Jeremy Irons
Acting
- Born:
- 1948-09-19
- Place of birth:
- Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Beekeeper 2
The Crystal Planet
What is dyslexia?
Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
Last Movies
This Ordinary Thing
Mara: Rebirth
Palestine 36
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Quintessentially Irish
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
The Beekeeper
Codice Carla
Once Upon a Studio
The Cello
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
The Flash
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
The Pentaverate
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
The Way of the Cheetah
Munich - The Edge of War
House of Gucci
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Architects of Ancient Arabia
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Jade Eyed Leopard
History of the Emirates
The Morning Show
Watchmen
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
An Actor Prepares
Better Start Running
Red Sparrow
Justice League
Birds Like Us
Their Finest
Assassin's Creed
The Sultan and the Saint
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Race
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
Correspondence
I Wish For You
High-Rise
The Genius of George Boole
Emotional Uncertainties
Earthquake On Everest
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Metropolis
Endless Corridor
The Voysey Inheritance
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Game of Lions
Muse of Fire
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Goodbye Granadaland
The Wind Gods: 33rd America's Cup
Night Train to Lisbon
Beautiful Creatures
Racing Legends
Trashed
Another Way Home
The Words
The Hollow Crown
Shakespeare Uncovered
Seeds of Freedom
Prohibition
Margin Call
The Borgias
The Last Lions
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
The Majestic Plastic Bag
The Power of the Powerless
Georgia O'Keeffe
The Chronoscope
The Pink Panther 2
Appaloosa
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
1984
The Colour of Magic
Eden at the End of the World
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
Lynch 2
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
Eragon
Inland Empire
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
Eye of the Leopard
The Path to Redemption
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
Mathilde
Casanova
Revisiting Brideshead
The Merchant of Venice
Elizabeth I
Kingdom of Heaven
Gallipoli
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Fiat Croma
The Merchant of Venice
Who Do You Think You Are?
Being Julia
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
Working Shakespeare
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Callas Forever
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Last Call
Heart of the Festival
Ohio Impromptu
The Time Machine
The Short Life of Anne Frank
The Fourth Angel
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
Dungeons & Dragons
Longitude
Longitude
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Faeries
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Lolita Story
Chinese Box
Lolita
The View
E! True Hollywood Story
Stealing Beauty
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
A Night to Die For
Inside the Actors Studio
The Making of the Lion King
The Lion King
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Brisant
The House of the Spirits
M. Butterfly
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Damage
Tales from Hollywood
Earth and the American Dream
Waterland
Blast 'Em
HBO First Look
From Time to Time
Kafka
Performance
The Beggar's Opera
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
Reversal of Fortune
The Civil War
Bill Moyers: Amazing Grace
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
The Simpsons
Australia
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
A Chorus of Disapproval
Danny the Champion of the World
The Dream
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Dead Ringers
Comic Relief
The Making of Dead Ringers
Daytime Live
The Mission
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
The Statue of Liberty
Night of 100 Stars II
The Wild Duck
Swann in Love
Betrayal
The Captain's Doll
Nature
Moonlighting
American Playhouse
Brideshead Revisited
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Wetten, dass..?
Nijinsky
Langrishe, Go Down
BBC2 Play of the Week
Love for Lydia
Saturday Night Live
Churchill's People
Notorious Woman
The Pallisers
Film '72
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Great Performances
BBC Play of the Month
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tony Awards
The Oscars
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Broadway: The Next Generation
The Well of Saint Nobody
Encore
Water People: The Story of Us
Highlander
Rihana
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare