Ian Hart made his debut in Willy Russell’s One Summer and appeared as John Lennon in Backbeat and The Hours and Times, before starring in Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom. He later appeared in the Neil Jordan films Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, The End of the Affair and Breakfast on Pluto, as well as This Year’s Love, The Enemy of the State and Michael Winterbottom’s Wonderland.

His numerous recent feature film and television appearances include Neverland, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Cock and Bull Story and US drama series Dirt.