Jared Harris
Born: 1961-08-24 in London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
2025
- A House of Dynamite as Secretary of Defense Reid Baker
- Brave the Dark as Stan Deen
2024
- Reawakening as John
- Royal Kill List as Narrator
2022
- The Sea Beast as Captain Crow (voice)
- Morbius as Dr. Emil Nicholas
- The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
2021
- Foundation as Hari Seldon
- The Beast Must Die as George Rattery
2020
- Angela's Christmas Wish as The Vet
2019
- Chernobyl as Valery Legasov
- Carnival Row as Absalom Breakspear
- Robert the Bruce as John Comyn
- 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
- Allied as Frank Heslop
- Certain Women as Fuller
2015
- The Expanse as Anderson Dawes
- New Looney Tunes as Asteroid (voice)
- The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show as Bigfoot (voice)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Sanders
- Poltergeist as Carrigan Burke
- Baby, Baby, Baby
- The Clockmaker's Dream as Narrator (voice)
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Pompeii as Severus
- The Boxtrolls as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
- The Men in Blazers Show as Self
- The Quiet Ones as Professor Coupland
2013
- The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones as Hodge Starkweather
- The Devil's Violinist as Urbani
2012
- Lincoln as Ulysses S. Grant
- 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
- Extraordinary Measures as Docteur Kent Webber
2009
- Tales of the Black Freighter as Ridley (voice)
2008
- Fringe as David Robert Jones
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Captain Mike
- From Within as Bernard
2007
- Mad Men as Lane Pryce
- Cashback as Alex Proud
- The Riches
- The Shadow in the North as Axel Bellmann
- Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse as Self
- 32A as Ruth's Father
2006
- Coup! as Simon Mann
- Lady in the Water as Goatee Smoker
2005
- Robot Chicken as Mr. Weatherbee (voice)
- The Notorious Bettie Page as John Willie
- To the Ends of the Earth as Captain Anderson
2004
- Ocean's Twelve as Basher's Engineer
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse as Dr. Ashford
2003
- Sylvia as Al Alvarez
- The Other Boleyn Girl as Henry VIII
- I Love Your Work as Yehud
2002
- Without a Trace as Father Walker
- Mr. Deeds as Mac McGrath
- Igby Goes Down as Russel
- Dummy as Michael Foulicker
- How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog as False Peter
2001
- Perfume as Anthony
2000
- Bullfighter as Jones
- Two of Us as John Lennon
- Shadow Magic as Raymond
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Robert Morten
- B. Monkey as Alan Furnace
- The Weekend as John Kerr
- Fuzzy Logic as Fuzzy
- Lush as W. Firmin Carter
1998
- Lost in Space as Older Will Robinson
- The Eternal as Jim
- Happiness as Vlad
1997
- Chinese Box as William
- Sunday as Ray
- Gold In The Streets as Owen
- Fathers' Day as Lee
- White Lies as Jacob Reese
1996
- I Shot Andy Warhol as Andy Warhol
1995
- Nadja as Edgar
- Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure as Head Thug Pug
- Blue in the Face as Jimmy Rose
- Dead Man as Benmont Tench
- Smoke as Jimmy Rose
1994
- New York Undercover as Seth Baines
- Natural Born Killers as London Boy
1992
- The Last of the Mohicans as British Lieutenant
- Far and Away as Paddy Donnelly
- 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