Bonnie Wright

Her brother read the first two Harry Potter books, told her she looked like Ginny Weasley, and she asked to audition with zero professional experience. No agent, no credits, no prior roles. She got the part anyway and spent the next decade in one of cinema's most lucrative franchises. The Ginny Weasley role is a strange thing to carry: central in the books, sidelined in the films. Wright played a love interest who barely got to be a character for most of those eight movies. She did it without complaining, which is either admirable or just how the industry works.

She graduated from the London College of Communication with a filmmaking degree in 2012, founded her production company BonBonLumiere, and directed shorts that premiered at Cannes and Tribeca before shifting to climate activism full-time. Now she's a Greenpeace and Rainforest Alliance ambassador, published a sustainability guidebook called Go Gently in 2022, and co-hosted a documentary series by the same name on Prime Video and HBO Max. The pivot is complete. She barely touches the Harry Potter brand, which says something, given how many of her co-stars still make the convention circuit rounds.

She met her husband, Andrew Lococo, through Waste Watch, a sustainability meet-up group she organized in Los Angeles. They married at The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano in 2022 in an event that sourced everything locally and used no single-use packaging. Their son, born September 2023, is named Elio Ocean Wright Lococo. The throughline from 'girl who auditioned because her brother said so' to 'person who named her child Ocean' is a surprisingly coherent character arc.