Jeremy Irons

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1948-09-19 (75 years old)

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

Also Known As 傑瑞米·艾恩斯, เจเรมี ไอเอินส์, Джереми Айронс, ジェレミー・アイアンズ, 제러미 아이언스, جيرمي أيرونز, Джеремі Айронс

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

Actor

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

as Traveller (archived audio)

Encore

as Nigel

2024
The Beekeeper

as Wallace Westwyld

2023
Codice Carla

as Self

2023
Once Upon a Studio

as Scar (voice)

2023
The Cello

as Francesco

2023
2023
The Flash

as Alfred Pennyworth

2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad

as Self (archive footage)

2023
2022
Birds Like Us

as Mi (voice)

2022
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Eternal Enemies: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Relentless Enemies: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2022
The Way of the Cheetah

as Narrator (voice)

2022
Munich: The Edge of War

as Neville Chamberlain

2022
The Pentaverate

as Jeremy Irons

2021
House of Gucci

as Rodolfo Gucci

2020
2020
Jade Eyed Leopard

as Narrator (voice)

2019
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders

as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

2019
Watchmen

as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias

2018
2018
2018
Red Sparrow

as Vladimir Korchnoi

2017
Justice League

as Alfred Pennyworth

2017
Their Finest

as Secretary of War

2016
Assassin's Creed

as Alan Rikkin

2016
2016
2016
2016
Race

as Avery Brundage

2016
Correspondence

as Ed Phoerum

2016
I Wish For You

as Grandfather

2015
High-Rise

as Anthony Royal

2015
The Genius of George Boole

as Narrator (voice)

2015
Earthquake On Everest

as Narrator (voice)

2014
Endless Corridor

as Narrator

2013
Game of Lions

as Narrator (voice)

2013
Muse of Fire

as Self

2013
The Wind Gods

as Narrator (voice)

2013
2013
Beautiful Creatures

as Macon Ravenwood

2012
Trashed

as Himself

2012
Another Way Home

as Narrator

2012
The Words

as The Old Man

2012
Seeds of Freedom

as Narator

2012
2012
The Hollow Crown

as Henry IV

2012
2011
Margin Call

as John Tuld

2011
The Last Lions

as Narrator

2011
Prohibition

as Reader (voice)

2011
The Borgias

as Rodrigo Borgia

2010
2009
Georgia O'Keeffe

as Alfred Stieglitz

2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

2009
The Chronoscope

as Narrator

2009
The Pink Panther 2

as Avellaneda

2008
Appaloosa

as Randall Bragg

2008
1984

as Television Voice

2008
The Colour of Magic

as Patrician

2007
Lynch 2

as Self

2006
Eragon

as Brom

2006
Inland Empire

as Kingsley Stewart

2006
Eye of the Leopard

as Narrator

2006
Mathilde

as Col. De Petris

2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

2005
Casanova

as Pucci

2005
Kingdom of Heaven

as Tiberias

2005
Gallipoli

as Narrator

2005
Elizabeth I

as Earl of Leicester

2004
2004
Being Julia

as Michael Gosselyn

2002
Callas Forever

as Larry Kelly

2002
2002
Last Call

as F. Scott Fitzgerald

2002
Ohio Impromptu

as Reader / Listener

2002
The Time Machine

as Über-Morlock

2001
The Short Life of Anne Frank

as Narrator (English version)

2001
The Fourth Angel

as Jack Elgin

2000
2000
Longitude

as Rupert Gould

2000
Longitude

as Rupert Gould

1999
Faeries

as The Shapeshifter (voice)

1999
1998
The Lolita Story

as Himself

1997
Chinese Box

as John

1997
Lolita

as Humbert Humbert

1997
The View

as Self

1996
Stealing Beauty

as Alex Parrish

1995
1994
The Lion King

as Scar (voice)

1994
Brisant

as Self

1993
The House of the Spirits

as Esteban Trueba

1993
M. Butterfly

as René Gallimard

1993
1992
Damage

as Dr. Stephen Fleming

1992
Tales from Hollywood

as Odon Von Horvath

1992
1992
Waterland

as Tom Crick

1991
Kafka

as Kafka

1991
The Beggar's Opera

as Prisoner

1991
Performance

as Odon Von Horvath

1990
Reversal of Fortune

as Claus von Bülow

1990
The Civil War

as Various

1989
Australia

as Edouard Pierson

1989
1989
1989
The Simpsons

as Bar Rag (voice)

1988
Dead Ringers

as Beverly / Elliot Mantle

1988
1986
The Mission

as Father Gabriel

1985
The Statue of Liberty

as Self (voice)

1984
The Wild Duck

as Harold

1984
Swann in Love

as Charles Swann

1983
Betrayal

as Jerry

1982
Moonlighting

as Nowak

1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman

as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike

1981
Brideshead Revisited

as Charles Ryder

1981
1980
Nijinsky

as Mikhail Fokine

1979
The Voysey Inheritance

as Edward Voysey

1978
Langrishe, Go Down

as Otto Beck

1977
Love for Lydia

as Alex Sanderson

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1974
Notorious Woman

as Franz Liszt

1974
The Pallisers

as Frank Tregear

1971
1965
BBC Play of the Month

as Edward Voysey

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Host

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Producer

2021
Nepal Beyond

as Executive Producer