| Jared Harris has recently appeared in such diverse films as Adam Goldberg's I Love Your Work with Giovanni Ribisi, Christina Ricci and Elvis Costello, Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Igby Goes Down for writer/director Burr Steers and starring Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes and Jeff Goldblum, and Dummy opposite Adrien Brody and Milla Jovovich. He is currently filming The Ballad of Bettie Page for Mary Harron and Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. Harris won critical recognition for his riveting portrayal of Andy Warhol in the acclaimed I Shot Andy Warhol for which in true Warhol fashion, Harris entered the audition with a video camera and taped the casting director while his own audition was being recorded. His additional film credits include Mr. Deeds, starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder, Todd Solondz's Happiness, Sunday, Michael Radford's B. Monkey; Smoke, Blue in the Face, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and Far and Away with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Harris's first screen appearance was in The Rachel Papers, which was the directorial debut of his older brother Damian Harris.
On television, he received rave reviews for his character portrayals of Henry VIII in The Other Boleyn Girl for BBC and of John Lennon opposite Aidan Quinn's Paul McCartney in Michael Lindsay-Hogg's Two of Us. Harris also guest starred on Without A Trace.
The son of famed actor Richard Harris, Harris was born in London, England, and educated at Duke University where he majored in drama and literature. After graduation, Harris became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In addition, he has performed with the New York Shakespeare Company, the New Group, New Jersey Shakespeare Company, the Vineyard Theater and the Manhattan Theater Club.
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