
Age: 64
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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

Ivan Yumashev
for Ivan Yumashev in The Pacific Fleet
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In 1950, the Soviet Union officially surrendered to the German Reich after years of stalemate and gradual pushback due to the Fall of Moscow, the capture of Stalingrad and by extension, the Caucauses, and the morale-crushing blow of the falling of the revolution's capital, Leningrad. After the defeat at Samara, the Soviet Union was pushed beyond the Urals, with both sides unable to cross. It is during this anarchy that the Japanese Empire declared war on the Soviets. With the Polar Fleet destroyed during the capture of Murmansk, the Pacific Fleet stood alone against the Japanese onslaught, and was massacred at the battles of Vladivostok and Magadan, two weeks apart. Over two/thirds of their manpower was destroyed and ships had to be abandoned because there was no one to man them, most of the remaining citizens going to the Army. This month of defeat was known as Bloody May. On the second anniversary of Bloody May, the Pacific Fleet, standing with barely a third of their remaining strength, rusts in the small harbor of Petropavlovsky-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, and plans their next move.