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.
159 movies · 50 shows
What is dyslexia?
2026·0.0
Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
2026·0.0
Last Movies
2026·0.0
This Ordinary Thing
2025·0.0
Palestine 36
2025·7.8
The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
2025·7.1
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024·6.0
Quintessentially Irish
2024·6.4
The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
2024·6.0
The Beekeeper
2024·7.3
Codice Carla
2023·0.0
Once Upon a Studio
2023·8.3
The Cello
2023·4.0
Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
2023·3.8
The Flash
2023·6.6
Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
2023·0.0
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023·5.5
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
2022·0.0
Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
2022·5.5
Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
2022·0.0
Eternal Enemies: Revealed
2022·8.0
Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
2022·0.0
Relentless Enemies: Revealed
2022·0.0
Living With Big Cats: Revealed
2022·0.0
The Way of the Cheetah
2022·6.4
Munich - The Edge of War
2021·6.9
House of Gucci
2021·6.6
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
2021·8.2
Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
2021·0.0
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
2021·0.0
Architects of Ancient Arabia
2021·9.5
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021·8.1
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
2020·6.0
Jade Eyed Leopard
2020·10.0
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
2019·7.2
An Actor Prepares
2018·5.8
Better Start Running
2018·5.9
Red Sparrow
2018·6.5
Justice League
2017·6.1
Birds Like Us
2017·4.1
Their Finest
2017·6.6
Assassin's Creed
2016·5.4
The Sultan and the Saint
2016·6.8
The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016·7.2
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016·6.0
Race
2016·7.3
DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
2016·6.0
Correspondence
2016·6.4
I Wish For You
2016·0.0
High-Rise
2015·5.6
The Genius of George Boole
2015·7.5
Emotional Uncertainties
2015·0.0
Earthquake On Everest
2015·5.0
Endless Corridor
2014·6.2
The Voysey Inheritance
2014·0.0
Game of Lions
2013·5.0
Muse of Fire
2013·6.5
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
2013·0.0
Goodbye Granadaland
2013·0.0
The Wind Gods
2013·0.0
Night Train to Lisbon
2013·6.5
Beautiful Creatures
2013·6.0
Trashed
2012·7.2
Another Way Home
2012·10.0
The Words
2012·6.7
Seeds of Freedom
2012·0.0
Margin Call
2011·6.9
The Last Lions
2011·7.2
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010·8.0
The Majestic Plastic Bag
2010·7.7
The Power of the Powerless
2009·0.0
Georgia O'Keeffe
2009·4.9
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009·7.2
The Chronoscope
2009·8.5
The Pink Panther 2
2009·5.7
Appaloosa
2008·6.6
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
2008·10.0
1984
2008·6.0
Eden at the End of the World
2008·0.0
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008·0.0
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008·0.0
Lynch 2
2007·0.0
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
2007·0.0
Eragon
2006·5.1
Inland Empire
2006·7.0
The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall
2006·5.3
Eye of the Leopard
2006·8.3
The Path to Redemption
2006·8.0
Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
2006·8.0
Mathilde
2006·0.0
Casanova
2005·6.5
Revisiting Brideshead
2005·8.0
The Merchant of Venice
2005·0.0
Kingdom of Heaven
2005·7.1
Gallipoli
2005·7.1
Fiat Croma
2005·0.0
The Merchant of Venice
2004·6.8
Being Julia
2004·6.4
Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
2003·10.0
The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
2003·6.2
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003·7.0
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
2003·10.0
Callas Forever
2002·6.5
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2002·5.8
Last Call
2002·6.0
Heart of the Festival
2002·6.5
Ohio Impromptu
2002·9.0
The Time Machine
2002·6.3
The Short Life of Anne Frank
2001·9.0
The Fourth Angel
2001·5.3
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
2001·0.0
Dungeons & Dragons
2000·4.4
Longitude
2000·7.4
Faeries
1999·5.2
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998·6.7
The Lolita Story
1998·6.0
Chinese Box
1997·5.8
Lolita
1997·7.1
Stealing Beauty
1996·6.7
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995·8.0
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995·7.3
A Night to Die For
1995·7.0
The Making of the Lion King
1994·10.0
The Lion King
1994·8.3
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994·7.0
The House of the Spirits
1993·6.9
M. Butterfly
1993·6.6
Damage
1992·6.6
Tales from Hollywood
1992·3.0
Earth and the American Dream
1992·6.7
Waterland
1992·6.3
Blast 'Em
1992·7.0
From Time to Time
1992·8.0
Kafka
1991·6.4
The Beggar's Opera
1991·5.2
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
1991·0.0
Reversal of Fortune
1990·6.6
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1990·6.0
Australia
1989·4.7
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
1989·0.0
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989·5.4
Danny the Champion of the World
1989·6.2
The Dream
1989·9.0
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988·6.8
Dead Ringers
1988·7.1
The Making of Dead Ringers
1988·8.0
The Mission
1986·7.4
Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin Soldier
1986·5.0
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
1986·7.2
The Statue of Liberty
1985·6.9
Night of 100 Stars II
1985·6.8
The Wild Duck
1984·7.0
Swann in Love
1984·5.6
Betrayal
1983·6.1
The Captain's Doll
1983·7.0
Moonlighting
1982·7.0
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981·6.5
Nijinsky
1980·4.9
Langrishe, Go Down
1978·4.4