

Small Axe

Screen One