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Rupert Grint: ‘I liken JK Rowling to an auntie. I don’t agree with everything my auntie says’

The actor on raising his daughter, American accents and learning to drive in an ice cream van

Rupert Grint: ‘I find it very hard to detach myself from being Ron – we merged into the same person’
Rupert Grint: ‘I find it very hard to detach myself from being Ron – we merged into the same person’
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The Times

Rupert Grint, 33, grew up in Hertfordshire and was cast in the role of Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone aged 11. He starred in all eight Potter films between 2001 and 2011, as well as the Return to Hogwarts reunion last month, The ABC Murders and M Night Shyamalan’s Servant. He lives in London with his partner, the actress Georgia Groome, and their 20-month-old daughter, Wednesday.

When the baby is first born, you feel so useless as a dad. Because you don’t have that part of your anatomy, you don’t really have much of a use. You’re just like a machine that moves the baby to different parts of the room.

There is an ice cream mafia. My first car