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
Mycroft Ward
for Mycroft Ward in The Raw Shark Texts
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi
After waking up in a house he doesn’t recognize, Eric Sanderson discovers he has no memory of who he is or how he got there. Letters addressed to him from a “previous version” of himself begin to arrive, warning of an invisible predator that feeds not on flesh, but on thoughts and identity. As Eric follows the cryptic trail of clues across England, he becomes entangled in a world where memory, language, and reality blur together — a place where ideas have weight, and forgotten emotions can take physical form. Haunted by the ghost of a lost love and hunted by something that shouldn’t exist, Eric must piece together the truth about his past before it’s completely erased. A mix of psychological thriller, metaphysical mystery, and emotional odyssey, The Raw Shark Texts explores the limits of memory, the fragility of identity, and the terrifying hunger of the things we can’t see.
