Jonathan Harden

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Jonathan Harden
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
Years active2001–present
Spouse
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(m. 2008)​

Jonathan Harden (born 1979) is a Northern Irish actor and director.

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Early life

Harden was born in Belfast in 1979, the son of an Irish father and an American mother.

Career

Harden's most notable credits include the roles of David 'Jonty' Johnston in BBC cop drama Blue Lights , Sean Rawlins in the crime drama series Unforgotten , Gregory in the final season of the comedy series Peep Show , Walter Hill in the costume drama series Titanic: Blood and Steel , Newman Noggs and the narrator in the BBC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby , Brendan Murphy in Jimmy McGovern's 2021 prison drama Time , and an unnamed character in Star Wars: The Last Jedi . [1] [2] [3]

Harden's stage credits include Henry Joy McCracken in Stewart Parker's Northern Star at the Finborough Theatre and Children of the Sun at the Royal National Theatre under the direction of the late Howard Davies. [4] Of his performance in Northern Star, the Time Out review wrote, "Jonathan Harden reveals himself as an extraordinary talent whose performance leaves an afterglow like a good whiskey." [5]

Harden provided the narration for 2015 BAFTA-winning short film Boogaloo and Graham . [6] He has also provided voices for several video games, most notably as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I . [7] In 2014, he played Axl in the Ridley Scott-produced Halo film Halo: Nightfall. [8]

In 2015, Harden launched In Anything at the Minute? The Honest Actors' Podcast, a project centred on interviews with other jobbing actors and available on iTunes. [9] In 2017, he produced and directed his first film project, Guard, a female-led boxing film set in Belfast. [10] It had its debut at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2017, and soon after had its North American premiere at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. [11] [12] In 2018, it was followed by Troubles, on the subject of male mental health, which again debuted at the Galway Film Fleadh. [13]

Following his venture into film directing, Harden made his London stage directing debut in 2020, with Joe Crilly's On McQuillan's Hill at the Finborough Theatre. [14] The production sold out and received critical acclaim, including five stars from the Morning Star and four stars from The Stage . [15] [16] Originally produced in 2000 at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, the Finborough production was an English premiere and marked the 20th anniversary of the play's Belfast debut.

In 2021, Harden appeared in Jimmy McGovern's prison drama Time as lifer, Brendan Murphy. The role earned him praise from many, with Esquire calling this performance, "a highly-charged, emotive turn, and the Sunday Life noting it as "superb". [17] [18]

Personal life

Harden is a vegan and enjoys running. [19] He is married to Northern Irish actress Bronágh Taggart. [20]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRole
2008 Fifty Dead Men Walking Young Man's Brother
2009 Five Minutes of Heaven David
2009DitchingPaul
2009 Ghost Machine Benny
2011 Dreams of a Life Cleaner
2011 Whole Lotta Sole Sammy Pavis
2012 Jump Richie
2012 The Good Man Stephen
2012 Hives Bus
2013 The Invisible Woman Charles / Mr Arnott
2014Rise of the Footsoldier IIDave
2015 The Ones Below Mark
2015The Truth CommissionerGleeson
2016 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Resistance Monitor
2017 Another Mother's Son Bookshop Owner
2017 Victoria & Abdul Kaiser Wilhelm II
2017Justice.netGerald McNulty
2018 Doing Money DC Liam Partridge
2020 The Courier Leonard

Television

YearTitleRole
2009 Small Island Postal Worker #1
2010 Coming Up The Young Man
2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel Walter Hill
2012The Life and Adventures of Nick NicklebyNewman Noggs
2013 The Mimic Connor
2014 Halo: NightfallAxl
2015 Humans Andy
2015 Unforgotten Sean Rawlins
2015 Peep Show Gregory
2016 Casualty Dion Bateman
2016My Mother and Other StrangersMartin Brady
2016 SS-GB Assassin
2016 The Secret D.C. Devine
2017 EastEnders DS Kye Anderson
2018 Dark Heart Grant Balden
2020 COBRA DI Miller
2021 Time Brendan Murphy
2022 Sherwood Reverend Wells
2023 Blue Lights Inspector Johnson
2023 World on Fire Captain Briggs

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  2. ↑ "Unforgotten (TV Series 2015– )". IMDb . 8 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)". IMDb . 15 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jonathan Harden". National Theatre. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Time Out review of Northern Star by Rachel Haliburton". Time Out.
  6. ↑ "Northern Ireland short film Boogaloo and Graham receives Oscar nomination". NI Screen. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (Video Game 2010)". IMDb. 16 November 2010.
  8. ↑ "Halo: Nightfall". Radio Times.
  9. ↑ "In Anything at the Minute?". Archived from the original on 29 May 2002.
  10. ↑ "Guard Short Film full credits". Guard Official Site.
  11. ↑ "New Irish Shorts 5". Galway Film Fleadh.
  12. ↑ "Guard by Jonathan Harden". Rhode Island International Film Festival.
  13. ↑ "Troubles(2018))". IMDb.
  14. ↑ "On McQuillan's Hill". Finborough Theatre.
  15. ↑ "On McQuillan's Hill Review". Morning Star Online. 12 February 2020.
  16. ↑ "On McQuillan's Hill Review". The Stage.
  17. ↑ "Time Review". Esquire UK. 3 June 2021.
  18. ↑ Little, Ivan (13 June 2021). "Harden's blinding turn in McGovern jail drama". Sunday Life.
  19. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/jonatharden/ [ permanent dead link ]
  20. ↑ "The Fall's Bronagh Taggart enters into boxing ring in new film". The Irish News. 20 October 2016.
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