Cast[edit]

Further information: List of Harry Potter cast members

 Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter: A 14-year-old British wizard famous for surviving his parents' murder at the
hands of the evil dark wizard Lord Voldemort as an infant, who now enters his fourth year at Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[6]
 Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley: Harry's best friend at Hogwarts and a younger member of the Weasley wizarding
family.[6]
 Emma Watson as Hermione Granger: Harry's other best friend and the trio's brains. [6]
 Robbie Coltrane as Rubeus Hagrid: The gamekeeper and Care of Magical Creatures teacher at Hogwarts.[7]
 Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort:
A dark wizard intent on conquering the Wizarding World and the leader of the Death Eaters.[8] Fiennes
commented on the difficulty of playing someone who is "the essence of evil," and discussed giving a humanity
to Voldemort in order for him to be "deeply, truly evil", citing the character's unhappy childhood as fuel for
"anger, jealousy and hatred".[9] He and director Mike Newell were interested in exploring the character's
"unexpected mood swings".[10] Newell cited Fiennes' ability to play "a realistic and frightening villain" instead of
"a simple caricature" as a reason for his casting. [11]
 Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore:
The headmaster of Hogwarts and one of the greatest wizards of all time. [12] Gambon commented on the state of
the character in the film: "Dumbledore is no longer in control and he's frightened." [10] Newell compared
Gambon's performance with Richard Harris' iteration in earlier films, showing the character as "fallible and not
omnipotent" and "inadequate rather than super-adequate." [13]
 Brendan Gleeson as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody:
A famous ex-Auror appointed by Dumbledore as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.
[14]
 Ray Winstone and Brian Cox were originally offered the role but turned it down. [15][16] Gleeson referred to
Moody as "a gunslinger with a wand," whose "great wounds have damaged him greatly." Heyman found
Gleeson brought "a great balance of ferociousness and humour" to what he called a "complex, challenging
character."[17] Though mainly his screen time was Barty's disguise as Mad-Eye, Gleeson also portrayed the real
Mad-Eye towards the end of the movie.
 Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy: Draco's father and a former Hogwarts pupil of Slytherin House. He is also a
member of the Death Eaters.[18]
 Gary Oldman as Sirius Black: Harry's godfather, who had escaped from Azkaban after being wrongly
imprisoned for twelve years and is now a fugitive.[19]
 Alan Rickman as Severus Snape: The Potions teacher at Hogwarts and head of Slytherin.[20]
 Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall: Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, the Transfiguration teacher at
Hogwarts and head of Gryffindor.[20]
 Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew: The Death Eater who betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort. [18]
Several actors from the previous film reprise their roles in Goblet of Fire. James and Oliver Phelps play Fred and
George Weasley, Ron's twin brothers,[21] and Bonnie Wright portrays their sister Ginny,[22] while Mark Williams plays
their father, Arthur Weasley.[23] Tom Felton portrays Lucius Malfoy's son Draco, Harry's rival in Slytherin,
[24]
 while Jamie Waylett and Joshua Herdman appear as Crabbe and Goyle, Draco's minions.[25][26] Matthew
Lewis, Devon Murray and Alfred Enoch play Neville Longbottom, Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas respectively,
three Gryffindor students in Harry's year.[27][28] David Bradley appears as Argus Filch, Hogwarts' caretaker,
[29]
 and Warwick Davis returns as Professor Filius Flitwick, now using the look used when Davis portrayed the
conductor of the Hogwarts Choir in the previous film. [30] Shirley Henderson reprises her role as Moaning Myrtle, a
Hogwarts ghost,[31] and Robert Hardy returns as Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic.[32]
Robert Pattinson replaced stunt performer/actor Joe Livermore as Hogwarts champion Cedric Diggory, who made a
brief appearance in the previous film during a Quidditch sequence.[33][34] Jeff Rawle appears as Cedric's father Amos.
[35]
 David Tennant plays Barty Crouch Jr, a Death Eater,[36] and Roger Lloyd-Pack portrays his father Barty Crouch
Sr, head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation.[37] Katie Leung appears as Cho Chang, a
Ravenclaw student and Harry's love interest. [14] Clémence Poésy plays Beauxbatons champion Fleur Delacour,
[38]
 while Stanislav Ianevski portrays Durmstrang champion and Quidditch star Viktor Krum.[39] Miranda
Richardson plays The Daily Prophet reporter Rita Skeeter.[14] Predrag Bjelac appears as Igor Karkaroff, Headmaster
of Durmstrang and a former Death Eater, [40] while Frances de la Tour plays Olympe Maxime, Headmistress of
Beauxbatons.[41] Shefali Chowdhury and Afshan Azad play Parvati and Padma Patil, Harry and Ron's dates to the
Yule Ball, respectively.[42] Eric Sykes appears as Frank Bryce, the caretaker at the Riddle family house.[43] John
Hurt originally confirmed in an interview with Empire that he would reprise his role as Garrick Ollivander as part of
his four-film contract, but his scenes were cut.[44]