Jeremy Irons

Birthday:

09/19/1948

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.



Credits

Quintessentially Irish (2024)
Self
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio (2024)
The Beekeeper (2024)
Wallace Westwyld
Codice Carla (2023)
Self
Once Upon a Studio (2023)
Scar (voice)
The Cello (2023)
Francesco
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide (2023)
Self - 'Alfred'
The Flash (2023)
Alfred Pennyworth
Tom Hanks: The Nomad (2023)
Self (archive footage)
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé (2022)
Self (archive footage)
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist (2022)
Self
Birds Like Us (2022)
Mi (voice)
Napoleon: In the Name of Art (2022)
Host
Eternal Enemies: Revealed (2022)
Narrator (voice)
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed (2022)
Narrator (voice)
Relentless Enemies: Revealed (2022)
Narrator (voice)
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed (2022)
Narrator (voice)
Living With Big Cats: Revealed (2022)
Narrator
The Way of the Cheetah (2022)
Narrator (voice)
Munich: The Edge of War (2022)
Neville Chamberlain
House of Gucci (2021)
Rodolfo Gucci
Napoleone - Nel nome dell'arte (2021)
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto (2021)
Himself
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood (2021)
Self
The Architects of Ancient Arabia (2021)
Narrator
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Alfred Pennyworth
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
Lawrence Philips
Jade Eyed Leopard (2020)
Narrator (voice)
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders (2019)
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
An Actor Prepares (2018)
Atticus
Better Start Running (2018)
Garrison
Red Sparrow (2018)
Vladimir Korchnoi
Justice League (2017)
Alfred Pennyworth
Their Finest (2017)
Secretary of War
Assassin's Creed (2016)
Alan Rikkin
The Sultan and the Saint (2016)
Narrator
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)
G. H. Hardy
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Alfred Pennyworth
Race (2016)
Avery Brundage
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League (2016)
Self
Correspondence (2016)
Ed Phoerum
I Wish For You (2016)
Grandfather
High-Rise (2015)
Anthony Royal
The Genius of George Boole (2015)
Narrator (voice)
Emotional Uncertainties (2015)
Self
Earthquake On Everest (2015)
Narrator (voice)
Endless Corridor (2014)
Narrator
Game of Lions (2013)
Narrator (voice)
Muse of Fire (2013)
Self
The Sunflower Superjam 2012 (2013)
Self
Goodbye Granadaland (2013)
Self
The Wind Gods (2013)
Narrator (voice)
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
Raimund
Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Macon Ravenwood
Trashed (2012)
Himself
Another Way Home (2012)
Narrator
The Words (2012)
The Old Man
Seeds of Freedom (2012)
Narator
Margin Call (2011)
John Tuld
The Last Lions (2011)
Narrator
Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)
Self
The Majestic Plastic Bag (2010)
Narrator
The Power of the Powerless (2009)
Georgia O'Keeffe (2009)
Alfred Stieglitz
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Self (archive footage)
The Chronoscope (2009)
Narrator
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
Avellaneda
Appaloosa (2008)
Randall Bragg
1984 (2008)
Television Voice
Eden at the End of the World (2008)
Narrator
Lynch 2 (2007)
Self
Eragon (2006)
Brom
Inland Empire (2006)
Kingsley Stewart
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall (2006)
Self
Eye of the Leopard (2006)
Narrator
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo (2006)
Narrator (voice)
Mathilde (2006)
Col. De Petris
The Path to Redemption (2006)
Self
Casanova (2005)
Pucci
Revisiting Brideshead (2005)
Self
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Tiberias
Gallipoli (2005)
Narrator
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Antonio
Being Julia (2004)
Michael Gosselyn
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions (2003)
Narrator (voice)
The Hittites - A Civilization that Changed the World (2003)
Narrator
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
Self
Callas Forever (2002)
Larry Kelly
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002)
Valentin Valentin
Last Call (2002)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ohio Impromptu (2002)
Reader / Listener
The Time Machine (2002)
Über-Morlock
The Short Life of Anne Frank (2001)
Narrator (English version)
The Fourth Angel (2001)
Jack Elgin
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
Profion
Longitude (2000)
Rupert Gould
Faeries (1999)
The Shapeshifter (voice)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Aramis
The Lolita Story (1998)
Himself
Chinese Box (1997)
John
Lolita (1997)
Humbert Humbert
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Alex Parrish
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
Self
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Simon
A Night to Die For (1995)
Himself
The Making of the Lion King (1994)
Self
The Lion King (1994)
Scar (voice)
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994)
Self (archive footage)
The House of the Spirits (1993)
Esteban Trueba
M. Butterfly (1993)
René Gallimard
Damage (1992)
Dr. Stephen Fleming
Tales from Hollywood (1992)
Odon Von Horvath
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
Reader (voice)
Waterland (1992)
Tom Crick
Kafka (1991)
Kafka
The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Prisoner
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Claus von Bülow
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! (1990)
himself
Australia (1989)
Edouard Pierson
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
Guy Jones
Danny the Champion of the World (1989)
William Smith
The Dream (1989)
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special (1988)
Self
Dead Ringers (1988)
Beverly / Elliot Mantle
The Making of Dead Ringers (1988)
Self - Actor
The Mission (1986)
Father Gabriel
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary (1986)
Self
The Statue of Liberty (1985)
Self (voice)
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
Self
The Wild Duck (1984)
Harold
Swann in Love (1984)
Charles Swann
Betrayal (1983)
Jerry
Moonlighting (1982)
Nowak
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
Nijinsky (1980)
Mikhail Fokine
The Voysey Inheritance (1979)
Edward Voysey
Langrishe, Go Down (1978)
Otto Beck
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand ()
Broadway: The Next Generation ()
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion ()
Traveller (archived audio)
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide (2023)
Thanks
Nepal Beyond (2021)
Executive Producer
Emotional Uncertainties (2015)
Thanks