The Harry Potter saga was the big-screen debut of many young actors, among those Alfred Enoch, who played Dean Thomas, and here’s what he has done since the Harry Potter movie series ended. Few fantasy books have had the impact and legacy that Harry Potter has, and it all started in 1997 with J.K. Rowling’s debut novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The book spawned six sequels and made way for a media franchise best known for the novels and a series of eight movies, with the final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, divided into two.
Harry Potter and company made the jump to the big screen between 2001 and 2011 and the saga boosted the careers of a new generation of actors, led by Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley). Among those new faces was Alfred Enoch, who played fellow Gryffindor student Dean Thomas, who was mostly a minor character throughout the Harry Potter saga. Dean Thomas was Seamus Finnigan’s best friend and joined Dumbledore’s Army in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and by the end of the book, he started dating Ginny Weasley. Dean also fought in the battle of Hogwarts and appeared in seven of the eight Harry Potter movies.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was Alfred Enoch’s big-screen debut, but he had already worked in theater prior to playing Dean Thomas. In 1999 he played Kit Webster in The Ballad of Salomon Pavey and continued to take part in different plays during his time in the Harry Potter saga, as were The Tempest and The Seagull. Once the Harry Potter movies were over, Enoch returned to theater and took part in a variety of plays, such as Happy New, Timon of Athens, Antigone, Coriolanus, King Lear, Red, Tree, CRAVE, What A Carve Up!, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Watch on the Rhine, and Romeo and Juliet.
Alfred Enoch has also made some time to appear in a couple of TV projects, such as Broadchurch, Mount Pleasant, and Sherlock, where he played Stephen Bainbridge in season 3’s “The Sign of the Three”. Enoch’s biggest TV project post-Harry Potter has been How to Get Away with Murder, where he played Wesley Gibbins in the first four seasons and returned in season 6 to play Christopher Castillo. After that, he played Aeneas in the BBC’s Troy: Fall of a City, Jamie McCain in Trust Me, and Raych Seldon in Apple TV+’s Foundation. On the big screen, Enoch’s career has slowed down after the Harry Potter saga came to an end, starring in the Brazilian dystopian drama movie Executive Order (Medida Provisória) and the sports drama Tigers – and, of course, he reunited with his Hogwarts classmates in Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.
At the time of writing, Alfred Enoch has no confirmed projects following the Harry Potter reunion special, but given his long list of theater credits and how his career on TV has taken off in recent years, it surely won’t be long until he’s announced as part of either another big theater production or a new TV series of any genre, as he has shown versatility throughout his acting career.