Editing Daniel Radcliffe (section)

=== 1999–2001: Acting debut and early career ===
Radcliffe first expressed a desire to act at age five.<ref name="agefive">{{cite news |title=Faces of the week: DANIEL RADCLIFFE |work=BBC News |date=2 March 2007 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6413257.stm |access-date=27 May 2011 |archive-date=27 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627024039/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6413257.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> After one of his mother's casting agent friends secured him an audition, he made his acting debut at age ten in [[BBC One]]'s [[David Copperfield (1999 film)|two-part adaptation]] of the [[Charles Dickens]] novel ''[[David Copperfield]]'' (1999),<ref>{{cite news|last=Jefferies|first=Mark|date=8 November 2013|title=Daniel Radcliffe would never have been Harry Potter if his parents had their way|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/harry-potter-daniel-radcliffe-would-2710748|work=Daily Mirror|access-date=22 December 2022|archive-date=26 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226090027/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/harry-potter-daniel-radcliffe-would-2710748|url-status=live}}</ref> portraying the [[David Copperfield (character)|title character]] as a young boy.<ref name="dcref1">{{cite web|last=Roberts |first=Sheila |title=Daniel Radcliffe Interview, December Boys |publisher=Movies Online |date=10 September 2007 |url=http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12913.html |access-date=27 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411092919/http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12913.html |archive-date=11 April 2011 }}</ref> He made his film debut in ''[[The Tailor of Panama (film)|The Tailor of Panama]]'' (2001), an American film based on [[John le Carré]]'s 1996 spy novel, which was a moderate commercial success.<ref name="thenumbersbo">{{cite web|url = https://www.the-numbers.com/people/DRADC.php|title = Daniel Radcliffe|work = The-Numbers.com|publisher = Nash Information Services, LLC|access-date = 28 May 2011|archive-date = 23 June 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120623013752/http://www.the-numbers.com/people/DRADC.php|url-status = live}}</ref>