What's next for 'Harry Potter' cast?

What's next for 'Harry Potter' cast? "Harry Potter" fans are excited about the release of the final film in the mega-popular series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2". With this culmination of nearly 10 years of work on making the "Harry Potter" film series, we take a look at what's next for the all-star cast.

Daniel Radcliffe
Character: Harry Potter



Next up for Radcliffe: He plays a German soldier in "All Quiet on the Western Front," based on the well-known book and 1979 movie, and a young lawyer tracking down a mystery in the remake of the supernatural film "The Woman in Black." Both are due to be released in 2012.

Emma Watson
Character: Hermione Granger


Next up for Watson: She is filming "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," based on the coming-of-age book of the same name by Stephen Chbosky. She'll play Sam, one of two friends of the main character, played by Logan Lerman. She began photo shoots for her new gig as the face of Lancome International in March.

Rupert Grint
Character: Ron Weasley



Next up for Grint: The redheaded British star has finished filming a World War II movie, "Comrade," in which he plays a British pilot forced to collaborate with his enemies to survive in the wilderness.

Helena Bonham Carter

Character: Bellatrix Lestrange

Next up for Bonham Carter: The gothic "Death Eater" in the last Potter film is set to star in designer Marc Jacobs' fall ad campaign. In 2012 she'll play Miss Havisham in "Great Expectations" and star with Michelle Pfeiffer in husband Tim Burton's remake of the '60s TV show "Dark Shadows"

Gary Oldman
Character: Sirius Black

Next up for Oldman: Hollywood's go-to villain is now starring in "Kung Fu Panda 2" and will reprise his Commissioner Gordon role in the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," due in 2012.

Ralph Fiennes
Character: Voldemort

Next up for Fiennes: He and his co-star in "Deathly Hallows," Michael Gambon, are among the stars in the BBC spy thriller "Page Eight," which will air on PBS this fall.

Bonnie Wright
Character: Ginny Weasley


Next up for Wright: The redhead became engaged this past spring to Jamie Campbell Bower, who played the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, in "Deathly Hallows and starred in the "Twilight" franchise. She's a confirmed cast member in the upcoming psychological thriller "The Philosophers."

Emma Thompson
Character: Sibyll Trelawney


Next up for Thompson: The Oscar-winning actress will voice aqueen in the Disney Pixar animated 3-D movie, "Brave," starring Reese Witherspoon. See her in "Men in Black 3." She'll also take screenwriting credit for the "My Fair Lady" remake coming out in 2012 and star in the comedy "Settle Down."

Tom Felton
Character: Draco Malfoy



Next up for Felton: Harry's schoolmate nemesis will star with James Franco in the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" prequel. He's also signed a record deal.

Michael Gambon
Character: Professor Albus Dumbledore



Next up for Gambon: Starring in "Page Eight," with Ralph Fiennes. The BBC spy drama, written and directed by David Hare, will air on PBS this fall.

Maggie Smith
Character: Professor Minerva McGonagall

Next up for Smith: Hogwarts' favorite transfiguration professor appears in the BBC period drama "Downtown Abbey," as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham. What's her real-life title?

Jason Isaacs
Character: Lucius Malfoy



Next up for Isaacs: He's the voice of spy jet Siddeley in the upcoming "Cars 2"  and the star of a new NBC pilot, "Awake," playing a police detective whose work straddles alternate realities.

Celebrities who quit acting

Celebrities who quit acting

 Actors who ‘quit’ the business.Sure, we’ve all had a bad day at work and wanted to throw in the towel, but how do you “quit” being a celebrity? Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman film Black Swan is the latest superstar to publicly hint at quitting the business natalie portman quit acting family. Here are some actors who tried to leave the business. Did any of them succeed?

 Ryan Phillippe
Just as his latest movie hits theaters, the young actor announced he was leaving the business. Will he really do it? A rep is already denying the report. 

 Amanda Bynes
The former Nickelodeon teen queen appeared in a modest Colin Firth hit and this cult fave before announcing that she was retiring in June 2010.  She had a change of heart one month later.

 Joaquin Phoenix
In 2008, the Oscar-nominated actor said “I’m done” with acting. What followed was a bizarre interview with David Letterman in 2009, followed by him un-retiring in 2010.

 Evangeline Lilly
In 2009, the actress revealed plans to quit acting after the show that made her a star wrapped for good. But in an interview in 2010  she said she wouldn’t rule acting out but wanted to focus on upcoming mommy-hood.

 Phoebe Cates
Once a darling of teen films  she retired from acting in the mid-1990s to be a full-time mom, making only one brief appearance since as a favor to her famous best friend.

 Nicolas Cage
In 2008, he announced that he wanted to quit the business, but based on the fact that he has eight new films scheduled for release through 2012  he must have changed his mind.

 Sean Connery
The veteran actor retired from acting in 2005, and when asked about it in 2007 after winning a prestigious award, he confirmed that he had no intentions of returning—and has not yet.

 Alec Baldwin
In 2009, Baldwin said he plans to retire from acting. That remains to be seen, as he’s starring on a hit sitcom and has hosted this show 15 times.

 Angelina Jolie
In 2010, the vixen hinted in a Vanity Fair interview that she wouldn’t be acting much longer, but she has movie releases through 2013, including one about a historical figure. 

 Viggo Mortensen
He announced in 2009 that he was exhausted and would be quitting the business.  But Mortensen joined the cast of a famous book-based film in 2010, and is attached to two more films in the next year.

 Debra Winger
She quit the business in 1995, and didn’t reappear on screen until Rosanna Arquette’s  documentary that bore Winger’s name in 2002.  She returned to acting shortly after, getting critical praise for return in this film.

 Leonard Nimoy
The “Star Trek” actor announced his retirement from acting in 2010, but he still continues his role in a sci-fi cult fave series and provides a character voice in an upcoming big-budget film.  So he’s not exactly retired, right?

 Emma Watson
She seems a little young to retire, but in 2009 she announced her plans to do just that so she could attend college and “find herself” after her mega-hit film series wrapped.  After 18 months, she’s left school and has several films coming up, including this one.

 Anthony Hopkins
The legendary actor first said he wanted to quit acting in 1998, then again in 2006—but he never really left the public eye for long. In fact, he has a big role in one of the most-anticipated summer blockbusters.

 

Gene Hackman
In 2008, Hackman quit the acting business and briefly toured with a historical novel he co-wrote. He has not returned to the silver screen.

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Emma Watson taking a break from school to focus on career

the 20-year-old star has announced on her official website that she will be postponing her studies at Brown University until the release of the final " Harry Potter

The actress-student, 20, announced on her website Monday that she will be dialing back on her schoolwork to focus on her career.
"As you know, I love Brown and I love studying pretty much more than anything," she wrote. "But recently I've had so much to juggle that being a student AND fulfilling my other commitments has become a little impossible."
The Harry Potter star, a sophomore at the Ivy League school, added that she wants more time to focus on the film franchise's last installment.