Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

Irons at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con.

Jeremy Irons is an English actor known for his roles on stage, screen and television.

Theatre

Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

Following his training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons first acted with the school's theatre company:

<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Production</th><th>Role</th><th>Venue</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1969</td><td>The Winter's Tale</td><td>Florizel</td><td>Bristol Old Vic</td></tr><tr><td>Hay Fever</td><td>Simon</td></tr><tr><td>What the Butler Saw</td><td>Nick</td></tr><tr><td>Major Barbara</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Servant of Two Masters</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Macbeth</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Boy Friend</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1970</td><td>As You Like It</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Oh! What a Lovely War</td><td></td><td>Little Theatre Bristol</td></tr><tr><td>The School for Scandal</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1971–1973</td><td>Godspell</td><td>John/Judas</td><td>Roundhouse and Wyndham's Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>1973</td><td>The Diary of a Madman</td><td>The Madman</td><td>Act Inn</td></tr><tr><td>1974</td><td>Much Ado About Nothing</td><td>Don Pedro</td><td>Young Vic</td></tr><tr><td>The Caretaker</td><td>Mick</td></tr><tr><td>1975</td><td>The Taming of the Shrew</td><td>Petruchio</td><td>Roundhouse</td></tr><tr><td>1976</td><td>Wild Oats</td><td>Harry Thunder</td><td>Aldwych Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>1977</td><td>Stratford and Piccadilly Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>1978</td><td>The Rear Column</td><td>Jameson</td><td>Globe Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>1984–1985</td><td>The Real Thing</td><td>Henry</td><td>Plymouth Theatre (Broadway)</td></tr><tr><td>1986</td><td>The Winter's Tale</td><td>Leontes</td><td>Royal Shakespeare Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>The Rover</td><td>Willmore</td><td>Swan Theatre and Mermaid Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>1986</td><td>Richard II</td><td>Richard II</td><td>Royal Shakespeare Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>1987</td><td>Barbican Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>My Fair Lady</td><td>Professor Henry Higgins</td><td>Royal Albert Hall</td></tr><tr><td>2003</td><td>A Little Night Music</td><td>Fredrick Egerman</td><td>New York City Opera</td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td>Celebration</td><td>Russell</td><td>Gate Theatre and Albery Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>Camelot</td><td>King Arthur</td><td>Hollywood Bowl</td></tr><tr><td>2006</td><td>Embers</td><td>Henrik</td><td>Duke of York's Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>2006</td><td>Pinter Plays, Poetry & Prose</td><td></td><td>Teatro Carignano, Turin</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>Never So Good</td><td>Harold Macmillan</td><td>National Theatre</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>Impressionism</td><td>Thomas Buckle</td><td>Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>Camelot</td><td>King Arthur</td><td>Shubert Theatre, Broadway</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>The Mystery Plays</td><td>God</td><td>Gloucester Cathedral and Worcester Cathedral</td></tr><tr><td>2016</td><td>Long Day's Journey into Night</td><td>James Tyrone</td><td>Bristol Old Vic</td></tr><tr><td>2018</td><td>Wyndham's Theatre, BAM and Wallis Annenberg Center</td></tr><tr><td>2017</td><td>Correspondence 1944–1959 Readings from the epistles between Albert Camus and Maria Casares</td><td>Albert</td><td>Teatro Argentina, Rome</td></tr><tr><td>Ashes to Ashes (Special creation for the Europe Theatre Prize)</td><td>Devlin</td></tr></tbody></table>

