Jonathan Pryce
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1947-06-01 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Carmel, Flintshire, Wales, UK
Jonathan Pryce
Biography
Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born 1 June 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the 2019 film "The Two Popes."
After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his long time partner, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's "Hamlet", led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film "Brazil". Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has participated in big-budget films such as "Evita", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The New World", as well as independent projects such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Carrington". His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in "Comedians", the second for his 1991 role as "The Engineer" in the musical "Miss Saigon".
Known For
Acting
(2025)
William Tell
as Attinghausen
(2025)
The Thursday Murder Club
as Stephen
(2025)
The Penguin Lessons
as Headmaster Buckle
(2023)
One Life
as Martin Blake
(2023)
Soul of the Ocean
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
The Witness is a Whale
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Save the Cinema
as Mr. Morgan
(2022)
All the Old Knives
as Bill Compton
(2022)
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
as Jacob Marley (voice)
(2022)
The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking
as Self - Narrator
(2022)
The Spirit of 1926
as Narrator
(2021)
Stories of You and I
as Narrator
(2019)
The Two Popes
as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
(2019)
He Dreams of Giants
as Himself
(2019)
Gone Hollywood
as Benny Landau
(2019)
Piney: The Lonesome Pine
as Grandpa Sid
(2018)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
as Don Quixote
(2018)
The Wife
as Joe Castleman
(2018)
To Provide All People
as Retired Neurosurgeon
(2017)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mr. John Dickens
(2017)
The Healer
as Raymond Heacock
(2017)
Becoming Cary Grant
as Cary Grant (voice)
(2016)
To Walk Invisible
as Patrick Brontë
(2016)
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance
as Special Finale Guest Star
(2016)
The White King
as Colonel Fitz
(2016)
(2016)
(2015)
(2015)
Woman in Gold
as Chief Justice Rehnquist
(2015)
Dough
as Nat
(2015)
Narcopolis
as Sidorov
(2015)
Shylock's Ghost
as Self
(2014)
The Ghost and the Whale
as Whale
(2014)
The Salvation
as Mayor Nathan Keane
(2014)
Listen Up Philip
as Ike
(2014)
Under Milk Wood
as Mr. Pugh
(2014)
(2013)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
as U.S. President
(2012)
King Lear
as King Lear
(2012)
Dark Blood
as Harry Fletcher
(2012)
Patience (After Sebald)
as Voiceover
(2011)
Hysteria
as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
(2011)
City State
as Jimmy
(2011)
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
(2010)
(2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
as U.S. President
(2009)
Echelon Conspiracy
as Mueller
(2008)
Bedtime Stories
as Marty Bronson
(2008)
Leatherheads
as CC Frazier
(2008)
My Zinc Bed
as Victor
(2008)
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
as Self / Horatio Jackson
(2008)
What Is Brazil?
as Self
(2008)
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
as Ian Fleming (voice)
(2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Governor Weatherby Swann
(2007)
The Moon and the Stars
as James Clavel / Scarpia
(2007)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
as Sherlock Holmes
(2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Weatherby Swann
(2006)
Brothers of the Head
as Henry Couling
(2005)
The Brothers Grimm
as Delatombe
(2005)
The New World
as King James
(2005)
(2005)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
(2004)
De-Lovely
as Gabriel
(2004)
(2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
as Governor Weatherby Swann
(2003)
What a Girl Wants
as Alistair Payne
(2003)
(2003)
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
as Narrator
(2003)
Quest for the Giant Squid
as Narrator
(2002)
Unconditional Love
as Victor Fox
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as Self / Elliot Carver
(2002)
Mad Dogs
as Supreme Being
(2002)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
as Master Schoemacker
(2002)
Taliesin Jones
as Da
(2001)
The Affair of the Necklace
as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
(2001)
Very Annie Mary
as Jack Pugh
(2001)
Victoria & Albert
as King Leopold I of Belgium
(2001)
Bride of the Wind
as Gustav Mahler
(2001)
Il gioco
as Mark
(2000)
The Suicide Club
as Bourne
(2000)
Tales from the Madhouse
as The Thief
(1999)
Stigmata
as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
(1999)
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
as The Master
(1999)
Titanic: Answers From The Abyss
as Narrator
(1998)
Ronin
as Seamus O'Rourke
(1998)
(1998)
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
(1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Elliot Carver
(1997)
Regeneration
as Capt. William Rivers
(1997)
The Secrets of 007
as Self
(1997)
David
as Saul
(1996)
Evita
as Juan Perón
(1996)
(1995)
Carrington
as Lytton Strachey
(1994)
Deadly Advice
as Dr. Ted Philips
(1994)
Great Moments in Aviation
as Duncan Stewart
(1994)
Shopping
as Conway
(1994)
A Troll in Central Park
as Alan (voice)
(1994)
A Business Affair
as Alec Bolton
(1993)
The Age of Innocence
as Rivière
(1993)
Barbarians at the Gate
as Henry Kravis
(1993)
Thicker Than Water
as Sam
(1993)
Selling Hitler
as Gerd Heidemann
(1992)
Glengarry Glen Ross
as James Lingk
(1992)
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
as Trilby (voice)
(1992)
A Child's Garden of Verses
as Narrator / Father (voice)
(1990)
The Man from the Pru
as William Wallace
(1989)
The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
as Self - 'The Engineer'
(1989)
The Rachel Papers
as Norman
(1988)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
(1988)
Consuming Passions
as Mr. Farris
(1988)
The World Within Us
as Voice
(1987)
Man on Fire
as Michael
(1986)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
as Jack
(1986)
Haunted Honeymoon
as Charles Abbot
(1985)
Brazil
as Sam Lowry
(1985)
The Doctor and the Devils
as Robert Fallon
(1984)
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
(1983)
The Ploughman's Lunch
as James Penfield
(1983)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Mr. Dark
(1983)
Martin Luther, Heretic
as Martin Luther
(1982)
Praying Mantis
as Christian Magny
(1982)
Murder Is Easy
as Mr. Ellsworthy
(1981)
Loophole
as Taylor
(1981)
The Caretaker
as Mick
(1981)
Timon of Athens
as Timon
(1980)
Breaking Glass
as Ken
(1980)
The Day Christ Died
as Herod
(1979)
Comedians
as Gethin Price
(1978)
For Tea on Sunday
as Nicholas
(1976)
Voyage of the Damned
as Joseph Manasse
(1976)
Play Things
as Playleader
(1975)
The Death of a Young Young Man
as Tommy