Jeremy Irons
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-09-19 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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.
Known For
Acting
The Beekeeper 2
as Wallace Westwyld
Rizana: A Caged Bird
as Professor Julian Miles
Water People: The Story of Us
as The Ocean (voice)
Encore
as Nigel
The Well of Saint Nobody
as William
The Crystal Planet
as Governor Mordokan (voice)
(2025)
Palestine 36
as High Commissioner Wauchope
(2025)
(2024)
The Beekeeper
as Wallace Westwyld
(2024)
Quintessentially Irish
as Self
(2024)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
(2024)
(2024)
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
as Narrator
(2023)
The Flash
as Alfred Pennyworth
(2023)
Once Upon a Studio
as Scar (voice)
(2023)
The Cello
as Francesco
(2023)
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
as Traveller (archived audio)
(2023)
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Codice Carla
as Self
(2023)
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
as Self - 'Alfred'
(2022)
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
(2022)
Birds Like Us
as Mi (voice)
(2022)
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
The Way of the Cheetah
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
as Narrator
(2021)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Alfred
(2021)
House of Gucci
as Rodolfo Gucci
(2021)
Munich – The Edge of War
as Neville Chamberlain
(2021)
Architects of Ancient Arabia
as Narrator
(2021)
(2021)
(2021)
(2020)
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
as Lawrence Philips
(2020)
Jade Eyed Leopard
as Narrator (voice)
(2019)
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Red Sparrow
as Vladimir Korchnoi
(2018)
An Actor Prepares
as Atticus
(2018)
Better Start Running
as Garrison
(2017)
Justice League
as Alfred
(2017)
Their Finest
as Secretary of War
(2017)
(2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Alfred
(2016)
Assassin's Creed
as Alan Rikkin
(2016)
Race
as Avery Brundage
(2016)
The Man Who Knew Infinity
as G. H. Hardy
(2016)
Correspondence
as Ed Phoerum
(2016)
The Sultan and the Saint
as Narrator
(2016)
(2016)
I Wish For You
as Grandfather
(2015)
Emotional Uncertainties
as Self
(2015)
High-Rise
as Anthony Royal
(2015)
The Genius of George Boole
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Earthquake On Everest
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
The Voysey Inheritance
as Edward Voysey
(2014)
Endless Corridor
as Narrator
(2013)
Beautiful Creatures
as Macon Ravenwood
(2013)
Night Train to Lisbon
as Raimund
(2013)
The Wind Gods
as Narrator (voice)
(2013)
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
as Self
(2013)
Goodbye Granadaland
as Self
(2013)
Muse of Fire
as Self
(2013)
Game of Lions
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
The Words
as The Old Man
(2012)
Trashed
as Himself
(2012)
Seeds of Freedom
as Narator
(2012)
Another Way Home
as Narrator
(2011)
Margin Call
as John Tuld
(2011)
The Last Lions
as Narrator
(2010)
The Majestic Plastic Bag
as Narrator
(2010)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
(2009)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
(2009)
The Pink Panther 2
as Avellaneda
(2009)
Georgia O'Keeffe
as Alfred Stieglitz
(2009)
The Chronoscope
as Narrator
(2009)
(2008)
1984
as Television Voice
(2008)
Appaloosa
as Randall Bragg
(2008)
Eden at the End of the World
as Narrator
(2007)
Lynch 2
as Self
(2007)
(2006)
Eragon
as Brom
(2006)
Inland Empire
as Kingsley Stewart
(2006)
The Path to Redemption
as Self
(2006)
(2006)
Mathilde
as Col. De Petris
(2006)
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
Eye of the Leopard
as Narrator
(2005)
Kingdom of Heaven
as Tiberias
(2005)
Revisiting Brideshead
as Self
(2005)
Casanova
as Pucci
(2005)
The Merchant of Venice
as Himself
(2005)
Gallipoli
as Narrator
(2004)
Being Julia
as Michael Gosselyn
(2004)
The Merchant of Venice
as Antonio
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
The Time Machine
as Über-Morlock
(2002)
Callas Forever
as Larry Kelly
(2002)
Ohio Impromptu
as Reader / Listener
(2002)
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
as Valentin Valentin
(2002)
Last Call
as F. Scott Fitzgerald
(2001)
The Fourth Angel
as Jack Elgin
(2001)
(2001)
The Short Life of Anne Frank
as Narrator (English version)
(2000)
Dungeons & Dragons
as Profion
(2000)
Longitude
as Rupert Gould
(1999)
Faeries
as The Shapeshifter (voice)
(1998)
The Lolita Story
as Himself
(1998)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Aramis
(1997)
Lolita
as Humbert Humbert
(1997)
Chinese Box
as John
(1996)
Stealing Beauty
as Alex Parrish
(1995)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Simon
(1995)
(1995)
A Night to Die For
as Self
(1994)
The Lion King
as Scar (voice)
(1994)
The Making of the Lion King
as Self
(1994)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
(1993)
The House of the Spirits
as Esteban Trueba
(1993)
M. Butterfly
as René Gallimard
(1992)
Damage
as Dr. Stephen Fleming
(1992)
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
(1992)
Tales from Hollywood
as Odon Von Horvath
(1992)
Waterland
as Tom Crick
(1991)
Kafka
as Kafka
(1991)
The Beggar's Opera
as Prisoner
(1991)
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
as Narrator
(1990)
(1990)
Reversal of Fortune
as Claus von Bülow
(1989)
(1989)
Danny the Champion of the World
as William Smith
(1989)
Australia
as Edouard Pierson
(1989)
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Guy Jones
(1989)
(1988)
(1988)
Dead Ringers
as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
(1988)
The Making of Dead Ringers
as Self - Actor
(1986)
The Mission
as Father Gabriel
(1986)
(1986)
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
as Narrator (voice)
(1985)
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
(1985)
The Statue of Liberty
as Self (voice)
(1984)
Swann in Love
as Charles Swann
(1984)
The Wild Duck
as Harold
(1983)
Betrayal
as Jerry
(1983)
The Captain's Doll
as Captain Alexander Hepburn
(1982)
Moonlighting
as Nowak
(1981)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
(1980)
Nijinsky
as Mikhail Fokine
(1978)
Langrishe, Go Down
as Otto Beck
Crew
(2023)
(2021)
Nepal Beyond
Executive Producer
(2018)
Better Start Running
Executive Producer
(2015)
Emotional Uncertainties
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