Jared Harris
Jared Francis Harris is a British actor who has appeared in film, television, and theater. He is the son of the late Irish actor Richard Harris and the Welsh actress Elizabeth Rees-Williams. Harris was born in Hammersmith, London, in 1961. He studied drama and literature at Duke University in North Carolina, and then went on to train at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Harris made his film debut in 1989 with a small role in the film The Rachel Papers. He went on to appear in a number of films, including The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), Smoke (1995), Happiness (1998), and How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000). In 2007, Harris began a recurring role as Lane Pryce in the AMC television series Mad Men. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance. Harris has also had notable roles in television series such as Fringe, The Crown, and The Expanse. In 2019, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance as Valery Legasov in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. On stage, Harris has appeared in productions of The Crucible, The Cherry Orchard, and The Homecoming. He has also directed several stage productions, including The Glass Menagerie and The Birthday Party.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Brave the Dark as Stan Deen
- 2024 · Reawakening as John
- 2024 · Royal Kill List as Narrator
- 2022 · The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
- 2022 · The Sea Beast as Captain Crow (voice)
- 2022 · Morbius as Dr. Emil Nicholas
- 2021 · Foundation as Hari Seldon
- 2021 · The Beast Must Die as George Rattery
- 2020 · Angela's Christmas Wish as The Vet
- 2019 · Carnival Row as Absalom Breakspear
- 2019 · Robert the Bruce as John Comyn
- 2019 · Chernobyl as Valery Legasov
- 2019 · I Don't Want to Be Your Love as Ill Man
- 2018 · The Terror as Captain Francis Crozier
- 2017 · The Last Face as Dr. Farber
- 2016 · The Crown as King George VI
- 2016 · Certain Women as Fuller
- 2016 · Allied as Frank Heslop
- 2015 · The Expanse as Anderson Dawes
- 2015 · Baby, Baby, Baby as
- 2015 · The Clockmaker's Dream as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Bigfoot (voice)
- 2015 · New Looney Tunes as Asteroid (voice)
- 2015 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Sanders
- 2015 · Poltergeist as Carrigan Burke
- 2014 · The Men In Blazers Show as Self
- 2014 · The Boxtrolls as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
- 2014 · The Quiet Ones as Professor Coupland
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Pompeii as Severus
- 2013 · The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones as Hodge Starkweather
- 2013 · The Devil's Violinist as Urbani
- 2012 · Lincoln as Ulysses S. Grant
- 2012 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed as Himself - Professor James Moriarty
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Professor James Moriarty
- 2010 · The Ward as Dr. Stringer
- 2010 · Extraordinary Measures as Docteur Kent Webber
- 2009 · Tales of the Black Freighter as Ridley (voice)
- 2008 · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Captain Mike
- 2008 · Fringe as David Robert Jones
- 2008 · From Within as Bernard
- 2007 · The Shadow in the North as Axel Bellmann
- 2007 · Mad Men as Lane Pryce
- 2007 · 32A as Ruth's Father
- 2007 · The Riches as
- 2007 · Cashback as Alex Proud
- 2006 · Lady in the Water as Goatee Smoker
- 2006 · Coup! as Simon Mann
- 2005 · The Notorious Bettie Page as John Willie
- 2005 · To the Ends of the Earth as Captain Anderson
- 2005 · Robot Chicken as Mr. Weatherbee (voice)
- 2004 · Ocean's Twelve as Basher's Engineer
- 2004 · Resident Evil: Apocalypse as Dr. Ashford
- 2003 · Sylvia as Al Alvarez
- 2003 · I Love Your Work as Yehud
- 2003 · The Other Boleyn Girl as Henry VIII
- 2002 · Without a Trace as Father Walker
- 2002 · Igby Goes Down as Russel
- 2002 · Dummy as Michael Foulicker
- 2002 · Mr. Deeds as Mac McGrath
- 2002 · How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog as False Peter
- 2001 · Perfume as Anthony
- 2000 · Bullfighter as Jones
- 2000 · Shadow Magic as Raymond
- 2000 · Two of Us as John Lennon
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Robert Morten
- 1999 · B. Monkey as Alan Furnace
- 1999 · The Weekend as John Kerr
- 1999 · Fuzzy Logic as Fuzzy
- 1999 · Lush as W. Firmin Carter
- 1998 · Happiness as Vlad
- 1998 · The Eternal as Jim
- 1998 · Lost in Space as Older Will Robinson
- 1997 · Chinese Box as William
- 1997 · Fathers' Day as Lee
- 1997 · Sunday as Ray
- 1997 · White Lies as Jacob Reese
- 1997 · Gold In The Streets as Owen
- 1996 · I Shot Andy Warhol as Andy Warhol
- 1995 · Dead Man as Benmont Tench
- 1995 · Blue in the Face as Jimmy Rose
- 1995 · Smoke as Jimmy Rose
- 1995 · Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure as Head Thug Pug
- 1994 · New York Undercover as Seth Baines
- 1994 · Natural Born Killers as London Boy
- 1992 · The Public Eye as Danny the Doorman
- 1992 · The Last of the Mohicans as British Lieutenant
- 1992 · Far and Away as Paddy Donnelly
- Future · Sherlock Holmes 3 as Professor James Moriarty
- 1994 · Nadja as Edgar
- 1991 · Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules as Joey Patrick
- 1989 · The Rachel Papers as Geoff
- Future · Rothko as
- Future · Reykjavik as Mikhail Gorbachev
- Future · Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Political Thriller as
- Future · Reykjavik as Mikhail Gorbachev