哈利·波特系列中的名配角（附图）

爱思英语编者按：哈利波特1-6的演员阵容，你知道哪些呢？除了丹尼尔·雷德克里夫、爱玛·沃特森、鲁伯特·格林特这三位主角之外，哈利波特系列中还出现过众多的配角演员，他们中不乏演技出众之人，可谓是明星荟萃。

Star-Studded Cast

One of the smartest decisions made by the creative team behind the Harry Potter films was to cast the adult roles from the very cream of British thespians. If you"re among the brightest luminaries of the London stage or international screen — and if you weren"t too famously connected with the competing Lord of the Rings trilogy, like Sir Ian McKellen — you"ve probably played a Harry Potter witch or wizard. Some of these stars, like Julie Christie and Kenneth Branagh, have appeared only fleetingly or in a single film; others, like Alan Rickman and Michael Gambon, are at the core of the enterprise. The series is essentially about the coming of age of Daniel Radcliffe"s Harry, but the actors who have played his guardians and tormentors have given Radcliffe, and millions of delighted viewers, lessons in effortless screen éclat.

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape, 1-6   更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/
With lips permanently curled in derision, and a voice like satin soaked in bile, this Welsh-Irish character actor was J.K. Rowling"s choice to incarnate Snape. Honestly, who else? Rickman, 63, achieved his first and lasting prominence on stage as the maleficent Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and on screen as the purring baddie Hans Gruber in the first Die Hard. Snape, a Hogwarts classmate of Harry"s sainted parents, and the Potions teacher in the first five films, is promoted to Defense Against the Dark Arts this time — a measure of Dumbledore"s somewhat perplexing trust in him. To this crucial character Rickman brings a lovely mixture of wit and threat: in Half-Blood Prince he provokes the tensest shivers and the biggest laugh.

Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall, 1-6
Professor McG. is the Hogwarts deputy headmistress and professor of Transfiguration — and, as head of Gryffindor House, den mother to Harry, Ron and Hermione. For a half-century Dame Maggie, 74, has been one of Britain"s warmest, most glittering theatrical lights. In the "60s she played Desdemona to Laurence Olivier"s Othello and won her first Academy Award (Best Actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie). In 1978 she picked up another Oscar for California Suite (Best Supporting Actress). Imperious but fair, Minerva has a flutey, undercutting good humor. In the first Potter film, after Harry and Ron have improbably aced a Transfiguration test, she proclaims: "Five points will be awarded to each of you — for sheer dumb luck."

Fiona Shaw as Petunia Dursley, 1-3, 5
Petunia, sister of Harry"s mother Lily, and her husband Vernon grudgingly assumed the task of raising the boy after his parents" death. Not raising, exactly: more treating him like an unsettled dog and making him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Petunia gets a reading both sullen and fluttery from Shaw, 51, the piercingly eccentric Irish actress who has dabbled in film (My Left Foot, Persuasion, The Black Dahlia) but is most revered for playing the title roles — Medea, Electra, Hedda Gabler and a potent, plausible Richard II — in revivals directed by Deborah Warner. She immerses herself so deeply in these parts that she comes out drenched.

Richard Griffiths as Vernon Dursley, 1-3, 5
A man of grand and troubling girth, and charm every bit as capacious, Griffiths, 61, scored a triumph as the beloved teacher in Alan Bennett"s The History Boys on stage and in the film version. He also played Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe on the BBC series Pie in the Sky and appeared with Daniel Radcliffe, a.k.a. Harry Potter, in the West End and Broadway revival of Peter Shaffer"s Tony-winning play Equus. His Vernon is a pompous domestic sadist, fuming, against all evidence, that "There"s no such thing as magic!" and wishing devoutly for Harry"s death or, at least, permanent departure.

Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore, 3-6
"The Great Gambon" (Ralph Richardson"s phrase) assumed the role of the Hogwarts headmaster after the death of Richard Harris, the Dumbledore of the first two films. Gambon"s cello voice and rumpled face lend majesty and humanity to the series" central adult role, as the great wizard takes on the mission of Harry"s safekeeping. Gambon, 68, was picked for stardom by Laurence Olivier and had a small role in the 1965 Othello, with Maggie Smith. A few years later he was asked to audition as James Bond, but found his ample niche in the theater (Lear and Falstaff, Chekhov, plenty of Pinter) and on TV (as Inspector Maigret and the star of Dennis Potter"s immortal miniseries The Singing Detective). Fellow actor Simon Callow has said that Gambon"s "iron lungs and overwhelming charisma" reach the farthest seat in the biggest theater. As Dumbledore, he projects a more intimate magnificence.