| Johnny Harris | |
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| Born | 1974 Lambeth, London |
Johnny Harris (born 1974) is an English actor.
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Harris was born in Lambeth, London. He left school with no qualifications. He won the Junior ABA National Boxing title aged 16, and lived in Paris, France between the ages of 17 and 20 before returning to London and embarking on an acting career.
Upon completion of a three-year acting course at Lambeth's Morley College, Harris started his career in the fringe theatres of London, performing in numerous plays. His first screen role was as the lead in Sara Dunlop's short film BIG, which won The Rushes Festival Film Festival Award for best film.
In 2000 he was cast in Paul McGuigan's Gangster No. 1, and in 2002 he won the British TV Advertising Craft Best Performance Award for his performance in the NSPCC Cartoon campaign. In 2006 Harris received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Derek in Paul Andrew Williams' award-winning and BAFTA-nominated film London to Brighton.
In 2009 Harris played Jim Vane in Dorian Gray, and won the Best Performance Award at the Brest European Short Film Festival for his portrayal of an abusive husband in Leaving (shared with his co-star Kierston Wareing).
Harris then starred in Chris Smith's Black Death and landed a leading role in Ben Millers' HUGE, as well as giving a motion capture performance in Ultramarines: The Movie, alongside John Hurt and Terence Stamp.
In 2011, Harris was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor and a Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of abusive father Mick in Shane Meadows' This is England '86.
From September 2011, he starred in a new six-part BBC3 drama The Fades, written by Jack Thorne, who co-wrote This is England '86.
His current projects include Welcome to the Punch and Snow White and the Huntsman for Universal Pictures.
He was back on TV screens in December 2011, reprising his BAFTA-nominated role of Mick in This is England '88.