Thomas Andrew Felton, a.k.a. Draco Malfoy, is an English actor and musician. He has appeared in many blockbuster movies and series and debuted his career through a commercial for Commercial Union and Barclaycard. His net worth is estimated at 20 million dollars currently.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Tom Felton is the youngest of all the brothers. When he was a teenager, his parents got divorced. The geophysicist Nigel Anstey is his maternal grandfather. Until the age of 13, he studied at West Horseley’s Cranmore School and later moved to Howard of Effingham School to complete his secondary education. He joined choir schools due to his highly growing interest in singing during his childhood and was even offered a place in the Guildford Cathedral Choir, which he turned down. He said in an interview that he regrets not going to college due to his career in acting and not being able to quench his thirst for knowledge.

The Felton Family

LOVE LIFE

The actor has been rumored to be dating Emma Watson, an English actress, and activist, in August 2019. It possibly might be because the Harry Potter fandom loves the off-screen chemistry between the two of them too much. However, Felton confirmed that these rumors were bogus and the two of them were just friends. Tom Felton had also been rumored with Melissa Tamshick, an actress, model, singer, writer and band member. They supposedly dated for approximately three years, from April 2004 to March 2007.

Tom and Emma Tom and Melissa

Felton’s first “official” relationship was with the Australian actress and model Phoebe Tonkin. The couple started dating in June 2006 and their relationship ended in November 2008. He then started dating Jade Olivia, formerly known as Jade Gordon, a British stunt assistant. They started dating in the year 2008 and were together for seven years, before they parted ways in January 2016. Tom and Jade met on the sets of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Jade played the role of Draco’s wife Astoria Malfoy in the same. She could be seen in the last scene where they see off their eleven-year-old to Hogwarts. Years later since they started dating, Tom confessed in an interview that he urged Jade to take up the part of playing his wife in the movie.

Tom and Phoebe Tom and Jade

This concludes that although Tom Felton has had a few cute relationships, he is currently single, much to the relief of most of his fan-girls.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Tom with MTV Movie Award

Tom was nominated for the Young Artist Award in the categories Best Ensemble in a Feature Film and Best Performance in a Feature Film: Supporting Young Actor for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Store in the year 2001. In 2002, he won Disney Channel’s Kids Award for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In the year 2009, he was nominated for MTV Movie Award for the Best Villain and Screen Award for the Best Ensemble for the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and was announced the winner of both the awards. For the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 1, he was nominated for MTV Movie Award in the category Best Villain and Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain and won both of those. He was also nominated for and bagged the MTV Movie Award for Best Cast for the movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2 and was nominated for the same movie for Screen Award under the category of Best Ensemble in the year 2011. In 2015, he was awarded with Giffoni Experience Award in Giffoni Film Festival.

CAREER

Tom Felton has been acting since he was 8 years old. His talent was recognized by an actress friend of his family and she suggested that he pursue acting as a career.

• 1997-2000:- Felton debuted his career in acting by working in commercials for the companies Commercial Union and Barclaycard. His first feature film was The Borrowers, where he played the role of Peagreen Clock (1997). He voiced the character James from the television series Bugs (1998). He played witness Thomas Ingham in Second Sight (1999). In the movie Anna and the King (1999), he played Louis T. Leonowens. He also made a guest appearance in Second Sight 2 in the episode “Hide and Seek” (2000).
• 2001-2011:- In 1999, Tom went on to audition for the role of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley for the first movie of the Harry Potter franchise Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and had not even read the book. He was ultimately cast for the role of the “enemy” Draco Malfoy and was praised for the same when the film released in 2001. Since then, till 2011, he appeared in all seven of the movies and is loved and appreciated all over the world for his acting. His acting made such an impact that fans actually started sympathizing for the bully, spoilt Draco Malfoy. He also made a guest appearance as Adam Baker on the short-lived series, Home Farm Twins (2005). In 2008, he appeared on Adrenaline Junkie performing various challenges in South Africa. He appeared on a comedy sketch on Red Nose Day 2011 alongside some renowned personalities. In 2009, he portrayed Simon in horror-thriller movie The Disappeared. He released his original song “Hawaii” in 2010. In 2010, he played the lead role, Ray Marsden in White Other. He had a cameo in Get Him to the Greek (2010). He played the character Dodge Landon in 2011 in the film Rise of the Planet of the Apes and 2012, played a paranormal investigator in The Apparition. He posted three music videos on YouTube under the channel named “Feltbeats”.
• 2012-Present: – He appeared in an indie drama From the Rough. He played the role of James Ashford in Belle (2013). He also starred in Thé́rèse (2013) as Camille Raquin. He also starred in Labyrinth as Viscount Trancavel in 2013. He portrayed a US Navy airman in Against the Sun (2014). He recurred in Murder in the First. He held supporting roles in Risen, Message from the King and A United Kingdom. He lent his voice to Sheep and Wolves (2016). He appeared in the third season of The CW’s The Flash (2016 to 2017). In 2017, he appeared in Megan Leavey, Feed and Stratton. In 2018, he was cast in the series Origin. He appeared in Braking for Whales in 2019 and A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting in 2020. He was also cast in a war thriller named Burial, Canyon Del Muerto and Lead Heads. In January 2021, he was confirmed for a lead role in Save The Cinema.

FAQ

Why is Tom Felton loved so much?

A. Tom Felton is a beloved actor. He is always appreciated for his acting and fun-loving nature. He has millions of followers on social media and a lot of fans praise him for his real life character. He has established through his social work that he is totally against bullying, unlike the character that he played is best known for, and that makes him all the more attractive to people.

Does Tom have a child?

No, he doesn’t.

Why is he single?

He said in an interview that he does not want to be in a relationship just for the sake of being in one. He really wants to invest himself in the partner and maybe that is why he is waiting to be in a relationship right now.

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