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Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

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Irons at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con.

Jeremy Irons is an English actor known for his roles on stage, screen and television.

Theatre

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Following his training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons first acted with the school's theatre company:

Year Production Role Venue
1969 The Winter's Tale Florizel Bristol Old Vic
Hay Fever Simon
What the Butler Saw Nick
Major Barbara
The Servant of Two Masters
Macbeth
The Boy Friend
1970 As You Like It
Oh! What a Lovely War Little Theatre Bristol
The School for Scandal
1971–1973 Godspell John/Judas Roundhouse and Wyndham's Theatre
1973 The Diary of a Madman The Madman Act Inn
1974 Much Ado About Nothing Don Pedro Young Vic
The Caretaker Mick
1975 The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio Roundhouse
1976 Wild Oats Harry Thunder Aldwych Theatre
1977 Stratford and Piccadilly Theatre
1978 The Rear Column Jameson Globe Theatre
1984–1985 The Real Thing Henry Plymouth Theatre (Broadway)
1986 The Winter's Tale Leontes Royal Shakespeare Theatre
The Rover Willmore Swan Theatre and Mermaid Theatre
1986 Richard II Richard II Royal Shakespeare Theatre
1987 Barbican Theatre
2003 A Little Night Music Fredrick Egerman New York City Opera
2005 Celebration Russell Gate Theatre and Albery Theatre
Camelot King Arthur Hollywood Bowl
2006 Embers Henrik Duke of York's Theatre
2006 Pinter Plays, Poetry & Prose Teatro Carignano, Turin[1][2]
2008 Never So Good Harold Macmillan National Theatre
2009 Impressionism Thomas Buckle Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway
2013 The Mystery Plays God Gloucester Cathedral and Worcester Cathedral
2016 Long Day's Journey into Night James Tyrone Bristol Old Vic
2018 Wyndham's Theatre, BAM and Wallis Annenberg Center
2017 Correspondence 1944–1959 Readings from the epistles between Albert Camus and Maria Casares Albert Teatro Argentina, Rome[3][4]
Ashes to Ashes (Special creation for the Europe Theatre Prize) Devlin

Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1980 Nijinsky Mikhail Fokine
1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman Charles Henry Smithson/Mike
1982 Moonlighting Nowak
1983 Betrayal Jerry
1984 The Wild Duck Harold
Swann in Love Charles Swann
1985 The Statue of Liberty Himself Voice; Documentary
1986 The Mission Father Gabriel
1988 Dead Ringers Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
1989 A Chorus of Disapproval Guy Jones
Australia Edouard Pierson
Danny, the Champion of the World William Smith
1990 Reversal of Fortune Claus von Bülow
1991 Beggar's Opera Prisoner
Kafka Franz Kafka
1992 The Timekeeper H. G. Wells Short film
Waterland Tom Crick
Damage Dr. Stephen Fleming
1993 M. Butterfly René Gallimard
The House of the Spirits Esteban Trueba
1994 Spaceship Earth Narrator (3rd edition) Voice; Documentary short
The Lion King Scar Voice[5]
1995 Die Hard with a Vengeance Simon Gruber
1996 Stealing Beauty Alex
1997 Chinese Box John
Lolita Humbert Humbert
1998 The Man in the Iron Mask Aramis
1999 Faeries The Shapeshifter Voice[5]
Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City Poseidon Voice; Short film
2000 Dungeons & Dragons Profion
2001 The Fourth Angel Jack Elgin
2002 Callas Forever Larry Kelly
The Time Machine The Über-Morlock
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen Valentin Valentin
2004 Mathilde Col. De Petris
The Merchant of Venice Antonio
Being Julia Michael Gosselyn
2005 Kingdom of Heaven Tiberias
Casanova Pucci
2006 Inland Empire Kingsley Stewart
Eragon Brom
Eye of the Leopard Narrator Voice; Documentary
2008 Appaloosa Randall Bragg
2009 The Pink Panther 2 Alonso Avellaneda
2011 Margin Call[6] John Tuld
The Last Lions Narrator Voice; Documentary
2012 The Words The Old Man
Trashed Himself Documentary; also executive producer
2013 Night Train to Lisbon Raimund Gregorius
Beautiful Creatures Macon Ravenwood
2015 High-Rise Anthony Royal
The Man Who Knew Infinity G. H. Hardy
2016 The Correspondence Ed Phoerum
Race Avery Brundage
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Alfred Pennyworth [7]
Their Finest Secretary of War
Assassin's Creed Alan Rikkin [8]
2017 Birds Like Us Kondor/Mi Voice[9][10]
Justice League Alfred Pennyworth [11]
2018 Red Sparrow Vladimir Korchnoi [12]
Better Start Running Garrison Also executive producer[13]
An Actor Prepares Atticus Smith [14]
2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters Lawrence Phillips [15]
2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League Alfred Pennyworth Director's cut of Justice League[16]
Munich – The Edge of War Neville Chamberlain [17]
House of Gucci Rodolfo Gucci [18]
2023 The Flash Alfred Pennyworth [19]
The Cello Francesco [20]
Once Upon a Studio Scar Voice;[5][21] Short film
2024 The Beekeeper Wallace Westwyld [22]
TBA Palestine 36 Post-production[23]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Nephew George Episode: "The Case of the Mirror of Portugal"
1974 The Pallisers Frank Tregear 6 episodes
Notorious Woman Franz Liszt 2 episodes
1975 Churchill's People Samuel Ross Episode: "Liberty Tree"
1977 Love for Lydia Alex Sanderson 7 episodes
1978 Play of the Week (BBC2) Otto Beck Episode: Langrishe, Go Down
1979 Play of the Month (BBC2) Edward Voysey Episode: The Voysey Inheritance
1981 Brideshead Revisited[24] Charles Ryder 11 episodes
1983 The Captain's Doll Captain Alex Hepworth Television film
1989 The Dream The Man Television short
1990 The Civil War Various roles Voices; 9 episodes
1991 Saturday Night Live Himself (host) Episode: "Jeremy Irons/Fishbone"
1992 Performance Odon Von Horvath Episode: "Tales from Hollywood"
1996 The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century Siegfried Sassoon Voice; 3 episodes
2000 Longitude Rupert Gould 4 episodes
2001 The Short Life of Anne Frank Narrator Television documentary
2002 Last Call F. Scott Fitzgerald Television film
2003 Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do Severus Snape Television special
2005 Elizabeth I Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester 2 episodes
2008 The Colour of Magic Havelock Vetinari
2009 The Magic 7 Thraxx Voice; Television film
Georgia O'Keeffe[25] Alfred Stieglitz Television film
2010 Arena Various Characters Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration"
2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[26] Dr. Cap Jackson 2 episodes
2011–13 The Borgias Rodrigo Borgia 29 episodes
2012 The Simpsons Bar Rag Voice; Episode: "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
Henry IV Part I and Part II Henry IV 2 episodes
2013 Life on Fire Narrator 6 episodes
2019 Watchmen Adrian Veidt 8 episodes
2021 Napoleon – In the Name of Art Presenting narrator Documentary
The Emirates from Above Narrator
2022 The Pentaverate 6 episodes
2024 The Count of Monte Cristo Abbé Faria 8 episodes

