Jeremy Irons - Wikipedia. Jeremy John Irons (born 1. ![]()
September 1. 94. 8)[1] is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1. 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 1. 98. 4, 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 1. The French Lieutenant's Woman, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas such as Moonlighting (1. A Vermont Teddy Bear Company® Bear-Gram® is the creative alternative gift to flowers. It's a fun, unique gift idea that is guaranteed to last forever. ![]() Betrayal (1. 98. 3), and The Mission (1. David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1. In 1. 99. 0, 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 (1. The House of the Spirits (1. M. Butterfly (1. 99. Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1. Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1. Lolita (1. 99. 7), Musketeer Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1. Dungeons & Dragons (2. The Merchant of Venice (2. Being Julia (2. 00. Kingdom of Heaven (2. Eragon (2. 00. 6), the Western Appaloosa (2. Margin Call (2. 01. In 2. 01. 6, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and, starting that year, he plays Alfred Pennyworth in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and later reprising the role in Justice League (2. The Batman (TBA). Irons has also made several notable appearances on TV. He earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his break- out role in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1. In 2. 00. 5, 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 2. 01. 1 to 2. 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 2. 01. Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Early life[edit]Irons was born in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the son of Paul Dugan Irons (1. Barbara Anne Brereton Brymer (née Sharpe; 1. His paternal great- great- grandfather was a Metropolitan Policeman who was sacked for drunkenness, and later a Chartist. He has a small amount of Irish ancestry, tracing back to County Cork. Irons has a brother, Christopher (born 1. Felicity Anne (born 1. He was educated at the independent Sherborne School in Dorset from 1. He was the drummer and harmonica player in a four- man school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom.[2]Acting career[edit]Early work[edit]Irons trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and later became president of its fundraising appeal. He performed a number of plays, and busked on the streets of Bristol, before appearing on the London stage as John the Baptist and Judas opposite David Essex in Godspell, which opened at the Roundhouse on 1. November 1. 97. 1 before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre playing a total of 1,1. Television[edit]He made several appearances on British television, including the children's television series Play Away and as Franz Liszt in the BBC 1. Notorious Woman. More significantly he starred in the 1. H. E. Bates' novel Love for Lydia for London Weekend Television (1. German student, a romantic pairing with Judi Dench in Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of Aidan Higgins' novel Langrishe, Go Down for BBC television (1. The role which brought him fame was that of Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1. First broadcast on ITV, the show ranks among the greatest British television dramas, with Irons receiving a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.[4]Brideshead reunited him with Anthony Andrews, with whom he had appeared in The Pallisers seven years earlier. In the same year he starred in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman opposite Meryl Streep. After these major successes, in 1. Polish building contractor, working in the Twickenham area of South West London, in Jerzy Skolimowski's independent film Moonlighting, widely seen on television, a performance which extended his acting range. On 2. 3 March 1. 99. Irons hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC in the US, and appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes' Surprise Party sketch.[5]In 2. Irons won both an Emmy award and a Golden Globe award for his supporting role in the TV mini- series, Elizabeth I. A year later Irons was one of the participants in the third series of the BBC documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?[6][7] In 2. Lord Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, an adaptation for Sky One. On 6 November 2. 00. TV Guide reported he would star as photographer Alfred Stieglitz with Joan Allen as painter Georgia O'Keeffe, in a Lifetime Television biopic, Georgia O'Keeffe (2. Irons also appeared in the documentary for Irish television channel TG4, Faoi Lan Cheoil in which he learned to play the fiddle. On 1. 2 January 2. Irons was a guest- star in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit called "Mask". He played Dr. Cap Jackson, a sex therapist.[9] He reprised the role on an episode titled "Totem" that ran on 3. March 2. 01. 1. Irons stars in the 2. US premium cable network Showtime's series The Borgias, a highly fictionalised account of the Renaissance dynasty of that name.[1. Irons at the 2. 01. Berlin Film Festival. Irons made his film debut in Nijinsky in 1. He appeared sporadically in films during the 1. Cannes. Palme d'Or winner The Mission in 1. David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers in 1. Other films include Danny the Champion of the World (1. Reversal of Fortune (1. Academy Award for Best Actor, Kafka (1. Damage (1. 99. 3), M. Butterfly (1. 99. The House of the Spirits (1. Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, the voice of Scar in The Lion King (1. Simon Gruber in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1. Lolita, and as the musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo Di. Caprio in the 1. 99. The Man in the Iron Mask. Other roles include the evil wizard Profion in the film Dungeons and Dragons (2. Rupert Gould in Longitude (2. He played the Über- Morlock in the film The Time Machine (2. In 2. 00. 4, Irons played Severus Snape in Comic Relief's Harry Potter parody, "Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan". In 2. 00. 5, he appeared in the films Casanova opposite Heath Ledger, and Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven. He has co- starred with John Malkovich in two films; The Man in the Iron Mask (1. Eragon (2. 00. 6), though they did not have any scenes together in the latter. In 2. 00. 8, Irons co- starred with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen in Appaloosa, directed by Harris. In 2. 01. 1, Irons appeared alongside Kevin Spacey in the thriller Margin Call.[1. In 2. 01. 2, he starred and worked as executive producer of the environmental documentary film Trashed.[1. Irons played Alfred Pennyworth in Warner Bros.' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2. Justice League and Ben Affleck's The Batman.[1. He is cast in Francis Lawrence's 2. Jason Matthews' book Red Sparrow as General Vladimir Korchnoi. Theatre[edit]Irons has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company three times in 1. After years of success in the West End in London, Irons made his New York debut in 1. Tony Award for his Broadway performance opposite Glenn Close in The Real Thing. After an absence from the London stage for 1. Patrick Malahide in Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Sándor Márai's novel Embers at the Duke of York's Theatre.[1. He made his National Theatre debut playing former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (1. Never So Good, a new play by Howard Brenton which opened at the Lyttelton on 1.
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