How Much The Harry Potter Cast Is Actually Worth

Publish date: 2024-05-02

Harry Potter fans will recognize Rupert Grint as the lovable Ron Weasley. Others, however, might recognize him as Ed Sheeran's doppelgänger in the singer's music video for "Lego House." Either way, the red-headed star is totally loaded, and all it took was his character helping to destroy a bunch of horcruxes and defeat Voldemort. Easy, right?

Grint reportedly made around $36 million from the Harry Potter series. And though we couldn't imagine the films without him, he surprisingly came close to dropping out of Hogwarts after The Goblet of Fire.

"I thought 'Do I actually want to keep doing this? It's a bit of a drag.' Because obviously it's a big sacrifice," he told The Independent. "You take for granted anonymity, just doing normal stuff, just going out. Everything was different and a little bit scary. There were times when I was like 'I'm done.'"

As we know, Grint stuck it out, but managing his fortune hasn't always been easy. The star told The Independent that he made a number of weird purchases during the height of his fame including a hovercraft, an Ostrich skeleton, and an ice cream van. He ended up losing around $1.3 million in a tax refund case, according to The Guardian, and built up a real estate empire worth more than $16 million. His net worth has since blossomed to around $50 million thanks to a few TV and voice roles — notably, he played Charlie Cavendish in Snatch — and a stint on Broadway.

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