Anna Daniels
The 56-year-old Hart was born in Liverpool, England and began acting in school plays at an early age. He kicked off his professional career on TV and the stage, appearing in important British miniseries such as The Monocled Mutineer, The Marksman, and Chain, and on three episodes of The Practice in the role of William Griffin. Hart continued landing guest spots on a wide array of shows for most of the late ’80s, but his real break came in 1994, when he was cast to play John Lennon opposite Gary Bakewell’s Paul McCartney in Iain Softley’s iconic Backbeat. Little did Hart realize at the time, but he was already destined to reprise the role of Lennon on two more occasions (via IMDb).
The first came a few months after Backbeat, when Hart returned to play the Beatle in the video short Backbeat Band: Money, Version 2. After that, he wouldn’t return to the role for another 20 years, at which point he was once again cast to appear as Lennon in the 2013 television play Snodgrass, featured during the second season of Playhouse Presents.
When he wasn’t busy playing Lennon, Hart spent the intervening years accruing an obscene amount of film credits. He played the part of Steve in Clockwork Mice, Daniel Defoe in the 1997 Robinson Crusoe, Uncle Alo in The Butcher Boy, Bingham in Enemy of the State, Dan in Wonderland, Mr. Parkis in The End of the Affair starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore, Clive in Aberdeen, and many, many more.
Written by: Looper
