List of Fantastic Beasts characters
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This is a list of characters from the Fantastic Beasts films.
Introduced in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them[edit]
Newt Scamander[edit]
Newt Scamander is an introverted British wizard and magizoologist. In Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Newt arrives in New York, where he encounters Muggle Jacob Kowalski, demoted auror Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein and Tina's Legilimens sister Queenie Goldstein. Newt works together with the trio and rounds up escaped magical beasts. After an obscurial attack, Newt prevents the exposure of the wizarding world to American Muggle (known as No-maj) community through an obliviating potion, dispersed by his thunderbird Frank.
In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Newt illegelly reaches Paris with Jacob in order to track and save Credence Barebone, the obscurial responsible for the New York attack. He faces another challenge as Tina, whom he has began to love, shuns him upon thinking that he is engaged. Nonetheless, Newt clears the misunderstanding and reconciles with Tina. After a destructive rally of Grindelwald's followers during which Credence and Queenie join dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, Newt chooses to join the fight against Grindelwald.
Newt reappears in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Along with his former professor Albus Dumbledore, Newt and his team thwart Grindelwald's plans for world domination and stop him from becoming the Minister for Magic. When Queenie realises her mistake and returns to the good side, she and Jacob marry. Newt attends the wedding as Jacob's best man, while Tina attends as well, as her sister's maid of honour.
At some point after the end of the global wizarding war, Newt and Tina marry and have a grandson named Rolf who marries Luna Lovegood. Newt is the author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is used as a textbook by Harry Potter and his fellow classmates.
Throughout the film series, Newt Scamander is portrayed by Eddie Redmayne.[1] In Crimes of Grindelwald, a young Newt Scamander is portrayed by Joshua Shea.
Tina Goldstein[edit]
Porpentina Esther "Tina" Goldstein (played by Katherine Waterston) is a grounded, down-to-earth witch and former Auror employed by MACUSA.
Jacob Kowalski[edit]
Jacob Kowalski (played by Dan Fogler) is a genial No-Maj cannery worker and First World War veteran that aspires to be a baker. He meets Newt, Tina, and Queenie in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and is quickly smitten with Queenie. At the end of the film, his memory of the events are erased. However, in The Crimes of Grindelwald, it is revealed that he regained his memories of Queenie and the others. Queenie, who had bewitched him, leaves him to join Grindelwald, who promises her the hope of marrying Jacob.
In Secrets of Dumbledore, Lally Hicks recruits Jacob to join the cause against Grindelwald and presents him with a wand. He assists Newt, Lally, Theseus, Yusuf Kama, and Dumbledore in preventing Grindelwald from stealing the election of Supreme Mugwump. At the end of the film, Queenie returns to his side and they get married in his New York City bakery.
Queenie Goldstein[edit]
Queenie Goldstein (played by Alison Sudol) is Tina's younger sister and roommate and a skilled Legilimens. She meets Jacob in New York during the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and is smitten with him, but is prohibited from marrying him due to a MACUSA ban on marriage between wizards and No-Majs. Queenie joins Grindelwald in The Crimes of Grindelwald, as he promises her a new world order. In Secrets of Dumbledore, Queenie becomes increasingly disillusioned with Grindelwald and she decides to leave his side at the end of the film. She marries Jacob in his New York City bakery.
Mary Lou[edit]
Mary Lou (played by Samantha Morton) is a narrow-minded No-Maj and the adoptive mother of Credence, Chastity and Modesty.
Credence Barebone[edit]
Credence Barebone (played by Ezra Miller) is a secret Obscurus wizard and Mary Lou's troubled adopted son. He's a character who appears quite sensitive and tormented. He meets Newt Scamander in New York. Percival Graves is initially mistaken in thinking that the Obscurus inhabits his adoptive sister Modesty, when in reality it was Credence who, as a Obscurus, kills the Senator Henry Shaw Jr. and his own adoptive mother, before being neutralized by MACUSA Aurors.
In The Crimes of Grindelwald, Credence travels to Paris, searching for his true identity. Newt Scamander is tasked by Albus Dumbledore to finding him and protecting him from Grindelwald, who wishes to use Credence in his quest for power. The young man initially believes himself to be a son of the Lestrange family, but Leta dismisses this possibility. At Nurmengard Castle, Grindelwald lets Credence know that his real name is Aurelius Dumbledore and that his brother (Albus Dumbledore) would seek to destroy him.
In The Secrets of Dumbledore, in 1932, five years after the events of the last movie, Credence is sent by Grindelwald to China to capture a baby qilin. He reports it in person to his new master. Later, Credence has a conversation with Queenie Goldstein; she tells him that Grindelwald regularly asks her to spy on the young man and report his thoughts to him, but she reveals to Credence that she doesn't tell everything. After that, Credence looks in a mirror and sees an inscription: "Forgive me", which he immediately erases. It is understood that Credence, from Nurmengard, communicates with someone by magic messages written on mirrors. Credence feels that he has been rejected by the Dumbledores and Grindelwald stirs up his feeling of abandonment, convinced that Credence's pain is his strength. Later, Albus Dumbledore briefly spots one of Credence's messages on a bar mirror, addressed to his brother Aberforth. In the streets of Berlin, Albus comes to meet the young man and, anticipating the confrontation, takes care beforehand to tip them into a mirror dimension in order to protect the Muggles present around them. Credence claims to be his brother and that his name is Aurelius. He engages a fight but is weakened due to his obscurus. Albus sees Credence's phoenix, and confirms that the young man is indeed a Dumbledore. He is touched by his suffering and his loneliness and manages to convince him that Grindelwald has fueled his hatred, and that the Dumbledore family, who were unaware of the truth until now, have never rejected him. After that, Credence returns to Nurmengard. In the basements of the castle, he see his master reanimate the previously killed qilin, and is violently reprimanded for neglecting the qilin's twin, whom Grindelwald has just seen in the reflection of the resurrection pool. One evening, Credence sends a new message to Aberforth, wishing to "come home". Albus has a discussion with his brother about Credence. It is revealed that the young man is actually Albus's nephew, and Aberforth's son. After that, Credence goes to Bhutan to attend the next confederation election. Grindelwald manipulates the election by having the reanimated qilin bow to him. However, with the help of Newt Scamander and Bunty, the young man exposes Grindelwald's lies. Gellert tries to kill Credence, but the young man is protected by the Dumbledore brothers. The young man finally meets his father and returns home to Hogsmeade with his phoenix.
