--- title: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter GIF - In Honor of His 25th Birthday description: See the Harry Potter star all grown up canonical: https://time.com/3020395/daniel-radcliffe-gif-aging/ author: Joseph C. Lin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-23T14:30:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:02.668Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter GIF - In Honor of His 25th Birthday og:description: See the Harry Potter star all grown up og:url: https://time.com/3020395/daniel-radcliffe-gif-aging/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter GIF - In Honor of His 25th Birthday twitter:description: See the Harry Potter star all grown up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Daniel Radcliffe Grow Up in One Surreal GIF by [Joseph C. Lin](https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Jul 23, 2014 2:30 PM UTC by [Joseph C. Lin](https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/) ## Joseph C. Lin Jul 23, 2014 2:30 PM UTC  Getty Images (14); Gif by Joseph C. Lin—TIME J.K. Rowling recently [revealed](http://time.com/2965574/j-k-rowling-new-harry-potter-story/) that Harry Potter is now a 30-something, but the real life actor who played Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, only turns 25 on July 23, 2014\. Take a look at how he’s grown up from a first-year Gryffindor to a grown man — all in one GIF. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3020395/daniel-radcliffe-gif-aging/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3020395/daniel-radcliffe-gif-aging/"},"headline":"Watch Daniel Radcliffe Grow Up in One Surreal GIF","datePublished":"2014-07-23T14:30:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:02.668Z","description":"Ah, they grow up so fast","url":"https://time.com/3020395/daniel-radcliffe-gif-aging/","keywords":["celebrities","Harry Potter","daniel radcliffe"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph C. Lin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-c-lin/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3020395/daniel-radcliffe-gif-aging/","name":"Watch Daniel Radcliffe Grow Up in One Surreal GIF"}}]}] ```