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Report: Actor To Play Harry Potter Is Picked
18 August 2000 (StudioBriefing)
Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Thomson of London has won the much-sought-after role of Harry Potter in the film version of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Aint It Cool News Web site reported Thursday. Thomson appeared last year opposite Martin Landau in the critically trashed New Adventures of Pinocchio and in the role of Pip in a BBC production of Great Expectations.