Jared Francis Harris is an English actor. His roles include Lane Pryce in the drama series Mad Men (2009–2012), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series; King George VI in the historical drama series The Crown (2016–2017); and Valery Legasov in the miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
Harris also had roles as David Robert Jones in the science fiction series Fringe (2008–2012), Anderson Dawes in the science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2017) and Captain Francis Crozier in the series The Terror (2018).
He is also known for his significant supporting roles in films such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Hari Seldon, a leading character in the science fiction series Foundation (2021), and as John in Reawakening (2024).