Adrian Rawlins
Birthday: 1958-03-27 | Place of Birth: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UKAdrian John Rawlins (born 27 March 1958, Stoke-on-Trent) is an English actor who studied art and acting at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been active since 1980. He is best known for playing James Potter across all eight Harry Potter films (2001–2011), Arthur Kidd in the 1989 TV film The Woman in Black, and Nikolai Fomin in the 2019 HBO miniseries Chernobyl. He also appeared in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1996), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), and Darkest Hour (2017) as Air Chief Marshal Dowding. His broader filmography includes Revolution (1985), Mountains of the Moon (1990), Living (2022), One Life (2023), and the upcoming The Brink of War (2026). On television he has had recurring roles in Soldier Soldier (1993), Dickensian (2015–2016), Slow Horses (2022), Moonflower Murders (2024), and Patience (2025). Since 2017 he has served as artistic director of East Riding Theatre.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Billy Richards
as Max Rampleman
as Self - Narrator
as (voice)
as Lawrence Treherne / Lance Gardner
as Ian Farquhar
as Middleton
as Edward Merriman
as Nikolai Fomin
as John de la Pole
as Dr. Rhodes
as Vicar
as DCI Simson
as Police Inspector
as Self
as John Elder
as Jacob
as Tony Mackersie
as Harbour
