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Tom Felton looks back: ‘I had a nice car, a house in LA. You’re told they make you happy – they don’t’

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Tom Felton in 1995 and 2022. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Grooming: Frankie Nail. Archive photograph: courtesy of Tom Felton

Born in Surrey in 1987, actor Tom Felton is best known for his role as peroxide-blond baddie Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. Before scoring his major role in the fantasy franchise at the age of 12, he appeared in The Borrowers and Anna and the King. He went on to star in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, has released five EPs and most recently appeared on stage in 2:22: A Ghost Story. His memoir, Beyond the Wand, is out now.

, Anna and the King. As the only English-speaking kid on set, I would have been bored,

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