Congratulations are in order for Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke. The couple is expecting the birth of their first child, as per The Hollywood Reporter, although the due date remains unclear. British tabloid The Sun quoted “a source” who said that Darke “can’t hide her bump anymore.” V.F. has reached out for further comment.
Radcliffe, 33, and Darke, 38, first met during the 2012 production of the Beat Generation origin tale Sex-scene-radcliffe-on-filming-the-gay-sex-scene-in-kill-your-darlings-i-don-t-see-it-as-a-risk”>Kill Your Darlings, and have been together since. The two keep a pretty low profile considering his household name status. The London-born Harry Potter star has no social media presence, once explaining “if I did, you all would be waking up to stories like ‘Dan Radcliffe gets into fight with random person on Twitter.'” The Michigan-born Darke has a private Instagram and a Twitter account that is mostly (forgive me) dark.
In 2019, he described first meeting his future partner while portraying Allen Ginsburg in Kill Your Darlings. “It’ll be a hell of a story to tell our kids one day because of what our characters do with each other,” he said, describing the lewd act the two actors shared on screen. “That’s how we met. That was the beginning of our beautiful relationship.”
He went on to say (rather poignantly!) that he tends to swat away questions about “how was it like to grow up on film?” because all the “private moments where you grow up were off-camera—apart from meeting the girl who is the love of my life. It is genuinely preserved on film [when] our characters are meeting and flirting with each other.” He called it a “sweet record.” Who doesn’t love this guy?!?!?
In addition to Kill Your Darlings, Darke can be seen in the films Love & Mercy, Still Alice, and Don’t Think Twice, and several episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, where she played one of Midge’s coworkers at B. Altman & Company.
In December 2022, Radcliffe starred in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along at the New York Theater Workshop, one of the city’s most prominent off-Broadway venues. The New York Times praised the production, and noted that the actor “seem[ed] to have written a Bible of back story, giving wild spins to every line that help send the song into orbit.” In November, he starred in Weird, a musical biopic parody portraying the life of American musical legend “Weird Al” Yankovic. V.F.’s review said, “Radcliffe’s zeal for the role is contagious.”