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