Adrian Rawlins is an English actor, who portrayed James Potter in the Harry Potter films. He shares his birthday with his on-screen character, though he was born 2 years earlier.
Coincidentally, he played the lead role in the 1989 TV version of The Woman In Black, 23 years before his on-screen son, Daniel Radcliffe, played the same role in the 2012 theatrical version.
In 2019, he played Soviet nuclear engineer Nikolai Formin in HBO's miniseries Chernobyl, the direct superior of Paul Ritter's Anatoly Dyatlov.
In The Silkworm, the second Cormoran Strike novel authored by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym 'Robert Galbraith', there is a character called Inspector Rawlins, which is possibly a reference to Adrian.
