Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore

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Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore is the younger incarnation of the wise and powerful Hogwarts headmaster, depicted with a more dynamic, conflicted, and charismatic edge in the prequel era of the Wizarding World.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictionalCharacterPortrayal
filmCharacterVersion
alliedWith Minerva McGonagall
Newt Scamander
Theseus Scamander
appearsInFilm Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
appearsInFilmSeries Fantastic Beasts film series
basedOn Albus Dumbledore
boundBy blood pact with Gellert Grindelwald
castingAnnouncedYear 2017
characterName Albus Dumbledore
characterTrait charismatic
conflicted
manipulative but caring
secretive
costumeFeatures stylish three-piece suits
trimmed beard and shorter hair
createdForMedium feature film
depictsLifePeriod younger Albus Dumbledore
firstAppearanceYear 2018
hasRomanticHistoryWith Gellert Grindelwald
houseAffiliation Gryffindor
linked to: Gryffindor House
knownFor charismatic leadership
exceptional magical ability
strategic opposition to Gellert Grindelwald
languageOfPerformance English
nationalityInStory British
occupationInStory Hogwarts professor
future Hogwarts headmaster
partOfFranchise Harry Potter franchise
Wizarding World
portrayalAnnouncedBy Warner Bros. Pictures
portrayalIntroducedIn Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
portrayalTone more dynamic than older Dumbledore depictions
more emotionally conflicted
more outwardly charismatic
portrayedBy Jude Law
primaryAntagonisticRelationship Gellert Grindelwald
schoolAffiliation Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
setInEra Global wizarding conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s
pre-Harry Potter era
sexualOrientationDepiction gay
sharesContinuityWith Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore
Richard Harris as Albus Dumbledore
teachesSubject Defence Against the Dark Arts
usesWand Elder Wand
his original wand
wizardingStatus half-blood wizard

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Fantastic Beasts film series portraysCharacter Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore