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Jeremy Irons

Highest Rated: 100% Moonlighting (1982)

Lowest Rated: 3% Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)

Birthday: Sep 19, 1948

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Birthplace: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

Classically trained stage actor Jeremy Irons enjoyed one of the most varied international film careers of his peers, going beyond the expected costume dramas to offer award-winning performances as men of all eras and motives. Leveraging his rich, haunting voice for both good and evil, Irons elicited deep-seated discomfort in films like "Dead Ringers" (1988) and "Reversal of Fortune" (1990), but romanced with charming nobility in "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981) and "Being Julia" (2004). Irons earned two of his handful of Golden Globe nods while exploring British culture in the television miniseries "Brideshead Revisited" (ITV/PBS, 1981) and "Elizabeth I" (HBO, 2006), but was cast as everything from artists to executives by some of the most renowned directors in the international film community, including Louis Malle, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli and Wayne Wang. Irons made his mark in everything from period films to studio blockbusters to everything in between, playing one of the original Musketeers in "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1998), an over-the-top villain in "Dungeons & Dragons" (2000), Antonio in "The Merchant of Venice" (2004), and a cold-blooded investment banking CEO in "Margin Call" (2011). Meanwhile, he made a rare turn to the small screen to give an acclaimed performance as Pope Alexander VI on the widely hailed cable series, "The Borgias" (Showtime, 2011-13 ). Regardless of the role or medium, Irons could always be counted on to deliver still waters that ran deep - often deep into the realms of great emotional anguish.

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Highest rated movies

100% 80% Moonlighting
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92% 93% The Lion King Watchlist
92% 78% Reversal of Fortune
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91% 72% Their Finest Watchlist
87% 88% The Last Lions
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87% 74% Margin Call
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87% 77% Trashed
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86% 77% Betrayal
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85% 78% Munich: The Edge of War Watchlist
85% 82% Dead Ringers
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Filmography

