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Jonathan Pryce

Born 1947-06-01

📍 Carmel, Flintshire, Wales, UK

Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the 2019 film "The Two Popes."

After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his long time partner, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's "Hamlet", led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film "Brazil". Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has participated in big-budget films such as "Evita", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The New World", as well as independent projects such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Carrington". His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in "Comedians", the second for his 1991 role as "The Engineer" in the musical "Miss Saigon".

Filmography 160

Under Salt Marsh

as Solomon Bevan

World of Westeros Ambient Video

as High Sparrow

The Thursday Murder Club

The Penguin Lessons

as Headmaster Buckle

as Attinghausen

as Martin Blake

Soul of the Ocean

as Narrator (voice)

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

as Jacob Marley (voice)

The Spirit of 1926

The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking

as Self - Narrator

All the Old Knives

as Bill Compton

The Witness is a Whale

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as David Cartwright

Save the Cinema

Tales from the Loop

as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis

He Dreams of Giants

Piney: The Lonesome Pine

as Benny Landau

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

The Man Who Invented Christmas

as Mr. John Dickens

as Joe Castleman

Becoming Cary Grant

as Cary Grant (voice)

as Raymond Heacock

as Stuart Strange

To Walk Invisible

as Patrick Brontë

as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance

as Special Finale Guest Star

The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

as Colonel Fitz

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

Documentary Now!

as Owen Teale-Griffith

as Chief Justice Rehnquist

Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life

as Cardinal Wolsey

Listen Up Philip

as Mayor Nathan Keane

Under Milk Wood

The Ghost and the Whale

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

as U.S. President

as Harry Fletcher

Patience (After Sebald)

The Story of Musicals

Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching

as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)

as Dr. Robert Dalrymple

Game of Thrones

as High Sparrow

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

as U.S. President

Echelon Conspiracy

Bedtime Stories

as Marty Bronson

as Dr Victor Blenkinsop

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

as Ian Fleming (voice)

What Is Brazil?

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

as Self / Horatio Jackson

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

as Governor Weatherby Swann

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

as Sherlock Holmes

The Moon and the Stars

as James Clavel / Scarpia

Brothers of the Head

as Henry Couling

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

as Governor Weatherby Swann

The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life

The Brothers Grimm

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)

Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane

David Bowie - Sound and Vision

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

as Governor Weatherby Swann

What a Girl Wants

as Alistair Payne

as Supreme Being

Unconditional Love

as The Quicksand Man (voice)

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

as Master Schoemacker

The Affair of the Necklace

as Cardinal Louis de Rohan

Victoria & Albert

as King Leopold I of Belgium

Bride of the Wind

as Gustav Mahler

Very Annie Mary

The Suicide Club

as Cardinal Daniel Houseman

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Titanic: Answers From The Abyss

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer

as Seamus O'Rourke

Highly Classified: The World of 007

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Elliot Carver

The Secrets of 007

as Capt. William Rivers

A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'

as Lytton Strachey

A Troll in Central Park

as Alan (voice)

Great Moments in Aviation

as Duncan Stewart

as Dr. Ted Philips

A Business Affair

The Age of Innocence

Thicker Than Water

as Gerd Heidemann

Barbarians at the Gate

as Henry Kravis

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

Glengarry Glen Ross

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

as Trilby (voice)

A Child's Garden of Verses

as Narrator / Father (voice)

as Gerd Heidemann

The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon

as Self - 'The Engineer'

The Rachel Papers

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The Storyteller

The World Within Us

Consuming Passions

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Haunted Honeymoon

as Charles Abbot

The Doctor and the Devils

as Robert Fallon

An Audience with Mel Brooks

as Self (uncredited)

Martin Luther, Heretic

as Martin Luther

The Ploughman's Lunch

as James Penfield

Something Wicked This Way Comes

as Christian Magny

as Mr. Ellsworthy

as Christian Magny

Timon of Athens

The Day Christ Died

as Gethin Price

For Tea on Sunday

An Audience with...

BBC2 Play of the Week

Voyage of the Damned

as Joseph Manasse

The Death of a Young Young Man

Great Performances

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Police Constable

as Self - Winner

as Self - Winner / Performer

as Self - Presenter