Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 24, 1961
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
98 titles
Jared Harris
Biography
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 2007 AMC television series Mad Men and was received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his performance. In 2019, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance as Valery Legasov in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Harris has also had notable roles in television series such as Fringe (2008), The Crown (2016), The Expanse (2015) and Foundation (2021). 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
Filmography
Violent Night 2
The Brink of War
Mikhail Gorbachev
A House of Dynamite
Secretary of Defense Reid Baker
Brave the Dark
Stan Deen
Reawakening
John
Royal Kill List
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self
The Sea Beast
Captain Crow (voice)
Morbius
Dr. Emil Nicholas
Foundation
Hari Seldon
The Beast Must Die
George Rattery
Angela's Christmas Wish
The Vet
Carnival Row
Absalom Breakspear
Robert the Bruce
John Comyn
Chernobyl
Valery Legasov
I Don't Want to Be Your Love
Ill Man
The Terror
Captain Francis Crozier
The Last Face
Dr. Farber
Allied
Frank Heslop
The Crown
King George VI
Certain Women
Fuller
The Expanse
Anderson Dawes
Baby, Baby, Baby
The Clockmaker's Dream
Narrator (voice)
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
Bigfoot (voice)
New Looney Tunes
Asteroid (voice)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Sanders
Poltergeist
Carrigan Burke
The Men in Blazers Show
Self
The Boxtrolls
Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
The Quiet Ones
Professor Coupland
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
Pompeii
Severus
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Hodge Starkweather
The Devil's Violinist
Urbani
Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed
Himself - Professor James Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Professor James Moriarty
The Ward
Dr. Stringer
Extraordinary Measures
Docteur Kent Webber
Tales of the Black Freighter
Ridley (voice)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Captain Mike
Fringe
David Robert Jones
From Within
Bernard
Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse
Self
The Shadow in the North
Axel Bellmann
Mad Men
Lane Pryce
32A
Ruth's Father
The Riches
Cashback
Alex Proud