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10 Personalities who are Twice Exceptional: Special Education
=== Tom Cruise  ===

Childhood and Education
Tom Cruise or Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is a popular actor who was born on the 3rd day of July in 1962 in the city of Syracuse in New York, U.S.A. Tom Cruise was raised at a different location in the United States and Canada as his dad struggled to make enough living for their family. Cruise had a challenging childhood that made him grow up in poverty. At the age of 8, he had already begun working paid jobs that included cutting grasses, raking leaves, delivering newspapers, as well as selling cards for any occasion. For his fourth and fifth-grade education, He attended the new Robert Hopkins Public School and he first became involved in drama in fourth grade, under the tutelage of drama teacher George Steinburg. Cruise briefly took a Catholic Church scholarship and attended the St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio; he aspired to become a Franciscan priest before being expelled from the seminary for drinking and becoming interested in acting.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
Aside from not remembering much of his childhood, Tom Cruise spent it trying to conceal his dyslexia from his peers. Cruise describes his younger self as a "functionally illiterate" after being diagnosed at the age of seven. He couldn't read in high school or during his early roles. At the age of 19, Cruise landed his first major role. As he began to embrace his passion for acting, Cruise realized that his inability to read would hold him back unless he worked hard to improve. Cruise refused to let his dyslexia prevent him from pursuing a career as an actor.

   
 * Tom Cruise is the recipient of three Golden Globe awards, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama in 1990 for ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical in 1997 for ‘Jerry Maguire’.''
 * He received the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the National Mentoring Partnership in 2003 for his work with the organization.''
 * He received the David di Donatello Awards’ ‘Special David’ in 2005.''
 * In 2011, Cruise was awarded a humanitarian award from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and Museum of Tolerance for his work as a dedicated philanthropist.''

Aside from his acting accomplishments, he has previously been recognized by the National Mentoring Partnership for his work assisting others with dyslexia. Tom Cruise, who overcame dyslexia as a child, became a founding Board Member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, which teaches students how to read and succeed. He has donated to numerous charities, including the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Friars Foundation, H.E.L.P., and the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation.

=== Richard Branson  ===

Childhood and Education
Richard Branson was born in Blackheath, London on 18 July 1950. His father was a barrister. Branson attended Scaitcliffe School and later Stowe school. He was the eldest son of Edward James Branson and Eve Huntley Branson, a barrister. Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson, his grandfather, was a Privy Councillor and a judge on the High Court of Justice. He attended Scaitcliffe School and then Stowe School until he was sixteen years old. He struggled academically, yet he was able to connect with others. He eventually dropped out of school after recognizing that was not the place for him. He began his record business at the age of 16 from the crypt of a church, advertising the famous albums in the journal 'The Student.' The magazine was an immediate hit, and he began selling albums under the moniker 'Virgin.'

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
Branson, who struggled with dyslexia, had a hard time with educational institutions. He nearly failed out of the all-boys Scaitcliffe School, which he attended until the age of 13. He then transferred to Stowe School, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. Branson has a number of flaws, including a dislike of public speaking and a lack of academic ability, easily becomes bored, isn't fond of firing swiftly, and was shy. What is the secret to Sir Richard Branson's success? Dyslexia. Branson sees his greatest strength as something that many people see as a flaw. Branson's instructors, like the teachers of many other young, undiagnosed dyslexics, assumed he was lazy and dumb. He couldn't always keep up with what was going on at school, and he fantasized about what he would be able to do once he was out.

Branson was able to use this major hurdle to his advantage. He learned to concentrate on his strengths and delegate the rest of his responsibilities. He delegates much of the reading and writing to others while he concentrates on the company's creative side. He has his staff read all of Virgin's marketing materials aloud to him, and he only allows the items he can absorb quickly to be included in Virgin's advertising campaigns. This results in more effective campaigns because only easily comprehended messages are included. Branson now is the chairman and owner of Virgin Group, which currently holds more than 400 companies in 30 countries around the world. His business empire includes a train company, an airline company, a mobile phone company, a luxury game preserve, and a space tourism company. He is the author of “Losing my Virginity”, an autobiography that features his story from rags to riches. He was presented the United Nations Correspondents Association Citizen of the World Award for his contributions to humanitarian causes on December 7, 2007. He was awarded the ISTA Prize by the International Space Transport Association for his contributions pertaining to space transport systems on November 14, 2011 In 2012, he was ranked the 4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom in the list of billionaires by Forbes Magazines. His entrepreneurial projects started in the music industry and expanded into other sectors, including the space-tourism venture Virgin Galactic, making him a billionaire. Branson is also known for his adventurous spirit and sporting achievements, including crossing oceans in a hot air balloon.

