Sean Harris is an English theater, film and television actor. He gained wide popularity after playing roles in projects: "Borgia", "Prometheus", "24-hour party-goers", "Mission Impossible".
Today in the creative biography of Harris more than fifty roles in film and television.
Biography facts
The boy was born in the winter of 1966 in England.
In childhood, Sean did not dream that he would someday become an actor. For most of the teenagers growing up in Suffolk, football was their main hobby. Sean also started playing early and was going to build a sports career. The boy showed great promise, but an unsuccessful leg fracture canceled his plans. He could play football, but he is no longer a professional player.
One day, sitting at home, on a dull rainy evening, Sean watched the famous movie "Funny Girl" with Barbara Streisand. According to the actor, it was at this moment that he made the decision to go to London and start studying acting.
After leaving school, Sean moved to the capital of Great Britain and entered a theater studio, where he studied acting and drama. Then he completed an internship in the drama center of London and began performing on stage in one of the small theaters.
Film career
After several years of study and work on the theater stage, Harris continued his creative career in cinema. He performed his first roles in television projects. In 1997, he received small roles in short films, only in the early 2000s he began acting in full-length films.
Sean has worked in serials and television films: "Purely English Murder", "Mesanic", "Catastrophe", "Kavanagh", "Signs and Wonders", "Jesus. God and Man "," Raising the Dead "," Judge John Deed "," The Strange X-Files "," Law & Order ".
He got his first significant role in a movie in 2001 in the musical biographical drama "24-Hour Party People".
The film is set in 1976 in Manchester. Tony Wilson is a Cambridge University graduate. His friends are the propagandists of the cult group of those times, The Sex Pistols. Tony has a presentiment of the coming changes in society and in music. Therefore, together with friends, he creates his own recording studio, calling it Factory Records. They help young performers to record albums, discovering new talents and creating a new musical culture.
The film received high marks from viewers and film critics. In 2002, the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival.
One of the central roles, a character named Craig "Creep", Harris played in the detective thriller "Creep". According to the plot of the film, a young girl Kate returns home by subway after a party. There she falls asleep, and when she opens her eyes, she sees that the metro has already closed, there will be no more trains, she will have to sit here alone until the morning. Suddenly, an empty train drives up to the platform and Kate gets into it, hoping to get home. The train leaves, but stops before reaching the next station. The light goes out. At this moment, Kate begins to realize that she is not alone here.
In Ridley Scott's science fiction film Prometheus, Harris played the geologist Fyfield. In the films Mission Impossible: Outcast Tribe and Mission Impossible: Consequences, he got the role of Solomon Lane. In 2007, Harris starred in the dramatic thriller Sachs.
In 2014, Sean was invited to shoot the film "Goob". The picture was directed by his friend, director Guy Mehill. They had known each other since school and spent time together in a town located in Suffolk. The story of the boy's growing up, told in the film, reminded Harris very much of his own youth, so he immediately agreed to shoot.
The picture was shown at the London Film Festival and received high marks from viewers and film critics.
Personal life
Harris never talks about his family and personal life in his interviews.
Many believe that the actor can often be seen in the role of negative characters or crazy. Sean says that these are just real people who surround each of us in everyday life. He tries to fully get used to the image and convey to the audience the inner experiences of his characters.
In life, Sean is a very reserved and shy person. He is completely different from his on-screen characters.
