This article is about the film and television actor. For the professional footballer, see Ian Harte.
Ian Hart (born 8 October 1964 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is an English actor of Irish Catholic extraction.
One of three siblings, he attended Cardinal Allen Grammar School (now called Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School) in Liverpool. After which he studied drama at Liverpool's Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama (now no longer existing).
From 1988 to 1991 he studied video production at South Mersey College (now called Community College).
He portrayed the late Beatle, John Lennon in The Hours and Times, a.k.a. Weekend in Barcelona (TV movie, 1991) and in Backbeat (1994), David Carr in Land and Freedom (1995), an unemployed Liverpool shipyard worker in Liam (2000) and the malevolent Professor Quirrell in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).
On television, he played Dr. Watson in two Sherlock Holmes television movies, shown on BBC One over the Christmas seasons in 2002 and 2004.
He is a supporter of Everton F.C.
