---
name: "Jared Harris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jared-harris"
fi1m_id: "jared-harris"
imdb_id: "nm0364813"
tmdb_id: 15440
wikidata_id: "Q362500"
roles: ["Actor","Director"]
born: "24 August 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 23
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 22
updated: "2026-10-19T04:30:11.081071+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jared Harris

## Identity

Jared Harris

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jared-harris
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jared-harris
- **IMDb ID:** nm0364813
- **TMDB ID:** 15440
- **Wikidata ID:** Q362500
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Harris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362500, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364813/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15440

Actor and director. Born 24 August 1961 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Director
- **Born:** 24 August 1961, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1992–present
- **Also known as:** Jared Francis Harris
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 23: 22 acting, 1 directing
- **Frequently works with:** [Andrew Bernstein](https://film.one/person/andrew-bernstein.md), [Brad Pitt](https://film.one/person/brad-pitt.md), [Don Carmody](https://film.one/person/don-carmody.md), [Guy Ritchie](https://film.one/person/guy-ritchie.md), [Robert Downey Jr.](https://film.one/person/robert-downey-jr.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 65, as actor, over 22 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (5), 2000s 67 (5), 2010s 68 (9), 2020s 52 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 62 across 21 titles
- **Score spread:** 7 at 80+, 7 at 60–79, 8 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 4 of 17 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 15, Action 6, Fantasy 5, Mystery 4, Thriller 4, Adventure 3
- **Screen time:** 37 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,372m across 18 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Harris, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362500, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364813/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15440

## Coming up

- *Violent Night 2* (2026-12-02) — [page](https://film.one/film/violent-night-2.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Mad Men*](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md) (88), [*Certain Women*](https://film.one/film/certain-women.md) (84), [*The Terror*](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md) (82), [*Resident Evil: Apocalypse*](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-apocalypse.md) (43)
- **Disney+:** [*The Boxtrolls*](https://film.one/film/the-boxtrolls.md) (64), [*Morbius*](https://film.one/film/morbius.md) (38)
- **HBO Max:** [*Chernobyl*](https://film.one/tv/chernobyl.md) (86)
- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Dead Man*](https://film.one/film/dead-man.md) (81)
- **Netflix:** [*A House of Dynamite*](https://film.one/film/a-house-of-dynamite.md) (73)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Man from U.N.C.L.E.*](https://film.one/film/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e.md) (64)
- **Pluto TV:** [*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*](https://film.one/film/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button.md) (64)
- **Apple TV:** [*Foundation*](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md) (61)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Jared Harris

> Jared Harris is unusually good at showing the effort of keeping fear out of a professional conversation. We trust his quiet, strained performances most when the writing gives him something difficult to explain.

In *A House of Dynamite* (2025), Jared Harris listens to the odds of stopping a nuclear missile with a look of painful concentration. His Secretary of Defense Reid Baker seems to understand the figures and dread the answer. We felt sick when the interception odds were put at roughly a coin toss, because the machinery we had seen suddenly offered so little reassurance. Harris is the strongest performer in Kathryn Bigelow's film, even as its repeated eighteen-minute structure begins to weaken the tension.

He spent years in supporting film parts, including Andy Warhol in *I Shot Andy Warhol* (1996). Wider recognition came with Lane Pryce in Matthew Weiner's *Mad Men* (2007), a role he played from 2009 to 2012. Television then gave him Captain Francis Crozier in *The Terror* (2018) and the lead in *Chernobyl* (2019).

In Craig Mazin and Johan Renck's *Chernobyl*, the tiredness is there in Harris's careful delivery as Valery Legasov. The helicopter scene, with Legasov refusing a flight over the open reactor and Stellan Skarsgård's Boris Shcherbina threatening him, shows the value of that restraint. Harris makes the warning urgent without making Legasov seem suddenly fearless. The series explains too much towards the end, but his exchanges with Skarsgård keep its middle hours absorbing.

Kelly Reichardt uses him differently in *Certain Women* (2016). His Fuller talks over Laura's legal advice, then accepts the same opinion from a male lawyer, played by Guy Boyd. Harris makes the man's need to be heard plain without making his refusal to listen any less maddening, while Laura Dern lets the exhaustion register afterwards. We need patience with this section of the film, and the third story is stronger, but it is good to see Harris playing the man who will not listen.

Daniel Espinosa's *Morbius* (2022) is a reminder to check what surrounds him: its thin writing makes for a poor evening. We would not recommend it on his name alone. Start with *Chernobyl*, on an evening when something frightening is welcome.

