Biografia

His wife is a teacher, and they have two daughters: Daisy, born in 1996 and Holly, born in 2001.

Twice portrayed John Lennon on film, in The Hours and Times (1991) and Backbeat - Os 5 Rapazes de Liverpool (1994).

Has played both Arthur Conan Doyle (in Em Busca da Terra do Nunca (2004)) and one of his most famous characters from the Sherlock Holmes canon, Dr. Watson (The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) and Sherlock Holmes e o Caso das Meias de Seda (2004)).

Has twice played a lackey of Ralph Fiennes. In Fim de Caso (1999), he plays a private detective hired by Fiennes's character to spy on Julianne Moore. In Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal (2001), he played Professor Quirrell who allows his body to be used as a host for the spirit of Lord Voldemort (where Hart also provided the facial structure for the CG head of the role at the end of the film) - who is played in the flesh by Fiennes, beginning with Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo (2005).

His surname at birth was Davies but he adopted "Hart" as his last name from his Everyman Theatre School associate Barbara Hart.

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.