Jeremy Irons
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.
Born: 19 September 1948
Played In
The Beekeeper 2
Wallace Westwyld
The Crystal Planet
Governor Mordokan (voice)
What is dyslexia?
The Inventor
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
Narrator
Last Movies
Self - Narrator
This Ordinary Thing
Self (voice)
Mara: Rebirth
Narrator (voice)
Palestine 36
High Commissioner Wauchope
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
Self
The Count of Monte Cristo
Abbé Faria
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
Quintessentially Irish
Self
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
The Beekeeper
Wallace Westwyld
Codice Carla
Self
Once Upon a Studio
Scar (voice)
The Cello
Francesco
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
Self - 'Alfred'
The Flash
Alfred Pennyworth
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Self (archive footage)
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
Self (archive footage)
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
Self
The Pentaverate
Jeremy Irons
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
Narrator
The Way of the Cheetah
Narrator (voice)
Munich - The Edge of War
Neville Chamberlain
House of Gucci
Rodolfo Gucci
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Self
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Self
Architects of Ancient Arabia
Narrator
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Alfred
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Lawrence Philips
Jade Eyed Leopard
Narrator (voice)
The Morning Show
Martin Levy
Watchmen
Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
An Actor Prepares
Atticus
Better Start Running
Garrison
Red Sparrow
Vladimir Korchnoi
Justice League
Alfred
Birds Like Us
Mi (voice)
Their Finest
Secretary of War
Assassin's Creed
Alan Rikkin
The Sultan and the Saint
Narrator
The Man Who Knew Infinity
G. H. Hardy
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Alfred
Race
Avery Brundage
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
Correspondence
Ed Phoerum
I Wish For You
Grandfather
High-Rise
Anthony Royal
The Genius of George Boole
Narrator (voice)
Emotional Uncertainties
Self
Earthquake On Everest
Narrator (voice)
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self
Metropolis
Endless Corridor
Narrator
The Voysey Inheritance
Edward Voysey
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Game of Lions
Narrator (voice)
Muse of Fire
Self
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Self
Goodbye Granadaland
Self
The Wind Gods
Narrator (voice)
Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund
Beautiful Creatures
Macon Ravenwood
Racing Legends
Self
Trashed
Himself
Another Way Home
Narrator
The Words
The Old Man
The Hollow Crown
Henry IV
Shakespeare Uncovered
Himself
Seeds of Freedom
Narator
Prohibition
Reader (voice)
Margin Call
John Tuld
The Borgias
Rodrigo Borgia
The Last Lions
Narrator
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
The Majestic Plastic Bag
Narrator
The Power of the Powerless
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
The Chronoscope
Narrator
The Pink Panther 2
Avellaneda
Appaloosa
Randall Bragg
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
Festival audience member
1984
Television Voice
The Colour of Magic
Patrician
Eden at the End of the World
Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
Patrician
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
Patrician
Lynch 2
Self
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
Narrator
Eragon
Brom
Inland Empire
Kingsley Stewart
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
Self
Eye of the Leopard
Narrator
The Path to Redemption
Self
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
Narrator (voice)
Mathilde
Col. De Petris
Casanova
Pucci
Revisiting Brideshead
Self
The Merchant of Venice
Himself
Elizabeth I
Earl of Leicester
Kingdom of Heaven
Tiberias
Gallipoli
Narrator
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Fiat Croma
Lead
The Merchant of Venice
Antonio
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
Being Julia
Michael Gosselyn
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
Narrator (voice)
Working Shakespeare
Host
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Readings (Voice)
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
Narrator
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")
Callas Forever
Larry Kelly
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Valentin Valentin
Last Call
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Ohio Impromptu
Reader / Listener
The Time Machine
Über-Morlock
The Short Life of Anne Frank
Narrator (English version)
The Fourth Angel
Jack Elgin
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
Self
Dungeons & Dragons
Profion
Longitude
Rupert Gould
Longitude
Rupert Gould
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dr. Cap Jackson
Faeries
The Shapeshifter (voice)
The Man in the Iron Mask
Aramis
The Lolita Story
Himself
Chinese Box
John
Lolita
Humbert Humbert
The View
Self
E! True Hollywood Story
Stealing Beauty
Alex Parrish
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Simon
A Night to Die For
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
The Making of the Lion King
Self
The Lion King
Scar (voice)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
Brisant
Self
The House of the Spirits
Esteban Trueba
M. Butterfly
René Gallimard
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Damage
Dr. Stephen Fleming
Tales from Hollywood
Odon Von Horvath
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Waterland
Tom Crick
HBO First Look
From Time to Time
H.G. Wells
Kafka
Kafka
Performance
Odon Von Horvath
The Beggar's Opera
Prisoner
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
Narrator
Reversal of Fortune
Claus von Bülow
The Civil War
Various (voice)
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Self (archive footage)
The Simpsons
Bar Rag (voice)
Australia
Edouard Pierson
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
Narrator
A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones
Danny the Champion of the World
William Smith
The Dream
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
Dead Ringers
Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
Comic Relief
The Making of Dead Ringers
Self - Actor
Daytime Live
The Mission
Father Gabriel
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Narrator (voice)
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
Self
The Statue of Liberty
Self (voice)
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
The Wild Duck
Harold
Swann in Love
Charles Swann
Betrayal
Jerry
The Captain's Doll
Captain Alexander Hepburn
Nature
Narrator
Moonlighting
Nowak
Brideshead Revisited
Charles Ryder
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
Wetten, dass..?
Self
Nijinsky
Mikhail Fokine
Langrishe, Go Down
Otto Beck
BBC2 Play of the Week
Otto Beck
Love for Lydia
Alex Sanderson
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Churchill's People
Samuel Ross
Notorious Woman
Franz Liszt
The Pallisers
Frank Tregear
Film '72
Self
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Nephew
Great Performances
Self
BBC Play of the Month
Edward Voysey
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Host
The Oscars
Self
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
The Well of Saint Nobody
William
Encore
Nigel
Water People: The Story of Us
The Ocean (voice)
Highlander
Rihana
Julian Miles
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
Self (Host)