Jonathan Harden


Jonathan Harden is a Northern Irish actor, director and mental health advocate. Born in Belfast in 1979 to an American mother and an Irish father, he is best known as series regular Sean Rawlins in ITV crime drama Unforgotten, Gregory in the final series of Peep Show, Walter Hill in ', as Newman Noggs in "Nick Nickleby" - a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – and for his cameo in '.
Over his career as an actor, Harden has been cast by some of the industry's leading figures, including: Ralph Fiennes, David Farr, Nick Murphy, Dominic Cooke, Stephen Frears, Oliver Hirschbiegel and Rian Johnson.
Harden's stage credits include Henry Joy McCracken in Stewart Parker's at the Finborough Theatre and Children of the Sun at the Royal National Theatre under the direction of the late Howard Davies.
A busy voiceover artist and actor, Harden provided the narration for 2015 Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning short film, Boogaloo and Graham. He has also provided voices for several video games, most notably as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. In 2014, Harden was responsible for bringing a new species in the Halo universe to life on screen, playing Axl in the Ridley Scott produced, Halo: Nightfall.
In 2015, Harden launched , a project centred on interviews with other jobbing actors and available on iTunes.
In 2017, Harden produced and directed his first film project, Guard, a female-led boxing film set in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It had its debut at the Oscar-qualifying Galway Film Fleadh in July 2017, and soon after its North American premiere at the Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival. In 2018, it was followed by Troubles, on the subject of male mental health, which again debuted at Galway Film Fleadh.
Following his departure into film directing, Harden made his London stage directing debut in 2020, with Joseph Crilly's On McQuillan's Hill at the renowned Finborough Theatre. The production received critical acclaim, including five stars from the Morning Star and four stars from The Stage. Originally produced by the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in 2000, the Finborough production was an English premiere, and marked the twentieth anniversary of the play's Belfast debut. Following strong reviews, the four week run sold out.
He has been married to writer/actress Bronágh Taggart since 2008.

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2020CobraDI Miller
2018Dark HeartGrant Balden
2017EastEndersKye Anderson
2016The SecretD.C. Devine
2016SS-GBAssassin
2016My Mother and Other StrangersMartin Brady
2016CasualtyDion Bateman
2015Peep ShowGregory
2015UnforgottenSean Rawlins
2015HumansAndy
2014Halo: NightfallAxl
2013The MimicConnor
2012The Life and Adventures of Nick NicklebyNewman Noggs
2012Walter Hill
2010Coming UpThe Young Man
2009Small IslandPostal Worker #1
2017–EastEndersDS Kye AndersonRecurring role

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
2020Iron BarkLeonard
2018Doing MoneyDC Liam Partridge
2017Justice.net aka Dark JusticeGerald McNulty
2017Victoria & AbdulKaiser Wilhelm II
2017Another Mother's SonBookshop Owner
2016Resistance Monitor
2015The Truth CommissionerGleeson
2015The Ones BelowMark
2014Rise of the Footsoldier IIDave
2013The Invisible WomanCharles / Mr Arnott
2012HivesBus
2012The Good ManStephen
2012JumpRichie
2011Whole Lotta SoleSammy Pavis
2011Dreams of a LifeCleaner
2009Ghost MachineBenny
2009DitchingPaul
2009Five Minutes of HeavenDavid
2008Fifty Dead Men WalkingYoung Man's Brother