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| Birth name: Jeremy John Irons |
| Birth date: 19.09.1948 |
Elegant and handsome British lead actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, which is a small island just off the south coast of England. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic School for two years, then joined Bristol Old Vic repertory company where he gained much experience working in everything from Shakespeare to contemporary dramas. He moved to London in 1971 and had a number of odd jobs before landing the role of John the Baptist in the hit musical Godspell. He went on to a successful early career in the West End theatre and on TV, and debuted onscreen in Nijinsky (1980). In the early 80s he gained international attention with his starring role in a BBC TV serial adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, after which he was much in demand as a romantic leading man. He went on to a steady film career.
In 1984 he debuted on Broadway opposite: Glenn Close in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, and in the mid-80s he appeared in three lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. For his work in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) he won the New York Critics Best Actor Award. For his work in Reversal of Fortune (1990), he won the Oscar for Best Actor. He is married to actress Sinéad Cusack, with whom he appeared in Waterland (1992) and in the Royal Shakespeare Company plays. He appeared with his son Samuel Irons and his father-in-law Cyril Cusack in the film _Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) (TV)_ . |
Filmography |
# The Night of the Iguana (2006) (announced)
# Fantôme de l'opéra (2006) (TV) (filming) .... Erik, the Phantom
# Poslednji krug u Monci 2 (2006) (filming)
# Eragon (2006) (post-production) .... Brom
# Inland Empire (2006) (post-production)
# The Magic 7 (2006) (TV) (voice) .... Thraxx
# RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare (2005) (V) .... Narrator
# Elizabeth I (2005) (TV) .... Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
# Casanova (2005) .... Pucci
... aka Femur (Philippines: English title)
# Kingdom of Heaven (2005) .... Tiberias
... aka Königreich der Himmel (Germany)
... aka Reino de los cielos, El (Spain)
# The Merchant of Venice (2004) .... Antonio
... aka Mercante di Venezia, Il (Italy)
... aka William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (USA: complete title)
# Being Julia (2004) .... Michael Gosselyn
... aka Csodálatos Júlia (Hungary)
# Mathilde (2004) .... Pukovnik Unprofora
# Dame Edna Live at the Palace (2003) (TV)
# Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003) (TV) .... Snape
# Callas Forever (2002) .... Larry Kelly
... aka Callas Forever (Spain)
# Last Call (2002) (TV) .... F. Scott Fitzgerald
... aka Fitzgerald (USA)
# And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002) .... Valentin Valentin
# The Time Machine (2002) .... Über-Morlock
# The Fourth Angel (2001) .... Jack Elgin
... aka Vengeance secrète (Canada: French title)
# Dungeons & Dragons (2000) .... Profion
... aka Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie (UK: promotional title)
# Longitude (2000) (TV) .... Rupert Gould
# Ohio Impromptu (2000) (TV) .... Reader/Listener
# CTS: Toronto (1999) (TV) .... Andrew Launder
# Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City (1999) (voice) .... Poseidon
... aka Poseidon's Fury (USA: informal short title)
# Faeries (1999) (voice) .... The Shapeshifter
# The Man in the Iron Mask (1998/I) .... Aramis
# Lolita (1997) .... Humbert Humbert
... aka Lolita (France)
# Chinese Box (1997) .... John
# Mirad (1997) (TV) .... Djuka
# Stealing Beauty (1996) .... Alex
... aka Beauté volée (France)
... aka Io ballo da sola (Italy)
# Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) .... Simon Gruber
... aka Die Hard 3
# The Lion King (1994) (voice) .... Scar
... aka Rey león, El (USA: Spanish title)
# The Lion King (1994) (VG) (voice) .... Scar
# Spaceship Earth (1994) .... Narrator
# The House of the Spirits (1993) .... Esteban Trueba
... aka Åndernes hus (Denmark)
... aka A Casa dos Espíritos (Portugal)
... aka Geisterhaus, Das (Germany)
# M. Butterfly (1993) .... René Gallimard
# Damage (1992) .... Dr. Stephen Fleming
... aka Fatale (France)
... aka Verhängnis (Germany)
# Tales from Hollywood (1992) (TV) .... Odon Von Horvath
# Waterland (1992) .... Tom Crick
# From Time to Time (1992) .... H.G. Wells
... aka Timekeeper
... aka Visionarium, Le (France)
# Kafka (1991) .... Kafka
... aka Kafka (France)
# Zebrácká opera (1991) .... Prisoner
... aka The Beggar's Opera
# "Saturday Night Live"
... aka SNL
... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title)
- Episode #16.16 (1991) TV Episode .... Host
# Reversal of Fortune (1990) .... Claus von Bülow
# Australia (1989) .... Edouard Pierson
# Danny the Champion of the World (1989) (TV) .... William Smith
# Dead Ringers (1988) .... Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle
... aka Alter ego (Canada: French title)
# A Chorus of Disapproval (1988) .... Guy Jones
# The Mission (1986) .... Father Gabriel
# Rabbit Ears: The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1985) (V) .... Storyteller
# Un amour de Swann (1984) .... Charles Swann
... aka A Love of Swann
... aka Liebe von Swann, Eine (West Germany)
... aka Swann in Love
# Betrayal (1983) .... Jerry
# The Captain's Doll (1983) (TV) .... Captain Alex Hepworth
# The Wild Duck (1983) .... Harold
# Moonlighting (1982) .... Nowak
... aka Schwarzarbeit (West Germany)
# "Brideshead Revisited" (1981) (mini) TV Series .... Charles Ryder
# The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) .... Charles Henry Smithson/Mike
# Nijinsky (1980) .... Mikhail Fokine
# "Play of the Month"
- The Voysey Inheritance (1979) TV Episode
# Langrishe Go Down (1978) (TV) .... Otto Beck
... aka BBC2 Play of the Week: Langrishe Go Down (UK: series title)
# "Love for Lydia" (1977) (mini) TV Series .... Alex Sanderson
# The Liberty Tree (1975) (TV)
# "Notorious Woman" (1974) (mini) TV Series .... Franz Liszt
# "The Pallisers" (1974) TV Series .... Frank Tregear
# "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes"
- The Case of the Mirror of Portugal (1971) TV Episode .... Nephew
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Sleepy Hollow
(1999)
The Best Cinema Classi ...
(2005)
Drumline
(2002)
Alvin And The Chipmunks
(2007)
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