Who Plays Moaning Myrtle?

How old was Shirley Henderson as Moaning Myrtle

Being age 35 at the time that she first played Moaning Myrtle, she is the oldest actor to play a Hogwarts student in the Harry Potter films. She is the only actress to have won Best Actress at Cherbourg-Octeville twice. Has acted in both the Harry Potter and Doctor Who franchise. Henderson was born November 24, 1965, making her 37 when she played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost of 14-year-old Myrtle Warren) in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (and, therefore, 40, when she reprised the role in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”). Henderson was the oldest actress (and, in fact, the oldest *person*) to play a Hogwarts student in any of the films. (The oldest-or Seventh-Year-students were supposed to be 17 at the start of the school year on September 1.). In 2002 she was named Most Deserving Actor by The Scotsman newspaper for Twenty-four Hour Party People (2002), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), Villa des Roses (2002) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). She was 36 when she first played Moaning Myrtle (the ghost of 14-year-old Myrtle Warren), in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” in 2002, and 39 when she reprised the role in 2005’s “.Goblet of Fire”. In 2005 she won Best Actress at the Marrakech International Film Festival for Frozen (2004). In 2005 she was awarded Best Actress in a Scottish Film by the BAFTA Awards Scotland for Frozen (2004). Currently filming Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, a film with Amy Adams, Ciaran Hinds and Mark Strong. (April 2007) Graduated from the Guildhall of Music and Drama (London) in 1986. In 2005 she was runner-up for Best Actress at the Film de Femmes Creteil for Frozen (2004). In 2004 she won a Best Scottish Actor nomination at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards. In 2002 she won a nomination for the Bowmore/Scottish Screen/Sunday Times Actress of the Year for The Claim (2000) and Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). Just finished a new short film up in Scotland called Ma Boy and a guest appearance on Doctor Who. (April 2006) In 2003 she won the Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival for Fishy (2003). In 2003 she won a British Supporting Actress of the Year nomination at the London Film Critics Circle for Twenty-four Hour Party People (2002). In 2005 she was runner-up for the Golden Needle at the Seattle International Film Festival for Frozen (2004). Laurence Olivier Award winner for Best Actress in a Musical as ‘Elizabeth Lane’ in the original West End production of ‘Girl from the North Country’ (2018). In 2003 she won a nomination for the Bowmore/Scottish Screen/Sunday Times Actress of the Year for Twenty-four Hour Party People (2002), Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002), Villa des Roses (2002) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). In 2004 she won Best Comedy Actress at the Newport Beach Film International Film Festival for American Cousins (2003). Just finished filming on the comedy I Really Hate My Job, in which she plays one of the five leads, and is currently preparing for her role in Master of Lies, which is in pre-production. (September 2006) In 2004 she won the Bowmore/Scottish Screen/Sunday Times Actress of the Year for American Cousins (2003), intermission (2003) and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002). In 2006 she won Best Actress at the Cherbourg International Film Festival for Frozen (2004). In 2001 she won a nomination for the Bowmore/Scottish Screen/Sunday Times Actress of the Year for Wonderland (1999) and Topsy-Turvy (1999). Filming ‘Wedding Belles’ for Channel 4 Films, written by Irvine Welsh. (October 2006) Currently filming May Contain Nuts, a two-part comedy drama for ITV1 with Sophie Thompson. The Tiger Aspect production is shooting around London till November for a 2008 release. (October 2007)

Why did they cast Moaning Myrtle so old

She’s got adult emotions, and that’s why they were seeing all kinds of ages for this part—young and old actresses, but no children.’ Henderson then 36 years old, won the part after six months, donned pigtails, and used her distinctive, gravelly, childlike whisper to make the ghostly character highly memorable.

Who is the Moaning Myrtle in real life?

Highest Rated: 92% Stan & Ollie (2018) Lowest Rated: Not Available Birthday: Nov 24, 1965 Birthplace: Kincardine, Fife, Scotland, UK Shirley Henderson has been most widely-seen as Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films- 2002’s “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and 2005’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Henderson’s tiny frame and raspy voice have led to her frequent casting as introverted eccentrics.