References

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  1. ^ "Europe Theatre Prize - X Edition - programma". 2016-03-28. Archived from the original on 2016-03-28. Retrieved 2022-12-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Huppert-Irons, un Premio Europa per il Teatro in nome di Pinter | Controscena". www.controscena.net. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  3. ^ "Huppert and Irons are theatrical dynamite in Pinter's power games". the Guardian. 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  4. ^ "Programme XVI edition Europe Theatre Prize - Premio Europa per il Teatro" (PDF). 2022-12-15.
  5. ^ a b c "Jeremy Irons (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved December 7, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
  6. ^ Kay, Jeremy (25 January 2011). "Margin Call is a fine crash movie, but no banker". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
  7. ^ "Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Irons Join the Cast of Warner Bros. Pictures' Untitled Superman/Batman Film from Director Zack Snyder". Business Wire. 31 January 2014.
  8. ^ Busch, Anita (October 2, 2015). "Jeremy Irons & Brendan Gleeson Join Assassin's Creed". Deadline. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  9. ^ "CineLink Work in Progress Selection 2015" (PDF). Sarajevo Film Festival. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  10. ^ "First Bosnian animated feature film Birds Like Us is completed". Klix.ba. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  11. ^ Osborn, Alex (May 29, 2016). "Jeremy Irons Knocks 'Muddled' Batman v Superman, Promises 'Simpler' Justice League: Part One". IGN. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  12. ^ Ford, Rebecca (December 6, 2016). "Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons Joining Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  13. ^ Murray, Noel (October 11, 2018). "Review: Road trip comedy Better Start Running bogs down with dim characters". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  14. ^ McNary, Dave (June 20, 2018). "Jeremy Irons-Jack Huston Comedy An Actor Prepares Bought by Gravitas (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  15. ^ McNary, Dave (August 29, 2019). "Diane Keaton, Jeremy Irons to Star in Love, Weddings and Other Disasters". Variety. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  16. ^ Freeman, Molly (July 25, 2020). "Justice League: First Black Suit Superman Clip Revealed by Zack Snyder". ScreenRant. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  17. ^ Grater, Tom (November 3, 2020). "Jeremy Irons, George MacKay Starring In Robert Harris Adaptation Munich For Netflix". Deadline. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  18. ^ Kroll, Justin (December 7, 2020). "Jeremy Irons Joins Lady Gaga In Ridley Scott And MGM's Gucci". Deadline. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  19. ^ Holmes, Adam (May 23, 2023). "The Flash's Newest International Trailer Reveals Another DCEU Alum Is Returning". Cinema Blend. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  20. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (November 1, 2021). "Jeremy Irons & Tobin Bell Lead Cast In Darren Lynn Bousman Horror Cello; Pic Among Growing Number Of Productions To Film In Saudi Arabia". Deadline. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  21. ^ "Once Upon a Studio: Behind the Scenes" (PDF).
  22. ^ Hipes, Patrick (October 4, 2023). "The Beekeeper Trailer: Jason Statham And David Ayer Action Movie Flying Toward January Release". Deadline. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  23. ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (February 10, 2025). "MK2 & Lucky Number Board Annemarie Jacir's 'Palestine 36'; Unveil First Stills & Jeremy Irons Casting Alongside Hiam Abbass, Saleh Bakri, Billy Howle & Liam Cunningham – EFM". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  24. ^ Dempster, Sarah; Dent, Grace; Mangan, Lucy; Lawson, Mark; Wollaston, Sam; Vine, Richard (19 July 2015). "The top 50 TV dramas of all time: 2-10". The Guardian. London.
  25. ^ "Lifetime to Paint Bio of Georgia O'Keeffe" TV Guide. 6 November 2008. Retrieved on 7 November 2008.
  26. ^ "SVU Scoop: Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons to Guest-Star". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
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