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Jeremy Irons is a Actor and Executive producer British born on 19 september 1948 at Cowes (United-kingdom)

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons
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Birth name Jeremy John Irons
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 september 1948 (75 years) at Cowes (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Actor

Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell, Richard II and Embers. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.
Irons' first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in such film dramas as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983) and The Mission (1986), he gained critical acclaim for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). In 1990, Irons played accused murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune, and took home multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Other notable films have included Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), the voice of Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), the drama Lolita (1997), Musketeer Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), the romantic drama The Merchant of Venice (2004), the drama Being Julia (2004), the epic historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011).

Irons has also made several notable appearances on TV. He earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his breakout role in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981). In 2005, Irons starred opposite Helen Mirren in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, for which he received a Golden Globe Award 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. He is one of the few actors who won the "Triple Crown of Acting", winning an Academy Award (for film), an Emmy Award (television) and a Tony Award (for theatre). In October 2011, he was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Biography

Irons married Julie Hallam in 1969 and subsequently divorced. He married Irish actress Sinéad Cusack on 28 March 1978. They have two sons, Samuel "Sam" Irons (b. 1978), who works as a photographer, and Maximilian "Max" Irons (b. 1985), also an actor. Both of Irons's sons have appeared in films with their father – Sam as the eponymous hero in Danny, Champion of the World and Max in Being Julia. Irons' wife and children are Catholic; Irons has also been described as a practising Catholic. But of himself, he has stated, "I don't go to church much because I don't like belonging to a club, and I don't go to confession or anything like that, I don't believe in it. But I try to be aware of where I fail and I occasionally go to services. I would hate to be a person who didn't have a spiritual side because there's nothing to nourish you in life apart from retail therapy."

Irons owns Kilcoe Castle (which he had painted a rusty pink) in County Cork, Ireland, and has become involved in local politics there. He also has another Irish residence in the Liberties, Dublin. Irons is a patron of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company. Irons also has a house in Watlington in South Oxfordshire, England.

Irons was bestowed an Honorary-Life Membership by the University College Dublin Law Society in September 2008, in honour of his contribution to television, film, audio, music and theatre. Also in 2008, Irons was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Southampton Solent University. Along with his native English, Irons is also fluent in French.

Best films

The Lion King (1994)
(Actor)
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
(Actor)
Eragon (2006)
(Actor)
Assassin's Creed (2016)
(Actor)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
(Actor)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
(Actor)

Usually with

Ken Burns
Ken Burns
(2 films)
David Lynch
David Lynch
(1 films)
Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon
(1 films)
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jeremy Irons (72 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2018Red SparrowActorVladimir Korchnoi
2017Their FinestActorSecretary of War
2017Justice LeagueActorAlfred Pennyworth
2017Their FinestActorSecretary of War
2016Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeActorAlfred Pennyworth
2016RaceActorAvery Brundage
2016Assassin's CreedActorAlan Rikkin
2016The Man Who Knew InfinityActorG. H. Hardy
2016CorrespondenceActorEd Phoerum
2015High-RiseActorAnthony Royal
2013Night Train to LisbonActorRaimund
2013Beautiful CreaturesActorMacon Ravenwood
2012The WordsActorThe Old Man
2012TrashedActor, Executive producerHimself
2012Henry IV, Part I and Part II (TV films)ActorHenry IV
2012The Hollow Crown (TV series)Actor
2011Margin CallActorJohn Tuld
2011The Last LionsActorNarrator
2009The Pink Panther 2ActorAvellaneda
2009Waking Sleeping BeautyActorSelf (archive footage)
2009The Magic 7Actor
2009Georgia O'KeeffeActorAlfred Stieglitz
2008AppaloosaActorRandall Bragg
2008Terry Pratchett's The Colour of MagicActorPatrician
2007Inland EmpireActorKingsley Stewart
2006EragonActorBrom
2006Eye of the LeopardActorNarrator
2005Kingdom of HeavenActorTiberias
2005CasanovaActorPucci
2005GallipoliActorNarrator
2005Elizabeth I (TV miniseries)ActorRobert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
2005Once Upon a HalloweenActor
2004Being JuliaActorMichael Gosselyn
2004The Merchant of VeniceActorAntonio
2004MathildeActorCol. De Petris
2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereActorSelf
2002The Time MachineActorÜber-Morlock
2002And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...ActorValentin Valentin
2002Callas ForeverActorLarry Kelly
2002Last CallActorF. Scott Fitzgerald
2001The Fourth AngelActorJack Elgin
2001The Short Life of Anne FrankActorNarrator (English version)
2000Beautiful CreaturesActor
2000Dungeons & DragonsActorProfion
1999FaeriesActorThe Shapeshifter (voice)
1998The Man in the Iron MaskActorAramis
1997LolitaActorHumbert Humbert
1997Chinese BoxActorJohn
1996Stealing BeautyActorAlex Parrish
1995Die Hard: With a VengeanceActorSimon
1994The Lion KingActorScar (voice)
1993M. ButterflyActorRené Gallimard
1993The House of the SpiritsActorEsteban Trueba
1992DamageActorDr. Stephen Fleming
1992WaterlandActorTom Crick
1991KafkaActorKafka
1991The Beggar's OperaActorPrisoner
1990Reversal of FortuneActorClaus von Bülow
1990The Civil WarActorVarious
1989AustraliaActorEdouard Pierson
1989A Chorus of DisapprovalActorGuy Jones
1989Danny the Champion of the WorldActorWilliam Smith
1989The DreamActor
1988Dead RingersActorBeverly / Elliot Mantle
1986The MissionActorFather Gabriel
1985The Statue of LibertyActorSelf (voice)
1984The Wild DuckActorHarold
1984Swann in LoveActorCharles Swann
1983BetrayalActorJerry
1982MoonlightingActorNowak
1981The French Lieutenant's WomanActorCharles Henry Smithson / Mike
1980NijinskyActorMikhail Fokine