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Tom Felton reprises Draco Malfoy character for Harry Potter play

Tom Felton attends the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards at The Royal Festival Hall on 16 February in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
Tom Felton attends the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards at The Royal Festival Hall on 16 February in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Tom Felton is reprising his role as Draco Malfoy for the Harry Potter And The Cursed Child play in New York.

The Surrey-born actor, who starred in all the film adaptations of JK Rowling's fantasy novel until the last movie in 2011, will make a comeback as Harry Potter’s school bully on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre in New York later this year.

Felton, 37, made his West End debut in the supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story in 2022.

He will begin his performance on 11 November for a limited 19 weeks in Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, the Instagram page for the production said on Thursday.

The play, written by Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne, began in 2016 in London and has had a Broadway run since 2018.

It was co-devised by Rowling and is set 19 years after the events of the seventh and final book, with Ministry of Magic employee Harry and his wife Ginny Weasley waving off their youngest son Albus Severus to school.

The two-part play, which stretches over five hours, sees Albus struggle at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with the weight of his family legacy and go to extreme and dangerous lengths to right the wrongs of the past.

Since the ending of the film franchise, Felton has been in 2011’s Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and had recurring roles in the TV series Murder In The First, The Flash and Origin.

He has also used his voice in the Harry Potter video games, based on the movie, and featured in the special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return To Hogwarts alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, who played Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

Source: Press Association

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