You might know British-born Jared Harris best for playing Lane Pryce in Mad Men, King George VI in The Crown, or Valery Legasov in 2019 mini series Chernobyl, for which he won a Bafta for best actor. On the silver screen, he’s due to play Mikhail Gorbachev in upcoming American historical political drama Reykjavik with Jeff Daniels and JK Simmons, as well as a flunky fearful of nuclear Armageddon in Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite. Before then comes his latest film, coming of age drama, Brave the Dark, in which he plays a compassionate high school teacher in 1980’s rural Pennsylvania.
Harris, who played Andy Warhol in 1996’s I Shot Andy Warhol, was the antagonist to Adam Sandler in 2002’s Mr Deeds, and pops up in everything from Natural Born Killers to Ocean’s Twelve, The Curious Cas