Paul Harris

Biography:

Paul Harris is a leading Choreographer, Dance Teacher and Movement Director in Film Television and Theatre. The majority of his work is Dance in the context of Drama, but his most famous works to date, are the laser scenes for Catherine Zeta-Jones in Entrapment and the wand combat sequences in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, as well as creating the physical language for the use of the wand for the Harry Potter film franchise. An interactive mirror, containing the image of Paul Harris image, has been a feature of the Warner Bros Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter, in both London and Hollywood. He has coached and choreographed Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy award winning actors including: Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham-Carter, Sam Neill, Benedict Cumberbatch and Sean Connery. Film credits also include: The Other Boleyn Girl, Inkheart, Mister Lonely, The Tichborne Claimant, the Disney movie musical Cheetah Girls 2, directed by Kenny Ortega, Far From The Madding Crowd, Patrick the Pug, Crooked House with Glenn Close, Blithe Spirit with Judi Dench, People Just Do Nothing - Big in Japan and the Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning, Living starring Bill Nighy. Extensive television credits include 2 BAFTA winning series, Bleak House and The Way We Live Now, as well as Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Miss Austen Regrets, Jane Eyre, South Riding, The Paradise, Desperate Romantics, The Sins, My Family, Call The Midwife and His Dark Materials, all for the BBC, as well as Lost in Austen, Poirot, Marple, A Touch of Frost, William and Mary The Quest 2, The Great Fire, Thanks for the Memories and The Halcyon, all for ITV. He also choreographed the live serpent banquet scene in Da Vinci's Demons for Starz Network America, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, directed by Hugh Laurie, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, starring Lucy Boynton and Mary and George for Starz US/Sky, starring Julianne Moore.