Jeremy Irons [16940]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 3.1095
Birthplace: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Birthday: 1948-09-19
Age: 76 years
Movies: 148
Links: Homepage, IMDB
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.

The Lion King at
2025-02-06
Alec Guinness: A
2024-09-03
Wild Transylvani
2024-03-14
Quintessentially
2024-03-12
The Immortals: T
2024-02-13
The Beekeeper
2024-01-08
Codice Carla
2023-11-13
The Cello
2023-09-14
Making The Flash
2023-08-29
The Flash
2023-06-13
Once Upon a Stud
2023-09-24
Seeing Through t
2023-05-26
Tom Hanks: The N
2023-05-20
Prisoners of Our
2022-12-16
Franco Zeffirell
2022-08-31
Eye of the Leopa
2022-02-02
Eternal Enemies:
2022-02-02
Relentless Enemi
2022-02-01
Ultimate Enemies
2022-02-01
Living With Big
2022-01-31
The Way of the C
2022-01-30
House of Gucci
2021-11-24
Napoleon: In the
2021-11-08
Marina Cicogna -
2021-10-15
Munich – The E
2021-12-31
Armin Mueller-St
2021-08-02
Architects of An
2021-03-31
Zack Snyder's Ju
2021-03-18
Love, Weddings &
2020-12-04
Jade Eyed Leopar
2020-09-07
The Prado Museum
2019-04-15
An Actor Prepare
2018-08-31
Better Start Run
2018-04-28
Red Sparrow
2018-02-28
Broadway: The Ne
2017-11-16
Justice League
2017-11-15
Birds Like Us
2022-06-30
Assassin's Creed
2016-12-21
The Sultan and t
2016-11-12
Their Finest
2017-02-19
Batman v Superma
2016-03-23
Race
2016-02-19
DC Films Present
2016-01-19
Correspondence
2016-01-14
I Wish For You
2016-01-01
The Man Who Knew
2016-04-08
High-Rise
2015-11-22
The Genius of Ge
2015-09-01
Earthquake On Ev
2015-06-13
Endless Corridor
2014-06-07
Game of Lions
2013-12-01
Muse of Fire
2013-09-26
Goodbye Granadal
2013-06-15
The Wind Gods
2013-04-26
Night Train to L
2013-03-07
Beautiful Creatu
2013-02-13
Trashed
2012-12-13
Another Way Home
2012-11-18
The Words
2012-09-07
Seeds of Freedom
2012-01-01
The Last Lions
2011-02-11
Margin Call
2011-09-28
Harold Pinter:
2010-01-24
The Majestic Pla
2010-01-01
The Power of the
2009-11-12
Georgia O'Keeffe
2009-09-19
Waking Sleeping
2009-09-05
The Chronoscope
2009-07-01
The Pink Panther
2009-02-06
Appaloosa
2008-09-19
1984
2008-05-12
Lynch 2
2007-08-14
J.M.W. Turner: A
2007-01-01
Eragon
2006-12-14
The Secret Polic
2006-10-31
Eye of the Leopa
2006-10-08
Inland Empire
2006-12-06
The Path to Rede
2006-05-23
Relentless Enemi
2006-04-19
Mathilde
2006-01-01
Casanova
2005-12-25
Revisiting Bride
2005-10-15
Kingdom of Heave
2005-05-03
Gallipoli
2005-03-18
Being Julia
2004-09-03
The Merchant of
2004-12-03
Ultimate Enemies
2003-10-01
The Hittites: A
2003-05-09
Broadway: The Go
2003-04-03
Callas Forever
2002-09-18
And Now... Ladie
2002-05-29
Last Call
2002-05-25
Ohio Impromptu
2002-04-02
The Time Machine
2002-03-04
The Short Life o
2001-11-01
The Fourth Angel
2001-08-15
The Making of "D
2001-05-22
Dungeons & Drago
2000-12-08
Longitude
2000-01-02
Faeries
1999-01-23
The Man in the I
1998-03-12
The Lolita Story
1998-01-01
Lolita
1997-09-27
Chinese Box
1997-11-14
Stealing Beauty
1996-03-29
The First 100 Ye
1995-06-05
A Night to Die F
1995-05-18
Die Hard: With a
1995-05-19
The Making of th
1994-06-24
The Lion King
1994-06-15
Sesame Street |
1994-05-18
The House of the
1993-10-21
M. Butterfly
1993-10-01
Damage
1992-12-02
Tales from Holly
1992-10-18
Earth and the Am
1992-10-01
Waterland
1992-08-21
Kafka
1991-11-15
The Beggar's Ope
1991-10-01
'Still Life' at
1991-01-01
Reversal of Fort
1990-10-19
Australia
1989-09-13
Danny and the Di
1989-09-01
A Chorus of Disa
1989-08-18
Danny the Champi
1989-04-29
The Dream
1989-01-01
Dead Ringers
1988-09-23
The Making of De
1988-01-01
Rabbit Ears - Th
1986-09-01
The Mission
1986-09-06
Bugs Bunny/Loone
1986-01-14
The Statue of Li
1985-10-26
Night of 100 Sta
1985-03-10
The Wild Duck
1984-03-05
Swann in Love
1984-02-23
Betrayal
1983-02-19
The Captain's Do
1983-02-11
Moonlighting
1982-09-18
The French Lieut
1981-08-28
Nijinsky
1980-03-20
The Voysey Inher
2014-05-15
Langrishe, Go Do
1978-09-20
Water People: Th
The Crystal Plan
Palestine 36
The Well of Sain
Encore
A Magnificent De