=== Walter Elias Disney  ===

Childhood and Education
Walter Elias Disney also famously known as Walt Disney in today’s time. Born on the 5th of December 1901, to parents Mr. Elias Disney and Mrs. Flora Disney. By the time Walt turned 4 years old, he developed his love for drawing. A horse was his very first commission artwork for a retired neighborhood doctor. His father, Elias had some close ties to mass media producers which allowed him to bring home front-page cartoons for his son. By then, Walt started to copy and practice with the illustrations brought by his father. Walt's family continued to relocate; Marceline in Missouri, Kansas City, and back to Chicago. Walt Disney, as a child, developed an interest in art and enrolled in classes at the Kansas City Institute of Art and, later, the Chicago Art Institute. He was hired as the school magazine's cartoonist.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
In 1919, Walt Disney dropped out of his high school units due to his difficulties with Dyslexia. On the bright side, he returned to Kansas City, where he worked in a variety of jobs before landing a job in his field of greatest interest, the film industry. Working for the Kansas City Film Ad company gave him the opportunity to start working in the relatively new field of animation. To begin his first work, Walt used his talent as a cartoonist. Due to the sheer success of his early cartoons, he was able to open his own studio, Laugh-O-Gram. Regrettably, the popularity of his cartoons was not matched by his ability to run a profitable business. Due to high labor costs, the company went bankrupt. Following his first failure, he decided to relocate to Hollywood, California, which was home to America's thriving film industry. This ability to overcome adversity was a cornerstone of Disney's career. The Disney studio was involved in the successful production of 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,' distributed by Universal Pictures, in 1927. However, because Universal Pictures owned the rights to 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,' Walt was unable to profit from the film's success. He turned down an offer from Universal and returned to working on his own. It was during this point, his breakthrough, that he came up with the idea for Mickey Mouse (originally called Mortimer Mouse). Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse, and Walt Disney gave him a voice. Then the rest is history from then on. From Mickey Mouse to Snow White, Pinocchio to Dumbo, and many other memorable animated movies and live-action films under his name embarked on success and made marks in the film industry and eventually, history. The Walt Disney Company's worldwide success is well known for its popular movies, shows, and theme parks.

=== Stephen William Hawking ===

Childhood and Education
Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford on January 8, 1942, the three hundredth anniversary of Galileo Galilei's death. His father, Frank Hawking, was born into a family of tenant farmers in Yorkshire who struggled during the agricultural depression at the turn of the century. Despite financial constraints, the family was able to send Frank to Oxford to study medicine. His research expertise was in tropical medicine, which involved regular field trips to East Africa. Despite volunteering for military service at the start of WWII, the authorities decided that it would be best if Frank continued his medical research during the war years. Isobel Walker, Stephen's mother, was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, but the family relocated to Devon when she was 12 years old. Isobel was admitted to Oxford University, where she studied economics, politics, and philosophy. She then worked for the Inland Revenue, but this was not to her liking, so she went on to become a teacher. She was a free-thinking radical who had a significant influence on her son. Hawking received his B.A. in physics from University College, Oxford, and his M.A. in physics from Trinity Hall, Cambridge (Ph.D., 1966). He was appointed as a research fellow at Cambridge's Gonville and Caius College. Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable degenerative neuromuscular disease, in the early 1960s. At the age of 21, Dr. Hawking was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States. As the disease progresses, the degeneration of motor neurons in the brain interferes with messages to the body's muscles. Muscles eventually atrophy and voluntary control of muscles are lost.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
Hawking primarily worked in the field of general relativity, specifically the physics of black holes. In 1971, he proposed the formation of numerous objects containing up to one billion tons of mass but occupying only the space of a proton after the big bang. These objects, known as mini black holes, are unique in that their immense mass and gravity necessitate that they are governed by the laws of relativity, while their minute size necessitates that the laws of quantum mechanics also apply to them. In 1974, Hawking proposed that, in accordance with quantum theory predictions, black holes emit subatomic particles until they exhaust their energy and explode. Hawking's work fueled efforts to theoretically delineate the properties of black holes, objects about which it was previously believed that nothing could be known. His work was also significant because it demonstrated the relationship between these properties and the laws of classical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. Hawking's contributions to physics have earned him numerous honors. In 1974, he was elected as one of the Royal Society's youngest fellows. In 1977, he was appointed professor of gravitational physics at Cambridge, and in 1979, he was appointed to Cambridge's Lucasian professorship of mathematics, a position previously held by Isaac Newton. Hawking was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1989 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982. In 2006, he was also awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society and the U.S. In 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008, he accepted a visiting research chair at Waterloo, Ontario, Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

