Jeremy Irons
Actor

Jeremy Irons

13 Movies
1 TV Shows
14 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 14
Birthday September 19, 1948 (77 years old)
Place of Birth Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
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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 BΓΌlow 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.

Filmography (211)

The Beekeeper 2 2027
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom 2026
The Crystal Planet 2026
Last Movies 2026
What is dyslexia? 2026
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl 2025
Palestine 36 2025
This Ordinary Thing 2025
The Count of Monte Cristo 2025
Mara: Rebirth 2025
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio 2024
The Beekeeper 2024
Quintessentially Irish 2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act 2024
The Cello 2023
The Flash 2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad 2023
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide 2023
Once Upon a Studio 2023
Codice Carla 2023
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled 2023
The Way of the Cheetah 2022
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed 2022
Relentless Enemies: Revealed 2022
Eternal Enemies: Revealed 2022
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed 2022
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland JoffΓ© 2022
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist 2022
Living With Big Cats: Revealed 2022
The Pentaverate 2022
Architects of Ancient Arabia 2021
Napoleon: In the Name of Art 2021
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto 2021
Munich - The Edge of War 2021
House of Gucci 2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League 2021
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood 2021
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters 2020
Jade Eyed Leopard 2020
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders 2019
Watchmen 2019
The Morning Show 2019
Red Sparrow 2018
An Actor Prepares 2018
Better Start Running 2018
Justice League 2017
Their Finest 2017
Birds Like Us 2017
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
I Wish For You 2016
Correspondence 2016
Race 2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity 2016
Assassin's Creed 2016
The Sultan and the Saint 2016
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League 2016
Earthquake On Everest 2015
High-Rise 2015
The Genius of George Boole 2015
Emotional Uncertainties 2015
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson 2015
Metropolis 2015
The Voysey Inheritance 2014
Endless Corridor 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014
Game of Lions 2013
Goodbye Granadaland 2013
Beautiful Creatures 2013
Night Train to Lisbon 2013
Muse of Fire 2013
The Wind Gods 2013
The Sunflower Superjam 2012 2013
The Words 2012
Trashed 2012
Another Way Home 2012
Seeds of Freedom 2012
Shakespeare Uncovered 2012
Racing Legends 2012
The Hollow Crown 2012
Margin Call 2011
The Last Lions 2011
The Borgias 2011
Prohibition 2011
The Majestic Plastic Bag 2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration 2010
The Pink Panther 2 2009
Georgia O'Keeffe 2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009
The Chronoscope 2009
The Power of the Powerless 2009
Appaloosa 2008
1984 2008
Eden at the End of the World 2008
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music 2008
The Colour of Magic 2008
Lynch 2 2007
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation 2007
Inland Empire 2006
Eragon 2006
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall 2006
Eye of the Leopard 2006
Mathilde 2006
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo 2006
The Path to Redemption 2006
Kingdom of Heaven 2005
Casanova 2005
Gallipoli 2005
Revisiting Brideshead 2005
Fiat Croma 2005
Elizabeth I 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2005
The Merchant of Venice 2004
Being Julia 2004
Who Do You Think You Are? 2004
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World 2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions 2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film 2003
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites 2003
Working Shakespeare 2003
The Time Machine 2002
Callas Forever 2002
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... 2002
Ohio Impromptu 2002
Last Call 2002
Heart of the Festival 2002
The Fourth Angel 2001
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons" 2001
The Short Life of Anne Frank 2001
Dungeons & Dragons 2000
Longitude 2000
Longitude 2000
Faeries 1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999
The Man in the Iron Mask 1998
The Lolita Story 1998
Chinese Box 1997
Lolita 1997
The View 1997
Stealing Beauty 1996
E! True Hollywood Story 1996
Die Hard: With a Vengeance 1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies 1995
A Night to Die For 1995
The Lion King 1994
The Making of the Lion King 1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! 1994
Inside the Actors Studio 1994
Brisant 1994
M. Butterfly 1993
The House of the Spirits 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien 1993
Damage 1992
Waterland 1992
Tales from Hollywood 1992
Earth and the American Dream 1992
From Time to Time 1992
HBO First Look 1992
Kafka 1991
The Beggar's Opera 1991
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe 1991
Performance 1991
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! 1990
Reversal of Fortune 1990
The Civil War 1990
Danny the Champion of the World 1989
A Chorus of Disapproval 1989
Australia 1989
The Dream 1989
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World' 1989
The Simpsons 1989
Dead Ringers 1988
The Making of Dead Ringers 1988
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie 1988
Comic Relief 1988
Daytime Live 1987
The Mission 1986
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary 1986
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier 1986
Night of 100 Stars II 1985
The Statue of Liberty 1985
Swann in Love 1984
The Wild Duck 1984
Betrayal 1983
The Captain's Doll 1983
Moonlighting 1982
Nature 1982
The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981
Brideshead Revisited 1981
Wetten, dass..? 1981
Nijinsky 1980
Langrishe, Go Down 1978
Love for Lydia 1977
BBC2 Play of the Week 1977
Saturday Night Live 1975
Churchill's People 1974
The Pallisers 1974
Notorious Woman 1974
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 1971
Great Performances 1971
BBC Play of the Month 1965
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962
Tony Awards 1956
The Oscars 1953
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Broadway: The Next Generation
The Well of Saint Nobody
Encore
Water People: The Story of Us
Highlander
Rihana