Daniel Radcliffe was introduced to audiences in 2001 as the titular character in the Harry Potter film series, but his actual feature film debut came in a star-studded spy thriller earlier that same year. Radcliffe began acting as a young child and made his acting debut in 1999, playing a young David Copperfield in a television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous novel. When the first installment of the Harry Potter film series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, was released, Radcliffe was only 12 years old, making the young actor's rise to fame instantaneous.