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.

Фільмографія

• 2027Бджоляр 2 — Wallace Westwyld
• 2026The Crystal Planet — Governor Mordokan (voice)
• 2026What is dyslexia? — The Inventor
• Mara: Rebirth — Narrator (voice)
• 2025Palestine 36 — High Commissioner Wauchope
• Граф Монте-Крісто — Abbé Faria
• 2024The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
• 2024Бджоляр — Wallace Westwyld
• 2023Making The Flash: Worlds Collide — Self - 'Alfred', Thanks
• 2023The Cello — Francesco
• 2023Одного разу на студії — Scar (voice)
• 2023Флеш — Alfred Pennyworth
• 2022Eternal Enemies: Revealed — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Eye of the Leopard: Revealed — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Living With Big Cats: Revealed — Narrator
• 2022Relentless Enemies: Revealed — Narrator (voice)
• The Pentaverate — Jeremy Irons
• 2022The Way of the Cheetah — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Ultimate Enemies: Revealed — Narrator (voice)
• 2021Architects of Ancient Arabia — Narrator
• 2021Napoleon: In the Name of Art
• 2021Nepal Beyond — Executive Producer
• 2021Дім Ґуччі — Rodolfo Gucci
• 2021Ліга справедливості Зака Снайдера — Alfred
• 2021Мюнхен. На порозі війни — Neville Chamberlain
• 2020Jade Eyed Leopard — Narrator (voice)
• 2020Кохання, весілля та інші катастрофи — Lawrence Philips
• History of the Emirates — Narrator
• Вартові — Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
• Ранкове шоу — Martin Levy
• 2018An Actor Prepares — Atticus
• 2018Better Start Running — Garrison, Executive Producer
• 2018Червоний горобець — Vladimir Korchnoi
• 2017Birds Like Us — Mi (voice)
• 2017Їх зоряна година — Secretary of War
• 2017Ліга справедливості — Alfred
• 2016Assassin's Creed: Кредо вбивці — Alan Rikkin
• 2016Correspondence — Ed Phoerum
• 2016DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
• 2016I Wish For You — Grandfather
• 2016The Sultan and the Saint — Narrator
• 2016Бетмен проти Супермена: На зорі справедливості — Alfred
• 2016Людина, яка пізнала нескінченність — G. H. Hardy
• 2016Сила волі — Avery Brundage
• 2015Earthquake On Everest — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Emotional Uncertainties — Self, Thanks
• Metropolis
• 2015The Genius of George Boole — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Висотка — Anthony Royal
• 2014Endless Corridor — Narrator
• 2014The Voysey Inheritance — Edward Voysey
• 2013Game of Lions — Narrator (voice)
• 2013The Wind Gods — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Нічний потяг до Лісабона — Raimund
• 2013Прекрасні створіння — Macon Ravenwood
• 2012Another Way Home — Narrator
• 2012Seeds of Freedom — Narator
• Порожня корона — Henry IV
• 2012Слова — The Old Man
• Prohibition — Reader (voice)
• 2011The Last Lions — Narrator
• Борджіа — Rodrigo Borgia
• 2011На межі ризику — John Tuld
• 2010The Color of Magic 2in1 — Patricij
• 2010The Majestic Plastic Bag — Narrator
• 2009Georgia O'Keeffe — Alfred Stieglitz
• 2009The Chronoscope — Narrator
• 2009The Power of the Powerless
• 2009Рожева пантера 2 — Avellaneda
• 20081984 — Television Voice
• 2008Eden at the End of the World — Narrator
• 2008Magic in the air, Bantry House Music — Festival audience member
• 2008The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1 — Patrician
• 2008The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2 — Patrician
• 2008Апполуза — Randall Bragg
• Колір чаклунства — Patrician
• 2007J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation — Narrator
• 2006Eye of the Leopard — Narrator
• 2006Mathilde — Col. De Petris
• 2006Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Внутрішня імперія — Kingsley Stewart
• 2006Ераґон — Brom
• Elizabeth I — Earl of Leicester
• 2005Fiat Croma — Lead
• 2005Gallipoli — Narrator
• 2005Казанова — Pucci
• 2005Царство небесне — Tiberias
• 2004Being Julia — Michael Gosselyn
• 2004Венеційський купець — Antonio
• Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites — Readings (Voice)
• 2003The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World — Narrator
• 2003Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions — Narrator (voice)
• Working Shakespeare — Host
• 2002And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... — Valentin Valentin
• 2002Callas Forever — Larry Kelly
• 2002Last Call — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 2002Ohio Impromptu — Reader / Listener
• 2002Машина часу — Über-Morlock
• 2001The Fourth Angel — Jack Elgin
• 2001The Short Life of Anne Frank — Narrator (English version)
• 2000Longitude — Rupert Gould
• Longitude — Rupert Gould
• 2000Підземелля драконів — Profion
• 1999Faeries — The Shapeshifter (voice)
• Закон і порядок: Спеціальний корпус — Dr. Cap Jackson
• 1998Людина в залізній масці — Aramis
• 1997Chinese Box — John
• 1997Лоліта — Humbert Humbert
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996Вислизаюча краса — Alex Parrish
• 1995Міцний горішок 3: Помирати з піснею — Simon
• 1994Король Лев — Scar (voice)
• 1993M. Butterfly — René Gallimard
• 1993Дім духів — Esteban Trueba
• 1992Earth and the American Dream — Reader (voice)
• 1992From Time to Time — H.G. Wells
• HBO First Look
• 1992Tales from Hollywood — Odon Von Horvath
• 1992Waterland — Tom Crick
• 1992Збиток — Dr. Stephen Fleming
• 1991'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe — Narrator
• 1991Kafka — Kafka
• Performance — Odon Von Horvath
• 1991The Beggar's Opera — Prisoner
• 1990Bill Moyers: Amazing Grace — John Newton (voice)
• 1990Reversal of Fortune — Claus von Bülow
• The Civil War — Various (voice)
• 1989A Chorus of Disapproval — Guy Jones
• 1989Australia — Edouard Pierson
• 1989Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World' — Narrator
• 1989Danny the Champion of the World — William Smith
• 1989The Dream
• Сімпсони — Bar Rag (voice)
• Comic Relief
• 1988Зв'язані до смерті — Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
• Daytime Live
• 1986Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier — Narrator (voice)
• 1986Місія — Father Gabriel
• 1984Swann in Love — Charles Swann
• 1984The Wild Duck — Harold
• 1983Betrayal — Jerry
• 1983The Captain's Doll — Captain Alexander Hepburn
• American Playhouse — Ödön von Horváth
• 1982Moonlighting — Nowak
• Природа — Narrator
• Brideshead Revisited — Charles Ryder
• 1981Жінка французького лейтенанта — Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
• 1980Nijinsky — Mikhail Fokine
• 1978Langrishe, Go Down — Otto Beck
• BBC2 Play of the Week — Otto Beck
• Love for Lydia — Alex Sanderson
• Churchill's People — Samuel Ross
• Notorious Woman — Franz Liszt
• The Pallisers — Frank Tregear
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Nephew
• BBC Play of the Month — Edward Voysey
• A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand
• Encore — Nigel
• Mr. Kneff — Kneff
• Rihana — Julian Miles
• The Well of Saint Nobody — William
• Water People: The Story of Us — The Ocean (voice)
• Горець

