Jeremy Irons
Acting
🎂 1948-09-19
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.
Cast credits(203)
Self
2005
Self
2014
Self
1962
Bar Rag (voice)
1989
Dr. Cap Jackson
1999
Self
1997
Narrator
1982
Self
1981
Self - Guest
1993
Self
1971
Self
2015
1992
Edward Voysey
1965
Self
2004
Martin Levy
2019
Self - Host
1975
Self - Host
1956
Self
1953
Rodrigo Borgia
2011
Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
2019
Nephew
1971
1988
Self - Guest
2006
Odon Von Horvath
1991
Otto Beck
1977
Abbé Faria
2025
Jeremy Irons
2022
Henry IV
2012
Various
1990
Charles Ryder
1981
Reader (voice)
2011
Wallace Westwyld
2024
Scar (voice)
1994
Alfred Pennyworth
2023
Frank Tregear
1974
Alfred
2016
Self
2023
Patrician
2008
Tiberias
2005
Alfred
2021
Alfred Pennyworth
2017
Self
2012
Humbert Humbert
1997
Alex Sanderson
1977
1987
1996
2015
Simon
1995
Franz Liszt
1974
John Tuld
2011
Self
1994
Vladimir Korchnoi
2018
Rodolfo Gucci
2021
Aramis
1998
Alan Rikkin
2016
Self
1994
Host
2003
Über-Morlock
2002
Dr. Stephen Fleming
1992
Brom
2006
Scar (voice)
2023
Self
2025
Esteban Trueba
1993
Father Gabriel
1986
G. H. Hardy
2016
Avellaneda
2009
Alex Parrish
1996
The Old Man
2012
Avery Brundage
2016
Kingsley Stewart
2006
Rupert Gould
2000
Macon Ravenwood
2013
Earl of Leicester
2005
Anthony Royal
2015
Self (archive footage)
2023
Profion
2000
Neville Chamberlain
2021
Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
1981
Pucci
2005
Claus von Bülow
1990
Antonio
2004
Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
1988
Randall Bragg
2008
Self (archive footage)
2009
Himself
2012
Secretary of War
2017
Lawrence Philips
2020
Jack Elgin
2001
2002
Raimund
2013
René Gallimard
1993
Rupert Gould
2000
Kafka
1991
Michael Gosselyn
2004
Self
1985
Charles Swann
1984
Ed Phoerum
2016
Nowak
1982
Self
2016
Self (archive footage)
1994
Alfred Stieglitz
2009
Self
1994
Readings (Voice)
2003
Self
2013
John
1997
Larry Kelly
2002
Himself
2012
Atticus
2018
Francesco
2023
Self
2006
Mi (voice)
2022
Self (voice)
1985
Self - 'Alfred'
2023
Self
2010
Self
2017
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2019
Self
1995
Narrator
2006
Self
2003
Narrator (voice)
2015
Mikhail Fokine
1980
Tom Crick
1992
Valentin Valentin
2002
Narrator (voice)
2022
Jerry
1983
William Smith
1989
The Shapeshifter (voice)
1999
Reader (voice)
1992
Narrator (voice)
2022
Narrator
2011
Odon Von Horvath
1992
Self
2006
Narrator (voice)
2020
Self
1990
Self
2007
Edward Voysey
2014
Self
2022
Narrator (voice)
2006
Narrator
2005
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2002
Self
1995
Prisoner
1991
Garrison
2018
Self
1986
Col. De Petris
2006
Television Voice
2008
Self
2024
Self
2021
Self
1988
William
Guy Jones
1989
Himself
2021
self
2024
Edouard Pierson
1989
Otto Beck
1978
Self
2005
Harold
1984
Self
2023
Narrator (English version)
2001
Narrator (voice)
2015
Narrator (voice)
2022
Governor Mordokan (voice)
2009
1989
Narrator
2003
Narrator (voice)
2013
Narator
2012
Self
2001
Narrator
2016
Narrator (voice)
2022
Nigel
Narrator
2014
Self
2015
Narrator
1991
Narrator (voice)
2022
Traveller (archived audio)
2023
Narrator
2021
2021
Narrator (voice)
2003
Self - Actor
1988
Grandfather
2016
Captain Alexander Hepburn
1983
Narrator
2009
Himself
2005
2024
Self
2013
Narrator
2008
Narrator
1989
Narrator
2010
Narrator
2012
Narrator
2024
Narrator (voice)
2013
Self
2013
Self (archive footage)
2022
Narrator
2007
Reader / Listener
2002
Himself
1998
Narrator
2022
Narrator (voice)
1986
Professor Julian Miles
The Ocean (voice)
