{"id":200408,"date":"2020-01-10T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=200408"},"modified":"2025-02-16T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:17:12","slug":"rupert-grint-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/rupert-grint-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Rigorous Fact About Rupert Grint"},"content":{"rendered":"
Everyone\u2019s favorite ginger is clearly Rupert Grint!\n
Shooting to fame from the Harry Potter series, even if you haven\u2019t seen them you\u2019ve seen or heard of this famous redhead.\n So if you\u2019re a fan or just a curious spectator, here are the top 30 facts we dug up about Rupert Grint!\n Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint is 36 years old. He was born on August 24, 1988.\n Rupert is the oldest of five siblings \u2013 James, Georgina, Samantha, and Charlotte.\n Rupert\u2019s dad used to deal in car racing memorabilia, and his mother was a homemaker. Their family grew up in Hertfordshire which is a picturesque county north of London.\n While he was growing up, Rupert was a fan of the Harry Potter books and Ron was his favorite character.\n When Rupert was cast at Ron at age 11, his only previous acting experience was in school plays and at his local theater group.\n For his Harry Potter audition, he filmed a video wearing a girl’s dress while rapping about how much he wanted the role.\n Rupert\u2019s earliest ambition in life was to become an ice cream man. After he made money from doing Harry Potter, he bought an ice cream van and sometimes drives around giving out free ice cream.\n Rupert Grint left school at the age of 16 to focus on his acting career.\n Sometimes, people will mistake Rupert Grint for Ed Sheeran. He says when this happens, he usually plays along with it.\n Grint is so afraid of spiders, he can\u2019t watch his own scenes in \u201cHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\u201d where he\u2019s facing giant spiders. He is even scared of rubber spiders!\n Although he\u2019s tried to play instruments, he\u2019s never stuck with any. However, he says he can play the didgeridoo fairly well.\n He may not be an Olympic athlete, but Rupert Grint still carried the torch from Middlesex University through North-West London at the 2012 London Olympics.\n Both Rupert Grint and Emma Watson were apprehensive about filming a kissing scene together because they had known each other for so long.\n After Harry Potter, Rupert invested some of his money in real estate and even set up his own company for it called \u201cEevil Plan Properties.\u201d\n In 2014, Rupert made his Broadway debut playing Frank Finger in \u201cIt\u2019s Only a Play\u201d.\n As an animal lover, it\u2019s no surprise Rupert has two dogs. They\u2019re both Labrador retrievers, named Ruby and Fudge.\n In order to raise money for Keech Hospice Care in London, Rupert auctioned a butterfly he designed for Chrysalis Collection.\n Rupert was offered the lead role of Austin Ames in \u201cA Cinderella Story\u201d with starred Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray. Unfortunately, he had to turn it down so he could film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.\n\n