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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 Papers. He went on to appear in a number of films, including The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), Smoke (1995), Happiness (1998), and How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000). In 2007, Harris began a recurring role as Lane Pryce in the 2007 AMC television series Mad Men and was received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his performance. In 2019, he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance as Valery Legasov in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Harris has also had notable roles in television series such as Fringe (2008), The Crown (2016), The Expanse (2015) and Foundation (2021). On stage, Harris has appeared in productions of The Crucible, The Cherry Orchard, and The Homecoming. He has also directed several stage productions, including The Glass Menagerie and The Birthday Party.
Jared Harris
Doctor Octopus
for Doctor Octopus in Marvel Television's Sinister Six (Limited Series)
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The series takes place in the gritty underbelly of the MCU. Spider-Man is not the protagonist; he is the horror movie monster lurking in the shadows, a terrifying force of nature that these criminals are desperately trying to avoid. The story follows Otto Octavius, a brilliant but disgraced physicist whose life’s work was stolen by Oscorp. Sitting in The Raft prison, he is approached by a mysterious benefactor (The Gentleman) with an offer: freedom and funding in exchange for leading a team to rob a heavily guarded Department of Damage Control vault. Otto assembles a crew of fractured outcasts, each needing the score for personal reasons. The dynamic is volatile: egos clash, paranoia sets in, and the plan goes wrong at every turn. They aren't trying to take over the world; they are trying to survive the night, steal the tech, and escape before the "Wall-Crawler" finds them. The series explores the human side of villainy—the debt, the sickness, the ego—and asks if bad people can do good things for the wrong reasons.
