
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.

Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions

Het korte leven van Anne Frank

The Making of the Lion King

Magic in the air, Bantry House Music

Architects of Ancient Arabia

Ohio Impromptu

The Chronoscope

Eye of the Leopard

ワンス・アポン・ア・スタジオ -100年の思い出-

ライオン・キング

Napoleone - Nel nome dell'arte

ジャスティス・リーグ:ザック・スナイダーカット

トゥルー・ハリウッド・ストーリー

ザ・シンプソンズ

Eternal Enemies: Revealed

Night of 100 Stars II

The Making of Dead Ringers

The Path to Redemption

LAW & ORDER: 性犯罪特捜班

Palestine 36

Brideshead Revisited

Prohibition

Nature

The Civil War

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Il Conte di Montecristo

ザ・モーニングショー

Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo

The Majestic Plastic Bag

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled

ウォッチメン

ボルジア家 愛と欲望の教皇一族

The Genius of George Boole

Inside the Actors Studio

Shakespeare Uncovered

経度への挑戦

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

ミッション

ホロウ・クラウン/嘆きの王冠

ダイ・ハード3

栄光のランナー/1936ベルリン

ビーキーパー

The Last Lions

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・コナン・オブライエン

TRASHED-ゴミ地球の代償-

Il Museo del Prado: la corte delle meraviglie

エリザベス1世 〜愛と陰謀の王宮〜

「ライオン・キング」コンサート IN ハリウッド・ボウル

Waking Sleeping Beauty

奇蹟がくれた数式

戦慄の絆

ロリータ

Gelibolu

キングダム・オブ・ヘブン

インランド・エンパイア

ムーンライティング

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Longitude

アカデミー賞

BBC2 Play of the Week

サタデー・ナイト・ライブ

愛と精霊の家

ミュンヘン: 戦火燃ゆる前に

マージン・コール

ヴェニスの商人

The Sultan and the Saint

アメイジング・ワールド

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

魅せられて

The Wild Duck

The Statue of Liberty

Earth and the American Dream

Who Do You Think You Are?

ザ・ワーズ 盗まれた人生

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

仮面の男

運命の逆転

ザ・フラッシュ

エム・バタフライ

ダメージ

人生はシネマティック!

アパルーサの決闘

ハウス・オブ・グッチ

レッド・スパロー

リスボンに誘われて

Muse of Fire

カサノバ

KAFKA/迷宮の悪夢

フランス軍中尉の女

ある天文学者の恋文

Quintessentially Irish

華麗なる恋の舞台で

タイムマシン

永遠のマリア・カラス

秘密

Danny the Champion of the World

ジャスティス・リーグ

ビューティフル・クリーチャーズ 光と闇に選ばれし者

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!

1984

Uomini e Dei le meraviglie del Museo Egizio

DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League

The Lolita Story

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

Performance

バットマン vs スーパーマン ジャスティスの誕生

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

Betrayal

Better Start Running

Last Call

チャイニーズ・ボックス

An Actor Prepares

The Pentaverate

Great Performances

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...

ピンクパンサー2

ハイ・ライズ

スワンの恋

Tom Hanks: The Nomad

Franco Zeffirelli, conformista ribelle

Brisant

The Pallisers

アサシン クリード

A Chorus of Disapproval

Wetten, dass..?

フォース・エンジェル

復活!チーターの知られざる生きざま

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・セス・マイヤーズ

エラゴン 遺志を継ぐ者

Faeries

Earthquake On Everest

Game of Lions

Endless Corridor

BBC Play of the Month

Notorious Woman

Georgia O'Keeffe

HBO First Look

Nijinsky

ダンジョン&ドラゴン

Žebrácká opera

ザ・ビュー

Australia

Ptice kao mi

تشيللو

Histoires de festival

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide

Langrishe, Go Down

Metropolis

Tales from Hollywood

Churchill's People

Lynch 2

The Voysey Inheritance

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

Ultimate Enemies: Revealed

Eye of the Leopard: Revealed

Relentless Enemies: Revealed

Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé

Mathilde

Revisiting Brideshead

I Wish For You

Codice Carla

A Night to Die For

Eden at the End of the World

Living With Big Cats: Revealed

Broadway: The Next Generation

Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"

The Wind Gods

'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe

J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

The Power of the Powerless

Seeds of Freedom

The Sunflower Superjam 2012

Jade Eyed Leopard

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood

Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'

The Captain's Doll

Transylvanie, un bestiaire fantastique

The Merchant of Venice

The Crystal Planet

Highlander

Un voyage dans le temps

This Ordinary Thing

Fiat Croma

Last Movies

What is Dyslexia?

Love for Lydia

Racing Legends

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites

Working Shakespeare