Birthday: 1948-09-19
Birthplace: Коуз, острів Вайт, Англія, Велика Британія
Gender: Male
Drafted: 271
Drafted By: Goutbreak
Owned By: Goutbreak
Owned Wins: 0
Owned Noms: 0
Win Bonus: 5
Nom Bonus: 0
Total Points: 0
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 Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990).
Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).
On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe 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. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Season | Age | Movie | Role | Result | Points | |
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1991 | 43 | Reversal of Fortune (1990) | Leading Actor | Win | 0 | |
Career | 0 |
Date | Location | Team | Receives | Team | Receives | Team | Receives |
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Year | Title | Character | |
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A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand | |||
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion | Traveller (archived audio) | ||
The Well of Saint Nobody | William | ||
Encore | Nigel | ||
2024-02-13 | The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio | ||
2024-01-08 | The Beekeeper | Wallace Westwyld | |
2023-09-24 | Once Upon a Studio | Scar (voice) | |
2023-09-14 | The Cello | Francesco | |
2023-06-13 | The Flash | Alfred Pennyworth | |
2023-04-19 | The Books He Didn't Burn | narrator | |
2022-06-30 | Birds Like Us | Mi (voice) | |
2022-01-06 | Munich: The Edge of War | Neville Chamberlain | |
2021-11-24 | House of Gucci | Rodolfo Gucci | |
2021-11-08 | Napoleon: In the Name of Art | ||
2021-03-18 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Alfred | |
2020-12-04 | Love, Weddings & Other Disasters | Lawrence Philips | |
2018-08-31 | An Actor Prepares | Atticus | |
2018-04-28 | Better Start Running | Garrison | |
2018-02-28 | Red Sparrow | Vladimir Korchnoi | |
2017-11-15 | Justice League | Alfred Pennyworth | |
2017-02-19 | Their Finest | Secretary of War | |
2016-12-21 | Assassin's Creed | Alan Rikkin | |
2016-04-08 | The Man Who Knew Infinity | G. H. Hardy | |
2016-03-23 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Alfred | |
2016-02-19 | Race | Avery Brundage | |
2016-01-14 | Correspondence | Ed Phoerum | |
2016-01-01 | I Wish For You | Grandfather | |
2015-11-22 | High-Rise | Anthony Royal | |
2013-03-07 | Night Train to Lisbon | Raimund | |
2013-02-13 | Beautiful Creatures | Macon Ravenwood | |
2012-09-07 | The Words | The Old Man | |
2012-01-01 | Seeds of Freedom | Narator | |
2011-02-11 | Margin Call | John Tuld | |
2009-11-12 | The Power of the Powerless | ||
2009-09-19 | Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz | |
2009-02-06 | The Pink Panther 2 | Avellaneda | |
2008-09-19 | Appaloosa | Randall Bragg | |
2008-05-12 | 1984 | Television Voice | |
2006-12-14 | Eragon | Brom | |
2006-12-06 | Inland Empire | Kingsley Stewart | |
2006-01-01 | Mathilde | Col. De Petris | |
2005-12-25 | Casanova | Pucci | |
2005-05-03 | Kingdom of Heaven | Tiberias | |
2004-12-03 | The Merchant of Venice | Antonio | |
2004-09-03 | Being Julia | Michael Gosselyn | |
2002-09-18 | Callas Forever | Larry Kelly | |
2002-05-29 | And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... | Valentin Valentin | |
2002-05-25 | Last Call | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
2002-04-02 | Ohio Impromptu | Reader / Listener | |
2002-03-04 | The Time Machine | Über-Morlock | |
2001-08-15 | The Fourth Angel | Jack Elgin | |
2000-12-08 | Dungeons & Dragons | Profion | |
2000-01-02 | Longitude | Rupert Gould | |
1999-01-23 | Faeries | The Shapeshifter (voice) | |
1998-03-12 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Aramis | |
1997-11-14 | Chinese Box | John | |
1997-09-27 | Lolita | Humbert Humbert | |
1996-03-29 | Stealing Beauty | Alex Parrish | |
1995-05-19 | Die Hard: With a Vengeance | Simon | |
1994-06-24 | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | |
1993-10-21 | The House of the Spirits | Esteban Trueba | |
1993-10-01 | M. Butterfly | René Gallimard | |
1992-12-02 | Damage | Dr. Stephen Fleming | |
1992-10-18 | Tales from Hollywood | Odon Von Horvath | |
1992-10-01 | Earth and the American Dream | Reader (voice) | |
1992-08-21 | Waterland | Tom Crick | |
1991-11-15 | Kafka | Kafka | |
1991-10-01 | The Beggar's Opera | Prisoner | |
1990-10-19 | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow | |
1989-09-13 | Australia | Edouard Pierson | |
1989-08-18 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Guy Jones | |
1989-04-29 | Danny the Champion of the World | William Smith | |
1989-01-01 | The Dream | ||
1988-09-23 | Dead Ringers | Beverly / Elliot Mantle | |
1986-09-24 | The Mission | Father Gabriel | |
1984-03-05 | The Wild Duck | Harold | |
1984-02-23 | Swann in Love | Charles Swann | |
1983-02-19 | Betrayal | Jerry | |
1982-09-18 | Moonlighting | Nowak | |
1981-08-28 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Charles Henry Smithson / Mike | |
1980-03-20 | Nijinsky | Mikhail Fokine | |
1979-02-04 | The Voysey Inheritance | Edward Voysey | |
1978-09-20 | Langrishe, Go Down | Otto Beck |