Early life

Harris was born in London, one of three sons of Irish actor Richard Harris, and his first wife, Welsh actress Elizabeth Rees-Williams. His younger brother is actor Jamie Harris, his older brother is director Damian Harris, and his maternal grandfather was politician David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore.

Harris earned a BFA degree from Duke University in 1983.

Career

Harris began his film career as director of an unfinished feature-length film for Duke University's Freewater Films named Darkmoor in 1983. His first film appearance as an actor was in The Rachel Papers in 1989. He played the role of the aged Will Robinson in the movie adaptation of the television series Lost in Space. Harris played Dr. Charles Ashford in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Benmont Tench in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, and Kenneth Branagh's character's doppelgänger in How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog.

Other notable roles include King Henry VIII in the first film adaptation of the novel The Other Boleyn Girl. He also portrayed Andy Warhol in I Shot Andy Warhol, and John Lennon in the television movie Two of Us. In 1998 he played Vladimir in the black comedy drama film Happiness written and directed by Todd Solondz. He played the gruff Captain Anderson in the BBC2 adaptation of To the Ends of the Earth; Mac McGrath in the movie Mr. Deeds; Eamon Quinn on the FX series The Riches; and David Robert Jones on Fringe. One of his more recent film roles was Ulysses S. Grant in the Steven Spielberg-directed Lincoln. He played Lane Pryce in Mad Men from 2009 until 2012, and returned to the series to direct the 11th episode of season 7, which aired in 2015.

Personal life

Harris married Jacqueline Goldenberg in 1989 and divorced in the early 1990s. On 16 July 2005, Harris married actress Emilia Fox, daughter of actors Edward Fox and Joanna David. He filed for divorce from Fox in January 2009. The divorce was finalised in June 2010.

Harris married Allegra Riggio, a lighting designer and TV host, on 9 November 2013.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	The Rachel Papers	Geoff
1992	Far and Away	Paddy
1992	The Last of the Mohicans	British Lieutenant
1992	The Public Eye	Danny the Doorman
1994	Natural Born Killers	London Boy
1994	Nadja	Edgar
1995	Smoke	Jimmy Rose
1995	Dead Man	Benmont Tench
1995	Blue in the Face	Jimmy Rose
1995	Tall Tale	Head Thug Pug
1996	I Shot Andy Warhol	Andy Warhol
1996	Gold in the Streets	Owen
1997	Fathers' Day	Lee
1997	Sunday	Ray
1997	Chinese Box	William
1997	White Lies	Jacob Reese
1998	Happiness	Vlad
1998	B. Monkey	Alan Furnace
1998	Lost in Space	Older Will Robinson
1998	Lulu on the Bridge	Alvin Shine	Uncredited
1998	Trance	Jim
1999	Lush	W. Firmin Carter
1999	The Weekend	John Kerr
2000	Bullfighter	Jones
2000	How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog	False Peter
2000	Shadow Magic	Raymond Wallace
2001	Perfume	Michael
2002	Four Reasons	Filmmaker
2002	Mr. Deeds	Mac McGrath
2002	Igby Goes Down	Russel
2002	Dummy	Michael
2003	Sylvia	Al Alvarez
2003	I Love Your Work	Yehud
2004	Ocean's Twelve	Basher's Engineer
2004	Resident Evil: Apocalypse	Dr. Ashford
2005	The Notorious Bettie Page	John Willie
2006	Lady in the Water	Goatee Smoker
2006	Cashback	Alex Proud	Uncredited
2006	Cracked Eggs	Joe	Short film
2007	32A	Ruth's Father
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Captain Mike	Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2008	From Within	Bernard
2009	Tales of the Black Freighter	Ridley	Voice
2010	Extraordinary Measures	Dr. Kent Webber
2010	The Ward	Dr. Stringer
2011	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	Professor Moriarty
2012	Lincoln	Ulysses S. Grant
2013	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones	Hodge Starkweather
2013	The Devil's Violinist	Urbani
2014	Pompeii	Severus
2014	The Quiet Ones	Professor Coupland
2014	The Boxtrolls	Lord Portley Rind
2015	Poltergeist	Carrigan Burke
2015	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Saunders
2016	Certain Women	Fuller
2016	The Last Face
2016	Allied		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	New York Undercover	Seth Baines	Episode: "The Highest Bidder"
2000	Two of Us	John Lennon	Television movie
2003	Without a Trace	Father Walker	2 episodes
2003	The Other Boleyn Girl	King Henry VIII	Television movie
2005	To the Ends of the Earth	Captain Anderson	3 episodes
2006	Coup!	Simon Mann	Television movie
2007	Law & Order: SVU	Robert Morten	Episode: "Svengali"
2007	The Shadow in the North	Axel Bellmann	Television movie
2008	The Riches	Eamon Quinn	5 episodes
2008-2012	Fringe	Dr. David Robert Jones	9 episodes
2009-2012	Mad Men	Lane Pryce	26 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Directed the season seven episode "Time & Life"
2013	Axe Cop	King of England	Voice; Episode: "An American Story"
2015	The Expanse	Anderson Dawes	2 episodes
2016	The Crown	King George VI

Plays

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Notes
1991	Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2	Hotspur	The Public Theater
1992	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	Soranzo	The Public Theater
1995	Ecstasy	Len	John Houseman Theater
1996	King Lear	Edmund	The Public Theater
2001	More Lies About Jerzy	Jerzy Kosinski	Vineyard Theater
	Hamlet	Hamlet	Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
2003	Humble Boy	Felix Humble	Manhattan Theatre Club
2005	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	Vicomte de Valmont	Playhouse Theatre, London
2006	Period of Adjustment	Ralph Bates	Almeida Theatre

[ Source: Wikipedia ]