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8 Marvel actors who’ve appeared within the Harry Potter franchise

Doctor Strange star Mads Mikkelsen is claimed to be in early talks to interchange Johnny Depp as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts 3, including one other franchise to his spectacular checklist after James Bond and Star Wars.

While we’re used to seeing actors crossing over between the Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises, it obtained us considering that the events the place Marvel stars have ended up within the Wizarding World had been surprisingly uncommon.

So we determined to verify again by means of the archives of each mega franchises to see the opposite actors who’ve performed roles in each the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Harry Potter franchise.

Jude Law

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Let’s begin with a fairly apparent one as Jude Law has taken on notable roles in each worlds, just about across the similar time.

First up was because the youthful model of Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, a job he is set to reprise within the third film, after which he performed Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel final 12 months, a job that he may reprise within the MCU sooner or later.

Gemma Chan

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Talking of Captain Marvel, Law’s co-star Gemma Chan performed Minn-Erva in the identical film, however she entered the Wizarding World one film earlier as MACUSA member Madam Ya Zhou in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Next 12 months may even see Chan pull off the uncommon feat of showing in two Marvel films as two totally different characters when she performs Sersi in Eternals.

David Tennant

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Another individual to seem within the Potterverse earlier than the MCU was David Tennant who starred as Barty Crouch Jr, one in all Voldemort’s most trustworthy Death Eaters, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Tennant then confirmed up within the MCU because the even-more villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, one of many best-loved exhibits in Netflix’s short-lived Marvel universe.

David Bradley

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Before he was placing on the Red Wedding, David Bradley performed ill-tempered Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch in each Harry Potter film, apart from the primary a part of Deathly Hallows.

Bradley then popped up, very briefly, within the MCU because the Tower Keeper in Captain America: The First Avenger who tried (and failed) to cease Red Skull getting his fingers on the Tesseract.

Toby Jones

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You did not see Toby Jones within the Wizarding World, however you heard him because the voice of Dobby, the house-elf, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (we’re nonetheless not over it).

He was on much less pleasant kind in Captain America: The First Avenger and The Winter Soldier as Arnim Zola who, even after his dying, was nonetheless serving to HYDRA take over SHIELD and the world.

Claudia Kim

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She may not have been a superhero, however Claudia Kim helped out the Avengers in an enormous method in Avengers: Age of Ultron as Dr Helen Cho, saving Hawkeye’s life after which constructing Vision’s physique (albeit initially below management of Ultron).

Three years later, Kim made her Wizarding World debut as Nagini in The Crimes of Grindelwald, lengthy earlier than her blood curse transforms her right into a snake completely and she or he turns into Voldemort’s companion.

Ralph Ineson

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Ralph Ineson performed Death Eater Amycus Carrow in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in addition to within the each elements of the Deathly Hallows finale.

He then popped up in a minor function in Guardians of the Galaxy as a Ravager Pilot who was a part of Yondu’s crew.