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