The Brink of War
2026 · Movie
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Jared Harris
1961-08-24
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London, England, UK
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
Violent Night 2
2026 · Movie
A House of Dynamite
2025 · Movie
as Secretary of Defense Reid Baker
Brave the Dark
2025 · Movie
as Stan Deen
Reawakening
2024 · Movie
as John
Royal Kill List
2024 · TV Show
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Sea Beast
2022 · Movie
as Captain Crow (voice)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022 · Movie
as Self
Morbius
2022 · Movie
as Dr. Emil Nicholas
Foundation
2021 · TV Show
as Hari Seldon
The Beast Must Die
2021 · TV Show
as George Rattery
Angela's Christmas Wish
2020 · Movie
as The Vet
I Don't Want to Be Your Love
2019 · Movie
as Ill Man
Robert the Bruce
2019 · Movie
as John Comyn
Carnival Row
2019 · TV Show
as Absalom Breakspear
Chernobyl
2019 · TV Show
as Valery Legasov
The Terror
2018 · TV Show
as Captain Francis Crozier
The Last Face
2017 · Movie
as Dr. Farber
Certain Women
2016 · Movie
as Fuller
Allied
2016 · Movie
as Frank Heslop
The Crown
2016 · TV Show
as King George VI
Baby, Baby, Baby
2015 · Movie
Poltergeist
2015 · Movie
as Carrigan Burke
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015 · Movie
as Sanders
The Clockmaker's Dream
2015 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
New Looney Tunes
2015 · TV Show
as Asteroid (voice)
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
2015 · TV Show
as Bigfoot (voice)
The Expanse
2015 · TV Show
as Anderson Dawes
Pompeii
2014 · Movie
as Severus
The Quiet Ones
2014 · Movie
as Professor Coupland
The Boxtrolls
2014 · Movie
as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Men in Blazers Show
2014 · TV Show
as Self
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
2013 · Movie
as Hodge Starkweather
The Devil's Violinist
2013 · Movie
as Urbani
Lincoln
2012 · Movie
as Ulysses S. Grant
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed
2012 · Movie
as Himself - Professor James Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011 · Movie
as Professor James Moriarty
Extraordinary Measures
2010 · Movie
as Docteur Kent Webber
The Ward
2010 · Movie
as Dr. Stringer
Tales of the Black Freighter
2009 · Movie
as Ridley (voice)
From Within
2008 · Movie
as Bernard
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · Movie
as Captain Mike
Fringe
2008 · TV Show
as David Robert Jones
The Shadow in the North
2007 · Movie
as Axel Bellmann
32A
2007 · Movie
as Ruth's Father
Cashback
2007 · Movie
as Alex Proud
Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse
2007 · Movie
as Self
Mad Men
2007 · TV Show
as Lane Pryce
The Riches
2007 · TV Show
Lady in the Water
2006 · Movie
as Goatee Smoker
The Notorious Bettie Page
2006 · Movie
as John Willie
Coup!
2006 · Movie
as Simon Mann
To the Ends of the Earth
2005 · TV Show
as Captain Anderson
Robot Chicken
2005 · TV Show
as Mr. Weatherbee (voice)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004 · Movie
as Dr. Ashford
Ocean's Twelve
2004 · Movie
as Basher's Engineer
I Love Your Work
2003 · Movie
as Yehud
The Other Boleyn Girl
2003 · Movie
as Henry VIII
Sylvia
2003 · Movie
as Al Alvarez
Mr. Deeds
2002 · Movie
as Mac McGrath
Igby Goes Down
2002 · Movie
as Russel
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002 · Movie
as False Peter
Dummy
2002 · Movie
as Michael Foulicker
Without a Trace
2002 · TV Show
as Father Walker
Perfume
2001 · Movie
as Anthony
Bullfighter
2000 · Movie
as Jones
Shadow Magic
2000 · Movie
as Raymond
Two of Us
2000 · Movie
as John Lennon
B. Monkey
1999 · Movie
as Alan Furnace
Lush
1999 · Movie
as W. Firmin Carter
The Weekend
1999 · Movie
as John Kerr
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Fuzzy Logic
1999 · Movie
as Fuzzy
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · TV Show
as Robert Morten
Lost in Space
1998 · Movie
as Older Will Robinson
The Eternal
1998 · Movie
as Jim
Happiness
1998 · Movie
as Vlad
White Lies
1997 · Movie
as Jacob Reese
Chinese Box
1997 · Movie
as William
Sunday
1997 · Movie
as Ray
Fathers' Day
1997 · Movie
as Lee
Gold In The Streets
1997 · Movie
as Owen
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996 · Movie
as Andy Warhol
Dead Man
1995 · Movie
as Benmont Tench
Smoke
1995 · Movie
as Jimmy Rose
Blue in the Face
1995 · Movie
as Jimmy Rose
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995 · Movie
as Head Thug Pug
Nadja
1995 · Movie
as Edgar
Natural Born Killers
1994 · Movie
as London Boy
New York Undercover
1994 · TV Show
as Seth Baines
Far and Away
1992 · Movie
as Paddy Donnelly
The Public Eye
1992 · Movie
as Danny the Doorman
The Last of the Mohicans
1992 · Movie
as British Lieutenant
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1991 · Movie
as Joey Patrick
The Rachel Papers
1989 · Movie
as Geoff
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The Price of Peace
· Movie
as Prime Minister Winston Churchill
What Happens at Night
· Movie
The George Lucas Talk Show: Live
· TV Show
as Self
