
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".

Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997

Mayday
TV • 2003

Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989

Heartbeat
TV • 1992

Andor
TV • 2022

Spooks
TV • 2002

Sherlock
TV • 2010

Relic Hunter
TV • 1999

Merlin
TV • 2008

The Capture
TV • 2019

The Night Manager
TV • 2016

His Dark Materials
TV • 2019

Humans
TV • 2015

Peep Show
TV • 2003

Good Omens
TV • 2019

Being Human
TV • 2009

The Martian
MOVIE • 2015

Wolf Hall
TV • 2015