Irish born ‘Harry Potter’ professor Dumbledore becomes father at 68

The “Harry Potter” star grew up in a struggling Irish community in London, and was raised a strict Roman Catholic.

He left school at the age of 15, and eventually entered the British theater scene, headlining Shakespearean tragedies on West End. Laurence Olivier hand-picked the actor to help form the original Royal National Theatre Company in 1963.

The talented Irish actor eventually shot to film stardom with roles in popular films such as “A Man of No Importance,” “Mary Reilly” and “Gosford Park.”

It was when he joined the cast of the “Harry Potter” film series to step in as Professor Albus Dumbledore for the late Irish actor Richard Harris in 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” that Gambon became a household name for a new generation.

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