Jonathan Pryce

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-06-01 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Carmel, Flintshire, Wales, UK

Jonathan Pryce

Biography

Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. 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...

Acting

1985

Brazil

as Sam Lowry

2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

as Governor Weatherby Swann

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Elliot Carver

2008

Bedtime Stories

as Marty Bronson

1999

Stigmata

as Cardinal Daniel Houseman

1997

David

as Saul

2003

What a Girl Wants

as Alistair Payne

1993

2005

The Brothers Grimm

as Delatombe

2008

Leatherheads

as CC Frazier

2023

Soul of the Ocean

as Narrator (voice)

1986

Haunted Honeymoon

as Charles Abbot

1998

Ronin

as Seamus O'Rourke

1996

Evita

as Juan Perón

1992

Glengarry Glen Ross

as James Lingk

1980

1993

Barbarians at the Gate

as Henry Kravis

1994

1988

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

1989

2009

2004

De-Lovely

as Gabriel

2001

Very Annie Mary

as Jack Pugh

2009

2011

City State

as Jimmy

2007

The Moon and the Stars

as James Clavel / Scarpia

1995

Carrington

as Lytton Strachey

1997

Regeneration

as Capt. William Rivers

2001

The Affair of the Necklace

as Cardinal Louis de Rohan

1985

1994

A Business Affair

as Alec Bolton

2005

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

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

2013

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

as U.S. President

1976

Voyage of the Damned

as Joseph Manasse

2011

Hysteria

as Dr. Robert Dalrymple

2001

Bride of the Wind

as Gustav Mahler

2008

My Zinc Bed

as Victor

2012

1981

Loophole

as Taylor

1994

Great Moments in Aviation

as Duncan Stewart

1992

Freddie as F.R.O.7.

as Trilby (voice)

1983

The Ploughman's Lunch

as James Penfield

1988

Consuming Passions

as Mr. Farris

1990

The Man from the Pru

as William Wallace

1998

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

as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer

1989

1994

Deadly Advice

as Dr. Ted Philips

2000

2022

The Witness is a Whale

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2025

William Tell

as Attinghausen

1987

Man on Fire

as Michael

2014

Under Milk Wood

as Mr. Pugh

1993

Selling Hitler

as Gerd Heidemann

2022

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

as Jacob Marley (voice)

2014

The Salvation

as Mayor Nathan Keane

2023

One Life

as Martin Blake

2015

Dough

as Nat

2025

The Penguin Lessons

as Headmaster Buckle

2002

1979

Comedians

as Gethin Price

2002

Mad Dogs

as Supreme Being

2015

Narcopolis

as Sidorov

2006

Brothers of the Head

as Henry Couling

2017

The Healer

as Raymond Heacock

2018

The Wife

as Joe Castleman

2012

King Lear

as King Lear

2002

Best Ever Bond

as Self / Elliot Carver

2016

The White King

as Colonel Fitz

2008

2015

2015

Woman in Gold

as Chief Justice Rehnquist

1981

2025

1994

Shopping

as Conway

1982

Praying Mantis

as Christian Magny

2016

To Walk Invisible

as Patrick Brontë

2000

1982

Murder Is Easy

as Mr. Ellsworthy

2017

2017

Becoming Cary Grant

as Cary Grant (voice)

1983

Martin Luther, Heretic

as Martin Luther

2016

Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance

as Special Finale Guest Star

1984

An Audience with Mel Brooks

as Self (uncredited)

2018

To Provide All People

as Retired Neurosurgeon

2019

The Two Popes

as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis

1981

2008

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

as Ian Fleming (voice)

2002

Unconditional Love

as Victor Fox

2019

2008

1992

A Child's Garden of Verses

as Narrator / Father (voice)

2001

Il gioco

as Mark

2022

All the Old Knives

as Bill Compton

2019

2022

Save the Cinema

as Mr. Morgan

2005

The New World

as King James

2012

Dark Blood

as Harry Fletcher

2021

1976

Play Things

as Playleader

2011

Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching

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

1978

2001

Victoria & Albert

as King Leopold I of Belgium

2022

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