It seems like just yesterday he was discovering he was a wizard and picking out his first wand in the Harry Potter films as the title character. Now Daniel Radcliffe is all grown up and having a child of his own. We can only speculate at this point which house they will eventually be sorted into.
A representative of Daniel’s confirmed to People magazine that his girlfriend, actress Erin Darke, is pregnant. The couple is ecstatic and cannot wait to become parents. They have been together for over a decade.
Daniel and Erin first met in 2012 while filming the 2013 movie Kill Your Darlings. They played love interests on screen but quickly discovered the chemistry remained even after the director called a cut. As a result, they started dating.
"It'll be a hell of a story to tell our kids one day because of what our characters do with each other. Our characters are meeting and flirting with each other, so there is this kind of sweet record of us just meeting for the first time and flirting,” Daniel recalled.
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Daniel and Erin have worked again together since their first meeting. They both appeared in the 2016 movie Don't Think Twice. Erin also guest-starred on Daniel’s TBS series Miracle Workers in season 3.
Working together "was incredibly special and felt lovely" according to Daniel, but it does not have to happen all the time. "We definitely like [working together], but it's not something we want to do all the time," he explained. "Hopefully we'll get to do more in the future, but we also both write. So maybe we'd write something together at some point, and that would be cool."
Erin is an actress in her own right independent of Daniel. She studied theater performance at University of Michigan-Flint, beginning her college career at 16 years old. She has appeared on television series such as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Good Girls Revolt, and Dietland. She has appeared in films such as Still Alice and Love & Mercy.
Daniel and Erin are private people who choose not to live big, flashy lives. Erin opened up about this to Vulture : "Dating a famous person teaches you very quickly that [expletive] is weird sometimes. People are weird with fame sometimes. You do start to dismiss things you read about your partner if you're pretty sure they're not true. We're boring to [the paparazzi]. Ninety percent of the paparazzi photos of us are getting coffee … We've been photographed twice waiting for an Uber. Dan is not the most exciting celebrity."
One of the reasons Daniel and Erin work as a couple is they both like the same "nerdy" things and feel completely comfortable around each other. "I grew up doing lots of things where I thought, 'This is super nerdy. I'll never be able to do this around a girl.' But that's the wonderful thing about the moment you find the relationship you're meant to be in. It's like, 'Oh, I can do all of that stuff and you don't mind. And you actually think it's fun, too. This is fantastic,'" mused Daniel.
Daniel wants his kids to be creative but maybe not famous. He would prefer their aspirations to be behind the camera. "I want my kids, if and when they exist … I would love them to be around film sets," he explained. "A dream would be for them to come onto a film set and be like 'God, you know, I'd love to be in the art department. I'd love to be something in the crew.' Film sets are wonderful places. I think a lot of the time it can be wonderful for kids. But it's really the fame side of it that should be avoided at all costs."
