Jeremy Irons
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.
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Films (170)
The Beekeeper 2
2027 · Wallace Westwyld
The Crystal Planet
2026 · Governor Mordokan (voice)
What is dyslexia?
2026 · The Inventor
Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
2026 · Self - Narrator
Last Movies
2026 · Self - Narrator
This Ordinary Thing
2025 · Self (voice)
Palestine 36
2025 · High Commissioner Wauchope
Le Roi Lion en live
2025 · Self
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · self
Quintessentially Irish
2024 · Self
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
2024
Le gardien
2024 · Wallace Westwyld
Codice Carla
2023 · Self
Il était une fois un studio
2023 · Scar (voice)
The Cello
2023 · Francesco
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
2023 · Self - 'Alfred', Thanks
Flash
2023 · Alfred Pennyworth
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
2022 · Self
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
2022 · Narrator (voice)
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
2022 · Narrator
The Way of the Cheetah
2022 · Narrator (voice)
L'Étau de Munich
2021 · Neville Chamberlain
La saga Gucci
2021 · Rodolfo Gucci
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
2021
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
2021 · Self
Armin Mueller-Stahl - De Berlin à Hollywood
2021 · Self
Architects of Ancient Arabia
2021 · Narrator
La Liga de la Justicia de Zack Snyder
2021 · Alfred
Nepal Beyond
2021 · Executive Producer
Amor, Bodas y Otros Desastres
2020 · Lawrence Philips
Jade Eyed Leopard
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Les Merveilles du Prado
2019 · Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
Estrechando Lazos
2018 · Atticus
Better Start Running
2018 · Garrison, Executive Producer
Red Sparrow
2018 · Vladimir Korchnoi
La ligue des justiciers
2017 · Alfred
Birds Like Us
2017 · Mi (voice)
Une Belle rencontre
2017 · Secretary of War
Assassin's Creed
2016 · Alan Rikkin
The Sultan and the Saint
2016 · Narrator
L'homme qui défiait l'infini
2016 · G. H. Hardy
Batman v Superman : L'Aube de la Justice
2016 · Alfred
La Couleur de la victoire
2016 · Avery Brundage
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
2016
Correspondance
2016 · Ed Phoerum
I Wish For You
2016 · Grandfather
Gratte-ciel
2015 · Anthony Royal
George Boole, génie des maths
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Emotional Uncertainties
2015 · Self, Thanks
Tremblement de terre au Népal
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Endless Corridor
2014 · Narrator
The Voysey Inheritance
2014 · Edward Voysey
Game of Lions
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Muse of Fire
2013 · Self
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
2013 · Self
Goodbye Granadaland
2013 · Self
The Wind Gods: 33rd America's Cup
2013 · Narrator (voice)
Train de nuit pour Lisbonne
2013 · Raimund
Sublimes Créatures
2013 · Macon Ravenwood
Trashed
2012 · Himself
Another Way Home
2012 · Narrator
The Words
2012 · The Old Man
Seeds of Freedom
2012 · Narator
Margin Call
2011 · John Tuld
The Last Lions
2011 · Narrator
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010 · Self
The Majestic Plastic Bag
2010 · Narrator
The Power of the Powerless
2009
Georgia O'Keeffe
2009 · Alfred Stieglitz
The Chronoscope
2009 · Narrator
La Panthère rose 2
2009 · Avellaneda
Entre la vida y la muerte
2008 · Randall Bragg
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
2008 · Festival audience member
1984
2008 · Television Voice
Eden at the End of the World
2008 · Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008 · Patrician
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008 · Patrician
Lynch 2
2007 · Self
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
2007 · Narrator
Eragon
2006 · Brom
Inland Empire
2006 · Kingsley Stewart
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
2006 · Self
Eye of the Leopard
2006 · Narrator
The Path to Redemption
2006 · Self
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
2006 · Narrator (voice)
Mathilde
2006 · Col. De Petris
Giacomo Casanova
2005 · Pucci
Revisiting Brideshead
2005 · Self
The Merchant of Venice
2005 · Himself
Le royaume des cieux
2005 · Tiberias
Gallipoli
2005 · Narrator
Fiat Croma
2005 · Lead
Le Marchand de Venise
2004 · Antonio
Being Julia
2004 · Michael Gosselyn
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
2003 · Narrator (voice)
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
2003 · Narrator
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Self
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003 · Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")
Callas Forever
2002 · Larry Kelly
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2002 · Valentin Valentin