=== Tim Burton ===

Childhood and Education
Tim Burton was born on August 25, 1958, in the little town of Burbank, California. In this normal suburban municipality, he grew up with both his parents and his brother. He took refuge in a cemetery at the end of his street, Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery because he disliked his life in this neighborhood. His childhood wasn’t a particularly happy one. He hated growing up in a suburb, was never close with his parents, and other kids found him odd. While in school, other students also thought he was strange, and he was most likely tormented because of his introverted and shy personality. He found himself identifying with characters from some of the most well-known horror films, such as Frankenstein. Burton was an ordinary student at Burbank High School who was more interested in drawing, sketching, and watching movies than in schoolwork. As a teenager, he began making films and developed and produced his first stop-motion short film, The Island of Doctor Agnor. At the age of 14, one of his sketches received first place in a local waste management company's anti-litter campaign. Burton didn't have a lot of friends throughout junior high and high school, but in retrospect, he feels that was fairly typical for those years. People in his area of influence frequently warned him he was "not normal," even if he didn't accept it at first.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
Tim Burton has Asperger's Syndrome, which is a type of Autism Spectrum Disease, a developmental disorder. People with Asperger's Syndrome have a hard difficulty socially engaging with others, and their behavior and thinking patterns can be rigid and repetitive, which contributed to Burton's tough childhood. One of his challenges was when Disney recruited and fired him three times, which isn't normally something someone wants to publicize. While his brief stints with Disney provided him with essential animation and production expertise, it was his departure from the family-friendly fairy tale firm that allowed him to focus on what was genuinely important to him. Burton majored in animation at the California Institute of Art after high school and then worked for Disney for a year before deciding to strike out on his own. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), and Batman (1989) were his first three major motion pictures, which he wrote and produced in his twenties. He would go on to write, produce, and direct some of the most memorable films of the modern era, including Edward Scissorhands (1990), Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), The Corpse Bride (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Frankenweenie (2012). Burton has won numerous awards, including the National Board of Review Award for Best Director (2007), the Future Film Festival Digital Award (2005), the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film (2004), the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1991), and the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program (1991). (1990). Tim has built a successful life thanks to the challenges that life and Asperger's has presented to him. Tim Burton, rather than letting others define him, has used the images in his head to create films that allow us to experience the world through his eyes.

=== Elon Musk ===

==== Childhood and Education ==== Elon Musk is an American entrepreneur and businessman of South African descent. Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on June 28, 1971. Musk became interested in computers when he was ten years old. Musk was short, introverted, and bookish in elementary school. He showed an early aptitude for computers and business. He taught himself to program and sold his first piece of software when he was 12 years old: Blastar, a game he invented and sold to a computer magazine. Musk was so engrossed in his daydreams about inventions as a child that his parents and physicians demanded a hearing test. He was bullied until he was 15 when he went through a growth spurt and learned karate and wrestling to defend himself. Musk moved to Canada at the age of 17 in 1989 to attend Queen's University and avoid military service in South Africa. Musk got his Canadian citizenship the same year, partly because he thought it would be easier to get American citizenship that way. Musk left Canada in 1992 to attend the University of Pennsylvania to study business and physics. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and continued on to earn a second bachelor's degree in physics. Musk went to Stanford University in California to seek a Ph.D. in energy physics after leaving Penn. His transfer, however, coincided brilliantly with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of Stanford after only two days to join it, creating his first company, Zip2 Corporation in 1995. Musk became a U.S. citizen in 2002.

