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So macho...Harry Potter's all grown-up with stubble on his face

Updated 18:36pm on 16 Jun 2008

His boyish charms as the world’s most famous wizard have won him legions of female admirers, but Daniel Radcliffe’s seems keen to ditch those youthful looks and adopt a more manly appearance.

The Harry Potter star revealed a face of stubble while attending the theatre world’s most prestigious awards, the Tonys, in New York yesterday.

Looking smart in a tuxedo, the diminutive actor, 18, is clearly aiming for a more adult appearance as he leaves his teens behind and makes the difficult transition from child star to grown-up actor.

A grown-up looking Daniel Radcliffe at the 62nd Annual Tony Awards in New York yesterday

He has already attempted to make the cross-over in his career, namely with his theatre debut in February 2007 in the West End play Equus where he appeared nude on stage.

Radcliffe was presenting an award with fellow British actor Richard Griffiths.

British actor Mark Rylance, 48, was named best leading actor in the French farce Boeing Boeing for his performance as a nerdy visitor to Paris in the comedy, which transferred to Broadway after a hugely successful run in the West End.

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How he was: Radcliffe, aged 11, with his Harry Potter co-stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint

The play also received best revival of a play award at the ceremony at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. It beat Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Macbeth.

Mark Rylance with his award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for 'Boeing-Boeing'

In his acceptance speech, Rylance, who was the first artistic director at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, eschewed the normal thank-yous to wax lyrical about the delights of wearing a uniform. It is likely to have left the audience a little nonplussed.

Rylance declared: "When you're in town wearing some kind of uniform, it's helpful - policeman, priest. ...

"If you're in the woods - some place far from any human habitation - it is a good idea to wear orange and carry a gun, or depending on the season, a fishing pole or a camera with a big lens otherwise ... it might appear that you don't know what you're doing, that you're just wandering the earth with no particular reason for being here and no particular place to go. Thanks very much."

The original London production of Boeing Boeing, written by Marc Camoletti, opened in London in 1962 and was revived last year to great critical acclaim. It transferred to Broadway last month with Rylance reprising his London role.

Rylance beat two British actors - Rufus Sewell in Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll and Patrick Stewart in Macbeth - to the award.

Rylance on stage in the West End with Tasmin Outhwaite during the play's hugely successful run in London

There was also disappointment for Stoppard who was nominated for best play but lost out to Tracy Letts's August: Osage County, a very American play about a dysfunctional family in Oklahoma.

Sinead Cusack, who attended the awards with her husband Jeremy Irons, failed to win best performance by a featured actress in Rock 'n' Roll.

One of the big winners was a revival of the musical South Pacific which won seven Tonys.

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Whoopi Goldberg raises some laughs as host at the Tony Awards as she reenacts a scene from Mary Poppins (right)

It won nine when it first ran in 1950. The musical In The Heights, a joyous celebration of Latino life in the upper reaches of Manhattan, took four awards and another musical, Gypsy, took three.

The five Tonys for August: Osage County, were not unexpected since it has already won major US awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.