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Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, being one of just 24 actors who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting.
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entertainment · British actor (born 1948) · film actor · voice actor · stage actor · television actor · actor · singer · also Jeremy Irons, Irons
Born 19 September 1948 · Q171745
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast as the sea – but who should play the clouds?
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Irons' Kilcoe Castle appeared as a single subject in a series of poems (one of them regarding Judi Dench) printed by the magazine Origami Poems Project and illustrated by the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salg
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2024· 2 entries
Performed Scar's song at the Hollywood Bowl's The Lion King 30th Anniversary – A Live-to-Film Concert Event
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Irons was cast in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show where he portrayed Alex Levy's (Jennifer Aniston) father for season 4
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2022· 1 entry
Irons played British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the period spy thriller Munich – The Edge of War
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2021· 1 entry
Irons played Rodolfo Gucci in Ridley Scott's biographical crime drama film House of Gucci
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2020· 6 entries
The Guardian: All alone online: Iggy Pop and Jeremy Irons lead mass Ancient Mariner reading
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Irons said, "I applaud the legislation of same-sex marriage, wherever it has been attained
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Irons was one of 40 British voices to read three to four verses (broadcast daily) of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 150-verse 18th century poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Irons said, "I support wholeheartedly the right of women to have an abortion should they so decide"
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“I applaud the legislation of same-sex marriage, wherever it has been attained. I hope that such enlightened legislation will continue to spread into more and more societies”
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“I support wholeheartedly the right of women to have an abortion should they so decide”
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2018· 1 entry
Played General Vladimir Korchnoi in Francis Lawrence's spy thriller film Red Sparrow, based on Jason Matthews's book of the same name
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Europe Theatre Prize (2017).
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Recited the spoken sections, most notably "Late Lament", for The Moody Blues' 50th Anniversary Tour of "Days Of Future Passed", and also appears on the video presentation
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Performed with Isabelle Huppert Correspondence 1944–1959 Readings from the epistles between Albert Camus and Maria Casares and a special creation of Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome
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2016· 3 entries
In 2016, in an interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Irons stated that he would decline an honour: "I became an actor to be a rogue and a vagabond so I don't think it would be apt for the establishment to pull me in as one of their own, for I ain't."
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“I became an actor to be a rogue and a vagabond so I don”
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In an interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Irons stated that he would decline an honour: "I became an actor to be a rogue and a vagabond so I don't think it would be apt for the establishment to pull me in as on
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2015· 1 entry
And Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 2016
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Flowers of the Field”.
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2013· 3 entries
In 2013, Irons said he was a smoker and an avid fan of cigars, naming Romeo y Julieta as his favourite brand.
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Irons caused controversy for an interview with the Huffington Post, in which he said he "doesn't have a strong feeling either way" on gay marriage but expressed fears that it could "debase marital law", suggesting it cou
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Irons said he was a smoker and an avid fan of cigars, naming Romeo y Julieta as his favourite brand
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2012· 2 entries
Starred and worked as executive producer of the environmental documentary film Trashed
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With The Waste Land, he went on to record Four Quartets in 2014, The Love Song of J
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2011· 2 entries
Irons appeared alongside Kevin Spacey in the thriller Margin Call
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Irons was criticised in the British Medical Journal for his fundraising activities in support of the College of Medicine, an alternative medicine lobby group in the UK linked to King Charles
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2010· 2 entries
In 2010, Irons starred in a promotional video, for "The 1billionhungry project" – a worldwide drive to attract at least one million signatures to a petition calling on international leaders to move hunger to the top of the political agenda.
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Irons starred in a promotional video, for "The 1billionhungry project" – a worldwide drive to attract at least one million signatures to a petition calling on international leaders to move hunger to the top of the politi
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2009· 3 entries
Irons appeared on Broadway opposite Joan Allen in the play Impressionism
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Irons signed a petition in support of Polish film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl
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Irons appeared on the Touchstone album Wintercoast, recording a narrative introduction to the album
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2008· 4 entries
Irons was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Southampton Solent University
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Played Lord Havelock Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, an adaptation for Sky One
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Two researchers, a linguist and a sound engineer, found "the perfect [male] voice" to be a combination of Irons's and Alan Rickman's voices based on a sample of 50 voices
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Irons co-starred with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen in the western drama Appaloosa, directed by Harris
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Elizabeth I (2006).
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Co-starred with Patrick Malahide in Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Sándor Márai's novel Embers at the Duke of York's Theatre
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Irons appeared with Laura Dern in David Lynch's Inland Empire
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2005· 2 entries
Appeared in the films Casanova opposite Heath Ledger, and Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven
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Irons portrayed Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in the Channel 4-HBO mini-series, Elizabeth I, in which he starred opposite Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth I)
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2004· 4 entries
Irons played the title character in The Merchant of Venice
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Irons played Severus Snape in the BBC's Comic Relief's Harry Potter parody, "Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan"
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Publicly declared his support for the Countryside Alliance, referring to the 2004 Hunting Act as an "outrageous assault on civil liberties" and "one of the two most devastating parliamentary votes in the last century"
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Starred in István Szabó's Being Julia opposite Annette Bening, receiving a Satellite Award nomination for his performance
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2003· 1 entry
Irons played Fredrik Egerman in a New York revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and two years later appeared as King Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot at the Hollywood Bowl
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2000· 1 entry
Irons received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Olivia de Havilland during the International Achievement Summit in London
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Special Achievement Award (1998).
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Irons and his wife were named in the list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party, a year following its return to government with Tony Blair's victory in the 1997 general election, following eighteen
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Donostia Award (1997).
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1994· 1 entry
Lent his distinctive voice to the antagonist Scar in the Walt Disney Animated film The Lion King (1994), where it became one of his best-known film roles
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Reversal of Fortune (1991).
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1987· 2 entries
The songs from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, released on the Decca label
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Released album “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”.
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1986· 1 entry
And in the dual role of twin gynecologists in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers alongside Geneviève Bujold in 1988
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1985· 1 entry
Irons directed a music video for Carly Simon and her heavily promoted single, "Tired of Being Blonde", and in 1994, he had a cameo role in the video for Elastica's hit single "Connection"
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1984).
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Made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
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1978· 1 entry
They have two sons, Samuel "Sam" Irons (born 1978), who works as a psychotherapist, and who co-starred with his father in Danny, the Champion of the World, and Maximilian "Max" Irons (born 1985), also an actor.
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-09-19.
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