Jonathan Harden
| Jonathan Harden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1979 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
Jonathan Harden (born 1979) is an actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Acting career
Harden's first significant film roles came in 2008, when he completed Five Minutes of Heaven (directed by the Oscar-nominated Oliver Hirschbiegel), Ghost Machine and several locally produced shorts, including Rip and the Preacher. Five Minutes of Heaven went on to win two awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, while Rip and the Preacher made official selections at LA Shorts Fest, Aspen Shortsfest, Cinequest Film Festival and the Nashville Film Festival.
Harden played a supporting role in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel Small Island, which went went on win two Royal Television Society awards in the UK, and an International Emmy. Following this, Harden went on to take roles in several shorts, Channel 4's Coming Up series, and in two new BBC Northern Ireland sketch shows, Teethgrinder and LOL.[1][2]
In January 2011, Harden made his London stage debut as Henry Joy McCracken in Stewart Parker's Northern Star at the Finborough Theatre. The same year, he was seen in Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life and in 2012, appeared in Titanic: Blood and Steel as Walter Hill; in The Good Man as "Stephen"; in Whole Lotta Sole as "Sammy Pavis"; and in Jump as "Richie". A further breakthrough came on UK television in Nick Nickleby, a modern TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, in which Harden played the role of Newman Noggs, also narrating the series.
Early in 2013, Harden appeared on UK television in new Channel 4 sitcom, The Mimic and shortly after began rehearsing Children of the Sun at the Royal National Theatre under the direction of Howard Davies. Later in the year, he will feature in The Invisible Woman, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes.
Harden has also provided voices for several video games, most notably as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I.[3]