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Sean Harris (born 1966) is an English actor, best known for his role as Micheletto Corella in Showtime's television series ''The Borgias''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Borgias Cast )〕 Harris has appeared in several independent British films, most notably his performance as the Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis in the film ''24 Hour Party People'' and in the critically acclaimed '''71'' which earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination for supporting actor. He's also appeared in ''Brothers of the Head'', ''Harry Brown'', ''Brighton Rock'' and critically acclaimed miniseries ''Red Riding Trilogy'' and ''Southcliffe''. He broke into the mainstream with supporting roles as Fifield in Ridley Scott's ''Prometheus'' and Neil Jordan's ''The Borgias'', and as the lead villain opposite Tom Cruise in ''Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation''. ==Life and career== Harris was born in Bethnal Green, London, but grew up in Norwich, Norfolk.〔 At age 23, Harris moved to London to train at the Drama Centre London from 1989 to 1992.〔 Notable roles include the cult horror film ''Creep'', in which he played a psychopathic killer stalking the London Underground. Harris appeared in his first British feature film lead in the independent film ''Saxon'', released in 2007. In ''Saxon'', Harris plays a newly released inmate who returns home owing an accumulating debt. Other notable roles include serial killer Ian Brady, one of the notorious culprits of the Moors Murders, on ITV1's ''See No Evil: The Moors Murders'', and Nick Sidney in the cult mockumentary ''Brothers of the Head''. Harris played Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Michael Winterbottom film ''24 Hour Party People''. He has also appeared in the 2007 film ''Outlaw'' and in the television film ''Wedding Belles'' by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh. Harris played the drug dealer Stretch in ''Harry Brown''. Harris played small-time criminal Fred Hale in a new film adaptation of ''Brighton Rock'', released in February 2011. Harris appeared in the British thriller film ''A Lonely Place to Die'' previously known as ''The Grave at Angel's Peak'' directed by Julian Gilbey. Another notable performance came in 2002. Harris appeared in a short film, directed by Kevin Thomas, ''True Love (Once Removed)''. He played a troubled and lonely young man, Steven, with no prospects, who finds, via an illegal time-machine, the young woman who will grow up to become his eventual "true love", except that she is now only an 8-year-old girl. Steven must find a way to place himself in a position to meet her in the future. The film won Best Short Film at both the Palm Springs and Houston Film Festivals and was selected for the Clermont-Ferrand, London Raindance and Los Angeles Short Film festivals and qualified for Oscar nomination in 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bandits Productions Kevin Thomas Films )〕 Harris gave another noteworthy performance in the short film ''Native Son'' in 2010, playing a troubled potato picker whose loneliness, social awkwardness and isolation from the townspeople leads to a one-time road-side event, and a quick decision that has tragic consequences. The film was written and directed by Scottish director Scott Graham and premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Semainedelacritique Cannes Native Son World Premiere, 2010 )〕 He played Fifield in the Ridley Scott 2012 science fiction film, ''Prometheus''. After ''The Borgias'', Harris went on to play Campbell in the film ''Serena'' (2014), based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Ron Rash. The cast includes Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Harris then filmed ''Deliver Us From Evil'' with Eric Bana and Olivia Munn, directed by Scott Derrickson, and based upon the 2001 novel "Beware the Night" by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool. Harris was cast by Derrickson for ''Deliver Us from Evil'', without an interview, based upon Derrickson having seen Harris' performance in ''Harry Brown''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= () Scott Derrickson )〕 His next role, in 2013, was for ''The Goob'', a feature film in which Harris plays a womanizing stock car driver. ''The Goob'' is directed by Guy Myhill (who directed Harris in 1997 in a short film ''Two Halftimes to Hell'' and in 2001 Harris also appeared in Myhill's ''The Bilsons'' about an unfunny small caravan of travelling circus clowns). In 2010, Harris again worked with Myhill. Harris did a cameo appearance in a music video for the Norwich band the Black Sharks' debut album titled ''Lose Control''. Known as an intense actor of ''Stanislavski's system'', Harris frequently remains unavailable for interviews while filming, preferring not to break with character. However, his "method" allows him to film with few takes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Kitley's Krypt )〕 It was said that in preparing to play Brian Tobin of the Iceni Project for the TV Series, ''Five Daughters'', Harris followed the real Brian Tobin around during pre-production.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= BBC Suffok )〕 Harris has been collaborating with Montserrat Lombard. Together they are working on the screen plays for two short films called ''White'' and ''Imager''. Harris will play the lead in the first installment in the series, and Montserrat Lombard (who directed Harris in the music video "Battles"), will direct. This will be Harris' first collaborative screen play in which he will also act. The first short film, ''White'', has completed filming. Harris also has completed filming of ''Macbeth'', directed by Justin Kurzel with the film company See-Saw Films.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Troika Talent Agency )〕 Summer 2014, Sean Harris filmed "Trespass Against Us", a feature film about three generations of an outlaw family, and conflicting cross-generational loyalties. At the British Film Institute event of 8–19 October 2014, Harris had 3 films being presented in which he had a role, '''71''; ''Serena'' and ''The Goob.''〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=http://www.smokescreenlondon.com/film-and-tv-events-calendar/2014/10/8/bfi-london-film-festival-2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sean Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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