Henry Shaw Sr.[edit]
Henry Shaw Sr. (played by Jon Voight) is a newspaper owner and the father of U.S. Senator Henry Shaw Jr. and Langdon Shaw.
Seraphina Picquery[edit]
Seraphina Picquery (played by Carmen Ejogo) is the President of MACUSA.
Modesty Barebone[edit]
Modesty Barebone (played by Faith Wood-Blagrove) is a haunted young girl who is the youngest of Mary Lou's adopted children.
Langdon Shaw[edit]
Langdon Shaw (played by Ronan Raftery) is the youngest of Henry Shaw Sr.'s sons, who begins to believe in magic.
Henry Shaw Jr.[edit]
Henry Shaw Jr. (played by Josh Cowdery) is the eldest of Henry Shaw Sr.'s sons.
Abernathy[edit]
Abernathy (played by Kevin Guthrie) is Tina and Queenie's MACUSA supervisor and an acolye of Grindelwald
Chastity Barebone[edit]
Chastity Barebone (played by Jenn Murray) is the middle of Mary Lou's adopted children
Gellert Grindelwald[edit]
Gellert Grindelwald (played by Johnny Depp and Mads Mikkelsen; by Colin Farrell disguised as Graves, and by Jamie Campbell Bower as a teenager) is an infamous, powerful dark wizard who caused mass violence, terror, and chaos around the globe, seeking to lead a new Wizarding World Order based on his strong belief in wizarding superiority. As teenagers, he and Dumbledore had become lovers.
Leta Lestrange[edit]
Leta Lestrange (played by Zoë Kravitz, by Thea Lamb as a teenager and by Tuby Wooldenfen as a child) is an emotionally damaged and confused young woman who still exerts some control over Newt, who was once, and possibly still is, in love with her.
Introduced in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald[edit]
Theseus Scamander[edit]
Theseus Scamander (played by Callum Turner) is Newt Scamander's older brother who works in the Auror Office of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
Nagini[edit]
Nagini (played by Claudia Kim) is the main attraction of a wizarding circus and freak show called Circus Arcanus and a Maledictus, who carries a blood curse that will eventually transform her into a snake permanently.
Yusuf Kama[edit]
Yusuf Kama (played by William Nadylam and by Isaac Domingos as a child) is a French-Senegalese wizard.
Nicholas Flamel[edit]
Nicholas Flamel (played by Brontis Jodorowsky) is a French wizard and alchemist who created the Philosopher's stone.
Albus Dumbledore[edit]
Albus Dumbledore (played by Jude Law and by Toby Regbo as a teenager) is an extremely influential and powerful wizard in the British Wizarding Community, known in the British Ministry of Magic and throughout the wider wizarding world for his academic brilliance.
Bunty[edit]
Bunty (played by Victoria Yeates) is Newt Scamander's assistant.
Vinda Rosier[edit]
Vinda Rosier (played by Poppy Corby-Tuech) is Grindelwald's loyal right-hand follower and an Occlumens.
Minerva McGonagall[edit]
Minerva McGonagall (played by Fiona Glascott) is a teacher at Hogwarts and Albus Dumbledore's colleague.
Carrow[edit]
Carrow (played by Maja Bloom) is a follower of Grindelwald
Mustafa Kama[edit]
Mustafa Kama (played by Hugh Quarshie) is the husband of Laurena Kama and the father of Yusuf Kama
Torquill Travers[edit]
Torquill Travers (played by Derek Ridell) is the Head of the Department Magical Law Enforcement.
Lally Hicks[edit]
Lally Hicks (played by Jessica Williams) is a respected teacher at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Introduced in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore[edit]
Aberforth Dumbledore[edit]
Aberforth Dumbledore (played by Richard Coyle) is Albus Dumbledore's younger brother and owner of the Hog's Head inn.
Anton Vogel[edit]
Anton Vogel (played by Oliver Masucci) is the current Supreme Head of the International Confederation of Wizards (ICW) and Minister of Magic for Germany.
Vicência Santos[edit]
Vicência Santos (played by Maria Fernanda Cândido) is a candidate for the post of Supreme Head of the ICW and Minister of Magic for Brazil
Liu Tao[edit]
Liu Tao (played by Dave Wong) is a candidate for the post of Supreme Head of the ICW and Minister of Magic for China.
Henrietta Fischer[edit]
Henrietta Fischer (played by Valerie Pachner is a witch who works for the German Ministry of Magic.
Zabini[edit]
Zabini (played by Paul Low-Hang] is an acolyte of Grindelwald
Helmut[edit]
Helmut (played by Aleksandr Kuznetsov) is an Auror of the German Ministry and a follower of Grindelwald.
References[edit]
- ^ McMillan, Graeme (1 June 2015). "Eddie Redmayne Officially Cast in 'Harry Potter' Prequel 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 3 June 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
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