==== Challenges and Successes/Milestones ==== Elon Musk announced that he had Asperger's syndrome when presenting on Saturday Night Live in the United States (SNL) in 2021. People with Asperger's syndrome interpret their surroundings differently than others. But that didn't stop the entrepreneur from looking at things from a different perspective. Musk has long believed that humanity must evolve into a multiplanet species in order to survive. He was, however, concerned with the high cost of rocket launchers. He founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in 2002. In an interview, Elon Musk claimed that it is not about money. He doesn't have anything against pursuing wealth "if it's done in a kind of ethical and good manner," but it's not what motivates him. Musk does not expect to be wealthy when he dies. He believes the majority of his money will be spent on establishing a base on Mars, and he doesn't rule out the possibility that the project may swallow his entire wealth. He urged everyone to follow their dreams, just as he had. Take, for example, SpaceX, which he founded because he was dissatisfied with the US space program's lack of ambition. He was the brains behind the "Mars Oasis Mission," which aimed to send a small greenhouse to Mars. The goal was to reawaken public interest in space exploration and encourage the US government to increase Nasa's funding. And there you have it! It was the start of the world's cheapest rocket-launching business. We must be willing to take risks, he said. You must have skin in the game to succeed, but Elon Musk has undertaken more risks unlike many. Elon and Kimbal Musk founded X.com, an online financial services/payments company, with the proceeds from the sale of Zip2. The next year, X.com was acquired, resulting in the establishment of PayPal as we know it today. Musk has long been fascinated by the prospects of electric vehicles, and he recently indicated in an interview that he is not scared to "dream big." He became one of Tesla Motors' primary investors in 2004. (later renamed Tesla).

=== George Washington ===

Childhood and Education
George Washington was born in Virginia on February 22, 1732. He is called Father of His Country. His parents were Augustine Washington and Mary Ball. At age 11, his father died. Because of that event, his opportunity to be educated in England was cut. His mother never remarried, and to help the family, he started his first job as a land surveyor when he was 16 years old. At the age of 22, he led a disastrous military skirmish that triggered World War.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
On April 30, 1789, George Washington took his oath of office as the first President of the United States while standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York. He was a soldier, statesman, and founding father of the United States. He never abused power in his life, and he was fearless in battle. On top of that, Washington was twice-exceptional. Throughout his life, he was unable to spell and had poor grammar usage. His brother even suggested that surveying in the backwoods might be a good fit for the young George. George only had a basic education. He never learned from a book, but rather through practical learning activities. Despite being twice exceptional, George accomplished a lot while he was still president. He impacts a lot of people, from his generation down to today’s, and his legacy as the first president of the United States of America will remain.

=== Leonardo da Vinci ===

Childhood and Education
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was born in Anchiano, Tuscany (now Italy), near the town of Vinci, which gave him his surname. Leonardo da Vinci was known simply as Leonardo or "Il Florentine" in his day because he lived near Florence—and he was famous as an artist, inventor, and thinker. Da Vinci had no formal education beyond basic reading, writing, and math, but his father recognized his artistic ability and apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio, a well-known sculptor and painter from Florence, when he was around 15 years old.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
The painters' guild of Florence offered da Vinci membership when he was 20, in 1472, but he remained with Verrocchio until he became an independent master in 1478. Around 1482, he began work on his first commissioned work, The Adoration of the Magi, for Florence's San Donato, a Scopeto monastery. However, da Vinci never finished the piece because he moved to Milan shortly after to work as an engineer, painter, architect, designer of court festivals, and, most notably, sculptor for the ruling Sforza clan. To honor dynasty founder Francesco Sforza, the family commissioned Da Vinci to create a magnificent 16-foot-tall bronze equestrian statue. Before completing a clay model in 1493, Da Vinci worked on the project on and off for 12 years. The bronze intended for the sculpture was repurposed as cannons due to the impending war, and the clay model was destroyed in the conflict after the ruling Sforza duke fell from power in 1499.

