Ian Hart Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award for best actor in a Scottish film for "Blind Flight" in 2004
• Won an Evening Standard British Film Award for most promising newcomer for "Backbeat" in 1994
• Won a Tribeca Film Festival Award for best actor for "Blind Flight" in 2004
• 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