Ian Hart is one of the most exciting and talented young actors of his generation, appearing in over 30 films since 1993 and his highly acclaimed portrayal of John Lennon in Iain Softley's story of the Beatles Backbeat. His performance catapulted him into public awareness and won him the London Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

This was followed by roles in The Englishman who went up a Hill and Clockwork Mice, before taking the lead in Ken Loach's Land and Freedom, which won the Felix European Film of the Year Award. In 1995, Hart's talents were further acknowledged when he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival for his role as Ginger in Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Nothing Personal.

Hart has been in popular demand ever since with lead roles in Angela Pope's Hollow Reed; Neil Jordan's Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy; Michael Radford's B Monkey; Tony Scott's Enemy of the State; Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland; Neil Jordan's The End of the Affair; Peter Capaldi's Strictly Sinatra and most recently in Stephen Frears Liam and Chen Keige's Killing me Softly.

Television credits include: the BBC's The Chain, The Marksman and The Monocled Mutineer, as well as Granada's The Travelling Man and Yorkshire television's One Summer.