Jared Harris
Jared Francis Harris (born August 24, 1961) 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 · A House of Dynamite as
- 2022 · The Sea Beast as Captain Crow (voice)
- 2022 · Morbius as Dr. Emil Nicholas
- 2021 · Foundation as Hari Seldon
- 2019 · Carnival Row as Absalom Breakspear
- 2019 · Chernobyl as Valery Legasov
- 2018 · The Terror as Captain Francis Crozier
- 2017 · The Last Face as Dr. Farber
- 2016 · Allied as Frank Heslop
- 2016 · The Crown as King George VI
- 2016 · Certain Women as Fuller
- 2015 · The Expanse as Anderson Dawes
- 2015 · The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Bigfoot (voice)
- 2015 · Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production 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
- 2012 · Lincoln as Ulysses S. Grant
- 2011 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Professor James Moriarty
- 2008 · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Captain Mike
- 2008 · Fringe as David Robert Jones
- 2007 · Mad Men as Lane Pryce
- 2007 · The Riches as
- 2007 · Cashback as Alex Proud
- 2005 · The Notorious Bettie Page as John Willie
- 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
- 2002 · Without a Trace as Father Walker
- 2002 · Mr. Deeds as Mac McGrath
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Robert Morten
- 1999 · The Weekend as John Kerr
- 1998 · Happiness as Vlad
- 1998 · Lost in Space as Older Will Robinson
- 1997 · White Lies as Jacob Reese
- 1996 · I Shot Andy Warhol as Andy Warhol
- 1995 · Dead Man as Benmont Tench
- 1994 · New York Undercover as Seth Baines
- 1994 · Natural Born Killers as London Boy
- 1992 · The Last of the Mohicans as British Lieutenant
- 1992 · Far and Away as Paddy Donnelly
- Future · Sherlock Holmes 3 as Professor James Moriarty
- 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
- 2021 · The Beast Must Die as George Rattery
- 2020 · Angela's Christmas Wish as The Vet
- 2019 · Robert the Bruce as John Comyn
- 2019 · I Don't Want to Be Your Love as Ill Man
- 2015 · Baby, Baby, Baby as
- 2015 · The Clockmaker's Dream as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The Devil's Violinist as Urbani
- 2012 · Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed as Himself - 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 · From Within as Bernard
- 2007 · Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse as Self
- 2007 · The Shadow in the North as Axel Bellmann
- 2007 · 32A as Ruth's Father
- 2006 · Lady in the Water as Goatee Smoker
- 2006 · Coup! as Simon Mann
- 2005 · To the Ends of the Earth as Captain Anderson
- 2003 · I Love Your Work as Yehud
- 2003 · The Other Boleyn Girl as Henry VIII
- 2002 · Igby Goes Down as Russel
- 2002 · Dummy as Michael Foulicker
- 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 · B. Monkey as Alan Furnace
- 1999 · Fuzzy Logic as Fuzzy
- 1999 · Lush as W. Firmin Carter
- 1998 · The Eternal as Jim
- 1997 · Chinese Box as William
- 1997 · Fathers' Day as Lee
- 1997 · Sunday as Ray
- 1997 · Gold In The Streets as Owen
- 1995 · Blue in the Face as Jimmy Rose
- 1995 · Nadja as Edgar
- 1995 · Smoke as Jimmy Rose
- 1995 · Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure as Head Thug Pug
- 1992 · The Public Eye as Danny the Doorman
- 1991 · Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules as Joey Patrick
- 1989 · The Rachel Papers as Geoff
- Future · Reykjavik as Mikhail Gorbachev