Almost every celebrity net worth is somebody’s estimate. Daniel Radcliffe’s is not. His money sits in a British company that is legally required to file accounts — and the most recent filing puts its net assets at £99,045,232.
Daniel Radcliffe Net Worth: What the Sources Say
- £99,045,232 — net assets of Gilmore Jacobs Limited at 31 March 2025, from the filed accounts
- Forbes publishes no net worth for him — only annual earnings, which peaked at $25 million a year in 2009 and 2010
- Our take: use the pound figure. It is a filing, not a guess. See our methodology.
What the Filing Actually Shows
Gilmore Jacobs Limited was incorporated on 13 September 2000 — the year he was cast as Harry Potter — by his parents, Alan Radcliffe and Marcia Gresham, who remain its directors. Its registered activity is “artistic creation”. Accounts to 31 March 2025 were filed in December 2025, showing:
- Listed investments at market value — £49,980,776
- Debtors — £20,471,222
- Fixed-asset investments — £14,829,153
- Cash at bank — £13,793,237
- Investment property — £3,350,000, written down by £825,000 in the year
- Net assets — £99,045,232, up from £96,316,746
Three caveats belong with that number, and we would rather state them than let the figure look cleaner than it is. It is the company’s net assets, and the register records Radcliffe as holding more than 25% but not more than 50% of the shares — his parents are also persons with significant control. The accounts are unaudited, taking the small-company exemption, and the directors chose not to file a profit and loss account, so income is not public. And the property valuation was carried out by the directors personally rather than by an independent valuer.
Attributing the whole £99 million to him personally is therefore an inference — a reasonable one, since the company exists to hold his earnings, but an inference.
Two Numbers Everyone Repeats That Are Wrong
“£102 million.” Widely reported in December 2025, and it is the wrong line from the wrong date. £101,820,495 is total assets less current liabilities — before deducting £2,775,263 of provisions. Net assets are £99,045,232. The reports also date it to “end of 2024” when the accounts are made up to 31 March 2025, and then compare it against the previous year’s net assets, mixing two different measures. Done properly, the year-on-year growth is £2.73 million, about £227,000 a month — less than half the “£500,000 a month” claimed.
“£150,000 for the first film.” This appears to be a currency error. The figure that exists in a real source is $145,000, published by Forbes in December 2007 — and Forbes itself hedges it as “a reported” figure with no source named. The pound version looks like the same number with the symbol swapped.
The “$95.6 Million From Harry Potter” Is Not a Salary
This one can be traced end to end, and every step of the journey introduces an error.
- 2016: The Telegraph estimates he is worth £74 million — a total net worth, in pounds, including property.
- Later that year: CBS converts it to $95.6 million and describes it as a fortune amassed “from a series of movies”.
- Since: it is republished as what he “made from all eight Harry Potter films, after taxes and commissions”.
A net worth became a dollar figure, became a gross film salary, became a post-tax film salary. Wikipedia’s pound salary figures are worse still: they are back-conversions of those dollar numbers, using a currency-converter page as the citation, which round-trips the error and manufactures false precision.
What Forbes did publish is real and worth using: he ranked sixth among top-earning young stars at $15 million in 2007, and appeared on the Celebrity 100 at $25 million in both 2009 and 2010.
Does He Still Earn From Harry Potter?
Honestly: nobody outside his representation knows, and he has never claimed to.
No source establishes any ongoing residual or backend payment to him, and every specific residual figure in circulation is uncited. Residuals are plausible on general industry grounds, but his terms are not public.
There is useful context in the leaked Warner Bros. accounting from 2010, which showed Order of the Phoenix recording a $167 million “loss” on a film that grossed around $940 million — a demonstration of how net-profit definitions work in practice. But no source names Radcliffe as an affected participant, so we will not imply he was one.
On the HBO series premiering in December 2026: he has no verified role, credit or financial stake. His documented contact with the production is a personal letter to the boy now playing Harry, in which he said he did not want to be a spectre in these children’s lives. He has consistently framed his absence as a creative clean break, never as a consequence of his public disagreement with J.K. Rowling — and no reporting shows any effect of that dispute on his income or work.
A Working Actor With a Portfolio
The balance sheet tells you what the film career built: roughly £50 million in listed investments and £14 million in cash, run by a two-employee company. What it does not tell you is what he earns now, because no salary for any non-Potter role — screen or stage — has ever been published.
He won a Tony in June 2024 for Merrily We Roll Along, whose final week took $2.77 million — described by the production as the highest-grossing week ever for a Sondheim musical on Broadway, at 100% capacity and an average ticket of $357.94. In 2026 he returned to Broadway in Every Brilliant Thing and was Tony-nominated again.
