It can’t be easy being best known for always playing the bad guy. After starting out more mildly, as Jim Broadbent and Celia Imrie’s son in The Borrowers and Jodie Foster’s offspring in Anna and the King, Tom Felton was cast as Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy when he was 12. In spite of propelling him to worldwide fame, Felton says that it led to a tough time at his real muggle school: “I was walking around with dyed hair and played an evil wizard. It wasn’t cool.”

Post Potter, Felton has mainly continued down the antagonist route, be it abusing the captive apes with his dad Brian Cox in 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes; cheating on the golf course in 2011’s sports drama From the Rough; behaving inappropriately towards Gugu Mbatha-Raw in 2013 period drama Belle; stabbing Hamlet

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