Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer.
After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his long time partner, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's "Hamlet", led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film "Brazil". Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has participated in big-budget films such as "Evita", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The New World", as well as independent projects such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Carrington". His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in "Comedians", the second for his 1991 role as "The Engineer" in the musical "Miss Saigon".
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Popularity136
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Budget243M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 The Thursday Murder Club as Stephen
2025 Sleeping Lions
2025 Flavia de Luce
2025 The Penguin Lessons as The Headmaster
2025 William Tell as Attinghausen
2023 One Life as Martin Blake
2023 Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
2022 Scrooge: A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley (voice)
2022 The Spirit of 1926 as Narrator
2022 The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking as Self - Narrator
2022 All the Old Knives as Bill Compton
2022 The Witness is a Whale as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022 Slow Horses as David Cartwright
2022 Save the Cinema as Mr. Morgan
2021 Stories of You and I as Narrator
2019 The Two Popes as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
2019 He Dreams of Giants as Himself
2019 Piney: The Lonesome Pine as Grandpa Sid
2018 The Wife as Joe Castleman
2018 To Provide All People as Retired Neurosurgeon
2018 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as Don Quixote
2017 The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mr. John Dickens
2017 Becoming Cary Grant as Cary Grant (voice)
2017 The Healer as Raymond Heacock
2016 To Walk Invisible as Patrick Brontë
2016 The Crown as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
2016 Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016 Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance as Special Finale Guest Star
2016 The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Shylock
2016 The White King as Colonel Fitz
2015 Shylock's Ghost as Self
2015 Narcopolis as Sidorov
2015 Dough as Nat
2015 Woman in Gold as Chief Justice Rehnquist
2015 Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life as Self
2014 Sluizer Speaks
2014 Under Milk Wood as Mr. Pugh
2014 The Salvation as Mayor Nathan Keane
2014 Listen Up Philip as Ike
2014 The Ghost and the Whale as Whale
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation as U.S. President
2012 King Lear as King Lear
2012 Dark Blood as Harry Fletcher
2012 Patience (After Sebald) as Voiceover
2011 Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
2011 City State as Jimmy
2011 Hysteria as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
2010 The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as U.S. President
2009 Echelon Conspiracy as Mueller
2008 Bedtime Stories as Marty Bronson
2008 Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began as Ian Fleming (voice)
2008 My Zinc Bed as Victor
2008 What Is Brazil? as Self
2008 The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen as Self / Horatio Jackson
2008 Leatherheads as CC Frazier
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Governor Weatherby Swann
2007 Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars as Sherlock Holmes
2007 The Moon and the Stars as James Clavel / Scarpia
2006 Brothers of the Head as Henry Couling
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Weatherby Swann
2005 The New World as King James
2005 The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life as Self
2005 The Brothers Grimm as Delatombe
2005 Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
2004 Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane as Self
2004 De-Lovely as Gabriel
2003 An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Self
2003 David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Narrator
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Governor Weatherby Swann
2003 Quest for the Giant Squid as Narrator
2003 What a Girl Wants as Alistair Payne
2002 Mad Dogs as Supreme Being
2002 Best Ever Bond as Self / Elliot Carver
2002 Unconditional Love as Victor Fox
2002 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Master Schoemacker
2002 Taliesin Jones as Da
2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
2001 Victoria & Albert as King Leopold I of Belgium
2001 Bride of the Wind as Gustav Mahler
2001 Very Annie Mary as Jack Pugh
2001 Il gioco as Mark
2000 Tales from the Madhouse as The Thief
2000 The Suicide Club as Bourne
1999 Stigmata as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
1999 Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Master
1999 Titanic: Answers From The Abyss as Narrator
1998 Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
1998 Ronin as Seamus O'Rourke
1998 Highly Classified: The World of 007
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies as Elliot Carver
1997 The Secrets of 007 as Self
1997 Regeneration as Capt. William Rivers
1997 David as Saul
1996 Evita as Juan Perón
1996 A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' as Self
1995 Carrington as Lytton Strachey
1994 Shopping as Conway
1994 A Troll in Central Park as Alan (voice)
1994 Great Moments in Aviation as Duncan Stewart
1994 Deadly Advice as Dr. Ted Philips
1994 A Business Affair as Alec Bolton
1993 The Age of Innocence as Rivière
1993 Thicker Than Water as Sam
1993 Barbarians at the Gate as Henry Kravis
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross as James Lingk
1992 Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Trilby (voice)
1992 A Child's Garden of Verses as Narrator / Father (voice)
1991 Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
1990 The Man from the Pru as William Wallace
1989 The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon as Self - 'The Engineer'
1989 The Rachel Papers as Norman
1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
1988 The World Within Us as Voice
1988 Consuming Passions as Mr. Farris
1987 Man on Fire as Michael
1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash as Jack
1986 Haunted Honeymoon as Charles Abbot
1985 The Doctor and the Devils as Robert Fallon
1985 Brazil as Sam Lowry
1984 An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
1983 Martin Luther, Heretic as Martin Luther
1983 The Ploughman's Lunch as James Penfield
1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes as Mr. Dark
1982 Murder Is Easy as Mr. Ellsworthy
1982 Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
1981 Loophole as Taylor
1981 The Caretaker as Mick
1981 Timon of Athens as Timon
1980 Breaking Glass as Ken
1980 The Day Christ Died as Herod
1979 Comedians as Gethin Price
1978 For Tea on Sunday as Nicholas
1976 Voyage of the Damned as Joseph Manasse
1976 Play Things as Playleader
1975 The Death of a Young Young Man as Tommy
6.50 Fantasy 13
6.49 Adventure 14
6.47 Western 1
6.45 Documentary 19
6.39 Crime 9
6.34 Comedy 31
6.34 History 12
6.34 Music 9
6.29 Action 15
6.24 Drama 57
6.19 Family 7
6.13 Horror 4
5.99 TV Movie 14
5.94 Mystery 9
5.90 Romance 15
5.85 Animation 4
5.80 War 2
5.72 Thriller 18
5.66 Science Fiction 9