Jeremy Irons

Acting · Born 1948-09-19 in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• M. Butterfly as René Gallimard
• Kingdom of Heaven as Tiberias
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance as Simon
• The Time Machine as Über-Morlock
• The House of the Spirits as Esteban Trueba
• Inland Empire as Kingsley Stewart
• Kafka as Kafka
• Eragon as Brom
• Damage as Dr. Stephen Fleming
• The Merchant of Venice as Antonio