## Biography

Jared Harris is a British actor. He was born in London on 24 August 1961, the son of actors Richard Harris and Elizabeth Rees-Williams. He studied drama and literature at Duke University and trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Harris made his film debut in *The Rachel Papers* (1989) and has since appeared in films including *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button* (2008) and *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* (2011). His television roles include Lane Pryce in *Mad Men* (2007–2012), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award, and Valery Legasov in the miniseries *Chernobyl* (2019), for which he won a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He played Secretary of Defense Reid Baker in the 2025 film *A House of Dynamite*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (23)

### Performed in (22) — the average rests on these

- *The Brink of War* (2026), Fi1m 38, as Mikhail Gorbachev — [page](https://film.one/film/the-brink-of-war.md)
- *A House of Dynamite* (2025), Fi1m 73, as Secretary of Defense Reid Baker — [page](https://film.one/film/a-house-of-dynamite.md)
- *Morbius* (2022), Fi1m 38, as Dr. Emil Nicholas — [page](https://film.one/film/morbius.md)
- *Foundation* (2021), Fi1m 61, as Hari Seldon — [page](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md)
- *Chernobyl* (2019), Fi1m 86, as Valery Legasov — [page](https://film.one/tv/chernobyl.md)
- *The Terror* (2018), Fi1m 82, as Captain Francis Crozier — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)
- *Allied* (2016), Fi1m 57, as Frank Heslop — [page](https://film.one/film/allied.md)
- *Certain Women* (2016), Fi1m 84, as Fuller — [page](https://film.one/film/certain-women.md)
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (2015), Fi1m 64, as Sanders — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e.md)
- *The Boxtrolls* (2014), Fi1m 64, as Lord Portley-Rind (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxtrolls.md)
- *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), Fi1m 38, as Hodge Starkweather — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones.md)
- *Lincoln* (2012), Fi1m 82, as Ulysses S. Grant — [page](https://film.one/film/lincoln.md)
- *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* (2011), Fi1m 58, as Professor James Moriarty — [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows.md)
- *Fringe* (2008), Fi1m 80, as David Robert Jones — [page](https://film.one/tv/fringe.md)
- *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button* (2008), Fi1m 64, as Captain Mike — [page](https://film.one/film/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button.md)
- *Ocean's Twelve* (2004), Fi1m 58, as Basher's Engineer — [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-twelve.md)
- *Resident Evil: Apocalypse* (2004), Fi1m 43, as Dr. Ashford — [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-apocalypse.md)
- *Happiness* (1998), Fi1m 78, as Vlad — [page](https://film.one/film/happiness.md)
- *Dead Man* (1995), Fi1m 81, as Benmont Tench — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-man.md)
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), Fi1m 64, as London Boy — [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *Far and Away* (1992), Fi1m 52, as Paddy Donnelly — [page](https://film.one/film/far-and-away.md)
- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), Fi1m 84, as British Lieutenant — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md)

### Directed (1)

- *Mad Men* (2007), Fi1m 88, as Lane Pryce — [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)

