Jared Harris
Jared Francis Harris 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.
Acted in
Brave the Dark
2025
as Stan Deen
Reawakening
2024
as John
Royal Kill List
2024
as Narrator
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
as Self
The Sea Beast
2022
as Captain Crow (voice)
Morbius
2022
as Dr. Emil Nicholas
Foundation
2021
as Hari Seldon
The Beast Must Die
2021
as George Rattery
Angela's Christmas Wish
2020
as The Vet
Carnival Row
2019
as Absalom Breakspear
Robert the Bruce
2019
as John Comyn
Chernobyl
2019
as Valery Legasov
I Don't Want to Be Your Love
2019
as Ill Man
The Terror
2018
as Captain Francis Crozier
The Last Face
2017
as Dr. Farber
The Crown
2016
as King George VI
Certain Women
2016
as Fuller
Allied
2016
as Frank Heslop
The Expanse
2015
as Anderson Dawes
Baby, Baby, Baby
2015
The Clockmaker's Dream
2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
2015
as Bigfoot (voice)
New Looney Tunes
2015
as Asteroid (voice)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015
as Sanders
Poltergeist
2015
as Carrigan Burke
The Boxtrolls
2014
as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
The Quiet Ones
2014
as Professor Coupland
Pompeii
2014
as Severus
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
2013
as Hodge Starkweather
The Devil's Violinist
2013
as Urbani
Lincoln
2012
as Ulysses S. Grant
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed
2012
as Himself - Professor James Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011
as Professor James Moriarty
The Ward
2010
as Dr. Stringer
Extraordinary Measures
2010
as Docteur Kent Webber
Tales of the Black Freighter
2009
as Ridley (voice)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
as Captain Mike
Fringe
2008
as David Robert Jones
From Within
2008
as Bernard
The Shadow in the North
2007
as Axel Bellmann
Mad Men
2007
as Lane Pryce
32A
2007
as Ruth's Father
The Riches
2007
Cashback
2007
as Alex Proud
Lady in the Water
2006
as Goatee Smoker
Coup!
2006
as Simon Mann
The Notorious Bettie Page
2005
as John Willie
To the Ends of the Earth
2005
as Captain Anderson
Robot Chicken
2005
as Mr. Weatherbee (voice)
Ocean's Twelve
2004
as Basher's Engineer
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004
as Dr. Ashford
Sylvia
2003
as Al Alvarez
I Love Your Work
2003
as Yehud
The Other Boleyn Girl
2003
as Henry VIII
Without a Trace
2002
as Father Walker
Igby Goes Down
2002
as Russel
Dummy
2002
as Michael Foulicker
Mr. Deeds
2002
as Mac McGrath
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002
as False Peter
Perfume
2001
as Anthony
Bullfighter
2000
as Jones
Shadow Magic
2000
as Raymond
Two of Us
2000
as John Lennon
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Robert Morten
B. Monkey
1999
as Alan Furnace
The Weekend
1999
as John Kerr
Fuzzy Logic
1999
as Fuzzy
Lush
1999
as W. Firmin Carter
Happiness
1998
as Vlad
The Eternal
1998
as Jim
Lost in Space
1998
as Older Will Robinson
Chinese Box
1997
as William
Fathers' Day
1997
as Lee
Sunday
1997
as Ray
White Lies
1997
as Jacob Reese
Gold In The Streets
1997
as Owen
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
as Andy Warhol
Dead Man
1995
as Benmont Tench
Blue in the Face
1995
as Jimmy Rose
Smoke
1995
as Jimmy Rose
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995
as Head Thug Pug
Nadja
1994
as Edgar
New York Undercover
1994
as Seth Baines
Natural Born Killers
1994
as London Boy
The Public Eye
1992
as Danny the Doorman
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
as British Lieutenant
Far and Away
1992
as Paddy Donnelly
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1991
as Joey Patrick
The Rachel Papers
1989
as Geoff
Sherlock Holmes 3
as Professor James Moriarty
Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Political Thriller
Reykjavik
as Mikhail Gorbachev
Rothko
Reykjavik
as Mikhail Gorbachev