Film

Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Title</th><th>Role</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1980</td><td>Nijinsky</td><td>Mikhail Fokine</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1981</td><td>The French Lieutenant's Woman</td><td>Charles Henry Smithson/Mike</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1982</td><td>Moonlighting</td><td>Nowak</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1983</td><td>Betrayal</td><td>Jerry</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1984</td><td>The Wild Duck</td><td>Harold</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Swann in Love</td><td>Charles Swann</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1985</td><td>The Statue of Liberty</td><td>Himself</td><td>Voice; Documentary</td></tr><tr><td>1986</td><td>The Mission</td><td>Father Gabriel</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1988</td><td>Dead Ringers</td><td>Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1989</td><td>A Chorus of Disapproval</td><td>Guy Jones</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Australia</td><td>Edouard Pierson</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Danny, the Champion of the World</td><td>William Smith</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1990</td><td>Reversal of Fortune</td><td>Claus von Bülow</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1991</td><td>Beggar's Opera</td><td>Prisoner</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kafka</td><td>Franz Kafka</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1992</td><td>The Timekeeper</td><td>H. G. Wells</td><td>Short film</td></tr><tr><td>Waterland</td><td>Tom Crick</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Damage</td><td>Dr. Stephen Fleming</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1993</td><td>M. Butterfly</td><td>René Gallimard</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The House of the Spirits</td><td>Esteban Trueba</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1994</td><td>Spaceship Earth</td><td>Narrator (3rd edition)</td><td>Voice; Documentary short</td></tr><tr><td>The Lion King</td><td>Scar</td><td>Voice</td></tr><tr><td>1995</td><td>Die Hard with a Vengeance</td><td>Simon Gruber</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1996</td><td>Stealing Beauty</td><td>Alex</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1997</td><td>Chinese Box</td><td>John</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Lolita</td><td>Humbert Humbert</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1998</td><td>The Man in the Iron Mask</td><td>Aramis</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1999</td><td>Faeries</td><td>The Shapeshifter</td><td>Voice</td></tr><tr><td>Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City</td><td>Poseidon</td><td>Voice; Short film</td></tr><tr><td>2000</td><td>Dungeons & Dragons</td><td>Profion</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2001</td><td>The Fourth Angel</td><td>Jack Elgin</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2002</td><td>Callas Forever</td><td>Larry Kelly</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Time Machine</td><td>The Über-Morlock</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen</td><td>Valentin Valentin</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2004</td><td>Mathilde</td><td>Col. De Petris</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Merchant of Venice</td><td>Antonio</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Being Julia</td><td>Michael Gosselyn</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td>Kingdom of Heaven</td><td>Tiberias</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Casanova</td><td>Pucci</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2006</td><td>Inland Empire</td><td>Kingsley Stewart</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Eragon</td><td>Brom</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Eye of the Leopard</td><td>Narrator</td><td>Voice; Documentary</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>Appaloosa</td><td>Randall Bragg</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>The Pink Panther 2</td><td>Alonso Avellaneda</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>Margin Call</td><td>John Tuld</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Last Lions</td><td>Narrator</td><td>Voice; Documentary</td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>The Words</td><td>The Old Man</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Trashed</td><td>Himself</td><td>Documentary; also executive producer</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>Night Train to Lisbon</td><td>Raimund Gregorius</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Beautiful Creatures</td><td>Macon Ravenwood</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2015</td><td>High-Rise</td><td>Anthony Royal</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Man Who Knew Infinity</td><td>G. H. Hardy</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2016</td><td>The Correspondence</td><td>Ed Phoerum</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Race</td><td>Avery Brundage</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice</td><td>Alfred Pennyworth</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Their Finest</td><td>Secretary of War</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Assassin's Creed</td><td>Alan Rikkin</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2017</td><td>Birds Like Us</td><td>Kondor/Mi</td><td>Voice</td></tr><tr><td>Justice League</td><td>Alfred Pennyworth</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2018</td><td>Red Sparrow</td><td>Vladimir Korchnoi</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Better Start Running</td><td>Garrison</td><td>Also executive producer</td></tr><tr><td>An Actor Prepares</td><td>Atticus Smith</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2020</td><td>Love, Weddings & Other Disasters</td><td>Lawrence Phillips</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2021</td><td>Zack Snyder's Justice League</td><td>Alfred Pennyworth</td><td>Director's cut of Justice League</td></tr><tr><td>Munich – The Edge of War</td><td>Neville Chamberlain</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>House of Gucci</td><td>Rodolfo Gucci</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2023</td><td>The Flash</td><td>Alfred Pennyworth</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>The Cello</td><td>Francesco</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Once Upon a Studio</td><td>Scar</td><td>Voice; Short film</td></tr><tr><td>2024</td><td>The Beekeeper</td><td>Wallace Westwyld</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2025</td><td>Palestine 36</td><td>High Commissioner Wauchope</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>2027</td><td>The Beekeeper 2 †</td><td>Wallace Westwyld</td><td>Post-production</td></tr><tr><td>TBA</td><td>Rizana – A Caged Bird †</td><td>Julian Miles</td><td>Post-production</td></tr><tr><td>TBA</td><td>Highlander †</td><td>The leader of The Watchers</td><td>Filming</td></tr></tbody></table>

