Sean Harris is an English theater, film and television actor. He became widely known after playing roles in the projects: Borgia, Prometheus, 24-hour party-goers, and Mission Impossible.
Today, Harris has more than fifty roles in film and television in her creative biography.
Facts from the biography
The boy was born in the winter of 1966 in England.
In childhood, Sean did not dream that he would ever become an actor. For most teenagers who grew up in Suffolk, football was their main hobby. Sean also began to play early and was going to build a sports career. The boy had high hopes, but an unsuccessful broken leg crossed his plans. He could play football, but he no longer became a professional player.
Once 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 that moment that he decided to go to London and begin to study acting.
After leaving school, Sean moved to the capital of Great Britain and entered the 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 smaller theaters.
Film career
After several years of study and work on the stage, Harris continued his creative career in cinema. The first roles he played 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 worked in TV shows and television films: Purely English Killing, Mezanik, Catastrophe, Cavan, Signs and Miracles, Jesus. God and Man, Resurrecting the Dead, Judge John Deed, Strange's X-Files, Law & Order.
He received his first significant film role in 2001 in the musical biographical drama "24-hour Party People".
The film takes place in 1976 in Manchester. Tony Wilson is a graduate of Cambridge University. His friends are propagandists of the cult group of those times, The Sex Pistols. Tony foresees the impending changes in society and in music. Therefore, together with friends, he creates his own recording studio, calling it Factory Records. They help young artists 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 Golden Palm Branch 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 on the subway after a party. She falls asleep there, and when she opens her eyes, she sees that the metro has already been closed, there will be no more trains, she will have to sit here alone until the morning. Suddenly an empty train pulls up to the platform and Kate sits in it, hoping to get home. The train leaves, but, before reaching the next station, it stops. The light goes out. At this moment, Kate begins to realize that she is not alone here.
In Ridley Scott's science fiction movie Prometheus, Harris played the role of geologist Fyfield. In the films "Mission Impossible: Tribe of Outcasts" 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 "Gobo". The picture was put by his friend, director Guy Michill. They had known each other since school and spent time together in a town located in Suffolk. The story of the boy growing up, told in the picture, very much reminded Harris of his own youth, so he immediately agreed to the shooting.
The film was shown at the London Film Festival and received high marks from viewers and film critics.
