Jared Harris Biography (2)
His film credits include Philippa Lowthorpe's The Other Boleyn Girl (as King Henry VIII), Burr Steers' Igby Goes Down, Steven Brill's Mr. Deeds, Greg Pritikin's Dummy, Michael Rymer's Perfume, Michael Kalesniko's How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, Todd Solondz' Happiness, Ivan Reitman's Fathers' Day, Michael Radford's B. Monkey, Mary Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol (starring as Andy Warhol), Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, Ron Howard's Far and Away, and Damian Harris' The Rachel Papers. In addition, Mr. Harris has starred in three films for director Wayne Wang (Chinese Box, Smoke, and Blue in the Face).
His stage appearances include Humble Boy (at NYC's Manhattan Theatre Club), More Lies About Jerzy (at NYC's Vineyard Theater), King Lear and Henry IV, Parts I and II (as part of New York's Shakespeare in the Park stagings), A Clockwork Orange and Hamlet (with the U.K.'s Royal Shakespeare Company), and the Colonial Theatre productions of Design for Living and The Glass Menagerie.
Mr. Harris' television work includes portraying John Lennon in the VH1 telefilm Two of Us, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
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