The Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts reunion special brought the large three—Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint—back together. And while they’ve all found their very own loves over time, Radcliffe has managed to maintain his longtime relationship with actress Erin Darke exceptionally private.
Darke and Radcliffe live in Recent York together and have been dating for a couple of decade. Below, every thing to know in regards to the low-key couple, from their movie meet-cute to their recent red carpet appearances.
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Darke is an actress.
You could recognize Darke, who was born in Flint, Michigan, from her work in quite a few movies and TV shows. She’s acted in movies including the Beach Boys biopic Love & Mercy and Oscar-nominated Still Alice. On the TV side, she’s taken on recurring roles in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Good Girls Revolt.
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She met Radcliffe while working on a movie together in 2012.
The 2 fellow actors met on the set of their 2013 film Kill Your Darlings. Radcliffe, 33, opened as much as People in regards to the first time he met Darke, 38. “It’ll be a hell of a story to inform our children someday due to what our characters do with one another,” he said, addressing a sex scene the couple has within the film. “Our characters are meeting and flirting with one another, so there may be this sort of sweet record of us just meeting for the primary time and flirting.”
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In a 2015 interview with Playboy, Radcliffe also opened up about his immediate attraction to Darke during their first scene together. “There isn’t any acting occurring—not from my end, anyway,” he told the outlet. “There is a moment when she makes me laugh, and I’m laughing as me and never as my character. She was incredibly funny and smart. I knew I used to be in trouble.”
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Darke later told Folks that considered one of the primary things she and Radcliffe bonded over was “how much we actually love what we do, and there’s something that’s really beautiful and really lovely about being with someone who just innately understands that about you.” She added, “We’re each incredibly supportive of the opposite person’s profession.”
She’s a sports fan.
When Darke is not acting, considered one of her passions is sports. Her Twitter bio states that she’s a “Fantasy football enthusiast” and “Devoted Red Wings fan.” In 2018, Radcliffe mentioned that his girlfriend can also be a Detroit Lions fan. “My girlfriend is from Michigan, so there’s at all times a Lions game on Thanksgiving,” he said on Late Night with Seth Meyers. “With the misery or joy that that entails.”
Radcliffe openly praises his longtime girlfriend.
While the couple doesn’t make many appearances within the tabloids, Radcliffe has never been shy about professing his love for Darke. He referred to her as his best friend in a 2014 interview with Us Weekly. “I feel that is the form of relationship I at all times aspire to have with someone I’m in a relationship with. You would like that person to be your best friend,” he explained. “Within the case of Erin, we definitely are.”
Six years after the very fact, the pair was still going strong. “I grew up doing a number of things where I assumed, ‘That is super nerdy. I’ll never have the opportunity to do that around a woman,’” Radcliffe told Radio Times magazine in 2020. “But that’s the wonderful thing in regards to the moment you discover the connection you’re meant to be in. It’s like, ‘Oh, I can do all of that stuff and also you don’t mind. And you truly think it’s fun, too. That is improbable!’”
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She and Radcliffe were victims of a coronavirus hoax in 2020.
In March, a Twitter account with the handle @BBCNewsTonight reported that Radcliffe was “the primary big name to be publicly confirmed” with a case of coronavirus. Twitter eventually suspended the account, and BuzzFeed spoke to the people behind the hoax, but not before the news had gotten to Radcliffe and Darke directly.
The couple spoke to Vulture in regards to the incident and gave an update on their quarantine set-up in Radcliffe’s Recent York apartment. “We’re each within the situation where we’ve never been more grateful to not have a child or more annoyed that we don’t have a dog,” Radcliffe joked about their sheltering-at-home situation. “But generally speaking, in comparison with quite a lot of people, we’re very, very much okay.” He admitted that he was “quite amused” by the hoax at first. “It’s not the primary time I’ve had something crazy written about me,” Radcliffe said. Darke added, “Dating a big name teaches you in a short time that shit is weird sometimes. Individuals are weird with fame sometimes.”
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They’re still going strong but don’t have any wedding plans yet.
Darke and Radcliffe have been together for a couple of decade, but there is no wedding within the works. “We’re at the purpose now where I’ve seen my very own wedding reported several times,” Darke told Vulture in 2020. “You do begin to dismiss stuff you examine your partner in the event you’re pretty sure they’re not true. I spent per week once having to text all my members of the family being like, ‘I promise if I’m getting married, one can find out from me and never Us Weekly.’”
Radcliffe added that his Harry Potter co-stars often get thrown into their fictional nuptials. “No less than three different times, any person has written that we’re getting married, and Emma Watson is gonna be the maid of honor, and Rupert Grint is my best man, and we’re getting married on a lake in Michigan,” Radcliffe told the outlet. For now, the couple says they’re “okay with [tabloids’] lack of interest” of their romance. “We’re boring to them. Ninety percent of the paparazzi photos of us are getting coffee,” Darke joked. She added, “You may only sell so many photos of two people waiting for an Uber.”
Radcliffe has had other loves.
In one other moment of confession through the reunion, Radcliffe admitted he had a crush on Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange. The actress brought an autograph to the reunion that she asked Radcliffe to sign after they wrapped on The Deathly Hallows Part II, released in 2011. Radcliffe read the inscription aloud, visibly embarrassed.
“Dear HBC, it was a pleasure being your co-star and ‘coaster’—within the sense that I at all times ended up holding your coffee,” he read. “I do love you and I wish I used to be born 10 years earlier as I would’ve have been in with a likelihood. Thanks for being cool.”
A really sweet crush, but probably not something Darke has to fret about.
Darke and Radcliffe made a rare red carpet appearance together in March 2022.
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The couple attended a Recent York City screening of The Lost City. Radcliffe co-starred with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in the journey comedy. Darke wore a black and white floral wrap dress, which she paired with black tights and green ankle boots. Radcliffe sported the same color scheme, wearing a black windbreaker over a patterned button-down with skinny jeans and loafers.
Radcliffe is “really completely happy” with Darke.
While talking to People in March 2022, Radcliffe referenced his longtime love. “I’ve got a very nice life. I have been with my girlfriend for a decade just about. We’re really completely happy,” he said.
Radcliffe went on to debate working alongside Darke—they recently shared the screen in a 2021 episode of TBS’ The Miracle Staff. “We obviously met on film and so attending to do stuff on Miracle Staff together with her last 12 months was incredibly special and felt lovely,” said Radcliffe. “Hopefully we’ll get to do more in the longer term, but we also each write, so perhaps we might write something together sooner or later, and that might be cool.”
Darke was by Radcliffe’s side on the premiere of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
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The couple attended the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022. Radcliffe wore a sleek black suit over a geometrical button-down together with lace-up brogues. Darke wore a sleeveless blue dress and metallic open-toed sandals.
Darke and Radcliffe were seen on a rare stroll in Recent York City in March 2023.
Radcliffe and Darke were photographed by paparazzi out in Recent York City on Friday, March 24, 2023. The looks set off pregnancy rumors on social media, but no outlet or the couple have confirmed the fan speculation.
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Savannah Walsh is an Editorial Fellow at ELLE.com.
