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Jeremy Irons

Born 1948-09-19
📍 Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

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.

Filmography 198

The Crystal Planet
as Governor Mordokan (voice)
2026
What is dyslexia?
as The Inventor
2026
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
as Narrator
2026
Last Movies
as Self - Narrator
2026
This Ordinary Thing
as Self (voice)
2025
Mara: Rebirth
as Narrator (voice)
2025
Palestine 36
as High Commissioner Wauchope
2025
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
as Self
2025
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Abbé Faria
2025
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
2024
Quintessentially Irish
as Self
2024
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
2024
The Beekeeper
as Wallace Westwyld
2024
Codice Carla
as Self
2023
Once Upon a Studio
as Scar (voice)
2023
The Cello
as Francesco
2023
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
as Self - 'Alfred'
2023
The Flash
as Alfred Pennyworth
2023
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
as Self
2023
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
as Self
2022
The Pentaverate
as Jeremy Irons
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
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
as Narrator
2022
The Way of the Cheetah
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Munich - The Edge of War
as Neville Chamberlain
2021
House of Gucci
as Rodolfo Gucci
2021
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
2021
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
as Self
2021
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
as Self
2021
Architects of Ancient Arabia
as Narrator
2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Alfred
2021
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
as Lawrence Philips
2020
Jade Eyed Leopard
as Narrator (voice)
2020
The Morning Show
as Martin Levy
2019
Watchmen
as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
2019
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2019
An Actor Prepares
as Atticus
2018
Better Start Running
as Garrison
2018
Red Sparrow
as Vladimir Korchnoi
2018
Justice League
as Alfred
2017
Birds Like Us
as Mi (voice)
2017
Their Finest
as Secretary of War
2017
Assassin's Creed
as Alan Rikkin
2016
The Sultan and the Saint
as Narrator
2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity
as G. H. Hardy
2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
as Alfred
2016
Race
as Avery Brundage
2016
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
as Self
2016
Correspondence
as Ed Phoerum
2016
I Wish For You
as Grandfather
2016
High-Rise
as Anthony Royal
2015
The Genius of George Boole
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Earthquake On Everest
as Narrator (voice)
2015
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
as Self
2015
Metropolis
2015
Endless Corridor
as Narrator
2014
The Voysey Inheritance
as Edward Voysey
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
Game of Lions
as Narrator (voice)
2013
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
as Self
2013
The Wind Gods
as Narrator (voice)
2013
Night Train to Lisbon
as Raimund
2013
Beautiful Creatures
as Macon Ravenwood
2013
Racing Legends
as Self
2012
Trashed
as Himself
2012
The Words
as The Old Man
2012
The Hollow Crown
as Henry IV
2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
as Himself
2012
Seeds of Freedom
as Narator
2012
Prohibition
as Reader (voice)
2011
Margin Call
as John Tuld
2011
The Borgias
as Rodrigo Borgia
2011
The Last Lions
as Narrator
2011
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
2010
The Majestic Plastic Bag
as Narrator
2010
The Power of the Powerless
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
2009
Appaloosa
as Randall Bragg
2008
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
as Festival audience member
2008
1984
as Television Voice
2008
The Colour of Magic
as Patrician
2008
Eden at the End of the World
as Narrator
2008
Lynch 2
as Self
2007
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
as Narrator
2007
Eragon
as Brom
2006
Inland Empire
as Kingsley Stewart
2006
Eye of the Leopard
as Narrator
2006
The Path to Redemption
as Self
2006
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
as Narrator (voice)
2006
Mathilde
as Col. De Petris
2006
Casanova
as Pucci
2005
Revisiting Brideshead
as Self
2005
The Merchant of Venice
as Himself
2005
Elizabeth I
as Earl of Leicester
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
as Tiberias
2005
Gallipoli
as Narrator
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
2005
Fiat Croma
as Lead
2005
The Merchant of Venice
as Antonio
2004
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
Being Julia
as Michael Gosselyn
2004
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
as Narrator (voice)
2003
Working Shakespeare
as Host
2003
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
as Readings (Voice)
2003
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
as Narrator
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
as Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")
2003
Callas Forever
as Larry Kelly
2002
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
as Valentin Valentin
2002
Last Call
as F. Scott Fitzgerald
2002
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Ohio Impromptu
as Reader / Listener
2002
The Time Machine
as Über-Morlock
2002
The Short Life of Anne Frank
as Narrator (English version)
2001
The Fourth Angel
as Jack Elgin
2001
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
as Self
2001
Dungeons & Dragons
as Profion
2000
Longitude
as Rupert Gould
2000
Longitude
as Rupert Gould
2000
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Dr. Cap Jackson
1999
Faeries
as The Shapeshifter (voice)
1999
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Aramis
1998
The Lolita Story
as Himself
1998
Chinese Box
as John
1997
Lolita
as Humbert Humbert
1997
The View
as Self
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Stealing Beauty
as Alex Parrish
1996
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
1995
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
as Simon
1995
A Night to Die For
as Self
1995
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
The Making of the Lion King
as Self
1994
The Lion King
as Scar (voice)
1994
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Brisant
as Self
1994
The House of the Spirits
as Esteban Trueba
1993
M. Butterfly
as René Gallimard
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
Damage
as Dr. Stephen Fleming
1992
Tales from Hollywood
as Odon Von Horvath
1992
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
1992
Waterland
as Tom Crick
1992
HBO First Look
1992
From Time to Time
as H.G. Wells
1992
Kafka
as Kafka
1991
Performance
as Odon Von Horvath
1991
The Beggar's Opera
as Prisoner
1991
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
as Narrator
1991
Reversal of Fortune
as Claus von Bülow
1990
The Civil War
as Various
1990
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
as Self (archive footage)
1990
The Simpsons
as Bar Rag (voice)
1989
Australia
as Edouard Pierson
1989
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
as Narrator
1989
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Guy Jones
1989
Danny the Champion of the World
as William Smith
1989
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
as Self
1988
Dead Ringers
as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
1988
The Making of Dead Ringers
as Self - Actor
1988
The Mission
as Father Gabriel
1986
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
as Self
1986
The Statue of Liberty
as Self (voice)
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
The Wild Duck
as Harold
1984
Swann in Love
as Charles Swann
1984
Betrayal
as Jerry
1983
The Captain's Doll
as Captain Alexander Hepburn
1983
Nature
as Narrator
1982
Moonlighting
as Nowak
1982
Brideshead Revisited
as Charles Ryder
1981
The French Lieutenant's Woman
as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
1981
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
Nijinsky
as Mikhail Fokine
1980
Langrishe, Go Down
as Otto Beck
1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Otto Beck
1977
Love for Lydia
as Alex Sanderson
1977
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
Churchill's People
as Samuel Ross
1974
Notorious Woman
as Franz Liszt
1974
The Pallisers
as Frank Tregear
1974
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Nephew
1971
Great Performances
as Self
1971
BBC Play of the Month
as Edward Voysey
1965
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
Rihana
as Julian Miles