Jeremy Irons
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
207
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
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Saturday Night Live
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Morning Show
Nature
Tony Awards
The View
Great Performances
The Beekeeper
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The Count of Monte Cristo
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Flash
The Lion King
Kingdom of Heaven
Zack Snyder's Justice League
BBC Play of the Month
Wetten, dass..?
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
The Borgias
The Oscars
Lolita
Daytime Live
Justice League
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Who Do You Think You Are?
HBO First Look
The Man in the Iron Mask
Watchmen
Eragon
Palestine 36
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Margin Call
Damage
Brisant
Red Sparrow
Performance
The Hollow Crown
The Words
Better Start Running
The Civil War
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Assassin's Creed
BBC2 Play of the Week
Munich – The Edge of War
House of Gucci
Stealing Beauty
The Time Machine
Callas Forever
Quintessentially Irish
Dungeons & Dragons
Correspondence
Dead Ringers
M. Butterfly
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Brideshead Revisited
Highlander
Being Julia
The House of the Spirits
Casanova
Once Upon a Studio
The Dream
The Beekeeper 2
Moonlighting
Night Train to Lisbon
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Beautiful Creatures
The Colour of Magic
The Pink Panther 2
Betrayal
Chinese Box
Revisiting Brideshead
Last Call
Mathilde
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Prohibition
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
The Mission
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
Waterland
The Merchant of Venice
Elizabeth I
Reversal of Fortune
Churchill's People
Australia
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Emotional Uncertainties
This Ordinary Thing
Appaloosa
Inland Empire
Nijinsky
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Swann in Love
The Fourth Angel
Faeries
Race
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Kafka
Lynch 2
The Pentaverate
Broadway: The Next Generation
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
Longitude
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
The Beggar's Opera
Ohio Impromptu
Longitude
The Captain's Doll
1984
The Genius of George Boole
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
The Cello
The Wild Duck
High-Rise
The Pallisers
Earth and the American Dream
Georgia O'Keeffe
Birds Like Us
Muse of Fire
The Voysey Inheritance
The Majestic Plastic Bag
Encore
Tales from Hollywood
The Sultan and the Saint
The Making of the Lion King
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
Danny the Champion of the World
Langrishe, Go Down
Comic Relief
A Chorus of Disapproval
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Working Shakespeare
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
The Statue of Liberty
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
The Wind Gods
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Codice Carla
Rizana: A Caged Bird
Notorious Woman
An Actor Prepares
Metropolis
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
The Path to Redemption
E! True Hollywood Story
Racing Legends
From Time to Time
The Last Lions
The Chronoscope
Water People: The Story of Us
Love for Lydia
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
The Well of Saint Nobody
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Their Finest
Shakespeare Uncovered
The Merchant of Venice
Inside the Actors Studio
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
Eden at the End of the World
The Short Life of Anne Frank
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
Trashed
I Wish For You
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Night of 100 Stars II
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
A Night to Die For
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
The Way of the Cheetah
Gallipoli
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Eye of the Leopard
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
Earthquake On Everest
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
Goodbye Granadaland
Architects of Ancient Arabia
The Lolita Story
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
Endless Corridor
The Crystal Planet
The Power of the Powerless
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
The Making of Dead Ringers
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
Game of Lions
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
Jade Eyed Leopard
Another Way Home
Seeds of Freedom
