Adrian Rawlins
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-03-27
- Place of birth:
- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint
The Brink of War
Star City
Rose of Nevada
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
Patience
Moonflower Murders
Game Over
Mary & George
One Life
The Sixth Commandment
Living
Andor
Slow Horses
The Colour Room
Undergods
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Grace
Small Axe
All Creatures Great & Small
Susan Hill's Ghost Story
The Capture
Chernobyl
A Discovery of Witches
Innocent
Darkest Hour
The White Princess
War and Peace
Bridgend
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
Glue
By Any Means
Father Brown
Once Around the Sun
Mrs Biggs
Mrs Biggs
The Raven
Death in Paradise
Intruders
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Misfits
Tales of the Fourth Dimension
Hunter
10 Days to War
J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
The Old Curiosity Shop
Clapham Junction
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Life Line
Lewis
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Ahead of the Class
Doctor Who
Agatha Christie's Marple
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
New Tricks
Hear the Silence
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
The Stretford Wives
Spooks
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
My Brother Tom
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Blood
Badger
An Evil Streak
Sunburn
Different for Girls
Midsomer Murders
Insiders
Breaking the Waves
Silent Witness
The Inner Sanctuary
She's Out
Tears Before Bedtime
The Man from Snowy River
Running Late
Soldier Soldier
Seduction
Mountains of the Moon
The Woman in Black
The Ginger Tree
Screen One
Christabel
The Four Minute Mile
Casualty
Revolution
I Live With Me Dad
Widows
The Return of Stanley Atwell