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The Last Supper
It was painted in Milan (1945-1948). It was created for the city's Santa Maria delle Grazie Monastery's refectory. It depicts Jesus Christ's address to the Apostles at the Passover meal, during which he declares, "One of you shall betray me."

Mona Lisa
It was painted on the years 1503-1506. In this painting, a woman sits in front of a mountainous landscape. Some say the towering mountains are the work of Chinese artists, but most people believe they are the Val di Chiana, a Tuscany valley.

Childhood and Education
John Forbes Nash, John F Nash's father, was a Texas native. John Nash Senior, born in 1892, had a difficult childhood that he overcame by studying electrical engineering at Texas A&M. John Nash Senior taught electrical engineering at the University of Texas for a year before joining the Appalachian Power Company in Bluefield, West Virginia. Virginia was John F Nash's mother. She studied languages at Martha Washington College and subsequently West Virginia University. She taught for ten years before marrying John Nash Senior on September 6, 1924. Johnny Nash, as his family nicknamed him, was born, and baptized in Bluefield Sanitarium. He a lonesome, introverted child but he grew up in a nice family surrounded by caring relatives. Martha was born after Johnny had a sibling. When he was young, he seemed to prefer books to playing with other kids. Johnny's behavior was not due to a shortage of children, because Martha and her cousins enjoyed the traditional childish games: cutting patterns out of books, hiding in the attic, and football. While the others played, Johnny played alone with toy airplanes and cars. Encouraging Johnny's education, his mother supervised his schoolwork and taught him herself. Johnny's father responded by giving him science books instead of coloring books. Johnny's schoolteachers clearly did not recognize his genius, and he appears to have given them little cause to do so. They noticed his lack of social skills and classified him as backward. It's easy to be wise after the fact, but he was clearly bored in school. By the age of twelve, he was quite keen on conducting scientific experiments in his own room. He clearly learned more at home than at school. Martha seemed to be a typical youngster, while Johnny was unusual. She later wrote  Johnny was unique. The difference was obvious. They knew he was smart. He was a self-starter. Mother urged I do things for him, include him in my friendships, but I didn't want to brag about my peculiar brother. Although he did not deny his parents' social invitations, he saw them as monotonous diversionary activities from his reading and experiments. Nash became interested in mathematics at the age of 14. It's unclear how he came upon E T Bell's Men of Mathematics, but it clearly motivated him. He tried and succeeded in proving the outcomes of Fermat as mentioned in Bell's book. Unlike the boring mathematics he learned at school, Nash found this exciting.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
He excelled in chemistry at Bluefield College in Virginia. His lack of friends and unstable behavior fueled his classmates' weirdness. But he didn't consider mathematics as a career. Instead of studying electrical engineering like his father, he experimented with chemicals, killing a classmate. Boredom and teen rage drove him to terrible pranks. Then he tried to force his sister into a battery-operated chair.

In June 1945, Nash enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University). So he studied tensor calculus and relativity. And there he met John Synge, the new Math Department Head. Schoolmates pushed Nash to specialize in math. So they praised his arithmetic skills.

Ned Nash aspired to be a math It's a shame Mr. Putnam was never a top five finisher in the William Lo Nash thought it a failure. This competition didn't help Nash. Teachers complimented him, but his peers regarded him peculiar. They sneered at Nash, calling him clumsy and immature, prone to adolescent tantrums because At around 30, Nash developed symptoms of schizophrenia after making groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, including the extension of game theory, or the math of decision making. According to The New York Times, he began acting oddly and developing paranoia and delusions. He was hospitalized several times and was on and off antipsychotics for decades.

Nash earned his BA and MA in math in 1948. Yale and Stanford had also accepted him. He wanted to attend Harvard, but their offer was less than Princeton's. Nash assumed Princeton wanted him since he didn't win the Putnam Mathematics Competition. Synge, among others, got him into Princeton. Nash received Lefschetz's prestigious Princeton Fellowship.

While at Princeton, Nash seems to have skipped topology, algebraic geometry, game theory and logic lectures. Nash seems to have favored building ideas over learning math "second-hand." To become one of the most imaginative mathematicians, he used this strategy.

