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Jeremy Irons

Born · September 19, 1948 (76 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

Bio

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

Narrator (voice)

4.8

2022

Napoleon: In the Name of Art

7.8

2021

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

Himself

0.0

2021

Architects of Ancient Arabia

6.5

2013

Goodbye Granadaland

Self

0.0

2013

Night Train to Lisbon

Raimund

6.5

2013

Beautiful Creatures

Macon Ravenwood

6.0

2013

Trashed

Himself

7.2

2012

Another Way Home

Narrator

10.0

2012

The Words

The Old Man

6.6

2012

Margin Call

John Tuld

6.9

2011

The Last Lions

5.1

2006

Inland Empire

Kingsley Stewart

7.0

2006

The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall

Self

6.7

2006

Eye of the Leopard

Narrator

8.1

2006

Mathilde

Col. De Petris

0.0

2006

Casanova

Pucci

6.4

2005

Revisiting Brideshead

Self

0.0

2005

Kingdom of Heaven

Tiberias

7.0

2005

Gallipoli

Narrator

7.0

2005

The Merchant of Venice

Antonio

6.8

2004

Being Julia

Michael Gosselyn

6.4

2004

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World

Narrator

6.3

2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Self

7.0

2003

Callas Forever

Larry Kelly

6.3

2002

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

Valentin Valentin

5.6

2002

Last Call

F. Scott Fitzgerald

5.7

2002

Ohio Impromptu

Reader / Listener

8.5

2002

The Time Machine

Über-Morlock

6.3

2002

The Fourth Angel

Jack Elgin

5.1

2001

Dungeons & Dragons

Profion

4.4

2000

Longitude

Rupert Gould

7.3

2000

Faeries

The Shapeshifter (voice)

5.8

1999

The Man in the Iron Mask

Aramis

6.6

1998

Chinese Box

John

5.9

1997

Lolita

Humbert Humbert

7.1

1997

Stealing Beauty

Alex Parrish

6.7

1996

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Self

8.6

1995

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Simon

7.3

1995

A Night to Die For

Self

0.0

1995

The Lion King

Scar (voice)

8.3

1994

The House of the Spirits

Esteban Trueba

6.9

1993

M. Butterfly

René Gallimard

6.6

1993

Damage

Dr. Stephen Fleming

6.6

1992

Tales from Hollywood

Odon Von Horvath

1.0

1992

Waterland

Tom Crick

6.2

1992

Kafka

6.4

1991

The Beggar's Opera

Prisoner

6.0

1991

Reversal of Fortune

Claus von Bülow

6.6

1990

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

Self

6.0

1990

Australia

Edouard Pierson

4.4

1989

A Chorus of Disapproval

Guy Jones

5.2

1989

Danny the Champion of the World

William Smith

6.2

1989

Dead Ringers

Beverly / Elliot Mantle

7.1

1988

The Mission

Father Gabriel

7.4

1986

The Wild Duck

Harold

6.7

1984

Swann in Love

Charles Swann

5.7

1984

Betrayal

Jerry

6.0

1983

Moonlighting

Nowak

7.0

1982

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Charles Henry Smithson / Mike

6.4

1981

Nijinsky

Mikhail Fokine

5.3

1980

The Voysey Inheritance

Edward Voysey

0.0

1979

Langrishe, Go Down

Otto Beck

4.2

Rodolfo Gucci

6.6

2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Alfred

8.1

2021

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

Lawrence Philips

6.0

2020

Jade Eyed Leopard

Narrator (voice)

0.0

2020

The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders

Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

7.0

2019

Red Sparrow

Vladimir Korchnoi

6.5

2018

Broadway: The Next Generation

Self

2003

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

Traveller (archived audio)

0.0

An Actor Prepares

Atticus

5.7

2018

Better Start Running

Garrison

Self

0.0

2010

Reader (voice)

6.7

1992

'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe

Narrator

0.0

1991

The Dream

8.7

1989

The Statue of Liberty

Self (voice)

6.7

1985

Night of 100 Stars II

Self

8.0

1985

The Well of Saint Nobody

William

0.0

Encore

Nigel

0.0

The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl

Self

0.0

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

Self · (3 episodes)

8.0

2023

The Pentaverate

Jeremy Irons · (6 episodes)

5.9

2022

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

Self

0.0

2021

Watchmen

Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias · (9 episodes)

7.7

2019

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Self · (1 episode)

6.9

2015

Metropolis

(5 episodes)

2.0

2015

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self · (2 episodes)

5.5

2014

Racing Legends

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

2012

The Hollow Crown

Henry IV · (2 episodes)

7.4

2012

Shakespeare Uncovered

Himself · (1 episode)

6.0

2012

Prohibition

Reader (voice) · (3 episodes)

7.9

2011

The Borgias

Rodrigo Borgia · (29 episodes)

7.6

2011

The Colour of Magic

Patrician · (2 episodes)

6.7

2008

The One Show

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

4.6

2006

Elizabeth I

Earl of Leicester · (2 episodes)

7.2

2005

Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)

Tiberias

8.0

2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Self · (1 episode)

6.8

2005

Who Do You Think You Are?

Self · (1 episode)

6.6

2004

Longitude

Rupert Gould · (2 episodes)

7.0

2000

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Dr. Cap Jackson · (2 episodes)

7.9

1999

The View

Self · (3 episodes)

4.4

1997

E! True Hollywood Story

(1 episode)

8.0

1996

Inside the Actors Studio

Self · (1 episode)

7.4

1994

The Making of the Lion King

Self

10.0

1994

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Self (archive footage)

7.0

1994

Brisant

Self · (1 episode)

5.5

1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

7.1

1993

HBO First Look

(1 episode)

4.9

1992

Performance

Odon Von Horvath · (1 episode)

6.0

1991

The Civil War

Various · (9 episodes)

8.1

1990

The Simpsons

Bar Rag (voice) · (1 episode)

8.0

1989

Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special

Self

6.0

1988

Comic Relief

(1 episode)

6.0

1988

The Making of Dead Ringers

Self - Actor

8.0

1988

Daytime Live

(1 episode)

3.5

1987

Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Narrator (voice)

0.0

1986

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

Self

6.7

1986

Nature

Narrator · (1 episode)

8.1

1982

Brideshead Revisited

Charles Ryder · (11 episodes)

7.9

1981

Wetten, dass..?

Self · (1 episode)

5.5

1981

Love for Lydia

Alex Sanderson · (13 episodes)

0.0

1977

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host · (1 episode)

6.9

1975

Notorious Woman

Franz Liszt · (7 episodes)

5.0

1974

The Pallisers

Frank Tregear · (26 episodes)

6.7

1974

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Nephew · (1 episode)

7.3

1971

Great Performances

Self · (1 episode)

5.2

1971

BBC Play of the Month

Edward Voysey · (1 episode)

5.0

1965

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self · (1 episode)

7.4

1962

Tony Awards

Self - Host · (1 episode)

5.0

1956

The Oscars

Self · (4 episodes)

7.0

1953

The Count of Monte Cristo

Abbé Faria · (8 episodes)

0.0