• Born in Forres and raised in the working class town of Kincardine, Hendeson enjoyed singing, performing on the high school stage and in small, local clubs.
• At 17 she moved to London and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
• Upon graduation in 1986, she began to perform extensively on the stage, including the National Theatre, as well as occasionally working in British television.

In 1995, she landed her first major TV role, in the detective series “Hamish MacBeth.” MacBeth was played by Robert Carlyle, an actor Henderson worked with again in 1996’s “Trainspotting” and 2002’s “Once Upon a Time in the Midlands.” In 1999, Henderson got to showcase her singing talents in Mike Leigh’s Gilbert and Sullivan tale, “Topsy-Turvy,” and the same year she made “Wonderland” with director Michael Winterbottom. Stan & Ollie Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Okja

What else has Moaning Myrtle been in?

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Notes and references –

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Shirley Henderson Coming Back for GoF from The Leaky Cauldron – Myrtle is said to be 14 years old, so her birthday falls between these dates in order to reach that age by her death in June 1943.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13 ( The Very Secret Diary ) – The pages of the diary began to blow as though caught in a high wind, stopping halfway through the month of June. Mouth hanging open, Harry saw that the little square for June thirteenth seemed to have turned into a minuscule television screen.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 16 ( The Chamber of Secrets )
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13 ( The Very Secret Diary )
5. ↑ “World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling,” South West News Service, 8 July 2000 – “Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland.”
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8 ( The Deathday Party )
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 F.A.Q. question on J.K. Rowling’s Official Site
8. ↑,@HotmHayles @lankytwat Moaning Myrtle’s full name was Myrtle Elizabeth Warren. by J.K. Rowling on Twitter
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9 ( The Writing on the Wall )
10. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 23 ( Horcruxes )
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 25 ( The Egg and the Eye )
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 ( The Rogue Bludger )
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 2, “DUELLING DEATHDAY PARTIES” Achievement
14. ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 17 ( The Heir of Slytherin )
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 12 ( The Polyjuice Potion )
16. ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 15 ( Aragog )
17. ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 26 ( The Second Task )
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 21 ( The Unknowable Room )
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 24 ( Sectumsempra )
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Chinese version, Hallowe’en 2021 special event
21. ↑ Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Chinese version, ‘Chamber behind the portrait’ event (see this video )
22. ↑ Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Chinese version, Hallowe’en ball (see this video )
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Chinese version, 2022 Draco Malfoy birthday special event
24. ↑ Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
25. ↑ Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Act Two, Scene Nineteen
26. ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
27. ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
28. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 5 ( An Excess of Phlegm )
29. ↑ Myrtus on Wikipedia
30. ↑ Myrtle (color) on Wikipedia
31. ↑ Technically, graduate students such as Albus Dumbledore are still Hogwarts students, and played by actors older than Henderson. Myrtle, being dead and not actively studying, is neither an active student. Although she died in 1943 and must have been 60 to 68 years old when she first appeared in the novels, she stopped ageing when she became a ghost, and thus she can arguably be considered a teenager.
32. ↑ Lana McKissack at the Internet Movie Database
33. ↑ Writing by J.K. Rowling: “Hogwarts Ghosts” at Wizarding World
34. ↑ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (see this video )

