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2. Alex Kingston As Hermione Granger

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Why She's Right For The Role

Since wading into the public eye as River Song in Doctor Who, Alex Kingston has popped up in numerous TV shows, from Arrow to Gilmore Girls and Marchlands, proving herself as both a strong leading lady and supporting player.

Hermione is both the latter and the former; she's Minister for Magic, the chief of the wizarding community, but also uses her position to help Harry where she can.

Kingston's role as a strict editor in Shoot the Messenger showed she can play the take-no-prisoners leader, and as River Song, she emanated a confidence and humanity that's a perfect match for the clever, yet respectful Mrs Weasley.

Oh, and if there's one visual trait we associate with Hermione, it's frizzy hair - and Kingston's got that covered.

Chances Of It Happening

Like Abbington, she's primarily a TV actor with pretty much no film roles in the last ten years, so there's a chance she doesn't even like doing movies, and it's unclear whether she'd be willing to star in such a high-profile project.

Still, for a TV actor, mainstream exposure is never a bad thing, and she doesn't have much on her plate at the minute.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!