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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
Professor Hugo Strange
for Professor Hugo Strange in Scarecrow: The Fear Tapes (DCU Horror Spinoff)
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Presented as a compilation of "recovered digital evidence" from the GCPD Cold Case files, the film follows a team of three graduate psychology students from Gotham University. They are working on a thesis about "The Urban Legends of Fear," specifically focusing on the discredited and exiled academic, Dr. Jonathan Crane, who vanished years ago into the rural, rotting outskirts of Gotham’s marshlands. Armed with cameras and audio equipment, they break into the condemned Crane Family Estate to find his original research journals. The horror begins slowly: local townspeople give cryptic warnings, and the house itself seems like a maze. The turning point occurs when the group accidentally triggers a booby trap, releasing a concentrated, prototype "Fear Dust." From this moment on, the camera’s perspective becomes unreliable. The audience sees what the students see: grotesque distortions of reality, walls breathing, and their own traumas manifesting as monsters. The Scarecrow is rarely seen fully; he is a silhouette in the grain of the footage, a whisper in the audio, and a burlap mask flashing in the strobe light, studying them like lab rats until the tape cuts to black.
