Matthew Lewis

Actor

Matthew Lewis plays the nerdy wizard student Neville Longbottom in the big-budget movies based on the Harry Potter series of books. Lewis was only five when he landed a role in the TV drama Some Kind of Life, and over the next decade he appeared in a handful of BBC and YTV productions, including Where the Heart Is (1996), Big Bag (1998), and Heartbeat (1999). in 2001 he got a major break when he was cast as Neville Longbottom in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (U. K. title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone). He reprised the role in the sequels Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).

Extra credit: According to Lewis's official site, he's a fan of the Leeds United football team... His brother, Anthony Lewis, is an actor who was a regular on the British soap opera Emmerdale.

Other Harry Potter actors include Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry), Emma Watson (as Hermione), and Ralph Fiennes (as Lord Voldemort).