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 Pape...
Known For
Complete Filmography

A House of Dynamite
2025
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

Brave the Dark
2025
as Stan Deen
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s...

Reawakening
2024
as John
John and Mary have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when s...

Reawakening
2024
Executive Producer
John and Mary have lived with desolating grief and the agony of uncertainty for the past ten years. Their only child, Clare, ran away from home when s...

The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
as Self
A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the most remarkable actors of his generation, the doc...

The Sea Beast
2022
as Captain Crow (voice)
When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to bo...

Morbius
2022
as Dr. Emil Nicholas
Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. Wh...

Angela's Christmas Wish
2020
as The Vet
A determined Angela makes a wish to reunite her family in time for Christmas, then launches a plan to find her way from Ireland to Australia.

Robert the Bruce
2019
as John Comyn
In 1306, Scottish King Robert the Bruce turns a defeated outlaw when his country is invaded. But before to free his sacred land, he must manage to reg...

I Don't Want to Be Your Love
2019
as Ill Man
A body and a performance at night in the desert, illuminated by the headlights of luxury automobiles parked in a circle. We become familiar with one o...

The Last Face
2017
as Dr. Farber
Miguel, a heroic Spanish doctor, puts himself in harm's way to deliver medical treatment to the victims of military uprisings in Africa.

Allied
2016
as Frank Heslop
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reuni...

Certain Women
2016
as Fuller
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled ...

Baby, Baby, Baby
2015
The relationship between two mismatched people who try to move past their baggage to make their love work.

The Clockmaker's Dream
2015
as Narrator (voice)
A Clockmaker is entrusted to care for a world that runs like clockwork. But when his heart gets broken, he rages against time itself only to discover ...

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015
as Sanders
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power be...

Poltergeist
2015
as Carrigan Burke
A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the famil...

The Boxtrolls
2014
as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the ...

The Quiet Ones
2014
as Professor Coupland
A professor and his students perform a dangerous experiment that causes a young woman to lose her sanity.

Pompeii
2014
as Severus
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy mer...

El violinista del diablo
2013
as Urbani

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
2013
as Hodge Starkweather
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who prote...

The Devil's Violinist
2013
as Urbani
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

Lincoln
2012
as Ulysses S. Grant
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln p...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed
2012
as Himself - Professor James Moriarty
How Jared Harris took on the classic villain role who still feels fresh, the perfect foil and equal to Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011
as Professor James Moriarty
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of ...

The Ward
2010
as Dr. Stringer
Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, ...

Extraordinary Measures
2010
as Docteur Kent Webber
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a con...

Tales of the Black Freighter
2009
as Ridley (voice)
A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
as Captain Mike
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...

From Within
2008
as Bernard
When the citizens of a small evangelical town systematically begin committing suicide, a young girl struggling to reconcile her Christian upbringing w...

Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse
2007
as Self
The making of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse."

The Shadow in the North
2007
as Axel Bellmann
Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him...

32A
2007
as Ruth's Father
This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putti...

Cashback
2007
as Alex Proud
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imag...

Lady in the Water
2006
as Goatee Smoker
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is act...
Coup!
2006
as Simon Mann
Dramatisation of the abortive real-life attempt by Simon Mann to organise a coup to take over Equatorial Guinea in 2004. The case achieved notoriety b...

The Notorious Bettie Page
2005
as John Willie
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up ph...

Ocean's Twelve
2004
as Basher's Engineer
Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried t...

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004
as Dr. Ashford
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have tur...

Sylvia
2003
as Al Alvarez
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

I Love Your Work
2003
as Yehud
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a...

The Other Boleyn Girl
2003
as Henry VIII
Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes m...

Igby Goes Down
2002
as Russel
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophre...

Dummy
2002
as Michael Foulicker
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may t...

Mr. Deeds
2002
as Mac McGrath
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different ki...

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002
as False Peter
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth yea...

Perfume
2001
as Anthony
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci...

Bullfighter
2000
as Jones
Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite h...

Shadow Magic
2000
as Raymond
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's broug...

Two of Us
2000
as John Lennon
In this purely fictional story, Paul McCartney drops by The Dakota to visit John Lennon in 1976. Paul is still on top of the music world, reaching #1 ...

B. Monkey
1999
as Alan Furnace
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire ...

The Weekend
1999
as John Kerr
Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend, Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate New York home. Emotions run high since it is the...
Fuzzy Logic
1999
as Fuzzy
A short film about a teenage boy’s first meeting with his estranged father.

Lush
1999
as W. Firmin Carter
Among the rich in New Orleans, it's the lush life for Lionel Exley, a golf hustler and heavy drinker. Released from an Arkansas jail, "Ex" returns to ...

Happiness
1998
as Vlad
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might fin...

The Eternal
1998
as Jim
An alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the mids...

Lost in Space
1998
as Older Will Robinson
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other...

Chinese Box
1997
as William
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of Chin...

Fathers' Day
1997
as Lee
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.

Sunday
1997
as Ray
Mistaking a homeless man for a famous director, a British actress seeks career help from him.

White Lies
1997
as Jacob Reese
A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she off...

Gold In The Streets
1997
as Owen
An Irish immigrant lands in the Bronx, working at an Italian-owned bar while living with fellow undocumented immigrants. Fears of deportation and unce...

I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
as Andy Warhol
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f...

Dead Man
1995
as Benmont Tench
William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a jou...

Blue in the Face
1995
as Jimmy Rose
A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun. But when the greedy owner threa...

Nadja
1995
as Edgar
In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their fathe...

Smoke
1995
as Jimmy Rose
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul t...

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995
as Head Thug Pug
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to ste...

Natural Born Killers
1994
as London Boy
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

The Public Eye
1992
as Danny the Doorman
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

The Last of the Mohicans
1992
as British Lieutenant
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a B...

Far and Away
1992
as Paddy Donnelly
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
1991
as Joey Patrick
Three short stories about women & men relationship.

The Rachel Papers
1989
as Geoff
Poised to attend Oxford University, 19-year-old Charles Highway decides it's high time to have a romantic encounter with an older woman. With the help...
Reykjavik
N/A
as Mikhail Gorbachev
At the most dangerous point of the Cold War, political enemies Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland over one long, tense weekend to dec...

Sherlock Holmes 3
N/A
as Professor James Moriarty
The plot is unknown at this time.