Harry Melling

Harry Melling is one of those rare actors who managed to completely outrun his most famous role — and honestly, that takes serious guts. Most people remember him as the insufferable, pudgy Dudley Dursley from the Harry Potter films, but he shed that image so thoroughly that by the time he showed up in the Coen Brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in 2018, plenty of viewers had no idea it was the same guy. That performance — intense, haunted, deeply strange — announced that he was genuinely gifted, not just a childhood footnote. His turn in The Pale Blue Eye alongside Christian Bale in 2022 only confirmed it. He's drawn to outsiders, eccentrics, and damaged souls, and he plays them without a hint of vanity. I'm rooting hard for him to keep getting weirder and better.

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Name (English)

Harry Melling

Name (Japanese)

ハリー・メリング

Reading

はりー・めりんぐ

Born

March 13, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Height

175 cm

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor

Filmography / notable works

• Xhttps://x.com/mrharrymelling
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Melling
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329778

Tags

• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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