Jeremy Irons

Also Known As: เจเรมี ไอเอินส์, 제러미 아이언스, Джеремі Джон Айронс, Jeremy John Irons, جرمی آیرونز

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.

Department: Acting

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

Birthday: September 19, 1948

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Gender: Male

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Known For:

M. Butterfly
Kingdom of Heaven
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
The Time Machine
The House of the Spirits
Inland Empire
Kafka
Lynch 2
Eragon
Damage
The Merchant of Venice
Chinese Box
The Mission
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
Dungeons & Dragons
The Lion King
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Architects of Ancient Arabia
Dead Ringers
Lolita
The Man in the Iron Mask
Earthquake On Everest
Appaloosa
Casanova
The Cello
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Moonlighting
Stealing Beauty
The Pink Panther 2
Game of Lions
Reversal of Fortune
The Voysey Inheritance
Callas Forever
Gallipoli
Being Julia
Longitude
Margin Call
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
The Last Lions
Danny the Champion of the World
The Words
The Flash
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
The Fourth Angel
Goodbye Granadaland
The Way of the Cheetah
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Langrishe, Go Down
Trashed
Beautiful Creatures
The Majestic Plastic Bag
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
Eye of the Leopard
A Chorus of Disapproval
Another Way Home
Ohio Impromptu
Waterland
A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
Georgia O'Keeffe
Swann in Love
Night Train to Lisbon
Betrayal
Last Call
Nijinsky
Australia
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
The Beggar's Opera
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Faeries
Muse of Fire
Tales from Hollywood
The Wild Duck
Mathilde
Revisiting Brideshead
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
Once Upon a Studio
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Waking Sleeping Beauty
High-Rise
1984
I Wish For You
Codice Carla
A Night to Die For
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
Eden at the End of the World
Correspondence
The Beekeeper
Race
The Chronoscope
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
Quintessentially Irish
Broadway: The Next Generation
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
Night of 100 Stars II
The Genius of George Boole
Assassin's Creed
The Well of Saint Nobody
Encore
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
The Statue of Liberty
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
Endless Corridor
The Wind Gods
Justice League
The Dream
Their Finest
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
Red Sparrow
An Actor Prepares
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
Birds Like Us
Better Start Running
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
The Sultan and the Saint
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
The Lolita Story
The Making of Dead Ringers
The Short Life of Anne Frank
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
The Power of the Powerless
Seeds of Freedom
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Earth and the American Dream
Emotional Uncertainties
Munich – The Edge of War
House of Gucci
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Jade Eyed Leopard
The Path to Redemption
The Making of the Lion King
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
The Captain's Doll
Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
Palestine 36