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 Case Of Benjamin Button and Guy Ritchie’s The Man from UNCLE. The son of original Albus Dumbledore Richard Harris, he’s one of those actors who, if not in the main part, seems like an old friend, whether he’s playing the archetypal polite Englishman, a horrible villain like Moriarty in Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes, or Kenneth Branagh’s doppelganger in How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog. And there’s no arguing that he has the best acting eyebrows in the business.
Harris will be here to take your questions, so please get them in quick in the comments below by 6pm Tuesday 9 September, and we’ll print his best eyebrow-raising answers in Film & Music this Friday.
• Brave the Dark is on digital platforms from 15 September
