Nick Frost Debuts Hagrid in First Look Photo

Meet the new Rubeus Hagrid.

Fresh off of announcing that HBO‘s upcoming “Harry Potter” series had officially started production — and debuting a photo of newcomer Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter — the network has revealed the first image of Nick Frost as the lovable half-giant. The “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” actor follows in the footsteps of Robbie Coltrane, who played Hogwarts’ gamekeeper and groundskeeper in all eight of the “Harry Potter” films.

Filming on Season 1 of the series began on Monday at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the U.K. and is expected to last until the spring of 2026. Alongside McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton stars as Hermione Granger and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley. The young trio were selected from more than 30,000 actors who auditioned in a casting call last fall.

The cast also includes John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, Lox Pratt as Draco Malfoy, Johnny Flynn as Lucius Malfoy, Leo Earley as Seamus Finnigan, Alessia Leoni as Parvati Patil, Sienna Moosah as Lavender Brown, Bertie Carvel as Cornelius Fudge. Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley and Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley. Additional names revealed on Monday were Rory Wilmot as Neville Longbottom, Amos Kitson as Dudley Dursley, Louise Brealey as Madam Rolanda Hooch and Anton Lesser as Garrick Ollivander.

The series will debut in 2027 on HBO and HBO Max where available and is led by showrunner and writer Francesca Gardiner (“His Dark Materials,” “Killing Eve”) and director Mark Mylod (“Succession”). Gardiner and Mylod are executive producing alongside series author J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts of Brontë Film and TV, and David Heyman of Heyday Films. The “Harry Potter” series is being made by HBO in association with Brontë Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television.

See the full photo of Frost as Hagrid below.