Tom Felton is synonymous with his Harry Potter character Draco Malfoy, but the actor originally auditioned to play someone else in the movies. Like most lead actors of the film franchise, Felton played Malfoy throughout all eight movies, beginning with 2001's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and concluding with 2011's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. The movies chronicled the Boy Wizard's battle against Lord Voldemort and his adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he had to contend with another enemy, Slytherin bully Draco Malfoy.

Felton has worked steadily after the Harry Potter movies, starring in films like Rise of the Planet of the Apes and A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting. He has also worked in television, notably appearing in the Arrowverse as Doctor Alchemy in The Flash. In 2022, Felton also published a memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard,...