Jeremy Irons

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-09-19 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

Jeremy 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...

Acting

1993

M. Butterfly

as René Gallimard

2005

2002

The Time Machine

as Über-Morlock

1993

The House of the Spirits

as Esteban Trueba

2006

Inland Empire

as Kingsley Stewart

1991

Kafka

as Kafka

2007

Lynch 2

as Self

2006

Eragon

as Brom

1992

Damage

as Dr. Stephen Fleming

1997

1986

The Mission

as Father Gabriel

2000

1994

The Lion King

as Scar (voice)

1981

The French Lieutenant's Woman

as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike

1988

Dead Ringers

as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle

1997

Lolita

as Humbert Humbert

2015

Earthquake On Everest

as Narrator (voice)

2008

Appaloosa

as Randall Bragg

2005

Casanova

as Pucci

2023

The Cello

as Francesco

1982

Moonlighting

as Nowak

1996

Stealing Beauty

as Alex Parrish

2009

The Pink Panther 2

as Avellaneda

2013

Game of Lions

as Narrator (voice)

1990

Reversal of Fortune

as Claus von Bülow

2014

The Voysey Inheritance

as Edward Voysey

2002

Callas Forever

as Larry Kelly

2005

Gallipoli

as Narrator

2004

Being Julia

as Michael Gosselyn

2000

Longitude

as Rupert Gould

2011

Margin Call

as John Tuld

2002

2011

The Last Lions

as Narrator

2012

The Words

as The Old Man

2023

The Flash

as Alfred Pennyworth

2001

The Fourth Angel

as Jack Elgin

2022

The Way of the Cheetah

as Narrator (voice)

1978

Langrishe, Go Down

as Otto Beck

2012

Trashed

as Himself

2013

Beautiful Creatures

as Macon Ravenwood

2022

Ultimate Enemies: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2022

Eye of the Leopard: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2022

Eternal Enemies: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2022

Relentless Enemies: Revealed

as Narrator (voice)

2006

1989

2012

Another Way Home

as Narrator

2002

Ohio Impromptu

as Reader / Listener

1992

Waterland

as Tom Crick

2009

Georgia O'Keeffe

as Alfred Stieglitz

1984

Swann in Love

as Charles Swann

2013

1983

Betrayal

as Jerry

2002

Last Call

as F. Scott Fitzgerald

1980

Nijinsky

as Mikhail Fokine

1989

Australia

as Edouard Pierson

2023

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

as Self (archive footage)

1991

1999

Faeries

as The Shapeshifter (voice)

2013

1992

Tales from Hollywood

as Odon Von Horvath

1984

The Wild Duck

as Harold

2006

Mathilde

as Col. De Petris

2023

2023

Once Upon a Studio

as Scar (voice)

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

2015

High-Rise

as Anthony Royal

2008

1984

as Television Voice

2016

I Wish For You

as Grandfather

2023

2016

Correspondence

as Ed Phoerum

2024

The Beekeeper

as Wallace Westwyld

2016

Race

as Avery Brundage

2009

The Chronoscope

as Narrator

2016

2023

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

as Traveller (archived audio)

2015

The Genius of George Boole

as Narrator (voice)

2016

Assassin's Creed

as Alan Rikkin

-

Encore

as Nigel

1985

The Statue of Liberty

as Self (voice)

2014

Endless Corridor

as Narrator

2013

The Wind Gods

as Narrator (voice)

2017

2017

Their Finest

as Secretary of War

2018

Red Sparrow

as Vladimir Korchnoi

2018

2022

Birds Like Us

as Mi (voice)

2018

1998

1988

2001

The Short Life of Anne Frank

as Narrator (English version)

2019

The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders

as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

2020

2012

1992

2021

Munich – The Edge of War

as Neville Chamberlain

2021

House of Gucci

as Rodolfo Gucci

2020

Jade Eyed Leopard

as Narrator (voice)

1983

The Captain's Doll

as Captain Alexander Hepburn

-

The Crystal Planet

as Governor Mordokan (voice)

-

Water People: The Story of Us

as The Ocean (voice)

-

Rizana: A Caged Bird

as Professor Julian Miles

Production

2021

Nepal Beyond

as Executive Producer

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