Jonathan Harden

Jonathan Harden (born 1979) is a Northern Irish actor and director. Early life Harden was born in Belfast in 1979, the son of an Irish father and an American mother. Career Harden's most notable credits include the roles of David 'Jonty' Johnston in BBC cop drama Blue Lights, Sean Rawlins in the crime drama series Unforgotten, Gregory in the final season of the comedy series Peep Show, Walter Hill in the costume drama series Titanic: Blood and Steel, Newman Noggs and the narrator in the BBC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby, Brendan Murphy in Jimmy McGovern's 2021 prison drama Time, and an unnamed character in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Harden's stage credits include Henry Joy McCracken in Stewart Parker's Northern Star at the Finborough Theatre and Children of the Sun at the Royal National Theatre under the direction of the late Howard Davies. Of his performance in Northern Star, the Time Out review wrote, "Jonathan Harden reveals himself as an extraordinary talent whose performance leaves an afterglow like a good whiskey."