List of Fantastic Beasts cast members

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This is a list of Fantastic Beasts cast members who portrayed or voiced characters appearing in the film series. The list below is sorted by film and the character's surname, as some characters have been portrayed by multiple actors.

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Character 201620182022
Fantastic Beasts
and Where to Find Them 		Fantastic Beasts:
The Crimes of Grindelwald 		Fantastic Beasts:
The Secrets of Dumbledore

Introduced in the Harry Potter film series

Aberforth Dumbledore Richard Coyle [1]
Albus Dumbledore Jude Law [2]
Toby Regbo Y [3] 		Jude Law [4]
Gellert Grindelwald Colin Farrell [lower-alpha 1]
Johnny Depp C [6] 		Johnny Depp [7]
Jamie Campbell Bower Y [3] 		Mads Mikkelsen [lower-alpha 2]
Minerva McGonagall Fiona Glascott [9]
Nagini Claudia Kim [10]

Introduced in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Abernathy [lower-alpha 3] Kevin Guthrie [12]
Credence Barebone
Aurelius Dumbledore 		Ezra Miller [13]
Chastity Barebone Jenn Murray [14]
Mary Lou Barebone Samantha Morton [15]
Modesty BareboneFaith Wood-Blagrove [16]
Gnarlak Ron Perlman V [17]
Porpentina Esther "Tina" Goldstein Katherine Waterston [18] Katherine Waterston C
Queenie Goldstein Alison Sudol [19]
Jacob Kowalski Dan Fogler [20]
Seraphina Picquery Carmen Ejogo [21]
Newt Scamander Eddie Redmayne [22] Eddie Redmayne [23]
Joshua Shea Y [24] 		Eddie Redmayne [25]
Henry Shaw Jr Josh Cowdery [26]
Henry Shaw Sr Jon Voight [26]
Langdon Shaw Ronan Raftery [27]
Madam Ya Zhou Gemma Chan [28]
Leta Lestrange Zoë Kravitz P [29] Zoë Kravitz [29]
Thea Lamb Y [30]
Ruby Woolfenden Y [30]

Introduced in The Crimes of Grindelwald

Bunty Broadacre Victoria Yeates [31]
CarrowMaja Bloom [32]
Irma DugardDanielle Hugues [33]
Nicolas Flamel Brontis Jodorowsky [34]
Grimmson Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson [35]
Eulalie "Lally" Hicks Jessica Williams [36]
Laurena KamaIsaura Barbé-Brown [37]
Yusuf Kama William Nadylam [35]
Isaac Domingos Y [38] 		William Nadylam [39]
Krall David Sakurai [40]
Vinda Rosier Poppy Corby-Tuech [41]
Theseus Scamander Callum Turner [42]
Skender Ólafur Darri Ólafsson [35]

Introduced in The Secrets of Dumbledore

EdithRamona Kunze-Libnow [43]
Henrietta Fischer Valerie Pachner [44]
Helmut Aleksandr Kuznetsov [45]
Otto Matthias Brenner [44]
Vicência Santos Maria Fernanda Cândido [46]
Liu TaoDave Wong [43]
Anton Vogel Oliver Masucci [47]
Warder Peter Simonischek [48]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Farrell portrays Grindelwald in a majority of the film masquerading as Auror Percival Graves. [5]
  2. ↑ Mikkelsen replaced Depp after he was asked to resign due to negative publicity resulting from the libel case Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd . [8]
  3. ↑ Guthrie was set to return but was fired before production began due to his trial and eventual conviction in a sexual assault case. [11]

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