Ian Hart
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Ian Hart (born October 8, 1964) is an English actor.
Hart was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, the grandson of Irish immigrants.[1] One of three siblings, he was raised in a Catholic family[2] and attended Cardinal Allen Grammar School (now called Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School) in Liverpool. He subsequently studied drama at Liverpool's Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama (now no longer existing).
From 1988 to 1991, Hart studied video production at South Mersey College (now part of Liverpool Community College). He portrayed a Republican militiaman in the Spanish Civil War in Land and Freedom (1995), an unemployed Liverpool shipyard worker in Liam (2000), and the malevolent Professor Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). Hart has played John Lennon twice — in The Hours and Times (1991) and in Backbeat (1994) — and has also played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
On television, he played Doyle's creation Dr. Watson in two Sherlock Holmes television movies, shown on BBC One over the Christmas seasons in 2002 and 2004.
He is currently playing schizophrenic paparazzo Don Konkey in the FX hit series Dirt.
He is a supporter of Everton F.C. He and his wife Lynne have two daughters, Daisy (born in 1996) and Holly (born in 2001).
[edit] Filmography
- A Girl and a Gun (Short) (2007)official site of A girl and a Gun as Johnny
- Dirt (FX 2007) (TV) as Don Konkey
- The Virgin Queen (BBC 2006, US PBS 2005) (TV) as William Cecil - Lord Burghley
- A Cock and Bull Story (2006) as Joe
- Ripley Under Ground (2005) as Bernard Sayles
- Finding Neverland (2004) as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004) (television) as Dr. Watson
- Dad's Dead (2003) as Narrator
- Eroica (2003) as Ludwig van Beethoven
- Longitude (2003) as John Harrison
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) (television) as Dr. Watson
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) as Professor Quirrell and Lord Voldemort
- Liam (2000) as Dad
- The Closer You Get aka American Women (2000) as Kieran
- The End of the Affair (1999) as Mr. Parkis
- This Year's Love (1999)
- Enemy of the State (1999) as Det. John Bingham
- Wonderland (1999) as Dan
- Monument Ave. (1998) as Mouse
- The Butcher Boy (1997) as Uncle Alo
- Michael Collins (1996) as Joe O'Reilly
- Nothing Personal (1995) as Ginger
- The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995) as Johnny Shellshocked
- Land and Freedom (1995) as David Carr
- Backbeat (1994) as John Lennon
- The Hours and Times (1991) as John Lennon