Does Moaning Myrtle love Harry

Behind the scenes –

• Moaning Myrtle was portrayed by Shirley Henderson in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Being 5′ 0½” (1.54 m) and 37 years old when she first played Moaning Myrtle, she is the oldest actress to play a teenage Hogwarts student in the Harry Potter films.
• Chika Sakamoto voiced Myrtle in the Japanese dubs.
• Moaning Myrtle was based on the concept of crying girls found in communal bathrooms, such as those in parties and discos.
• The myrtle tree is a close relative of the willow tree. “Moaning Myrtle” is a similar phrase to “weeping willow.” Her name is also possibly related to the “Moaning Minnie,” the British name for a German WWII artillery shell that made a distinctive moaning whine before it hit. File:LEGO Myrtle.png Myrtle as a LEGO minifigure
• Myrtle is omitted from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,
• According to J.K. Rowling ‘s early drafts for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, this character was supposed to have been called “Wailing Wanda”.
• Though never seen or mentioned, Ron and Hermione may have seen Myrtle when they went back down the Chamber of Secrets to destroy Hufflepuff’s Cup in Deathly Hallows,
• The myrtle ( Myrtus ) is a flowering plant of southern Europe and north Africa. In Greek mythology, it was sacred to Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, and to Demeter, goddess of grain and fertility; Pausanias relates it to the tragedy of Adonis. The Roman poet Virgil relates the myrtle to Venus and used them in wedding rituals, something that Jewish liturgy, which deemed it sacred, also used. Myrtle has also uses in Wiccan rituals, and was considered medicinal by the ancients, including Hippocrates, Pliny, Galen and Arabian writers. File:Myrtle human.PNG Shirley Henderson playing Myrtle.
• Myrtle’s surname was never mentioned in canon, however in 2015, after being asked by a fan over Twitter, JK Rowling announced it was Warren and that Myrtle also had a middle name (Elizabeth). Rowling also referred to the middle name of Elizabeth as “just one of those classic British middle names”.
• In one scene of Chamber of Secrets, Ron jokingly suggests that Tom Riddle earned his Special Award for Services to the School for killing Myrtle; this foreshadows the fact that Riddle did indeed kill her.

• Myrtle is shown to have a crush on Harry throughout the series. In the Goblet of Fire film, the bathroom scene shows her acting sexually towards Harry.
• Myrtle was also the first person to be killed by Lord Voldemort,
• Shirley Henderson’s first scene in the film Bridget Jones’s Diary involves her character, Jude, crying in a womens’ toilets.
• In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Harry and Ron battle Myrtle.
• Hermione and Myrtle have a lot in common. They are both Muggle-born and both Hermione and Myrtle run to the girls’ lavatory upon being teased by classmates, a move that puts both in mortal danger (from a troll and basilisk, respectively). But while Hermione is saved by a repentant Ron and Harry, Myrtle is killed by the unfeeling Riddle.
• At The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Moaning Myrtle haunts the restrooms, though only her voice is heard. File:Screenshot 1167.png
• Shirley Henderson and Kelly Macdonald, who played another Hogwarts ghost The Grey Lady, played sisters in the film Intermission,
• Apparently she never informed anyone about her death until she told Harry, Ron and Lockhart, It’s unknown why she never told Armando Dippet or Albus Dumbledore about the cause of her death. It is possible that shortly after her death she was too distraught or traumatised to talk about it and was not asked for fear of upsetting her.

What was the last thing Moaning Myrtle saw before she died

Discovered in chapter 16, The Chamber of Secrets –

How old was Myrtle when she died?

Myrtle Was Around 14 When She Died – Tom Riddle opened the Chamber of Secrets in 1942, precisely 50 years before his memory possessed Ginny to do the same. While it is unclear exactly how old Myrtle was that year, the Wizarding World website states that she was born in the late 1920s and started Hogwarts in the early 1940s.

Why is Moaning Myrtle so weird?

Myrtle’s Life and Afterlife Are Tragic – Myrtle Warren was born to two Muggle parents around the late 1920s, and her Muggle-born status would immediately set her apart from the rest of her family and peers. When she started at Hogwarts, she found herself sorted into Ravenclaw. Unfortunately, her time at the school was filled with relentless bullying because of her physical appearance.

• Considering most of her time was spent crying in the bathroom, it’s sadly fitting that around age 14, her short life would end outside a bathroom stall at the hands of pre-Voldemort Tom Riddle and the Serpent of Slytherin.
• It seems as if Myrtle became a ghost immediately after this, as she recounts sitting there and waiting for her body to be discovered.

The fact that it took hours for someone to realize she was gone is only one sign of how she was constantly mistreated in Harry Potter, Myrtle’s life was cut short when she was still a kid, so her weird, inappropriate behavior kind of makes sense. She never got a chance to mature much, so her childish behavior carried on into her afterlife.

This would explain why she’d be spying on people in the bathroom and even why she was so quick to torment her still-living bully, Olive. Myrtle’s stalking Olive led to intervention from the corrupt Ministry of Magic and her confinement to the bathroom, where she’s seemingly stuck for the rest of eternity.

Unable to leave, her socialization only comes from those who enter her bathroom. About 50 years pass before she meets Harry Potter, who is not only one of the few people that wander into the lavatory, but he’s one of the only people ever to show her compassion.

