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Ian Hart, born in England, began acting while a student in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. He stumbled into acting almost accidentally, but was cast in the play "The Government Inspector". He continued to work in British theatre and television, and first gained recognition for portraying John Lennon in the British film Backbeat(1995). He is notable for having played Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Dr John Watson in two different British television productions, to two different Sherlock Holmeses: The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000), with Richard Roxburgh, and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004), with Rupert Everett; the latter production also co-starred Guy Henry as a London dressmaker, and Helen McCroryas Watson's fiancee, an American psychiatrist. He is currently playing the recurring role of Beocca, a priest in Saxon England during the Viking invasion, in the series The Last Kingdom, based on the novels by Bernard Cornwell.