Jared Harris (I)

Trivia

• He spent a lot of time in the Bahamas as a child.
• At the age of thirteen, he appeared on his father Richard Harris's album of poetry and songs "I, in the membership of my days" together with his brothers Jamie Harris and Damian Harris.
• Harris began his film career as director of an unfinished feature length film for Duke University's Freewater Films named Darkmoor in 1983.
• Jared Francis Harris is an English actor.

Quotes

• "You get ideas from other people all the time."
• "Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in."
• "If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener."
• "I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively."
• "There were a few times where I could have worked with my father (Richard Harris) at the beginning. One of them was in The Field (1990) - they couldn't find someone to play the son and they offered the part to me. But my father and I didn't think it was a good idea and looking back I think we made the right decision."
• "I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast."
• "I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role."