Jared Harris

Jared Harris

actor, director, additional crew

Jared Harris was born on Aug 24, 1961 in UK. Jared Harris's big-screen debut came with The Rachel Papers directed by Damian Harris in 1989, strarring Geoff. Jared Harris is known for Foundation directed by Alex Graves, Lou Llobell stars as Gaal Dornick and Jared Harris as Hari Seldon. Jared Harris has got 14 awards and 27 nominations so far. The most recent award Jared Harris achieved is BAFTA Awards. The upcoming new movie Jared Harris plays is The Sea Beast which will be released on Jul 08, 2022.

Jared Francis Harris was born in London, England. He is the son of Irish actor Richard Harris and Welsh actress Elizabeth Harris (Elizabeth Rees), and brother of Damian Harris and Jamie Harris. Despite his lineage, Jared showed little interest in becoming an actor, until he was cast in a college production while attending North Carolina's Duke University (USA), where he studied drama and literature, in the early 1980s.After graduation, Jared returned to the UK where he attended Central School of Speech and Drama and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in Mark Rylance's "Hamlet", "Romeo & Juliet", "The Silent Woman" and "A Clockwork Orange". In 1989, he had his screen debut in Le dossier Rachel (1989).In 1990, while on vacation in New York, Jared auditioned for the role of Hotspur in "Henry IV, Part 1", which he played at the New York Shakespeare Festival following his brilliant course as an excellent theater artist in the off-Broadway play "Ecstasy", for which he was honored with an Obie Award in 1992.Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, from his breakthrough role as Andy Warhol in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) and VH1's Two of Us (2000) where he portrayed John Lennon to Sherlock Holmes: Jeu d'ombres (2011) and Lincoln (2012), Jared Harris expressed his unparalleled qualities as a sublime "chameleon" in a wide range of roles full of profoundness, intelligence and insights through his praised performances, among others, in Le dernier des Mohicans (1992), Tueurs nés (1994), Smoke (1995), Happiness (1998), Comment tuer le chien de son voisin (2000), Igby (2002), B. Monkey (1998), Xi yang jing (2000), Les aventures de Mister Deeds (2002), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and L'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button (2008).His tour-de-force mesmerizing, staggering and fascinating interpretations of substantial mastery, subtlety, charisma and generosity also include some of his finest precious gems on TV such as in The Other Boleyn Girl (2003), The Riches (2007), Fringe (2008), Mad Men (2007), The Crown (2016), The Terror (2018) and Chernobyl (2019).Jared is married to Allegra Riggio, lauded intelligent lighting designer and accidental comedian.

  • Birthday

    Aug 24, 1961
  • Place of Birth

    London, England, UK
  • Also known

    Jared Francis Harris, Джаред Харрис, 재러드 해리스

Known For

Awards

14 wins & 27 nominations

BAFTA Awards
2020
Leading Actor
Winner - BAFTA TV Award
Blogos de Oro
2020
Best Actor in a TV show (Mejor Actor en una serie)
Winner - Palmarés blogos de oro
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