One last note on his reputation for thrift. He has said he does not really do anything with his money, and that having it mainly means not worrying about it. That is genuine — but it traces to a single 2016 Telegraph interview, recycled ever since. It is one well-travelled quote, not a documented pattern.
Sources
- Companies House — Gilmore Jacobs Limited, filed accounts
- Companies House — Persons with significant control
- Forbes — $25 million earned between June 2009 and June 2010
- CBS News — Where the “$95.6 million” figure came from
- The Hollywood Reporter — Merrily’s record final week
- The Hollywood Reporter — His letter to the new Harry
Money Timeline
| Date | Type | Event | Amount | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-09 | Deal | His parents incorporate the company that still holds the money | Gilmore Jacobs Limited was registered on 13 September 2000 - the year he was cast as Harry Potter - by Alan Radcliffe and Marcia Gresham, who remain its directors. Its registered activity is 'artistic creation'. Because it is a UK company it must file accounts, which is why his wealth is documented rather than estimated. source | |
| 2009-06 | Payday | Forbes Celebrity 100: $25 million a year | $25M | Ranked 70th on the 2009 list and 82nd in 2010, at $25 million each time - Forbes later specified this covered June 2009 to June 2010. These are annual earnings; Forbes has never published a net worth for him. His earliest listed figure was $15 million in 2007, when he ranked sixth among top-earning young stars. source |
| 2024-06 | Payday | Wins a Tony - in Broadway's biggest Sondheim week | $2.8M | He won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Merrily We Roll Along on 16 June 2024. The production's final week took $2.77 million, described as the highest-grossing week ever for a Sondheim musical on Broadway, at 100 per cent capacity with an average ticket of $357.94. His own fee has never been published - no salary for any non-Potter role, screen or stage, ever has. source |
| 2025-03 | Deal | Company net assets reach £99,045,232 | £99M | Accounts to 31 March 2025, filed that December: £49.98 million in listed investments, £20.47 million in debtors, £14.83 million in fixed-asset investments, £13.79 million in cash, and £3.35 million of investment property written down by £825,000 in the year. Up from £96,316,746 - growth of £2.73 million, about £227,000 a month. The company is run with two employees and the accounts are unaudited. source |
Key financial events, aggregated from the sources cited above. See our methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions
Short answers to the most common questions about this profile. For our sourcing and update method, see our Methodology page.
What is Daniel Radcliffe's net worth in 2026?
Unusually for a celebrity, there is a filed figure rather than an estimate. Gilmore Jacobs Limited - the company his parents incorporated in 2000, the year he was cast - reported net assets of £99,045,232 at 31 March 2025 in accounts filed with Companies House. Three caveats belong with it: those are the company's net assets, the register records him holding more than 25 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the shares, and the accounts are unaudited with no profit and loss account filed. Forbes has never published a net worth for him.
Is Daniel Radcliffe worth £102 million?
No - that widely reported figure is the wrong line from the wrong date. £101,820,495 is total assets less current liabilities, before deducting £2,775,263 of provisions; net assets are £99,045,232. The reports also date it to the end of 2024 when the accounts run to 31 March 2025, then compare it against the previous year's net assets, mixing two different measures. Done properly, the year-on-year growth is £2.73 million, or about £227,000 a month - less than half the £500,000 a month claimed.
How much did Daniel Radcliffe earn from Harry Potter?
The much-quoted '$95.6 million from Harry Potter' is not a salary figure at all. It began as a 2016 Telegraph estimate of his total net worth - £74 million, including property - was converted to dollars by CBS, then re-described as what he made from the films, and later as what he made after tax. What Forbes actually published is real: sixth among top-earning young stars at $15 million in 2007, and $25 million a year on the Celebrity 100 in both 2009 and 2010. The '£150,000 for the first film' also looks like a currency error - the figure in the source is $145,000.
Does Daniel Radcliffe still get paid for Harry Potter?
No source establishes any ongoing residual or backend payment to him, and he has never claimed one. Every specific residual figure in circulation is uncited. Residuals are plausible on general industry grounds, but his terms are not public. Context worth knowing: leaked Warner Bros. accounting from 2010 showed Order of the Phoenix recording a $167 million loss on a film that grossed around $940 million - though no source names Radcliffe as an affected net-profit participant.
Is Daniel Radcliffe involved in the HBO Harry Potter series?
He has no verified role, credit or financial stake in it. His only documented contact with the production is a personal letter to Dominic McLaughlin, the boy now playing Harry, in which he said he did not want to be a spectre in these children's lives. He has consistently framed his absence as a creative clean break rather than as a consequence of his public disagreement with J.K. Rowling, and no reporting shows any effect of that dispute on his income or work. The only returning original-film actor is Warwick Davis.
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