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

• Kingdom of Heaven as Tiberias
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance as Simon
• The House of the Spirits as Esteban Trueba
• Inland Empire as Kingsley Stewart
• The Mission as Father Gabriel
• The Lion King as Scar (voice)
• Dead Ringers as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
• Lolita as Humbert Humbert
• Once Upon a Studio as Scar (voice)
• The Beekeeper as Wallace Westwyld

TV

• The Simpsons as Bar Rag (voice)
• The Civil War as Various
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Cap Jackson
• The Count of Monte Cristo as Abbé Faria
• Watchmen as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
• The Morning Show as Martin Levy
• Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• The View as Self
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Who Do You Think You Are? as Self