Katie Leung

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1987 age 0

   Born

2. 2005 age 18

   CreditHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

3. 2007 age 20

   CreditHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

4. 2009 age 22

   CreditHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

5. 2010 age 23

   CreditHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

6. 2011 age 24

   CreditHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

• DRDaniel Radcliffe5 titles
• RGRupert Grint5 titles
• EWEmma Watson5 titles
• RCRobbie Coltrane5 titles
• WDWarwick Davis5 titles
• ARAlan Rickman5 titles
• MLMatthew Lewis5 titles
• DMDevon Murray5 titles
• GSGeraldine Somerville5 titles
• TFTom Felton5 titles

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• During that time, it was the kind of rise of the internet and fandoms and all that sort of stuff. Because I’m 16 and a teenager, I care what people think as it is in school, never mind what the whole world thinks. There was a lot of pressure there. I was so caught up in caring about what people thought of me.

  Katie Leung, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I always find making the initial transition from film back to theatre slightly overwhelming because of the physical freedom being on a stage allows after having been confined to the edges of a lens for a period of time. But you learn to embrace and to own the space pretty quickly once rehearsals are underway.

  Katie Leung, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was surrounded by actors who had trained and it made me realize how much I didn’t know about simple things like stagecraft, voice work, warming up before a show. It was inspiring watching fellow actors having a process for what they do before a show. It just re-ignited a passion – or maybe just initiated it because I had never been on stage before. So that’s when I decided to go to drama school.

  Katie Leung, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's kind of strange seeing pictures of yourself in papers kissing Harry Potter. You can't really avoid it, though. My friends are always asking me about it. Before I did the scene everyone kept coming up to me and asking if I was looking forward to it. It got me really, really nervous and I was having sleepless nights over it. But when I actually did the scene it went very well and Dan was great. He said he was nervous as well. But the director [ David Yates ] was really cool about it too.

  Katie Leung, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I used to be really, really shy, which is never a good thing because you never speak up for yourself. Now I don't stop talking! But in terms of being recognised, it doesn't really happen that often. I get the odd person coming up and saying they love the films.

  Katie Leung, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You say diversity, but it is not ‘diversity’ – it is [about] a more truthful representation on our screens, so people see a Chinese person speaking English and won’t come to the assumption that people of colour don’t speak English.

  Katie Leung, CC BY-SA 4.0