Ian Hart

Birth Name:

Ian Davies

Birth Place:

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Profession

Actor, Writer, Soundtrack

Was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award for best actor in a Scottish film for "Blind Flight" in 2004
Won a Tribeca Film Festival Award for best actor for "Blind Flight" in 2004
Won an Evening Standard British Film Award for most promising newcomer for "Backbeat" in 1994
Attended South Mersey College, where he studied video production
During his early days in the theater, he also worked in kitchens, on a farm and in a plastics factory
Made his screen acting debut in the TV series "Play for Today" in 1982
Quote: "Actors are only participants in storytelling․ We've mythologised ourselves as being vitally important․ We're not․ The deluded self-belief that actors have given people that what they're doing is creating great moments of truth is a falsehood․"
Best known for playing Professor Quirrell in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" but has played a large variety of other characters as well, usually drastically different from one another
Has played John Lennon twice: once in "The Hours and Times" in 1991 and once in "Backbeat" in 1994

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