In 1949, he wrote a PhD thesis that would earn him an economics Nobel Prize. So a game theory arose. O. Shook on-tuple Nash equilibrium Forecasting boils down to identifying equilibrium points. People must utilize equilibrium strategies. He has several geometric and topological ideas. The common room games are my strongest recollection of this time. The brilliant topological game Nash was named after its designer, John Nash. He had significant ideas. In Princeton, he presented Einstein with a new concept of gravity. Then Einstein told him to study physics. A physicist later agreed. Princeton awarded Nash a Ph.D. in non-cooperative games in 1950. His RAND game theory research made him an expert on the Cold War battle that summer. A few years later, he returned to aid with military and diplomatic strategies. In 1950, he returned to Princeton to work on pure mathematics. An academic position may seem easy to obtain after revealing Nobel-worthy ideas. Nash chose to make an impact in other ways, despite his work's insignificance. He viewed himself as a pure mathematician. He knew manifolds and algebraic varieties. Nash also discussed his famous thesis that any compact real manifold is diffeomorphic to a real-algebraic variety component. Remarks lately: Real Algebraic Manifolds, 1952 Two real algebraic manifolds are homeomorphic analytically. Despite his mathematical talent, not everyone at Princeton liked him. Some mathematicians, especially Artin, disliked Nash's aggressiveness.

Beginning in 1952, Nash's methods were unique (and unpopular with students). He also made substantial contributions to the study of parabolic and elliptic curves. Chern's CC1 isometric imbeddings, 1954:... a Riemannian manifold into Euclidean space.

In 1956, Riemannian manifold imbedding was published. So here it is. In 1958, the American Journal of Mathematics published a continuation of parabolic and elliptic equations. Sad to learn E De Giorgi had achieved the same outcomes via different means. He was nominated for a Fields Medal in 1958, but his work on parabolic and elliptic equations was unpublished when the Committee decided. A lock for the 1962 Fields Medal, his career terminated due to mental illness well before the selections were made.

=== Daniel Jacob Radcliffe ===

Childhood and Education
In Fulham, London, England, Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe gave birth to Daniel Jacob Radcliffe on July 23, 1989. It's a mixed heritage: His father is from Northern Ireland and his mother was brought up in South Africa by Jewish parents (from Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Germany). The Harry Potter star's symptoms may have gone unreported during his youth and education because the ailment was less well-known at the time. Admitted to British newspaper The Guardian that "I think I am fairly hyper. In my opinion, if I'd been born just a few years later, I would have been labeled with ADHD. According to Radcliffe, he is delighted he was yanked out of school after earning the lead role in the wizard movies because he believes that his scholastic performance as a child would have been hindered by his unorganized and chatty nature as an individual. And then there are those who are simply incapable of succeeding in the classroom. For me to learn, you need to instruct me to sit down and be quiet and motionless. I'm not one of those people. To better my knowledge, I use a combination of talking back, interacting with others, and wandering around.

Challenges and Successes/Milestones
As a youngster, Daniel began acting in tiny school productions. He was cast as a young David Copperfield in 1999's David Copperfield, and the rest is history. In The Tailor of Panama (2001), he played Mark Penndel, the son of Harry and Louisa Penndel (Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis). Daniel's mother had been told by Curtis that he may be Harry Potter, and she agreed. Chris Columbus, the director of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, cast Daniel in the role of Harry Potter soon after (2001). After the release of this picture, he became well-known all over the world. Following the success of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, filming for its sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, began immediately. He reprised his role as Harry Potter in Alfonso Cuarón's 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban before appearing in Mike Newell's 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. On or around November 14th, he began filming December Boys (2007) on the Australian coast in Adelaide and continued through the month of December in Kangaroo Island and the city of Geelong. He presented Billie Piper with the "Breakthrough Artist of the Year" award at the South Bank Awards Show on January 27, 2006. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Daniel resumed his role as the iconic character once more (2007). To widespread acclaim from both fans and critics alike, he appeared on stage for the first time in the West End drama Equus in February 2007. In addition, on November 11th, 2007, he starred in the UK television movie My Boy Jack (2007).

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