Jeremy Irons
Biography
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Irons's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. It would earn him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His first major film role came in the romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990).
Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).
On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-09-19
Place of birth
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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Cast
M. Butterfly
1993
6.63
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
6.98
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
7.27
The Time Machine
2002
6.28
The House of the Spirits
1993
6.92
Inland Empire
2006
7.01
Kafka
1991
6.42
Lynch 2
2007
0.00
Eragon
2006
5.11
Damage
1992
6.61
The Merchant of Venice
2004
6.78
Chinese Box
1997
5.88
The Mission
1986
7.40
Dungeons & Dragons
2000
4.35
The Lion King
1994
8.26
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
6.43
Architects of Ancient Arabia
2021
9.50
Dead Ringers
1988
7.13
Lolita
1997
7.14
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
6.60
Earthquake On Everest
2015
5.00
Appaloosa
2008
6.58
Casanova
2005
6.45
The Cello
2023
6.00
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
2021
8.17
Moonlighting
1982
7.01
Stealing Beauty
1996
6.70
The Pink Panther 2
2009
5.70
Game of Lions
2013
5.00
Reversal of Fortune
1990
6.63
The Voysey Inheritance
2014
0.00
Callas Forever
2002
6.38
Gallipoli
2005
7.07
Being Julia
2004
6.50
Longitude
2000
7.25
Margin Call
2011
6.86
The Last Lions
2011
7.20
Danny the Champion of the World
1989
6.15
The Words
2012
6.66
The Flash
2023
6.65
The Fourth Angel
2001
5.15
Goodbye Granadaland
2013
0.00
The Way of the Cheetah
2022
5.20
Langrishe, Go Down
1978
4.20
Trashed
2012
7.20
Beautiful Creatures
2013
6.04
The Majestic Plastic Bag
2010
7.70
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
2022
0.00
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
2022
0.00
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
2022
8.00
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
2022
0.00
Eye of the Leopard
2006
8.10
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
5.24
Another Way Home
2012
10.00
Ohio Impromptu
2002
8.50
Waterland
1992
6.34
Georgia O'Keeffe
2009
5.30
Swann in Love
1984
5.64
Night Train to Lisbon
2013
6.50
Betrayal
1983
5.79
Last Call
2002
5.88
Nijinsky
1980
5.03
Australia
1989
4.50
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
5.50
The Beggar's Opera
1991
4.33
Faeries
1999
5.08
Muse of Fire
2013
6.50
Tales from Hollywood
1992
1.00
The Wild Duck
1984
6.70
Mathilde
2006
0.00
Revisiting Brideshead
2005
0.00
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
2023
3.80
Once Upon a Studio
2023
8.28
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
7.20
High-Rise
2015
5.63
1984
2008
6.00
I Wish For You
2016
0.00
Codice Carla
2023
0.00
A Night to Die For
1995
0.00
Eden at the End of the World
2008
0.00
Correspondence
2016
6.36
The Beekeeper
2024
7.32
Race
2016
7.20
The Chronoscope
2009
8.50
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
2022
0.00
Quintessentially Irish
2024
6.44
Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
10.00
The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016
7.15
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
8.00
The Genius of George Boole
2015
7.50
Assassin's Creed
2016
5.43
Encore
0.00
The Statue of Liberty
1985
6.70
Endless Corridor
2014
5.00
The Wind Gods
2013
0.00
Justice League
2017
6.08
The Dream
1989
8.70
Their Finest
2017
6.65
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
1991
0.00
Red Sparrow
2018
6.54
An Actor Prepares
2018
5.81
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
0.00
Birds Like Us
2022
3.80
Better Start Running
2018
6.00
The Sultan and the Saint
2016
6.80
The Lolita Story
1998
6.00
The Making of Dead Ringers
1988
8.00
The Short Life of Anne Frank
2001
10.00
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
2020
5.94
The Power of the Powerless
2009
0.00
Seeds of Freedom
2012
0.00
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
2013
0.00
Earth and the American Dream
1992
6.70
Emotional Uncertainties
2015
0.00
Munich – The Edge of War
2021
6.93
House of Gucci
2021
6.60
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
8.12
Jade Eyed Leopard
2020
0.00
The Path to Redemption
2006
8.00
The Making of the Lion King
1994
10.00
The Captain's Doll
1983
0.00
Palestine 36
0.00
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
6.00
The Merchant of Venice
2005
0.00