Jamie Parker won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play for playing Harry Potter in The Cursed Child.
Parker originated the role of the adult Harry Potter in the original West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The play, written by Jack Thorne from a story credited to Thorne, J. K. Rowling, and John Tiffany, is set nineteen years after the events of the original Harry Potter series.
At the 2017 Laurence Olivier Awards, Parker won Best Actor for his performance. The award recognized his work in the London production, not a film performance and not an award for the Potter franchise as a whole. That distinction matters because Parker later reprised the role on Broadway and received a Tony Award nomination, but he did not win that Tony.
Parker’s earlier credits included The History Boys and Shakespeare productions at the Globe. His Cursed Child victory remains his most closely associated individual screen-and-stage achievement, while the play itself won multiple Olivier Awards and became a major West End production.