Why does Moaning Myrtle look so much like Harry?

The only real similarity is the glasses. Anything else is merely coincidence. After all she is a female and Harry is a male. Dark hair and dark eyes are very common in Great Britain.

Was Draco friends with Moaning Myrtle

Draco’s Strange Friendship With Moaning Myrtle, Explained – In an unusual storyline from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Draco forms a friendship with Moaning Myrtle, a ghost who haunts the Hogwarts bathrooms, Her first appearance is in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where the central trio discovers that Myrtle was originally murdered by the Basilisk at the hands of Tom Riddle.

She appears again in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as Harry must bathe in the prefect’s bathroom with the golden egg to unlock its clue as Myrtle looks onward. Her interactions are only ever with the main characters in the story in these two films in the screen adaptations, and she never crosses paths with Draco Malfoy.

However, Draco confides in Myrtle in the Half-Blood Prince novel after his stressful sixth year. At that time, he had been turned into a Death Eater and was tasked with killing Dumbledore on behalf of Voldemort. In a moment of transparency, Draco breaks down in the bathroom and explains the situation to Myrtle, who listens intently.

How did Voldemort lose his nose?

He lost his looks in the process of gaining immorality. He lost his nose as a sacrifice for immortality, such an immoral deed of tearing ones’ souls into pieces made him a little less human and so he lost his human features and developed reptilian features (like snakes who have slits in place of an actual nose).

Is Moaning Myrtle a Ravenclaw

Moaning Myrtle – Before she was Hogwarts’ most, er, impassioned ghost, Moaning Myrtle was an unhappy and picked-upon child. Born in the late 1920s to Muggle parents, Myrtle Warren started her Hogwarts life in the early 1940s, where she was sorted into Ravenclaw, Myrtle’s transition from lonely student to eccentric ghost was thanks to the Chamber of Secrets, Having been teased by fellow student Olive Hornby, Myrtle hid in the first-floor girls’ toilets and began sobbing in one of its stalls. It was here that she ran into Voldemort himself, Tom Riddle, who she overheard speaking Parseltongue in order to open the Chamber, which was hidden behind the sinks.

Thinking that Riddle was intruding in the girls’ bathroom, she opened the stall door to tell him off – only to be confronted with the Chamber of Secrets’ Basilisk, whose gaze killed her instantly. Her body was later found by Hornby, whose discovery would haunt her – both figuratively and literally, for Myrtle returned as a ghost and immediately started to torment her.

After a complaint to the Ministry of Magic, Myrtle was consigned to the bathroom forever.

Who is Draco’s mom?

Narcissa Malfoy’s Very Dangerous Lie – Draco Malfoy’s mother Narcissa was cold, cunning and devoted to the Dark Lord. But she was also a mother, which meant she was willing to risk everything to make sure her son was safe. When Harry survived Voldemort’s Killing Curse for the second time, Narcissa pretended he was dead so she could get to Draco.

Lying to the Darkest wizard that ever lived, in his angriest moment? That took serious courage Hands, softer than he had been expecting, touched Harry’s face, pulled back an eyelid, crept beneath his shirt, down to his chest and felt his heart. He could hear the woman’s fast breathing, her long hair tickled his face.

He knew that she could feel the steady pounding of life against his ribs. ‘Is Draco alive? Is he in the castle?’ The whisper was barely audible; her lips were an inch from his ear, her head bent so low that her long hair shielded his face from the onlookers.

• Yes,’ he breathed back.
• He felt the hand on his chest contract; her nails pierced him.
• Then it was withdrawn.
• She had sat up.
• He is dead!’ Narcissa Malfoy called to the watchers.
• And now they shouted, now they yelled in triumph and stamped their feet, and through his eyelids Harry saw bursts of red and silver light shoot into the air in celebration.

Still feigning death on the ground, he understood. Narcissa knew that the only way she would be permitted to enter Hogwarts, and find her son, was as part of the conquering army. She no longer cared whether Voldemort won. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

How old is Voldemort

How Old Voldemort Is When He Dies In Harry Potter – The battle between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort reached its peak in the final book and movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (in the movie series, it happened in Part 2 of Deathly Hallows ), where during the Battle of Hogwarts, they finally had a proper duel.