## Complete filmography (90)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Violent Night 2* (2026), Actor — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/violent-night-2.md)
- *The Brink of War* (2026), as Mikhail Gorbachev — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/the-brink-of-war.md)
- *A House of Dynamite* (2025), as Secretary of Defense Reid Baker — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/a-house-of-dynamite.md)
- *Brave the Dark* (2025), as Stan Deen
- *Reawakening* (2024), as John · Executive Producer
- *The Sea Beast* (2022), as Captain Crow (voice)
- *Morbius* (2022), as Dr. Emil Nicholas — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/morbius.md)
- *Foundation* (2021), series, as Hari Seldon — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/tv/foundation.md)
- *The Beast Must Die* (2021), series, as George Rattery
- *Angela's Christmas Wish* (2020), as The Vet
- *Carnival Row* (2019), series, as Absalom Breakspear
- *Robert the Bruce* (2019), as John Comyn
- *Chernobyl* (2019), series, as Valery Legasov — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/chernobyl.md)
- *The Terror* (2018), series, as Captain Francis Crozier — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)
- *The Last Face* (2017), as Dr. Farber
- *Allied* (2016), as Frank Heslop — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/allied.md)
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as King George VI — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *Certain Women* (2016), as Fuller — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/certain-women.md)
- *The Expanse* (2015), series, as Anderson Dawes — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-expanse.md)
- *Baby, Baby, Baby* (2015), Actor
- *The Clockmaker's Dream* (2015), as Narrator (voice)
- *The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show* (2015), series, as Bigfoot ​(voice)
- *New Looney Tunes* (2015), series, as Asteroid (voice)
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (2015), as Sanders — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-from-u-n-c-l-e.md)
- *Poltergeist* (2015), as Carrigan Burke
- *The Boxtrolls* (2014), as Lord Portley-Rind (voice) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-boxtrolls.md)
- *The Quiet Ones* (2014), as Professor Coupland
- *Pompeii* (2014), as Severus
- *The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones* (2013), as Hodge Starkweather — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mortal-instruments-city-of-bones.md)
- *The Devil's Violinist* (2013), as Urbani
- *Lincoln* (2012), as Ulysses S. Grant — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/lincoln.md)
- *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows* (2011), as Professor James Moriarty — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows.md)
- *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 — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button.md)
- *Fringe* (2008), series, as David Robert Jones — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/fringe.md)
- *From Within* (2008), as Bernard
- *The Shadow in the North* (2007), as Axel Bellmann
- *Mad Men* (2007), series, as Lane Pryce · Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *32A* (2007), as Ruth's Father
- *The Riches* (2007), series, Actor
- *Cashback* (2007), as Alex Proud
- *Lady in the Water* (2006), as Goatee Smoker
- *Coup!* (2006), as Simon Mann
- *The Notorious Bettie Page* (2006), as John Willie
- *To the Ends of the Earth* (2005), series, as Captain Anderson
- *Robot Chicken* (2005), series, as Mr. Weatherbee (voice)
- *Ocean's Twelve* (2004), as Basher's Engineer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/oceans-twelve.md)
- *Resident Evil: Apocalypse* (2004), as Dr. Ashford — Fi1m 43, [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-apocalypse.md)
- *Sylvia* (2003), as Al Alvarez
- *I Love Your Work* (2003), as Yehud
- *The Other Boleyn Girl* (2003), as Henry VIII
- *Without a Trace* (2002), series, 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), series, 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 — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/happiness.md)
- *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 — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-man.md)
- *Blue in the Face* (1995), as Jimmy Rose
- *Nadja* (1995), as Edgar
- *Smoke* (1995), as Jimmy Rose
- *Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure* (1995), as Head Thug Pug
- *New York Undercover* (1994), series, as Seth Baines
- *Natural Born Killers* (1994), as London Boy — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/natural-born-killers.md)
- *The Public Eye* (1992), as Danny the Doorman
- *The Last of the Mohicans* (1992), as British Lieutenant — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans.md)
- *Far and Away* (1992), as Paddy Donnelly — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/far-and-away.md)
- *Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules* (1991), as Joey Patrick (segment 'Return to Kansas City')
- *The Rachel Papers* (1989), as Geoff
- *The Price of Peace*, as Prime Minister Winston Churchill
- *What Happens at Night*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Cast of A House of Dynamite at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-248855bd444f.jpg) Cast of A House of Dynamite at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025 — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Cast_of_A_House_of_Dynamite-63.jpg/1280px-Cast_of_A_House_of_Dynamite-63.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jared Harris](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-3eba6ac2f473.jpg) Jared Harris — Ibsan73, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Jared_Harris_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jared Harris, actor, at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025 for the film A House of Dynamite](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-469717720fd7.jpg) Jared Harris, actor, at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025 for the film A House of Dynamite — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Jared_Harris_A_House_of_Dynamite-07.jpg/1280px-Jared_Harris_A_House_of_Dynamite-07.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jared Harris at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025 for the film A House of Dynamite](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-7fee7c4231c6.jpg) Jared Harris at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025 for the film A House of Dynamite — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Jared_Harris_A_House_of_Dynamite-08.jpg/1280px-Jared_Harris_A_House_of_Dynamite-08.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jared Harris](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-c9b4d2a0b7d8.jpg) Jared Harris — Image via TMDB
- ![Jared Harris](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-536a2175d988.jpg) Jared Harris — Image via TMDB
- ![Jared Harris](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-ea0e21c7746a.jpg) Jared Harris — Image via TMDB
- ![Jared Harris at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025 for the film A House of Dynamite](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-a5e1808f678f.jpg) Jared Harris at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2025 for the film A House of Dynamite — Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Jared_Harris_A_House_of_Dynamite-08_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Jared_Harris_A_House_of_Dynamite-08_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jared Harris](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-ad0edec6e0a2.jpg) Jared Harris — Image via TMDB
- ![Jared Harris](https://film.one/media/person/7833/gallery-104658d9a381.jpg) Jared Harris — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award 1998: Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (won), for *The Eternal*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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