Jonathan Aris is a British stage, film and television actor, he is the son of the late British character actor Ben Aris but, despite having a thespian as a father, acting was not his first choice. He studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and read Russian and Italian at Cambridge University before training as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Like his father, Jonathan has chiefly been seen in character roles, notably on television as the private secretary to the (female) Prime Minister in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006). He also does a great number of voice-overs for television commercials and narration for documentaries. He has made numerous stage appearances and was in the original London cast of "Fame - the Musical".

Filmography

• Believe Me — Jeremy Gold QC
• Amadeus — Leopold Mozart
• Talamasca: The Secret Order — Gregory Owen
• The Hack — Mark Thomson
• 2024Here — Earl Higgins
• 2024Mystery at the Prospect Hotel — Mr. Standing
• Red Eye — John Tennant
• 2024The Cost of Hugging — Jacques
• We Were the Lucky Ones — Wolf
• The Famous Five — Mr. Standing
• The Sixth Commandment — DCI Mark Glover
• Andor — Senator Nower Jebel
• Murder in Provence — Lucien de Bremont
• 2022She Will — Podrick Lochran
• A Very British Scandal — Judge Wheatley
• 2021Enjoy — Swim Man
• The North Water — Corbyn
• 2021Zone 414 — Joseph Veidt
• Avenue 5 — Charles
• Dracula — Captain Sokolov
• 2019Get Duked! — Mr. Carlyle
• Good Omens — Quartermaster Angel
• His Dark Materials — Commander Roke
• The Capture — Dr Neuman
• The Feed — Eric Bell
• The War of the Worlds — Priest
• 2019Vivarium — Martin
• 2018Black Mirror: Bandersnatch — Crispin
• 2017All the Money in the World — Conservator
• 2017Churchill — Mallory
• 2017The Death of Stalin — Mezhnikov
• The End of the F***ing World — Professor Clive Koch
• Love, Nina — David, 'Floppy'
• 2016Morgan — David Chance
• 2016Race — Alfred J. Lill
• 2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — Senator Jebel
• 2016Sherlock: The Abominable Bride — Anderson
• Stan Lee's Lucky Man — Ralph Dickenson
• The Night Manager — Raymond Galt
• Tutankhamun — Herbert Winlock
• Humans — Robert
• 2015The Martian — Brendan Hatch
• Wolf Hall — James Bainham
• The Game — Alan Montag
• 2013Sherlock: Many Happy Returns — Anderson
• 2013The World's End — Group Leader
• 2012Sightseers — Ian
• Silk — Dr Liam King
• 2010Gulliver's Travels — Lilliputian Scientist
• Sherlock — Dr Anderson
• The Little House — Doctor McFadden
• Being Human — Newsreader
• 2009Bright Star — Mr. Hunt
• Bonekickers
• 2008Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley — Stanley Soward
• Merlin — Matthew
• 2007Confessions of a Diary Secretary — Bernard
• 2007Flawless — Boyle
• 2006Beau Brummell: This Charming Man — Marquis of Worcester
• Hotel Babylon — Mr. Green
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard — Sir Richard Leavis
• Broken News — Stewart Frewett - ESN Network Reporter
• 2005Footprints in the Snow — Nick Donaldson
• Ideal — Rich
• 2005Planespotting — Wayne Groves
• 2005Riot at the Rite — Jean Cocteau
• 2005The Government Inspector — Bryan Wells
• 2004Not Only But Always — Jonathan Miller
• 2003Eroica — Paul Dorfmueller
• Mayday — Narrator
• Peep Show — Ben Prenderghast
• Spooks — Azis Aibek
• 2002The Project — Bob
• 2001Birthday Girl — D.I. O'Fetiger
• Double Income, No Kids Yet — Steve
• 2000The Wyvern Mystery — Dr. Willett
• Relic Hunter — Paul Laurier
• 1999Topsy-Turvy — Wilhelm
• 1998Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant — Clerkly Officer
• 1998Metroland — Dave
• 1998Only Love — Emil Becker
• Midsomer Murders — Alex Dyer
• Pilgrim's Rest — Quentin
• 1997The Jackal — Alexander Radzinski
• Bugs
• As Time Goes By — Waiter
• Heartbeat — Herbert Brownjohn
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Receptionist
• Fortitude

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Air Crash Investigation: Special Report — Self - Narrator (voice)