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (60)

• 2026Dracula's Hidden Kingdom — Self - Narrator
• 2026Last Movies — Self - Narrator
• 2025The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl — Self
• 2025This Ordinary Thing — Self (voice)
• 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Act — self
• 2024Quintessentially Irish — Self
• 2023Codice Carla — Self
• Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled — Self
• 2023Tom Hanks: The Nomad — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist — Self
• 2022Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood — Self
• 2021Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto — Self
• 2019The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders — Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
• StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self
• Пізньої ночі з Сетом Маєрсом — Self
• 2013Goodbye Granadaland — Self
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2013The Sunflower Superjam 2012 — Self
• Racing Legends — Self
• Shakespeare Uncovered — Himself
• 2012Trashed — Himself
• 2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration — Self
• 2009Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Lynch 2 — Self
• 2006The Path to Redemption — Self
• 2006The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall — Self
• 2005Revisiting Brideshead — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• 2005The Merchant of Venice — Himself
• Хто ти на твою думку? — Self
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• 2003Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film — Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2001The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons" — Self
• 1998The Lolita Story — Himself
• Погляд — Self
• 1995A Night to Die For — Self
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
• Brisant — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! — Self (archive footage)
• 1994The Making of the Lion King — Self
• Пізня ніч із Конаном О'Браєном — Self - Guest
• 1992Blast 'Em — Self (uncredited)
• 1990Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! — Self (archive footage)
• 1988Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie — Self
• 1988The Making of Dead Ringers — Self - Actor
• 1986Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary — Self
• 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
• 1985The Statue of Liberty — Self (voice)
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Суботнього вечора в прямому ефірі — Self - Host
• Film '72 — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• «Сьогодні ввечері» з Джонні Карсоном — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Host
• Оскар — Self
• Broadway: The Next Generation — Self
• RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare — Self (Host)