Jared Harris
Jared Harris
Jared Francis Harrisis an English actor, best known for his roles as Lane Pryce on the AMC drama series Mad Men and David Robert Jones on the Fox science-fiction series Fringe. He has also appeared in films like Igby Goes Down, The Rachel Papers, Lost in Space, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog, Happiness, Mr. Deeds, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and Lincoln...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 August 1961
looks graves grants
If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.
people meals world
In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.
done memento belt-buckles
I keep mementos from everything I've done.
children character evil
People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
ideas people
You get ideas from other people all the time.
thinking important scare
If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.
glasses cab-drivers done
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
know-me ifs knows
I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.
parent would-be roles
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
character thinking play
I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.
dad children father
I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
england wanted
I really wanted to get out of England.