Johnny Harris

Johnny Harris first burst onto our screens in 2006 in the highly acclaimed British film London to Brighton The film was voted into Time Out Magazines 100 Greatest British Films of All Time and celebrated British director Shane Meadows said of Harris performance in the film Its an incredibly bold and massively powerful performance the best Ive seen on celluloid for a long time He went on to star in Shane Meadows cult television series This Is England 86 receiving BAFTA and Royal Television Society Award nominations for his performance The final episode of This is England 86 was recently named The Greatest TV Episode of All Time by The Independent Newspaper In 2017 Johnny made his debut as a screenwriter with the highly acclaimed feature film Jawbone Harris also starred in and coproduced the movie He received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Outstanding Debut two BIFA Film Award nominations for his performance in the leading role and a Writers Guild Award nomination for his screenplay Songwriting icon Paul Weller composed and recorded the soundtrack for Jawbone his first and in October 2018 Johnny made his debut behind the camera directing music videos for Pauls hit singles Gravity and I Woke Up He has starred in film and TV hits including Without Sin Great Expectations Jawbone A Christmas Carol The Salisbury Poisonings This is England 8690 Snow White and the Huntsman Fortitude Troy Fall of a City Medici Monsters Dark Continent From Darkness Welcome to the Punch and Jack Thornes BAFTA Awardwinning TV show The Fades Johnnys most recent work includes playing the iconic role of Magwitch in the BBCFOXDisney TV adaptation of Great Expectations alongside Olivia Colman The show was execproduced by Tom Hardy and Sir Ridley Scott He also costarred alongside Vicky McClure in ITVs hit new drama series Without Sin Most recently he starred in A Gentleman in Moscow alongside Ewan McGregor an 8 part series based on Amor Towles internationally BestSelling novel for Showtime and Paramount UK He is current filming Bladerunner 2099 alongside Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer The show is ExecProduced by Sir Ridley Scott for Amazon