Jeremy Irons
Acting
🎂 1948-09-19
Jeremy John Irons 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.
Cast credits(203)
Dr. Cap Jackson
1999
Bar Rag (voice)
1989
Self
1962
Self
2014
Self - Host
1975
Self - Guest
2006
Martin Levy
2019
Self - Host
1956
Alfred
2016
Scar (voice)
1994
Wallace Westwyld
2024
Self
1971
John Tuld
2011
Alfred
2021
Self
2005
Self
1997
Abbé Faria
2025
Narrator
1982
Edward Voysey
1965
Alfred
2017
Self
1981
Alfred Pennyworth
2023
Humbert Humbert
1997
Self - Guest
1993
Tiberias
2005
Simon
1995
Self
1953
Odon Von Horvath
1991
Rodrigo Borgia
2011
Self
2004
Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
2019
Alan Rikkin
2016
1987
Vladimir Korchnoi
2018
1992
Dr. Stephen Fleming
1992
Henry IV
2012
Brom
2006
Nephew
1971
Otto Beck
1977
Aramis
1998
Scar (voice)
2023
Über-Morlock
2002
Self (archive footage)
2002
Reader (voice)
1992
Self
1994
Self (archive footage)
2009
Profion
2000
Esteban Trueba
1993
Self
1990
Rodolfo Gucci
2021
Patrician
2008
Kingsley Stewart
2006
Himself
1998
Avellaneda
2009
Self
2015
Charles Ryder
1981
Various
1990
Self
2025
Macon Ravenwood
2013
Alex Parrish
1996
Father Gabriel
1986
Rupert Gould
2000
Reader (voice)
2011
Randall Bragg
2008
G. H. Hardy
2016
Anthony Royal
2015
Avery Brundage
2016
Jeremy Irons
2022
Television Voice
2008
Francesco
2023
Pucci
2005
Charles Swann
1984
Claus von Bülow
1990
The Old Man
2012
Earl of Leicester
2005
The Shapeshifter (voice)
1999
Self
2024
Raimund
2013
Self
2007
Neville Chamberlain
2021
Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
1981
2025
Larry Kelly
2002
René Gallimard
1993
Kafka
1991
John
1997
Antonio
2004
Captain Alexander Hepburn
1983
Self (archive footage)
2022
self
2024
Self (archive footage)
1994
Narrator (voice)
2022
1988
Garrison
2018
Ed Phoerum
2016
Michael Gosselyn
2004
Self
2017
Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
1988
Tom Crick
1992
Lawrence Philips
2020
Self (voice)
1985
Self
2006
Self
2006
Mi (voice)
2022
Narrator (voice)
2022
Narrator (voice)
2022
Self - 'Alfred'
2023
Self
1995
Self
2005
Secretary of War
2017
Harold
1984
Self
2010
Self
2016
Self
1988
Odon Von Horvath
1992
Guy Jones
1989
Self
1995
Jack Elgin
2001
Self
2003
Narrator
2006
Valentin Valentin
2002
Col. De Petris
2006
Reader / Listener
2002
Narrator (voice)
2006
Narrator
2003
Nowak
1982
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2002
Narrator
2014
Atticus
2018
Self
2023
Himself
2012
Self
2023
Narrator
2016
Narrator (voice)
2022
Frank Tregear
1974
Host
2003
Prisoner
1991
Self
2022
Himself
2005
Self
1985
Narrator (voice)
2015
Edward Voysey
2014
Self
2013
Mikhail Fokine
1980
2015
1989
Narrator (English version)
2001
Narrator (voice)
2022
Self
1986
Nigel
Rupert Gould
2000
Professor Julian Miles
Narrator
2011
Otto Beck
1978
Alfred Stieglitz
2009
Franz Liszt
1974
Edouard Pierson
1989
Narrator
2022
Self
1994
1996
Self
2021
Governor Mordokan (voice)
William Smith
1989
Self
1994
Alex Sanderson
1977
Self (archive footage)
2023
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2019
Narrator (voice)
2013
Narrator (voice)
2020
Narator
2012
Self
2013
Self
2001
Narrator
1991
Himself
2012
Himself
2021
Jerry
1983
Narrator
2021
Self
2013
Self - Actor
1988
Self
2012
Traveller (archived audio)
2023
The Ocean (voice)
2024
Narrator
2010
Readings (Voice)
2003
Narrator (voice)
1986
Narrator (voice)
2003
Self
2015
Narrator
2005
Narrator (voice)
2013
Narrator (voice)
2015
William
2021
Narrator
2012
Grandfather
2016
Narrator
2007
2009
Narrator
2024
Narrator
1989
Narrator
2008
Narrator
2009
