Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is a British actor. His roles include Lane Pryce in the

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television drama series ''

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'', for which he was nominated for the

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; David Robert Jones in the science fiction series ''

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''; King George VI in the historical drama series ''

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''; Anderson Dawes on the science fiction series '' The Expanse''; Captain

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in the AMC series ''

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''; and Valery Legasov in the HBO miniseries ''

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'', for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie''.'' He has also had significant supporting roles in films such as '' Mr. Deeds'' (2002), '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' (2008), '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'' (2011), ''

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'' (2012), and '' Allied'' (2016). In 2021, he took the role of Hari Seldon, a leading character in the

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science fiction series ''

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''.

Early life

Harris was born on 24 August 1961 in Hammersmith,

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, the second of three sons of

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actor

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and his first wife, Welsh actress Elizabeth Rees-Williams. His younger brother is actor Jamie Harris, his older brother is director Damian Harris and his maternal grandfather was politician

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Education

Harris was educated at Ladycross School, a former preparatory boarding independent school in the coastal town of Seaford in East Sussex, as were his brothers Jamie and Damian. He says, "They were famous for discipline, with cold showers every morning", and that "You were never known by your first name there. You were either called by your number, or your last name. Since there were three of us, Damian was 'Harris Ma' for major. I was 'Harris Mi' for minor, and Jamie was 'Harris Minimus,' being the youngest and the smallest". He then attended Downside School, a Catholic boarding independent school in the village of

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(near the

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of Shepton Mallet) in

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, in

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. He went on to Duke University in the U.S., graduating in 1984 with an BFA in drama, then returned to England to train as an actor at the

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, graduating in 1989.

Career

Harris began his film career directing ''Darkmoor'' (1983), an unfinished feature-length film for Duke University's Freewater Films. His first film appearance as an actor was in '' The Rachel Papers'' (1989). He portrayed the role of the aged Will Robinson in the movie adaptation of the television series ''

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''. Harris portrayed Dr. Charles Ashford in '' Resident Evil: Apocalypse'', Benmont Tench in Jim Jarmusch's '' Dead Man'', and

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's character's doppelgänger in ''

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''. Other notable roles include King Henry VIII in the 2003 film adaptation of the novel '' The Other Boleyn Girl''. He also portrayed

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in ''

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'' and

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in the television movie '' Two of Us'' (2000). He portrayed Vladimir in the black comedy drama film ''

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'' (1998), written and directed by Todd Solondz. He portrayed the gruff Captain Anderson in the BBC2 adaptation of '' To the Ends of the Earth''; Mac McGrath in the movie '' Mr. Deeds''; Eamon Quinn on the FX series '' The Riches''; and David Robert Jones on ''

''. One of his more recent film roles was Ulysses S. Grant in the Steven Spielberg-directed ''

''. He portrayed Lane Pryce in ''

'' from 2009 until 2012 and returned to the series to direct the 11th episode of season 7, which aired in 2015. His portrayal of King George VI in the first season of ''

'' received praise from critic Matt Zoller Seitz, who stated that despite the series' large ensemble, "Harris still manages to communicate the character’s understated sensitivity and awareness of his circumscribed role in England’s drama so poignantly that one can’t help being moved by the performance". He portrayed Captain

in the 2018 series ''

'', based on the

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novel of the same name that provided a fictional account of the fate of

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. In November 2018, Harris was one of the first recipients of the

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's Louie Kamookak Medal, awarded "for making Canada's geography better known to Canadians and to the world", for his portrayal of Captain Crozier. Harris said that he was "gratified" that the series inspired curiosity about the real expedition, remarking, "It’s sort of fitting that history will recall that it was the RCGS that first recognized ''The Terror'', and that we as the recipients walked in the footsteps of Louie Kamookak." In 2019, Harris portrayed Valery Legasov in the acclaimed miniseries ''Chernobyl'', which revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. For that role he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and

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. The series was produced by HBO in the United States and Sky UK in the United Kingdom. In March 2019, Harris joined Jared Leto in Sony's Spider-Man spinoff '' Morbius''. He plays the developer of psychohistory Hari Seldon in the ''Foundation'' television series produced for

which premiered in September 2021. In March 2021, Harris was announced to have joined the cast of the biographical drama film ''Rothko'', directed by

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Personal life

Harris married Jacqueline Goldenberg in 1989 and they divorced three years later. On 16 July 2005, Harris married actress Emilia Fox, the daughter of actors Edward Fox and

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, and filed for divorce in January 2009; the divorce was finalised in June 2010. In April 2009, Harris met Allegra Riggio, a lighting designer and television host, at a comedy club where a mutual friend was performing. They married on 9 November 2013. Harris resides in

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Filmography

Awards and nominations

Honors

On 18 October 2019 Harris received the Cinema Vanguard award at the San Diego International Film Festival. Previous winners include

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and

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References

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