Ian Hart

Ian Davies (born 8 October 1964), better known as Ian Hart, is an English actor. His most notable roles are Rabbit in the Channel Four drama miniseries One Summer (1983), Joe O’Reilly in the biopic Michael Collins (1996), Professor Quirrell in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001), Kester Gill in the E4 series My Mad Fat Diary (2013–2015), and Father Beocca in the Netflix series The Last Kingdom (2015–2020).

Hart was born Ian Davies[citation needed] in the Knotty Ash district of Liverpool on 8 October 1964. He has two siblings and was brought up in a Catholic family.[2] He attended Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School in Liverpool’s West Derby suburb and was a member of the city’s Everyman Youth Theatre in his earlier years, before studying drama at the now-defunct Mabel Fletcher College of Music and Drama in Liverpool’s Wavertree district. From 1988 to 1991, he studied video production at South Mersey College (now part of Liverpool Community College).