My Take
Sean Harris is one of those actors who never quite got his blockbuster leading-man moment, but honestly that almost makes him more compelling — because every time he shows up, he owns the room. His Solomon Lane in the Mission: Impossible films is a masterclass in doing more with less: barely raising his voice, barely moving, and yet you cannot take your eyes off him. Go back to 24 Hour Party People and you see a completely different creature in Ian Curtis — fragile, electric, doomed. The Borgias gave him years to build something genuinely sinister in Micheletto. Harris is a character actor's character actor, the kind British cinema keeps quietly producing, and I genuinely think film nerds who haven't dug into his back catalogue are sleeping on one of the best working actors of his generation.
Overview
Sean Harris (born 1 June 1966) is an English actor. He played Ian Curtis in 24 Hour Party People (2002), Micheletto Corella in The Borgias (2011–2013), Fifield in Prometheus (2012), Solomon Lane in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Philip in Possum (2018), William Gascoigne in The King (2019), Henry Peter Teague / Peter Morley in The Stranger (2022) for which he won t…
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sean Harris
- Name (Japanese)
- ショーン・ハリス
- Reading
- しょーん・はりす
- Born
- June 24, 1966 (age 59)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Horse
- Origin
- Bethnal Green, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / stage actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
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7. About this entry
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- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.