Mads Mikkelsen as Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore

Johnny Depp portrayed Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and its 2018 sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, but the actor was replaced by Mads Mikkelsen for 2022’s Secrets of Dumbledore.

Depp had been fired from the role after he lost a libel case in the UK - which alleged he had abused his ex-wife Amber Heard, though the Pirates of the Caribbean star has since won his defamation case against Heard in the US.

Mikkelsen said that copying Depp would be “creative suicide” and shaped a sleeker, more ideological version of the villain.