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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.

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2025 Palestine 36

2025 Water People: The Story of Us as The Ocean (voice)

2025 The Crystal Planet as Governor Mordokan (voice)

2025 Encore as Nigel

2025 The Well of Saint Nobody as William

2025 The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl as Self

2024 Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self

2024 Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom as Narrator

2024 Quintessentially Irish as Self

2024 The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio

2024 The Beekeeper as Wallace Westwyld

2023 Codice Carla as Self

2023 Once Upon a Studio as Scar (voice)

2023 The Cello as Francesco

2023 Making The Flash: Worlds Collide as Self - 'Alfred' Thanks

2023 The Flash as Alfred Pennyworth

2023 Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion as Traveller (archived audio)

2023 Tom Hanks: The Nomad as Self (archive footage)

2022 Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé as Self (archive footage)

2022 Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist as Self

2022 Birds Like Us as Mi (voice)

2022 Eternal Enemies: Revealed as Narrator (voice)

2022 Eye of the Leopard: Revealed as Narrator (voice)

2022 Relentless Enemies: Revealed as Narrator (voice)

2022 Ultimate Enemies: Revealed as Narrator (voice)

2022 Living With Big Cats: Revealed as Narrator

2022 The Way of the Cheetah as Narrator (voice)

2021 Munich – The Edge of War as Neville Chamberlain

2021 House of Gucci as Rodolfo Gucci

2021 Napoleon: In the Name of Art

2021 Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto as Himself

2021 Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood as Self

2021 Architects of Ancient Arabia as Narrator

2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Alfred

2021 Nepal Beyond Executive Producer

2020 Love, Weddings & Other Disasters as Lawrence Philips

2020 Jade Eyed Leopard as Narrator (voice)

2019 The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

2018 An Actor Prepares as Atticus

2018 Better Start Running as Garrison

2018 Red Sparrow as Vladimir Korchnoi

2017 Broadway: The Next Generation as Self

2017 Justice League as Alfred Pennyworth

2017 Their Finest as Secretary of War

2016 Assassin's Creed as Alan Rikkin

2016 The Sultan and the Saint as Narrator

2016 The Man Who Knew Infinity as G. H. Hardy

2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Alfred

2016 Race as Avery Brundage

2016 DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League as Self

2016 Correspondence as Ed Phoerum

2016 I Wish For You as Grandfather

2015 High-Rise as Anthony Royal

2015 The Genius of George Boole as Narrator (voice)

2015 Emotional Uncertainties as Self Thanks

2015 Earthquake On Everest as Narrator (voice)

2014 Endless Corridor as Narrator

2014 The Voysey Inheritance as Edward Voysey

2013 Game of Lions as Narrator (voice)

2013 Muse of Fire as Self

2013 The Sunflower Superjam 2012 as Self

2013 Goodbye Granadaland as Self

2013 The Wind Gods as Narrator (voice)

2013 Night Train to Lisbon as Raimund

2013 Beautiful Creatures as Macon Ravenwood

2012 Trashed as Himself

2012 Another Way Home as Narrator

2012 The Words as The Old Man

2012 Seeds of Freedom as Narator

2011 Margin Call as John Tuld

2011 The Last Lions as Narrator

2010 Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self

2010 The Majestic Plastic Bag as Narrator

2009 The Power of the Powerless

2009 Georgia O'Keeffe as Alfred Stieglitz

2009 Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self (archive footage)

2009 The Chronoscope as Narrator

2009 The Pink Panther 2 as Avellaneda

2008 Appaloosa as Randall Bragg

2008 1984 as Television Voice

2008 Eden at the End of the World as Narrator

2007 Lynch 2 as Self

2007 J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation as Narrator

2006 Eragon as Brom

2006 Inland Empire as Kingsley Stewart

2006 The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall as Self

2006 Eye of the Leopard as Narrator

2006 The Path to Redemption as Self

2006 Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo as Narrator (voice)

2006 Mathilde as Col. De Petris

2005 Casanova as Pucci

2005 Revisiting Brideshead as Self

2005 The Merchant of Venice as Himself

2005 Kingdom of Heaven as Tiberias

2005 Gallipoli as Narrator

2004 The Merchant of Venice as Antonio

2004 Being Julia as Michael Gosselyn

2003 Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions as Narrator (voice)

2003 The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World as Narrator

2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self

2002 Callas Forever as Larry Kelly

2002 And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... as Valentin Valentin

2002 Last Call as F. Scott Fitzgerald

2002 Ohio Impromptu as Reader / Listener

2002 The Time Machine as Über-Morlock

2001 The Short Life of Anne Frank as Narrator (English version)

2001 The Fourth Angel as Jack Elgin

2001 The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons" as Self

2000 Dungeons & Dragons as Profion

2000 Longitude as Rupert Gould

1999 Faeries as The Shapeshifter (voice)

1998 The Man in the Iron Mask as Aramis

1998 The Lolita Story as Himself

1997 Chinese Box as John

1997 Lolita as Humbert Humbert

1996 Stealing Beauty as Alex Parrish

1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self

1995 Die Hard: With a Vengeance as Simon

1995 A Night to Die For as Self

1994 The Making of the Lion King as Self

1994 The Lion King as Scar (voice)

1994 Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! as Self (archive footage)

1993 The House of the Spirits as Esteban Trueba

1993 M. Butterfly as René Gallimard

1992 Damage as Dr. Stephen Fleming

1992 Tales from Hollywood as Odon Von Horvath

1992 Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)

1992 Waterland as Tom Crick

1991 Kafka as Kafka

1991 The Beggar's Opera as Prisoner

1991 'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe as Narrator

1990 Reversal of Fortune as Claus von Bülow

1990 Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! as Self

1989 Australia as Edouard Pierson

1989 Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World' as Narrator

1989 A Chorus of Disapproval as Guy Jones

1989 Danny the Champion of the World as William Smith

1989 The Dream

1988 Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special as Self

1988 Dead Ringers as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle

1988 The Making of Dead Ringers as Self - Actor

1986 The Mission as Father Gabriel

1986 Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier as Narrator (voice)

1986 Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary as Self

1985 The Statue of Liberty as Self (voice)

1985 Night of 100 Stars II as Self

1984 The Wild Duck as Harold

1984 Swann in Love as Charles Swann

1983 Betrayal as Jerry

1983 The Captain's Doll as Captain Alexander Hepburn

1982 Moonlighting as Nowak

1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike

1980 Nijinsky as Mikhail Fokine

1978 Langrishe, Go Down as Otto Beck

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