# Cast HP - Order of the Phoenix (Possible spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600 "2003-06-26T20:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/1 "2003-06-26T20:00:34Z")
Too early to cast the film? Naw, never too early! I visualised Tonks as [Charlotte Coleman](http://www.geocities.com/davidbrider/Charlotte_Coleman/Four_Weddings_and_a_Funeral1.jpg) for half the book, before I remembered she died in '01. ☹ After that I saw her as [Emma Chambers](http://www.notting-hill.com/cast/honey.html) from Notting Hill… I must be stuck on Hugh Grant comic-relief sidekicks… I totally saw the other new Auror as Mace Windu every time he was mentioned, but I don’t think Samuel Jackson is the man for the job 😃 I know exactly who I can see doing Umbridge, but I can’t think of her name or anything she has been in. A very well known actress in the UK, usually type-cast as plump, dowdy, chainsmoking, tower-block or terrace resident… If anyone knows who I mean let me know. In the meantime I rekon Caroline Quentin could pull off the simpering-evil act required. We also have Mrs Figg to cast and probably a few others (I guess they will use unknowns for the kids again), suggestions anyone? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/2 "2003-06-26T20:09:15Z")
Doh! I was thinking of Kathy Burke earlier. [http://www.blue.uk.com/kathy/gallery/](http://www.blue.uk.com/kathy/gallery/) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/3 "2003-06-26T20:52:51Z")
I heartily agree on Emma Chambers as Tonks. [Yeardley Smith](http://www.wcat.com/ysfc/) (a/k/a Lisa Simpson) = Umbridge [Dennis Haysbert](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Haysbert,+Dennis) (a/k/a David Palmer from “24”) = Mace Shacklebolt Gene Wilder = Cornelius Fudge some new British girl no one’s ever seen = Luna Lovegood -or- [Hallie Eisenberg](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Eisenberg,+Hallie+Kate) (a/k/a that scary Pepsi girl) ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/4 "2003-06-26T21:36:16Z")
Chambers seems a bit too old to me (based on that one picture, anyway). I saw Tonks as in her early-to-mid-twenties: she mentions that she was only made an Auror the previous year, and IIRC, McGonagall mentions that Auror training takes another three years or so after graduation from Hogwarts. I could see Laurence Fishburne as Kingsley Windu. He has that whole stolidly competent, deep-voiced thing down pat. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/5 "2003-06-26T21:52:05Z")
Robert Hardy already plays Cornelius, he was in COS. Yeardly Smith is a great suggestion 🙂 would be so cool to see her all little and evil. I wonder if she isn’t too cute? I guess they could ugly her down. I am willing to bet bodyparts that Mace Shackelbolt will be played by [Colin Salmon](http://www.atlasfilm.com/presspix/9.jpg), who has been in amongst other things, Prime Suspect, Redident Evil and the latest Bond films. ---
**Author:** ![HomeSlice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HomeSlice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomeSlice)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/6 "2003-06-27T11:02:10Z")
Sporty Spice = Tonks ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/7 "2003-06-27T11:31:40Z")
I was picturing Umbridge as Kathy Bates. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/8 "2003-07-04T17:28:56Z")
My god… I am a genius! Am I the only one who can see Eddie Izzard (in full drag) as Umbridge? Although now looking at some recent photos he appears to have lost a lot of weight… Bit more like this (link) than his new “styled” look. [http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/photo/eddieizzard.jpg](http://www.comedy-zone.net/images/photo/eddieizzard.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/9 "2003-07-04T18:16:33Z")
I pictured Umbridge looking like Dr. Ruth. Tonks was Helena Bonham Carter looking like she did in Fight Club, but she’s too old. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cast-hp-order-of-the-phoenix-possible-spoilers/184600/10 "2003-07-04T18:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Am I the only one who can see Eddie Izzard (in full drag) as Umbridge? I really wanted to see Eddie as Lupin, actually. I like David Thewlis fine, and Gary Oldman is a perfect Sirius, but I think Izzard as Lupin was a missed opportunity. Rachel Weisz would have been a good Tonks, but she’s probably too old. Also, keep in mind that the HP movie actors are all going to be British, per Rowling’s request.