Jeremy Irons
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
208
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
Saturday Night Live
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The View
Great Performances
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Morning Show
The Lion King
Wetten, dass..?
The Count of Monte Cristo
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Lolita
The Oscars
Nature
The Flash
Zack Snyder's Justice League
BBC Play of the Month
Kingdom of Heaven
The Beekeeper
HBO First Look
Being Julia
The Hollow Crown
Justice League
Damage
Watchmen
Mathilde
Performance
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Borgias
Reversal of Fortune
Revisiting Brideshead
The Civil War
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Ohio Impromptu
Eragon
BBC2 Play of the Week
M. Butterfly
The Beggar's Opera
The Wild Duck
The House of the Spirits
Faeries
Red Sparrow
Australia
Chinese Box
Highlander
Margin Call
Encore
Langrishe, Go Down
Casanova
Waterland
Longitude
Last Call
The Colour of Magic
Moonlighting
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Time Machine
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
The Merchant of Venice
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Kafka
Lynch 2
Dead Ringers
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Muse of Fire
Danny the Champion of the World
Nijinsky
Assassin's Creed
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
An Actor Prepares
Georgia O'Keeffe
Palestine 36
Dungeons & Dragons
Brisant
Prohibition
The Making of the Lion King
House of Gucci
Brideshead Revisited
The Mission
Daytime Live
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Inland Empire
The Words
1984
Once Upon a Studio
Birds Like Us
The Merchant of Venice
Elizabeth I
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Beekeeper 2
The Pentaverate
Rizana: A Caged Bird
Race
Churchill's People
The Wind Gods
Working Shakespeare
High-Rise
The Pink Panther 2
Beautiful Creatures
Stealing Beauty
The Pallisers
Betrayal
Longitude
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Appaloosa
Their Finest
Comic Relief
The Chronoscope
Munich – The Edge of War
Night Train to Lisbon
The Dream
Metropolis
E! True Hollywood Story
Correspondence
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
Night of 100 Stars II
Trashed
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
Swann in Love
Endless Corridor
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Inside the Actors Studio
The Fourth Angel
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Broadway: The Next Generation
Better Start Running
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Gallipoli
I Wish For You
Callas Forever
The Majestic Plastic Bag
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Racing Legends
Shakespeare Uncovered
A Night to Die For
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Love for Lydia
Notorious Woman
The Path to Redemption
This Ordinary Thing
A Chorus of Disapproval
The Cello
Heart of the Festival
Earth and the American Dream
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
Eden at the End of the World
Quintessentially Irish
Game of Lions
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
The Way of the Cheetah
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
Jade Eyed Leopard
From Time to Time
The Last Lions
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Emotional Uncertainties
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
The Short Life of Anne Frank
The Well of Saint Nobody
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
The Making of Dead Ringers
Water People: The Story of Us
The Genius of George Boole
The Voysey Inheritance
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
The Crystal Planet
The Statue of Liberty
The Power of the Powerless
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
Tales from Hollywood
The Captain's Doll
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Codice Carla
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
Earthquake On Everest
Architects of Ancient Arabia
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
Eye of the Leopard
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
The Lolita Story
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Goodbye Granadaland
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
Fiat Croma
Another Way Home
The Sultan and the Saint
Seeds of Freedom
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