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Credit
71% 92% The Beekeeper Wallace Westwyld (Character) $66.2M 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Immortals: The Wonders Of The Museo Egizio Narrator - 2024
No Score Yet 50% The Cello Francesco (Character) - 2023
63% 82% The Flash Alfred Pennyworth (Character) $108.1M 2023
85% 78% Munich: The Edge of War Neville Chamberlain (Character) - 2021
62% 83% House of Gucci Rodolfo Gucci (Character) $53.8M 2021
71% 93% Zack Snyder's Justice League Alfred Pennyworth (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Napoleon: In the Name of Art Narrator - 2021
3% 24% Love, Weddings & Other Disasters Lawrence Philips (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders Narrator - 2019
40% 39% Better Start Running Garrison (Character) - 2018
33% 72% An Actor Prepares Atticus (Character) - 2018
45% 51% Red Sparrow General Korchnoi (Character) $46.7M 2018
39% 67% Justice League Alfred (Character) $227.0M 2017
No Score Yet 29% Birds Like Us Kondor (Voice) - 2017
13% 41% Correspondence Edward Phoerum (Character) - 2016
91% 72% Their Finest Secretary of War (Character) $3.6M 2016
19% 42% Assassin's Creed Rikkin (Character) $54.6M 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sultan and the Saint Narrator - 2016
29% 63% Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Alfred (Character) $330.2M 2016
63% 77% Race Avery Brundage (Character) $19.1M 2016
60% 38% High-Rise Anthony Royal (Character) $343.1K 2015
63% 71% The Man Who Knew Infinity G.H. Hardy (Character) $3.9M 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Endless Corridor Narrator - 2014
41% 61% Night Train to Lisbon Raimund Gregorius (Character) - 2013
48% 54% Beautiful Creatures Macon Ravenwood (Character) $19.4M 2013
87% 77% Trashed Executive Producer - 2012
24% 49% The Words The Old Man (Character) $11.4M 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Seeds of Freedom Narrator - 2012
87% 74% Margin Call John Tuld (Character) $5.4M 2011
87% 88% The Last Lions Narrator $631.9K 2011
No Score Yet 42% Georgia O'Keeffe Alfred Stieglitz (Character) - 2009
13% 42% The Pink Panther 2 Avellaneda (Character) $35.9M 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Power of the Powerless Narrator - 2009
77% 55% Appaloosa Randall Bragg (Character) $20.2M 2008
No Score Yet 68% The Colour of Magic Unknown (Character) - 2008
15% 46% Eragon Brom (Character) $75.0M 2006
72% 75% Inland Empire Kingsley (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 88% Eye of the Leopard Narrator - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gallipoli Narrator - 2005
45% 57% Casanova Pucci (Character) $11.3M 2005
39% 72% Kingdom of Heaven Tiberias (Character) $47.4M 2005
76% 74% Being Julia Michael Gosselyn (Character) $7.7M 2004
72% 72% The Merchant of Venice Antonio (Character) $3.8M 2004
40% 54% Callas Forever Larry Kelly (Character) $446.0K 2002
No Score Yet 59% Last Call F. Scott Fitzgerald (Character) - 2002
47% 56% And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen Valentin (Character) $736.8K 2002
28% 37% The Time Machine Uber-Morlock (Character) $56.7M 2002
No Score Yet 28% The Fourth Angel Jack Elgin (Character) - 2001
9% 20% Dungeons & Dragons Profion (Character) $15.2M 2000
83% 84% Longitude Unknown (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 67% Faeries The Shapeshifter (Voice) - 1999
32% 55% The Man in the Iron Mask Aramis (Character) $57.0M 1998
No Score Yet 71% The Man in the Iron Mask Aramis (Character) - 1998
69% 75% Lolita Humbert Humbert (Character) $1.4M 1997
67% 54% Chinese Box John (Character) $2.2M 1997
50% 75% Stealing Beauty Alex (Character) $4.6M 1996
59% 83% Die Hard With a Vengeance Simon Gruber (Character) $99.5M 1995
92% 93% The Lion King Scar the Lion (Voice) $95.6M 1994
31% 72% The House of the Spirits Esteban Trueba (Character) - 1993
39% 67% M. Butterfly René Gallimard (Character) $1.0M 1993
47% 62% Waterland Tom Crick (Character) $1.1M 1992
80% 73% Damage Dr. Stephen Fleming (Character) $7.5M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales From Hollywood Odon Von Horvath (Character) - 1992
55% 72% Kafka Kafka (Character) $57.6K 1991
92% 78% Reversal of Fortune Claus von Bülow (Character) $10.5M 1990
No Score Yet 30% A Chorus of Disapproval Guy Jones (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Australia Edouard Pierson (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 64% Danny, the Champion of the World William Smith (Character) - 1989
85% 82% Dead Ringers Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle (Character) $8.3M 1988
66% 87% The Mission Gabriel (Character) $17.2M 1986
56% 54% Swann in Love Charles Swann (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 86% The Wild Duck Harold (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Captain's Doll Captain Alex Hepworth (Character) - 1983
86% 77% Betrayal Jerry (Character) - 1983
100% 80% Moonlighting Nowak (Character) - 1982
83% 67% The French Lieutenant's Woman Charles Henry Smithson/Mike (Character) - 1981
50% 29% Nijinsky Mikhail Fokine (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Langrishe Go Down Otto Beck (Character) - 1978

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Nature Narrator 2024
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2017 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet History of the Emirates: Ancient World and Beyond Narrator 2019
96% 57% Watchmen Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias (Character) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Great Performances Unknown (Character),
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2013 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tavis Smiley Guest 2016
98% 82% The Hollow Crown Unknown (Character) 2013
85% 84% The Borgias Rodrigo Borgia (Character) 2011-2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rachael Ray Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shakespeare Uncovered Host 2013
85% 76% The Simpsons Bar Rag (Guest Voice) 2012
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dr. Captain Jackson (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Who Do You Think You Are? Unknown (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Elizabeth I Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester (Character) 2006
No Score Yet 57% Saturday Night Live Host 1991
83% 82% Brideshead Revisited Charles Ryder (Character) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet History of the Emirates Narrator