Age: 52
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Johnny Harris first burst onto our screens in 2006 in the highly acclaimed British film London to Brighton. The film was voted into Time Out Magazine’s ‘100 Greatest British Films of All Time’ and celebrated British director Shane Meadows said of Harris’ performance in the film: “It’s an incredibly bold and massively powerful performance, the best I’ve seen on celluloid for a long time.” He went on to star in Shane Meadows cult television series This Is England ’86 receiving BAFTA and Royal Television Society Award nominations for his performance. The final episode of This is England ‘86 was recently named: ‘The Greatest TV Episode of All Time’ by The Independent Newspaper. In 2017, Johnny made his debut as a screenwriter with the highly acclaimed feature film, Jawbone. Harris also starred in and co-produced the movie. He received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Outstanding Debut, two BIFA Film Award nominations for his performance in the leading role, and a Writers Guild Award nomination for his screenplay. Song-writing icon Paul Weller composed and recorded the soundtrack for Jawbone (his first) and in October 2018, Johnny made his debut behind the camera, directing music videos for Paul’s hit singles, 'Gravity', and 'I Woke Up'. He has starred in film and TV hits including Without Sin, Great Expectations, Jawbone, A Christmas Carol, The Salisbury Poisonings, This is England 86-90, Snow White and the Huntsman, Fortitude, Troy Fall of a City, Medici, Monsters: Dark Continent, From Darkness, Welcome to the Punch, and Jack Thorne’s BAFTA Award-winning TV show The Fades. Johnny’s most recent work includes playing the iconic role of Magwitch in the BBC/FOX/Disney TV adaptation of Great Expectations, alongside Olivia Colman. The show was exec-produced by Tom Hardy and Sir Ridley Scott. He also co-starred alongside, Vicky McClure in ITV’s hit new drama series, Without Sin. Most recently he starred in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’, alongside Ewan McGregor... an 8 part series based on Amor Towles internationally Best-Selling novel for Showtime and Paramount UK. He is current filming 'Bladerunner 2099' alongside Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer. The show is Exec-Produced by Sir Ridley Scott for Amazon.
Johnny Harris
Detective Inspector Gary Gaskill
for Detective Inspector Gary Gaskill in The Girl on the Train
Suggested by nickienicks
Rachel Watson is a 33-year-old alcoholic drowning in a sea of fractured memories, self-loathing, and severe blackout spells. Unemployed and desperately hiding her unraveling life from her weary roommate Cathy, Rachel maintains a hollow daily routine: taking the 8:04 commuter train to London and back. The tracks cut directly past Blenheim Road, the affluent suburb where her charismatic ex-husband Tom now lives with his pristine new wife, Anna, and their infant daughter. To escape her grim reality, Rachel fixates on a couple living a few doors down, fabricating a perfect, idealized life for them from her train window.In reality, that idyllic world is a mirage. The woman, Megan Hipwell, is a deeply troubled bohemian running from a tragic past through destructive affairs, including one with her empathetic therapist, Dr. Kamal Abdic. One morning, Rachel witnesses Megan embracing a stranger from the train window. The very next night, fueled by a heavy binger, Rachel awakens covered in blood with no memory of what happened. When Megan suddenly vanishes, Detective Inspector Gary Gaskill identifies Rachel as a prime suspect due to her drunken stalking.Determined to find the truth, Rachel embeds herself in the investigation, lying her way into the lives of Megan’s volatile husband, Scott, and Dr. Abdic. As Megan’s pregnant body is discovered, Rachel’s mental fog slowly clears under the intense pressure of Gaskill's interrogation. She uncovers a horrifying truth: the missing pieces of her memory point directly to Tom, who has been brutally gaslighting her for years to mask his own sociopathic patterns. In a gripping, rain-slicked climax on Blenheim Road, Rachel and a terrified Anna must unite to survive Tom's violent desperation. David Fincher’s adaptation strips away the slick hollywood gloss to deliver a cold, atmospheric, and fiercely faithful British neo-noir about the agonizing weight of trauma.
