Ian Hart

For other people named Ian Hart, see Ian Hart (disambiguation).
Ian Hart
Born Ian Davies
(1964-10-08) 8 October 1964
Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Occupation Actor
Years active 1982–present

Ian Hart (born Ian Davies; 8 October 1964) is an English stage, television and film actor best known for playing Quirinus Quirrell in the 2001 fantasy film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.[1]

Early life

Hart was born in Knotty Ash, a district of Liverpool, Lancashire,[2] one of three siblings, and was brought up in a Roman Catholic family.[3] He attended the Cardinal Allen Grammar School and was in his teens a member of the Everyman Youth Theatre before studying drama at the now-defunct Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama in Liverpool. He then moved on and started acting in 1980.

Career

From 1988 to 1991, Hart studied video production at South Mersey College (now part of Liverpool Community College). He portrayed an International Brigade volunteer in the Spanish Civil War in Land and Freedom (1995), an unemployed Liverpool shipyard worker in Liam (2000). His best known role, however, is that of Professor Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001). He also provided the voice of the CGI-generated face of Lord Voldemort.

Hart has played John Lennon in three productions – as a 22-year-old Lennon a few months prior to the late 1963 British Invasion in The Hours and Times (1991), a slightly younger Lennon during The Beatles' 1960-62 Hamburg period in Backbeat (1994), and a 50-year-old Lennon (having avoided his true fate at age 40) in the Playhouse Presents television production Snodgrass (2013).

Hart played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the film Finding Neverland in 2004, having already played Doyle's creation Dr. Watson in a BBC One television film of The Hound of the Baskervilles in 2002, and reprising the role in 2004 in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, with a different actor playing Sherlock Holmes.

He also played schizophrenic paparazzo Don Konkey in the FX series Dirt in 2007 and 2008.

In 2009 he played Tom Ripley in BBC Radio Four's adaptations of all five of Patricia Highsmith's "Ripliad" series.

Hart had an interesting audience interaction during the Duke of York's Theatre's 2009 production of Andrew Bovell's play Speaking in Tongues. After the performance on 23 November, Hart went into the audience and remonstrated with a man whom he had earlier told to "shut up" from the stage. Eyewitnesses say that Hart assaulted the audience member.[4]

He also played Adolf Hitler in the BBC one-off drama The Man Who Crossed Hitler,[5] which aired in August 2011.

Personal life

Hart's wife is named Lynne. The couple have two daughters – Daisy (born 1997) and Holly (born 2001) — and have lived in Crouch End, north London. He is an Everton supporter. Hart lived in Los Angeles between 2010 and 2012, but now settles in Crouch End, north London with his family.

Filmography

Film

TV

References

  1. ↑ "Ian Hart". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ 'Merseyside' did not exist prior to 1st April 1974
  3. ↑ Claire Armitstead (4 April 2001). "The Friday Interview: Ian Hart | Interviews | Guardian Unlimited Film". London: Film.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Harry Potter villain 'attacks' audience member for talking during West End play". London: Daily Mail. 24 November 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
  5. ↑ "BBC News – Dame Shirley Bassey drama to screen on BBC Two". Bbc.co.uk. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "The Secret Agent: Episode 1: Credits". BBC Online. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
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