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Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Claus von Bulow in ‘Reversal of Fortune’. He is also a Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony, & SAG Award Winner & the recipient of an Honorary César Award & a Premio Europa Per il Teatro.
Irons began his formal theatre training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, & then joined the Bristol Old Vic Company, where he performed in: ‘The Winter’s Tale’, ‘Hay Fever’, ‘Macbeth’, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ & ‘The Boyfriend’. London’s West End followed with productions of Godspell & Simon Gray’s ‘The Rear Column’; at the Young Vic he played in ‘The Caretaker’ & ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Irons later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company appearing in ‘The Winter’s Tale’, ‘Richard II’ & ‘The Rover’.
He received a Tony Award for his performance in Tom Stoppard’s ‘The Real Thing’ & on the London stage appeared in the National Theatre’s ‘Never So Good’ & the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘The Gods Weep’. In 2016, he played James Tyrone in Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ for Bristol Old Vic’s 250th anniversary. The production transferred to Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End & then to BAM in New York & Bram Goldsmith Theater, Los Angeles, Ca.
Irons’ film highlights include ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’; ‘Moonlighting’; ‘Swann in Love’; ‘The Mission’; ‘Dead Ringers’; ‘Kafka’; ‘Damage’; ‘M.Butterfly’; ‘The House of the Spirits’; he is the voice of Scar in Disney’s ‘The Lion King’; ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance’; ‘Stealing Beauty’; ‘Lolita’; ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’; ‘Kingdom of Heaven’; ‘Inland Empire’; ‘High-Rise’; Zack Snyder’s ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’; Matthew Brown’s ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ and ‘Justice League’, reprising his role as Alfred Pennyworth, as well as ‘Red Sparrow’, co-starring Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Francis Lawrence. ‘Love, Weddings & Other Disasters’, a comedy co-starring Diane Keaton, written, and directed by Dennis Dugan was released in 2020.
Irons was the featured actor and executive producer of ‘Trashed’, Candida Brady’s award-winning documentary on the environment.
In television, Irons is, perhaps, best known for Charles Ryder in the cult TV series ‘Brideshead Revisited’. For his role in the TV miniseries ‘Elizabeth I’ with Helen Mirren, he won Golden Globe, & Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. He played Pope Alexander in the series ‘The Borgias’, & Henry IV in BBC Two series ‘The Hollow Crown’.
Most recently Irons starred in the HBO series ‘Watchmen’ & was nominated for an Emmy as lead actor.
In 2020 Jeremy Irons appeared in Netflix’s ‘Munich: The Edge of War’ playing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on the brink of WWII. He also recently narrated Netflix series, ‘The Pentaverate’, starring Mike Myers.
In 2021 in ‘House of Gucci’, directed by Ridley Scott, Irons played Maurizio Gucci’s father, Rodolfo Gucci.
In 2018, Faber released a recording of ‘The Complete Works of T.S. Eliot’ read by Jeremy Irons.