Ron Weasley Is Back as Rupert Grint Returns to the Wizarding World on Broadway

There are some roles that an actor simply plays.

Then there are the characters that grow up right alongside them.

For Rupert Grint, Ron Weasley has always been the latter.

Now, 15 years after audiences last saw Grint step into the role on screen, the actor is returning to the Wizarding World and reprising Ron once more—this time on Broadway in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

Grint will join the production at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre for a limited 17-week run from February 2 through May 30, 2027, taking on the adult version of the character he first began playing when he was just 11 years old.

And if that already feels wonderfully full-circle, Grint seems to agree.

“Ron Weasley has been a part of me since I was 11 years old and I can’t wait to meet him again in this stage of life,” Grint shared in a statement, noting that returning to the character now that both he and Ron are fathers makes the experience feel both familiar and entirely new.

That passage of time is particularly fitting for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

Rather than simply returning audiences to the Hogwarts years we already know, the stage production jumps forward and follows the next generation, exploring what happens when Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco and the rest of that world are no longer simply the kids getting into trouble themselves—but the parents watching another generation find their way through it.

Grint’s casting also follows another major original “Harry Potter” reunion on Broadway.

Tom Felton returned to Draco Malfoy for “Cursed Child,” with his run proving so popular that it was extended through January 3. Now Grint will become the latest member of the original film cast to step back into the world that helped define an entire generation of moviegoers.

And there is something rather special about it being Ron.

Across eight films released between 2001 and 2011, audiences quite literally watched Grint grow up as the quick-witted, occasionally exasperated and endlessly loyal best friend of Harry Potter.

Now audiences get to see what happens when both the actor and character have grown older.

Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender perhaps summed it up best, describing Grint’s return not simply as revisiting an old role, but continuing a journey he began as a child.

That makes this far more than another piece of nostalgic casting.

It is a bridge between two eras of “Harry Potter.”

One that began with three kids meeting aboard the Hogwarts Express, and another exploring what comes after the adventure supposedly ends.

Because apparently, for Ron Weasley, it never really did.

Rupert Grint begins performances in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” on February 2, 2027, at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre, with his limited run continuing through May 30. Presale begins September 1.