Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Birthday: 1948-09-19

Place of birth: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

Also known as: เจเรมี ไอเอินส์, 제러미 아이언스, Джеремі Джон Айронс, Jeremy John Irons, جرمی آیرونز

imdb_id: nm0000460

Biography:

Jeremy John Irons 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.

Played in movies:

The Making of the Lion King

Score: 10.0

The Short Life of Anne Frank

Score: 10.0

Broadway: The Next Generation

Score: 10.0

Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions

Score: 10.0

A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand

Score: 10.0

Another Way Home

Score: 10.0

Architects of Ancient Arabia

Score: 9.5

The Dream

Score: 8.7

The Chronoscope

Score: 8.5

Ohio Impromptu

Score: 8.5

Eye of the Leopard

Score: 8.4

Once Upon a Studio

Score: 8.3

The Lion King

Score: 8.3

Napoleon: In the Name of Art

Score: 8.2

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Score: 8.1

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Score: 8.1

The Path to Redemption

Score: 8.0

The Making of Dead Ringers

Score: 8.0

Night of 100 Stars II

Score: 8.0

Eternal Enemies: Revealed

Score: 8.0

Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo

Score: 7.8

The Majestic Plastic Bag

Score: 7.7

The Genius of George Boole

Score: 7.5

The Mission

Score: 7.4

The Beekeeper

Score: 7.3

Longitude

Score: 7.3

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Score: 7.3

Race

Score: 7.3

The Last Lions

Score: 7.2

The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl

Score: 7.2

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Score: 7.2

Trashed

Score: 7.2

The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders

Score: 7.2

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Score: 7.2

Lolita

Score: 7.1

Dead Ringers

Score: 7.1

Gallipoli

Score: 7.1

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

Score: 7.0

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

Score: 7.0

Inland Empire

Score: 7.0

Kingdom of Heaven

Score: 7.0

Moonlighting

Score: 7.0

Munich – The Edge of War

Score: 6.9

The House of the Spirits

Score: 6.9

Margin Call

Score: 6.9

The Sultan and the Saint

Score: 6.8

The Merchant of Venice

Score: 6.8

The Statue of Liberty

Score: 6.7

Earth and the American Dream

Score: 6.7

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

Score: 6.7

The Wild Duck

Score: 6.7

Stealing Beauty

Score: 6.7

The Words

Score: 6.7

The Man in the Iron Mask

Score: 6.6

The Flash

Score: 6.6

Their Finest

Score: 6.6

Reversal of Fortune

Score: 6.6

Damage

Score: 6.6

M. Butterfly

Score: 6.6

House of Gucci

Score: 6.6

Appaloosa

Score: 6.6

Red Sparrow

Score: 6.5

Night Train to Lisbon

Score: 6.5

Muse of Fire

Score: 6.5

Being Julia

Score: 6.5

Casanova

Score: 6.5

Quintessentially Irish

Score: 6.4

Kafka

Score: 6.4

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Score: 6.4

Waterland

Score: 6.4

Callas Forever

Score: 6.4

Correspondence

Score: 6.4

The Time Machine

Score: 6.3

Danny the Champion of the World

Score: 6.2

Justice League

Score: 6.1

Beautiful Creatures

Score: 6.0

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

Score: 6.0

Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special

Score: 6.0

The Lolita Story

Score: 6.0

DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League

Score: 6.0

Better Start Running

Score: 6.0

The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio

Score: 6.0

1984

Score: 6.0

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Score: 6.0

The Cello

Score: 6.0

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

Score: 6.0

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

Score: 5.9

Betrayal

Score: 5.9

Last Call

Score: 5.9

Chinese Box

Score: 5.9

An Actor Prepares

Score: 5.8

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

Score: 5.8

The Pink Panther 2

Score: 5.7

High-Rise

Score: 5.6

Swann in Love

Score: 5.6

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World

Score: 5.6

Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist

Score: 5.5

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

Score: 5.5

Assassin's Creed

Score: 5.4

Georgia O'Keeffe

Score: 5.3

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

Score: 5.3

A Chorus of Disapproval

Score: 5.2

The Way of the Cheetah

Score: 5.2

The Fourth Angel

Score: 5.2

Eragon

Score: 5.1

Faeries

Score: 5.1

Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Score: 5.0

Endless Corridor

Score: 5.0

Nijinsky

Score: 5.0

Game of Lions

Score: 5.0

Earthquake On Everest

Score: 5.0

Australia

Score: 4.5

Dungeons & Dragons

Score: 4.3

The Beggar's Opera

Score: 4.3

Langrishe, Go Down

Score: 4.2

Heart of the Festival

Score: 4.0

Birds Like Us

Score: 3.8

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

Score: 3.8

Tales from Hollywood

Score: 1.0

Rizana: A Caged Bird

Score: 0.0

Water People: The Story of Us

Score: 0.0

The Crystal Planet

Score: 0.0

The Merchant of Venice

Score: 0.0

Palestine 36

Score: 0.0

Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom

Score: 0.0

The Captain's Doll

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

Score: 0.0

Jade Eyed Leopard

Score: 0.0

Emotional Uncertainties

Score: 0.0

The Sunflower Superjam 2012

Score: 0.0

Seeds of Freedom

Score: 0.0

The Power of the Powerless

Score: 0.0

Harold Pinter:  A Celebration

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe

Score: 0.0

The Wind Gods

Score: 0.0

The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"

Score: 0.0

Encore

Score: 0.0

The Well of Saint Nobody

Score: 0.0

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

Score: 0.0

Living With Big Cats: Revealed

Score: 0.0

Eden at the End of the World

Score: 0.0

A Night to Die For

Score: 0.0

Codice Carla

Score: 0.0

I Wish For You

Score: 0.0

Revisiting Brideshead

Score: 0.0

Mathilde

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

Relentless Enemies: Revealed

Score: 0.0

Eye of the Leopard: Revealed

Score: 0.0

Ultimate Enemies: Revealed

Score: 0.0

Goodbye Granadaland

Score: 0.0

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

Score: 0.0

The Voysey Inheritance

Score: 0.0

Lynch 2

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

E! True Hollywood Story

Score: 8.1

Nature

Score: 8.1

The Simpsons

Score: 8.0

The Civil War

Score: 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Score: 7.9

Brideshead Revisited

Score: 7.9

Prohibition

Score: 7.9

The Count of Monte Cristo

Score: 7.8

The Morning Show

Score: 7.8

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

Score: 7.7

Watchmen

Score: 7.6

The Borgias

Score: 7.6

Inside the Actors Studio

Score: 7.5

Shakespeare Uncovered

Score: 7.5

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

The Hollow Crown

Score: 7.4

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Score: 7.4

Elizabeth I

Score: 7.2

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Score: 7.2

BBC2 Play of the Week

Score: 7.0

Longitude

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Score: 6.8

The Colour of Magic

Score: 6.7

Who Do You Think You Are?

Score: 6.7

The Pallisers

Score: 6.7

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Score: 6.7

Performance

Score: 6.0

Tony Awards

Score: 5.9

The Pentaverate

Score: 5.9

Comic Relief

Score: 5.7

Brisant

Score: 5.5

Great Performances

Score: 5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Wetten, dass..?

Score: 5.3

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

Notorious Woman

Score: 5.0

HBO First Look

Score: 4.9

The One Show

Score: 4.6

The View

Score: 4.3

Daytime Live

Score: 3.5

Metropolis

Score: 2.0

Working Shakespeare

Score: 0.0

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites

Score: 0.0

Racing Legends

Score: 0.0

Love for Lydia

Score: 0.0