Jonathan Aris
Biography
Jonathan Aris is a British stage, film and television actor, he is the son of the late British character actor Ben Aris but, despite having a thespian as a father, acting was not his first choice. He studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and read Russian and Italian at Cambridge University before training as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Like his father, Jonathan has chiefly been seen in character roles, notably on television as the private secretary to the (female) Prime Minister in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006). He also does a great number of voice-overs for television commercials and narration for documentaries. He has made numerous stage appearances and was in the original London cast of "Fame - the Musical".
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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Alex Dyer
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) as Receptionist
- Mayday (2003) as Narrator
- Heartbeat (1992) as Herbert Brownjohn
- Andor (2022) as Senator Nower Jebel
- Sherlock (2010) as Dr Anderson
- Merlin (2008) as Matthew
- The Capture (2019) as Dr Neuman
- Spooks (2002) as Azis Aibek
- Silk (2011) as Dr Liam King
- The Martian (2015) as Brendan Hatch
- Good Omens (2019) as Quartermaster Angel
- His Dark Materials (2019) as Commander Roke
- Relic Hunter (1999) as Paul Laurier
- The Night Manager (2016) as Raymond Galt
- Humans (2015) as Robert
- Peep Show (2003) as Ben Prenderghast
- Red Eye (2024) as John Tennant
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Senator Jebel
- Being Human (2009) as Newsreader
- The End of the F***ing World (2017) as Professor Clive Koch
- Wolf Hall (2015) as James Bainham
- Ideal (2005) as Rich
- As Time Goes By (1992) as Waiter