Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

75 · Born: Sep 19, 1948

Personal Details

Born Sep 19, 1948 Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Spouse
  • Sinéad Cusack

    ( Mar 28, 1978 to Mar 28, 2024 )
  • Julie Hallam

    ( Dec 31, 1969 to Dec 31, 1969 )
Parents
  • Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe)
  • Paul Dugan 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.

Career

2024
The Beekeeper
The Beekeeper as Wallace Westwyld
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2023
The Flash
The Flash as Alfred Pennyworth
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The Cello
The Cello
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2022
Birds Like Us
Birds Like Us as Mi (voice)
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Munich: The Edge of War
Munich: The Edge of War as Neville Chamberlain
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The Pentaverate
The Pentaverate as Jeremy Irons
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2021
House of Gucci
House of Gucci as Rodolfo Gucci
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Zack Snyder's Justice League as Alfred Pennyworth
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2020
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters as Lawrence Philips
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2019
Watchmen
Watchmen as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
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2018
An Actor Prepares
An Actor Prepares as Atticus
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Red Sparrow
Red Sparrow as Vladimir Korchnoi
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Better Start Running
Better Start Running as Garrison
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2017
Justice League
Justice League as Alfred Pennyworth
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2016
The Sultan and the Saint
The Sultan and the Saint as Narrator
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Correspondence
Correspondence as Ed Phoerum
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Alfred Pennyworth
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Race
Race as Avery Brundage
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Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed as Alan Rikkin
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2015
High-Rise
High-Rise as Anthony Royal
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The Genius of George Boole
The Genius of George Boole as Narrator (voice)
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Man Who Knew Infinity as G. H. Hardy
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The Day Everest Shook
The Day Everest Shook as Narrator (voice)
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Metropolis
Metropolis
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2014
Endless Corridor
Endless Corridor as Narrator
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2013
The Wind Gods
The Wind Gods as Narrator
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Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon as Raimund
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Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures as Macon Ravenwood
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2012
The Words
The Words as The Old Man
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Seeds of Freedom
Seeds of Freedom as Narator
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The Hollow Crown
The Hollow Crown as Henry IV
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2011
The Last Lions
The Last Lions as Narrator
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Margin Call
Margin Call as John Tuld
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The Borgias
The Borgias as Rodrigo Borgia
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Prohibition
Prohibition as Reader (voice)
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons
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2010
The Majestic Plastic Bag
The Majestic Plastic Bag as Narrator
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Cap Jackson
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2009
The Power of the Powerless
The Chronoscope
The Chronoscope as Narrator
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The Pink Panther 2
The Pink Panther 2 as Avellaneda
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe as Alfred Stieglitz
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2008
Appaloosa
Appaloosa as Randall Bragg
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1984
1984 as Television Voice
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The Colour of Magic
The Colour of Magic as Patrician
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2006
Inland Empire
Inland Empire as Kingsley Stewart
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Relentless Enemies
Relentless Enemies as Narrator
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Eragon
Eragon as Brom
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Eye of the Leopard
Eye of the Leopard as Narrator
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2005
Gelibolu
Gelibolu as Narrator
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Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven as Tiberias
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Predators at War
Predators at War as Narrator
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Casanova
Casanova as Pucci
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I as Earl of Leicester
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2004
Being Julia
Being Julia as Michael Gosselyn
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice as Antonio
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2003
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions as Narrator (voice)
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Hititler
Hititler as Narrator
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2002
Callas Forever
Callas Forever as Larry Kelly
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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... as Valentin Valentin
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Last Call
Last Call as F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ohio Impromptu
Ohio Impromptu as Reader / Listener
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine as Über-Morlock
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2001
The Brief Life of Anne Frank
The Brief Life of Anne Frank as Narrator (English version)
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The Fourth Angel
The Fourth Angel as Jack Elgin
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2000
Longitude
Longitude as Rupert Gould
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Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons as Profion
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1999
Faeries
Faeries as The Shapeshifter (voice)
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1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask as Aramis
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1997
Lolita
Lolita as Humbert Humbert
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Chinese Box
Chinese Box as John
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1996
Stealing Beauty
Stealing Beauty as Alex Parrish
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1995
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance as Simon
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1994
The Lion King
The Lion King as Scar (voice)
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1993
M. Butterfly
M. Butterfly as René Gallimard
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The House of the Spirits
The House of the Spirits as Esteban Trueba
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1992
Waterland
Waterland as Tom Crick
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Damage
Damage as Dr. Stephen Fleming
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Earth and the American Dream
Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
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Performance
Performance as Odon Von Horvath
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1991
Kafka
Kafka as Kafka
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'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe as Introduction Narrator
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1990
Reversal of Fortune
Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow
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The Civil War
The Civil War as Various
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1989
Australia
Australia as Edouard Pierson
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Everyman
Everyman
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Danny the Champion of the World
Danny the Champion of the World as William Smith
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A Chorus of Disapproval
A Chorus of Disapproval as Guy Jones
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1988
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers as Beverly / Elliot Mantle
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1986
The Mission
The Mission as Father Gabriel
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Kate Bush: The Whole Story
Kate Bush: The Whole Story as Guest (clip 'The Big Sky')
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1984
Swann in Love
Swann in Love as Charles Swann
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The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck as Harold
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1983
Betrayal
Betrayal as Jerry
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1982
Moonlighting
Moonlighting as Nowak
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1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited as Charles Ryder
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1980
Nijinsky
Nijinsky as Mikhail Fokine
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1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
BBC2 Play of the Week as Otto Beck
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1977
Love for Lydia
Love for Lydia as Alex Sanderson
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1974
The Pallisers
The Pallisers as Frank Tregear
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Notorious Woman
Notorious Woman as Franz Liszt
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2024
Quintessentially Irish
2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2019
2018
Sam Spiegel: Conquering Hollywood
2014
Racing Legends
Racing Legends
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2012
Trashed
Trashed
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2007
Lynch2
Lynch2
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2005
Revisiting Brideshead
1995
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
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1994
The Making of the Lion King
1990
Sing Yourself Silly!
1985
The Statue of Liberty
1982
Great Performances