Harris recently wrapped production on the Sony/Screen Gems film, Exposure. The film centers on a rookie cop (Harris) who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and unwittingly records the incident on her body cam. After a narrow escape, she quickly finds herself caught between the dirty cops who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage and the drug dealers who are out for revenge. The film will be released September 20th, 2019.
Harris was first seen in the James Bond franchise in Sam Mendes’ Skyfall, which won the 2013 BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film and went on to become Sony Pictures’ highest grossing film with a worldwide box office of over $918 million.
Harris’s tour de force performance as a crack-addicted mother in Barry Jenkins’ Academy Award winning film Moonlight earned her Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations as well as the Best Supporting Actress Award at the London Critics Circle Awards. Of her performance in the film, Variety said, “…Harris is both enraging and deeply sympathetic. Viewers may be shocked by how her descent into addiction causes her to ignore her son’s emotional issues, but the actress is too skilful to simply make her character a monster…Her final monologue is a master class of acting, overflowing with regret and pain. It’s heart-breaking work.”
In 2013 she appeared as Winnie Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom opposite Idris Elba. She was nominated for two London Critics Circle Awards and an NAACP Image Award for her powerful performance as the controversial leader.
Other recent on screen appearances include Andy Serkis’ Mowgli, Rampage opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Sam Mendes’ Spectre, Collateral Beauty opposite Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw, Our Kind of Traitor, The First Grader, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Michael Mann’s Miami Vice, After The Sunset, and the highly acclaimed BBC mini-series White Teeth. The London-born actress’s breakthrough role was in Danny Boyle‘s 2002 film, 28 Days Later, and she later starred in Boyle’s production of Frankenstein, opposite Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, at London’s National Theatre.
Harris graduated with honors from Cambridge University with a degree in ‘Social and Political Science’ and trained at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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