Jeremy Irons
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
205
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
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Morning Show
Great Performances
Saturday Night Live
The One Show
Tony Awards
Wetten, dass..?
The View
Nature
The Beekeeper
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
BBC Play of the Month
The Lion King
The Flash
The Count of Monte Cristo
Brisant
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Kingdom of Heaven
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Justice League
Lolita
The Oscars
Who Do You Think You Are?
Performance
Watchmen
The Borgias
Daytime Live
The Time Machine
HBO First Look
The Hollow Crown
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
BBC2 Play of the Week
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Once Upon a Studio
Assassin's Creed
The Civil War
The Pink Panther 2
Stealing Beauty
The Man in the Iron Mask
Munich – The Edge of War
Beautiful Creatures
Eragon
Brideshead Revisited
Dungeons & Dragons
The House of the Spirits
Margin Call
Danny the Champion of the World
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Damage
The Mission
Red Sparrow
Being Julia
House of Gucci
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Inland Empire
The Path to Redemption
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
The Beekeeper 2
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Making of the Lion King
Race
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Merchant of Venice
Swann in Love
Elizabeth I
Tales from Hollywood
Betrayal
Prohibition
The Colour of Magic
The Wind Gods
Palestine 36
From Time to Time
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Quintessentially Irish
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
The Pentaverate
Correspondence
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Revisiting Brideshead
The Cello
The Dream
Emotional Uncertainties
The Words
Appaloosa
1984
Goodbye Granadaland
Georgia O'Keeffe
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
Dead Ringers
Night Train to Lisbon
Waterland
Callas Forever
The Pallisers
Longitude
Rizana: A Caged Bird
Broadway: The Next Generation
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Earth and the American Dream
The Majestic Plastic Bag
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
A Chorus of Disapproval
Metropolis
Codice Carla
Ohio Impromptu
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Langrishe, Go Down
Last Call
Casanova
High-Rise
Their Finest
Working Shakespeare
The Sultan and the Saint
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
Shakespeare Uncovered
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Comic Relief
Mathilde
Reversal of Fortune
Nijinsky
Chinese Box
The Merchant of Venice
The Wild Duck
Kafka
Love for Lydia
Encore
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Lynch 2
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
E! True Hollywood Story
The Captain's Doll
M. Butterfly
Notorious Woman
Moonlighting
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Australia
Water People: The Story of Us
Faeries
A Night to Die For
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
The Fourth Angel
The Well of Saint Nobody
Highlander
Racing Legends
Muse of Fire
An Actor Prepares
Inside the Actors Studio
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Birds Like Us
Better Start Running
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Trashed
The Voysey Inheritance
The Statue of Liberty
The Genius of George Boole
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Night of 100 Stars II
The Chronoscope
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
Eye of the Leopard
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
The Last Lions
The Beggar's Opera
I Wish For You
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
Gallipoli
The Way of the Cheetah
The Making of Dead Ringers
Longitude
The Crystal Planet
Endless Corridor
Architects of Ancient Arabia
Another Way Home
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
The Power of the Powerless
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
Game of Lions
Eden at the End of the World
Seeds of Freedom
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
The Short Life of Anne Frank
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Earthquake On Everest
Jade Eyed Leopard
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
The Lolita Story
