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 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.
TBASherlock Holmes 3 as Professor James Moriarty
TBAReykjavik as Mikhail Gorbachev
TBAUntitled Kathryn Bigelow Political Thriller as Unknown
2025Brave the Dark as Stan Deen
2024Reawakening as John
2024Royal Kill List (3 Episodes) as Narrator
2022The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
2022The Sea Beast as Captain Crow (voice)
2022Morbius as Dr. Emil Nicholas
2021Foundation (30 Episodes) as Hari Seldon
2021The Beast Must Die (5 Episodes) as George Rattery
2020Angela's Christmas Wish as The Vet
2019Carnival Row (8 Episodes) as Absalom Breakspear
2019Robert the Bruce as John Comyn
2019Chernobyl (5 Episodes) as Valery Legasov
2019I Don't Want to Be Your Love as Ill Man
2018The Terror (10 Episodes) as Captain Francis Crozier
2017The Last Face as Dr. Farber
2016The Crown (6 Episodes) as King George VI
2016Certain Women as Fuller
2016Allied as Frank Heslop
2015The Expanse (6 Episodes) as Anderson Dawes
2015Baby, Baby, Baby as Unknown
2015The Clockmaker's Dream as Narrator (voice)
2015The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (1 Episode) as Bigfoot (voice)
2015New Looney Tunes (4 Episodes) as Asteroid (voice)
2015The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Sanders
2015Poltergeist as Carrigan Burke
2014The Men In Blazers Show (1 Episode) as Self
2014The Boxtrolls as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
2014The Quiet Ones as Professor Coupland
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers (2 Episodes) as Self
2014Pompeii as Severus
2013El violinista del diablo as Urbani
2013The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones as Hodge Starkweather
2013The Devil's Violinist as Urbani
2012Lincoln as Ulysses S. Grant
2012Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed as Himself - Professor James Moriarty
2011Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Professor James Moriarty
2010The Ward as Dr. Stringer
2010Extraordinary Measures as Docteur Kent Webber
2009Tales of the Black Freighter as Ridley (voice)
2008The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Captain Mike
2008Fringe (9 Episodes) as David Robert Jones
2008From Within as Bernard
2007Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse as Self
2007The Shadow in the North as Axel Bellmann
2007Mad Men (35 Episodes) as Lane Pryce
200732A as Ruth's Father
2007The Riches (4 Episodes) as Unknown
2007Cashback as Alex Proud
2006Lady in the Water as Goatee Smoker
2006Coup! as Simon Mann
2005The Notorious Bettie Page as John Willie
2005To the Ends of the Earth (3 Episodes) as Captain Anderson
2005Robot Chicken (1 Episode) as Mr. Weatherbee (voice)
2004Ocean's Twelve as Basher's Engineer
2004Resident Evil: Apocalypse as Dr. Ashford
2003Sylvia as Al Alvarez
2003I Love Your Work as Yehud
2003The Other Boleyn Girl as Henry VIII
2002Without a Trace (2 Episodes) as Father Walker
2002Igby Goes Down as Russel
2002Dummy as Michael Foulicker
2002Mr. Deeds as Mac McGrath
2002How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog as False Peter
2001Perfume as Anthony
2000Bullfighter as Jones
2000Shadow Magic as Raymond
2000Two of Us as John Lennon
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Robert Morten
1999B. Monkey as Alan Furnace
1999The Weekend as John Kerr
1999Fuzzy Logic as Fuzzy
1999Lush as W. Firmin Carter
1998Happiness as Vlad
1998The Eternal as Jim
1998Lost in Space as Older Will Robinson
1997Chinese Box as William
1997Fathers' Day as Lee
1997Sunday as Ray
1997White Lies as Jacob Reese
1997Gold In The Streets as Owen
1996I Shot Andy Warhol as Andy Warhol
1995Dead Man as Benmont Tench
1995Blue in the Face as Jimmy Rose
1995Nadja as Edgar
1995Smoke as Jimmy Rose
1995Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure as Head Thug Pug
1994New York Undercover (1 Episode) as Seth Baines
1994Natural Born Killers as London Boy
1992The Public Eye as Danny the Doorman
1992The Last of the Mohicans as British Lieutenant
1992Far and Away as Paddy Donnelly
1991Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules as Joey Patrick
1989The Rachel Papers as Geoff
2024Reawakening ... Executive Producer
2007Mad Men (1 Episode) ... Director