Last Call
2002 · F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Ohio Impromptu
2002 · Reader / Listener
La Machine à explorer le temps
2002 · Über-Morlock
The Short Life of Anne Frank
2001 · Narrator (English version)
Vengeance secrète
2001 · Jack Elgin
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
2001 · Self
Donjons & Dragons
2000 · Profion
Longitude
2000 · Rupert Gould
Faeries
1999 · The Shapeshifter (voice)
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998 · Aramis
The Lolita Story
1998 · Himself
Chinese Box
1997 · John
Lolita
1997 · Humbert Humbert
Stealing Beauty
1996 · Alex Parrish
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995 · Simon
A Night to Die For
1995 · Self
The Making of the Lion King
1994 · Self
The Lion King
1994 · Scar (voice)
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994 · Self (archive footage)
The House of the Spirits
1993 · Esteban Trueba
M. Butterfly
1993 · René Gallimard
Damage
1992 · Dr. Stephen Fleming
Tales from Hollywood
1992 · Odon Von Horvath
Earth and the American Dream
1992 · Reader (voice)
Waterland
1992 · Tom Crick
Blast 'Em
1992 · Self (uncredited)
From Time to Time
1992 · H.G. Wells
Kafka
1991 · Kafka
The Beggar's Opera
1991 · Prisoner
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
1991 · Narrator
Reversal of Fortune
1990 · Claus von Bülow
Bill Moyers: Amazing Grace
1990 · John Newton (voice)
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990 · Self (archive footage)
Australia
1989 · Edouard Pierson
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
1989 · Narrator
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989 · Guy Jones
Danny the Champion of the World
1989 · William Smith
The Dream
1989
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988 · Self
Dead Ringers
1988 · Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
The Making of Dead Ringers
1988 · Self - Actor
The Mission
1986 · Father Gabriel
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
1986 · Narrator (voice)
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
1986 · Self
The Statue of Liberty
1985 · Self (voice)
Night of 100 Stars II
1985 · Self
The Wild Duck
1984 · Harold
Swann in Love
1984 · Charles Swann
Betrayal
1983 · Jerry
The Captain's Doll
1983 · Captain Alexander Hepburn
Moonlighting
1982 · Nowak
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 · Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
Nijinsky
1980 · Mikhail Fokine
Langrishe, Go Down
1978 · Otto Beck
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Broadway: The Next Generation
· Self
The Well of Saint Nobody
· William
Encore
· Nigel
Water People: The Story of Us
· The Ocean (voice)
Highlander
Rihana
· Julian Miles
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
· Self (Host)
Séries (51)
Mara: Rebirth
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
2025 · Abbé Faria
Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
2023 · Self
El Pentavirato
2022 · Jeremy Irons
History of the Emirates
2019 · Narrator
La matinale
2019 · Martin Levy
Watchmen
2019 · Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
Star Talk
2015 · Self
Metropolis
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
Racing Legends
2012 · Self
La guerre des Deux-Roses
2012 · Henry IV
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · Himself
Prohibition : une expérience américaine
2011 · Reader (voice)
Les Borgias
2011 · Rodrigo Borgia
Discworld
2008 · Patrician
Elizabeth I
2005 · Earl of Leicester / Lord Dudley
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004 · Self
Working Shakespeare
2003 · Host
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
2003 · Readings (Voice)
Longitude
2000 · Rupert Gould
New York Unité Spéciale
1999 · Dr. Cap Jackson
The View
1997 · Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Brisant
1994 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
HBO First Look
1992
Performance
1991 · Odon Von Horvath
The Civil War
1990 · Various (voice)
Les Simpson
1989 · Bar Rag (voice)
Comic Relief
1988
Daytime Live
1987
Nature
1982 · Narrator
American Playhouse
1982 · Ödön von Horváth
Brideshead Revisited
1981 · Charles Ryder
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Self
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977 · Otto Beck
Love for Lydia
1977 · Alex Sanderson
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
Churchill's People
1974 · Samuel Ross
Notorious Woman
1974 · Franz Liszt
The Pallisers
1974 · Frank Tregear
Film '72
1971 · Self
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Nephew
Great Performances
1971 · Self
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Edward Voysey
The Tonight Show avec Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Host
The Oscars
1953 · Self