Editing Jared Harris (section)

== Career ==
=== 1983–2008 ===
[[Image:Richard Harris 1985.jpg|thumb|right|160px|upright=0.8|His father, the actor [[Richard Harris]]]]
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 took minor roles in films such as the western romance ''[[Far and Away]]'' (1992), the historical epic ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' (1992), and the crime drama ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'' (1994). He took the role of Benmont Tench in [[Jim Jarmusch]]'s ''[[Dead Man]]'' (1995). He portrayed the role of the aged [[Danger, Will Robinson|Will Robinson]] in the [[Lost in Space (film)|1998 movie adaptation]] of the television series ''[[Lost in Space]]''. That same year he portrayed Vladimir in the controversial black comedy drama film ''[[Happiness (1998 film)|Happiness]]'' (1998), written and directed by [[Todd Solondz]]. He portrayed [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s character's [[doppelgänger]] in ''[[How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog]]'' (2000).

Other notable roles include [[Andy Warhol]] in ''[[I Shot Andy Warhol]]'', [[John Lennon]] in the television movie ''[[Two of Us (2000 film)|Two of Us]]'' (2000) and [[Henry VIII of England|King Henry VIII]] in [[The Other Boleyn Girl (2003 film)|the 2003 BBC film adaptation]] of the novel ''[[The Other Boleyn Girl]]''. Harris portrayed [[Characters in the Resident Evil films#Dr. Charles Ashford|Dr. Charles Ashford]] in ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse]]'' (2004). 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 (TV network)|FX]] series ''[[The Riches]]''; and David Robert Jones on ''[[Fringe (TV series)|Fringe]]''.

=== 2009–2017 ===
He gained widespread fame for his portrayal of [[Lane Pryce]] in the [[AMC (TV channel)|AMC]] period drama series ''[[Mad Men]]'' from 2009 until 2012. The show focuses on the lives of [[Madison Avenue#Advertising industry|Ad Men]] in [[New York City]] during the 1960s. He first appeared in season three where he arrives as a British newcomer to [[Sterling Cooper]], and later becomes a partner of the new agency [[Roger Sterling|Sterling]] [[Bert Cooper|Cooper]] [[Don Draper|Draper]] [[Lane Pryce|Pryce]]. Paul MacInnes of ''[[The Guardian]]'' wrote of Lane Pryce, "For much of his three season tenure on the show, Lane has seemed like the archetypal Englishman...He was polite, courteous, dry-witted, stingy. He was also apparently logical and keenly stoic, keeping calm and carrying on when Sterling Cooper broke up and its successor nearly went under."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/jun/05/mad-men-season-5-episode-12|title= Mad Men: season 5, episode 12 – Commissions and Fees|website= The Guardian|date= 5 June 2012|accessdate= August 9, 2023|last1= MacInnes|first1= Paul}}</ref> Harris received critical acclaim for his final appearance in the episode "[[Commissions and Fees]]" as well as a nomination for the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series]], losing to [[Aaron Paul]] for ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' in 2012. He returned to the series to direct the 11th episode of season 7, which aired in 2015.

He portrayed [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s acclaimed historical drama film ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]'' (2012).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boedeker |first=Hal |date=17 November 2012 |title='Lincoln': Look at all those TV actors; did you love the surprise? |url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2012/11/lincoln-look-at-all-those-tv-actors-did-you-love-the-surprise.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123091500/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2012/11/lincoln-look-at-all-those-tv-actors-did-you-love-the-surprise.html |archive-date=23 November 2012 |work=Orlando Sentinel}}</ref>

His portrayal of [[King George VI]] in the first season of ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]'' 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".<ref>{{cite web|last=Seitz|first=Matt Zoller|author-link=Matt Zoller Seitz|title=Netflix's The Crown Is Tedious, But Anglophiles Will Like It|url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/11/netflix-the-crown-is-tedious-but-anglophiles-will-like-it.html|website=[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]]|publisher=Vox Media, LLC|access-date=December 1, 2020|date=November 3, 2016}}</ref> He received nominations for the [[British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor]] and the [[Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series]].

=== 2018–present ===
He portrayed Captain [[Francis Crozier]] in the 2018 series ''[[The Terror (TV series)|The Terror]]'', based on the [[Dan Simmons]] [[The Terror (novel)|novel of the same name]] that provided a fictional account of the fate of [[Franklin's lost expedition]]. In November 2018, Harris was one of the first recipients of the [[Royal Canadian Geographical Society]]'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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/actor-jared-harris-awarded-rcgs-louie-kamookak-medal|work=Canadian Geographic|last=Pope|first=Alexander|title=Actor Jared Harris awarded RCGS' Louie Kamookak Medal|date=5 November 2018|access-date=27 November 2018}}</ref>

In 2019, Harris portrayed [[Valery Legasov]] in the acclaimed miniseries [[Chernobyl (miniseries)|''Chernobyl'']], which revolves around the [[Chernobyl disaster]] of 1986 and the [[Effects of the Chernobyl disaster|cleanup efforts]] that followed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Littleton |first=Cynthia |title=HBO Sets 'Chernobyl' Miniseries to Star Jared Harris |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/hbo-chernobyl-miniseries-jared-harris-1202507712/ |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=26 July 2017 |access-date=February 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512214311/https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/hbo-chernobyl-miniseries-jared-harris-1202507712/ |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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 [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film]]. 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 (film)|Morbius]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2019/03/jared-harris-jared-leto-sony-morbius-1202568921/|title=Jared Harris Joins Jared Leto In Sony's 'Spider-Man' Spinoff 'Morbius'|work=Canadian Geographic|last=N'Duka|first=Amanda|date=5 November 2018|access-date=4 March 2019}}</ref> He plays the developer of psychohistory [[Hari Seldon]] in the [[Foundation (TV series)|''Foundation'']] television series produced for [[Apple TV+]] which premiered in September 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210920-foundation-the-unfilmable-sci-fi-epic-now-on-our-screens|title=Foundation: The 'unfilmable' sci-fi epic now on our screens|website=bbc.com|date = 2021-09-20|access-date =2021-09-25|last=Armstrong|first=Neil}}</ref>

In 2024, he played the father of a returning missing child in the British psychological thriller film ''[[Reawakening]]'', alongside  [[Erin Doherty]] and [[Juliet Stevenson]].<ref name="west">{{cite web|title= Reawakening (2023)|url= https://westendfilms.com/programme/reawakening |work=westendfilms.com |date=2023 |access-date= 5 April 2024}}</ref>