Jamie Harris (actor)
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Jamie Harris is an English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 actor. He is the son of actor Richard Harris
Richard Harris
Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer....

 and socialite Elizabeth Rees-Williams
Elizabeth Rees-Williams
Joan Elizabeth Rees-Williams, The Hon. Mrs. Aitken , is a Welsh socialite. She had two film roles around her early 40s.She was born in Cardiff, daughter of the politician David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore....

. His two brothers are actor Jared Harris
Jared Harris
Jared Francis Harris is a British character actor, well known for playing the obnoxious Mac McGrath in the Adam Sandler film Mr. Deeds, and for his portrayal of Lane Pryce on the AMC series Mad Men.- Personal life :...

 and director Damian Harris
Damian Harris
Damian David Harris is an English film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Harris was born in London, one of three sons of the late Irish actor Richard Harris and his first wife, Welsh actress Elizabeth Rees-Williams. His brothers are English actors Jared Harris and Jamie Harris.-Career:In 1968...

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Life and career

Born as Tudor St. John Harris, but known as "Jamie" since early childhood, Harris began his film career acting in Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin and In America.-Life and career:...

's In The Name of the Father. This was followed by many appearances on both stage and screen. Harris' role in Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter.-Early life and education:...

's Dealer's Choice earned him a Drama League Award, while he won The New York Independent Film Awards for Speed for Thespians.

His most recent role was as "Patrick Lane" in Bernard Rose
Bernard Rose (director)
Bernard Rose is an English actor and film director most famous for his direction of the 1992 urban horror film Candyman and the 1994 historical romance film Immortal Beloved....

's adaptation of Howard Marks
Howard Marks
Dennis Howard Marks is a Welsh author and former drug smuggler who achieved notoriety as an international cannabis smuggler through high-profile court cases, supposed connections with groups such as the CIA, the IRA, MI6, and the Mafia, and his eventual conviction at the hands of the American Drug...

' autobiography, Mr Nice (2010).

Jamie Harris currently resides in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

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Partial filmography

  • In the Name of the Father (1993) as Deptford Jim
  • The Lost Son
    The Lost Son (film)
    The Lost Son is a 1999 crime drama starring French actor Daniel Auteuil and set in London. It was directed by Chris Menges.-Plot:Xavier Lombard is a Parisian private detective based in London. His best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a telephone call from an old friend in the...

    (1999) as Hopper
  • Dinner Rush
    Dinner Rush
    Dinner Rush is an independent feature film, written by Brian S. Kalata and Rick Shaughnessy. Directed by Bob Giraldi. It stars Danny Aiello as a restaurateur-bookmaker in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood and Edoardo Ballerini as his son, the restaurant's star chef...

    (2000) as Sean
  • Fast Food Fast Women
    Fast Food Fast Women
    Fast Food Fast Women is a 2000 romantic comedy written and directed by Amos Kollek. The tag line for the film was "There are 18 million people in New York City, but only one like Bella." It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...

    (2000) as Bruno
  • The Big Heist
    The Big Heist
    The Big Heist is an American television movie which aired in 2001, on the A&E Television Networks.The film portrays the events of the 1978 Lufthansa Heist. The events and characters depicted in the film were also the subject of the much more well-known 1990 film Goodfellas, directed by Martin...

    (2001) as Frankie Burke
    Frank James Burke
    Frank James Burke-Conway was a Gambino crime family mob associate and the son of mobster Jimmy Burke.-Mob relations:...

  • The Next Big Thing
    The Next Big Thing (film)
    The Next Big Thing is a romance comedy starring Marin Hinkle, Chris Eigeman, Jamie Harris, Connie Britton, and Janet Zarish. It was directed by P.J. Posner.- Plot :...

    (2002) as Deech Scumble
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a 2004 black comedy film directed by Brad Silberling. It is an adaptation of the The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window, being the first three books in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket...

    (2004) as Hook-handed man
    Hook-handed man
    Fernald is a villain from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. He is known for having two large and sharp hooks where his hands should be...

  • The New World (2005) as Emery
  • Knife Edge
    Knife Edge
    Knife Edge is a 2009 British thriller film directed by Anthony Hickox and starring Nathalie Press, Hugh Bonneville and Tamsin Egerton.-Plot:...

    (2009) as Derek
  • Crank: High Voltage (2009) as Talk Show Host
  • No Ordinary Family
    No Ordinary Family
    No Ordinary Family is an American television series on ABC. The 45-minute science fiction comedy-drama was produced by ABC Studios for the 2010–11 television season. The series ran from September 28, 2010 to April 5, 2011, on Tuesdays at 8 pm ET/PT...

    - TV series - (2010) as Reed Koblenz
  • Mr. Nice (2010) as Patrick Lane
  • Night of the Demons (2010) as Nigel
  • Two Jacks
    Two Jacks
    Two Jacks is an upcoming comedy-drama film directed by Bernard Rose and starring Sienna Miller and Danny Huston. It is an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's short story Two Hussars and is Rose's fourth Tolstoy adaptation; Anna Karenina , Ivans XTC and The Kreutzer Sonata...

    (2011) as Colin
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) as Rodney

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