Television

Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

<table><thead><tr><th>Year</th><th>Title</th><th>Role</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1971</td><td>The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes</td><td>Nephew George</td><td>Episode: "The Case of the Mirror of Portugal"</td></tr><tr><td>1974</td><td>The Pallisers</td><td>Frank Tregear</td><td>6 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>Notorious Woman</td><td>Franz Liszt</td><td>2 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>1975</td><td>Churchill's People</td><td>Samuel Ross</td><td>Episode: "Liberty Tree"</td></tr><tr><td>1977</td><td>Love for Lydia</td><td>Alex Sanderson</td><td>7 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>1978</td><td>Play of the Week (BBC2)</td><td>Otto Beck</td><td>Episode: Langrishe, Go Down</td></tr><tr><td>1979</td><td>Play of the Month (BBC2)</td><td>Edward Voysey</td><td>Episode: The Voysey Inheritance</td></tr><tr><td>1981</td><td>Brideshead Revisited</td><td>Charles Ryder</td><td>11 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>1983</td><td>The Captain's Doll</td><td>Captain Alex Hepworth</td><td>Television film</td></tr><tr><td>1989</td><td>The Dream</td><td>The Man</td><td>Television short</td></tr><tr><td>1990</td><td>The Civil War</td><td>Various roles</td><td>Voices; 9 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>1991</td><td>Saturday Night Live</td><td>Himself (host)</td><td>Episode: "Jeremy Irons/Fishbone"</td></tr><tr><td>1992</td><td>Performance</td><td>Odon Von Horvath</td><td>Episode: "Tales from Hollywood"</td></tr><tr><td>1996</td><td>The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century</td><td>Siegfried Sassoon</td><td>Voice; 3 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2000</td><td>Longitude</td><td>Rupert Gould</td><td>4 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2001</td><td>The Short Life of Anne Frank</td><td>Narrator</td><td>Television documentary</td></tr><tr><td>2002</td><td>Last Call</td><td>F. Scott Fitzgerald</td><td>Television film</td></tr><tr><td>2003</td><td>Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do</td><td>Severus Snape</td><td>Television special</td></tr><tr><td>2005</td><td>Elizabeth I</td><td>Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester</td><td>2 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2008</td><td>The Colour of Magic</td><td>Havelock Vetinari</td></tr><tr><td>2009</td><td>The Magic 7</td><td>Thraxx</td><td>Voice; Television film</td></tr><tr><td>Georgia O'Keeffe</td><td>Alfred Stieglitz</td><td>Television film</td></tr><tr><td>2010</td><td>Arena</td><td>Various Characters</td><td>Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration"</td></tr><tr><td>2011</td><td>Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</td><td>Dr. Cap Jackson</td><td>2 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2011–13</td><td>The Borgias</td><td>Rodrigo Borgia</td><td>29 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2012</td><td>The Simpsons</td><td>Bar Rag</td><td>Voice; Episode: "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"</td></tr><tr><td>Henry IV Part I and Part II</td><td>Henry IV</td><td>2 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2013</td><td>Life on Fire</td><td>Narrator</td><td>6 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2019</td><td>Watchmen</td><td>Adrian Veidt</td><td>8 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2021</td><td>Napoleon – In the Name of Art</td><td>Presenting narrator</td><td>Documentary</td></tr><tr><td>The Emirates from Above</td><td>Narrator</td></tr><tr><td>2022</td><td>The Pentaverate</td><td>6 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2024</td><td>The Count of Monte Cristo</td><td>Abbé Faria</td><td>8 episodes</td></tr><tr><td>2025</td><td>Nature</td><td>Narrator</td><td>Episode: “Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom”</td></tr><tr><td>The Morning Show</td><td>Martin Levy</td><td>Recurring</td></tr></tbody></table>