Jeremy Irons

Acting · 4.7 popularity

Age

Movies

168

Born: September 19, 1948
From: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

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 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.

Works

168 films

The Lion King

19948.3

The Flash

20236.6

Damage

19926.6

Kingdom of Heaven

20057.1

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

20166.0

Lolita

19977.1

The Beekeeper

20247.3

Zack Snyder's Justice League

20218.1

Justice League

20176.1

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

19957.3

Red Sparrow

20186.5

Margin Call

20116.9

Once Upon a Studio

20238.3

The Time Machine

20026.3

House of Gucci

20216.6

The Man in the Iron Mask

19986.7

The Mission

19867.4

Assassin's Creed

20165.4

Eragon

20065.1

Inland Empire

20067.0

The Words

20126.7

High-Rise

20155.6

Stealing Beauty

19966.7

Beautiful Creatures

20136.0

The House of the Spirits

19936.9

The Beekeeper 2

2027

Casanova

20056.5

The Man Who Knew Infinity

20167.2

The Merchant of Venice

20046.8

The Pink Panther 2

20095.7

Dungeons & Dragons

20004.4

Their Finest

20176.6

Dead Ringers

19887.1

Race

20167.3

Appaloosa

20086.6

Munich - The Edge of War

20216.9

The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl

20257.3

The French Lieutenant's Woman

19816.5

Highlander

2026

Palestine 36

20257.8

Night Train to Lisbon

20136.5

Birds Like Us

20174.1

Reversal of Fortune

19906.6

M. Butterfly

19936.6

Being Julia

20046.4

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

20206.0

Napoleon: In the Name of Art

20218.2

Danny the Champion of the World

19896.2

Waking Sleeping Beauty

20097.2

Moonlighting

19827.0

Chinese Box

19975.8

Broadway: The Next Generation

2026

Endless Corridor

20146.2

Correspondence

20166.4

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

19906.0

Kafka

19916.4

Earth and the American Dream

19926.7

Lynch 2

20076.0

Swann in Love

19845.6

The Fourth Angel

20015.3

Georgia O'Keeffe

20094.9

Muse of Fire

20136.5

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League

20166.0

Trashed

20127.3

Last Call

20026.0

The Crystal Planet

2026

Eternal Enemies: Revealed

20228.0

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

200310.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

The Making of the Lion King

199410.0

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

20233.8

Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier

19865.0

Longitude

20007.4

Gallipoli

20057.1

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

20037.0

Last Movies

2026

The Majestic Plastic Bag

20107.7

The Merchant of Venice

2005

Faeries

19995.2

A Chorus of Disapproval

19895.4

Game of Lions

20135.0

Blast 'Em

19927.0

The Short Life of Anne Frank

20019.0

Jade Eyed Leopard

202010.0

This Ordinary Thing

2025

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary

19867.2

Encore

2026

The Beggar's Opera

19915.2

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

19947.0

RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

2026

Earthquake On Everest

20155.0

The Genius of George Boole

20157.5

The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall

20065.3

Waterland

19926.3

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

20025.8

'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe

1991

Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé

2022

Callas Forever

20026.5

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

20108.0

Eden at the End of the World

2008

The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2

2008

Rihana

2026

The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1

2008

Nijinsky

19804.9

Relentless Enemies: Revealed

2022

The Chronoscope

20098.5

An Actor Prepares

20185.8

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

19886.8

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

20235.5

The Way of the Cheetah

20226.4

Ultimate Enemies: Revealed

2022

The Wild Duck

19847.0

Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo

20068.0

Better Start Running

20185.9

Eye of the Leopard

20068.3

The Making of Dead Ringers

19888.0

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

20246.0

Living With Big Cats: Revealed

2022

A Night to Die For

19957.0

The Statue of Liberty

19856.9

Betrayal

19836.1

Ohio Impromptu

20029.0

The Last Lions

20117.2

Australia

19894.7

The Path to Redemption

20068.0

Tales from Hollywood

19923.0

Fiat Croma

2005

The Cello

20234.0

Quintessentially Irish

20246.4

The Sunflower Superjam 2012

2013

What is dyslexia?

2026

Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist

20225.5

Emotional Uncertainties

2015

Revisiting Brideshead

20058.0

J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation

2007

From Time to Time

19928.0

Architects of Ancient Arabia

20219.5

I Wish For You

2016

Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions

200310.0

The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders

20197.2

The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio

20246.0

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

2021

The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"

2001

The Captain's Doll

19837.0

Eye of the Leopard: Revealed

2022

Dracula's Hidden Kingdom

2026

The Well of Saint Nobody

2026

The Wind Gods

2013

1984

20086.0

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

2021

The Lolita Story

19986.0

Another Way Home

201210.0

Magic in the air, Bantry House Music

200810.0

Seeds of Freedom

2012

The Power of the Powerless

2009

A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand

202610.0

The Sultan and the Saint

20166.8

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World

20036.2

Langrishe, Go Down

19784.4

The Dream

19899.0

Goodbye Granadaland

2013

Mathilde

2006

The Voysey Inheritance

2014

Water People: The Story of Us

2026

Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'

1989

Codice Carla

2023