Jeremy Irons

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Jeremy Irons
Irons in 2014
Born
Jeremy John Irons

(1948-09-19) 19 September 1948 (age 75)
EducationSherborne School[1]
Alma materBristol Old Vic Theatre School
OccupationActor
Years active1969–present
Spouses
Julie Hallam
(m. 1969; div. 1969)
(m. 1978)
Children2, including Max Irons

Jeremy John Irons (

Tony Award. He is one of the few actors who has achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting
" having won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Awards for Film, Television and Theatre.

Irons received classical training at the

.

His first major film role came in 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), The Mission (1986), and Dead Ringers (1988), he received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990). Other notable films include Kafka (1991), Damage (1992), M. Butterfly (1993), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Lolita (1997), The Merchant of Venice (2004), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Appaloosa (2008), and Margin Call (2011). He voiced the role of Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994) and played Alfred Pennyworth in the DC Extended Universe (2016–2023) series of films.

On television, Irons's break-out role came in the

Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen (2019). In October 2011, he was named the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations.

Early life and education

Irons was born on 19 September 1948 in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, to Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant, and Barbara Anne Brereton Brymer (née Sharpe).[2] Irons has a brother, Christopher (born 1943), and a sister, Felicity Anne (born 1944). He was educated at the independent Sherborne School[1] in Dorset from 1962 to 1966. He was the drummer and harmonica player in a four-man school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom.[3]

Acting career

Irons in 1999

Irons trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and later became president of its fundraising appeal. He performed a number of plays, and busked on the streets of Bristol, before appearing on the London stage as John the Baptist and Judas opposite David Essex in Godspell, which opened at the Roundhouse on 17 November 1971 before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre playing a total of 1,128 performances.[4]

Irons's television career began on British television in the early 1970s, including appearances on the children's series

Tony Award for his Broadway performance opposite Glenn Close in The Real Thing
.

The role which significantly raised his profile was Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of

Brideshead Revisited (1981). First broadcast on ITV, the show ranks among the most successful British television dramas, with Irons receiving a Golden Globe nomination for his performance.[7][8] which is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations.[7][9] Brideshead reunited him with Anthony Andrews, with whom he had appeared in The Pallisers seven years earlier. Around the same time he starred in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman (also 1981) opposite Meryl Streep
.

After these major successes, he played the leading role of an exiled Polish building contractor, working in the Twickenham area of southwest London, in Jerzy Skolimowski's independent film Moonlighting (1982). Irons made his film debut in Nijinsky in 1980. In addition, he appeared in the Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Mission in 1986 and in the dual role of twin gynecologists in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers alongside Geneviève Bujold in 1988. Irons would later win Best Actor for Dead Ringers from the New York Film Critics Circle that year.[10] On 23 March 1991, he hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC in the US, and appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes' Surprise Party sketch.[11]

Other films include Danny the Champion of the World (1989), Reversal of Fortune (1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, Kafka (1991), Damage (1993), M. Butterfly (1993) working again with David Cronenberg, The House of the Spirits (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep. He lent his deep baritone voice as Scar in The Lion King (1994). Afterwards, he portrayed as Simon Gruber in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), co-starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996), the 1997 remake of Lolita, and as the musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1998 film version of The Man in the Iron Mask.

Other roles include the wicked wizard Profion in the film

Satellite Award nomination for his performance in István Szabó's Being Julia, opposite Annette Bening
.

In 2005, Irons won both an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role in the

In 2006, Irons appeared with

Never So Good, a new play by Howard Brenton which opened at the Lyttelton on 19 March 2008.[18][19] In 2009, Irons appeared on Broadway opposite Joan Allen in the play Impressionism.[20] The play ran through 10 May 2009 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.[20]

Irons in 2015

In 2008, Irons co-starred with

The Man Who Knew Infinity
.

Irons played

Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen series.[28] The series debuted earning him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nomination. In 2018, he played General Vladimir Korchnoi in Francis Lawrence's spy thriller film Red Sparrow, based on Jason Matthews's book of the same name.[29] In 2021, Irons played Rodolfo Gucci in Ridley Scott's biographical crime drama film House of Gucci.[30] In 2022, Irons played British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the period spy thriller Munich – The Edge of War.[31] The following year, he reprised the role of Alfred Pennyworth in The Flash and also returned to voice Scar in the Disney's centenary animated short Once Upon a Studio.[32][33]

Other ventures

Audio

Irons has had extensive voice work in a range of different fields throughout his career. He read the

The Alchemist, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (he had also appeared in the 1997 film version of the novel), and James and the Giant Peach by the children's author Roald Dahl.[34]

In particular, he was praised for recording the poetry of T. S. Eliot for BBC Radio 4. Beginning in 2012 with The Waste Land, he went on to record Four Quartets in 2014, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock on the centenary of its publication in 2015, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 2016. He finally completed recording the entire canon of T. S. Eliot which was broadcast over New Year's Day 2017.[35] In 2020, 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.[36]

One of his best known film roles has turned out to be lending his distinctive voice to

Fantasmic. He is also one of the readers in the 4x CD boxed set of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, produced by Marc Sinden and sold in aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund.[39]

He serves as the English-language version of the audio guide for Westminster Abbey in London.[40] He voiced English soldier and WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon in The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1997), receiving the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.[41] Irons has served as voice-over in several big cat documentary films (multiple by National Geographic): Eye of the Leopard (2006),[42] The Last Lions (2011),[43] The Unlikely Leopard (2012),[44] Game of Lions (2014), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator,[45] Jade Eyed Leopard (2020),[46] Revealed: Ultimate Enemies (2022),[47] and Revealed: Eternal Enemies (2022).[48] Between 2009 and 2012 he narrated the French-produced documentary series about volcanoes, Life on Fire.[49]

In 2008, 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.[50] Coincidentally, the two actors played brothers in the Die Hard series of films. Speaking at 200 words per minute and pausing for 1.2 seconds between sentences, Irons came very close to the ideal voice model, with the linguist Andrew Linn explaining why his "deep gravelly tones" inspired trust in listeners.[50] As German villain Simon Gruber his recital of the English riddle "As I was going to St Ives" (from Die Hard with a Vengeance) appears in the 2014 book The Art of Communicating Eloquently.[51] In 2017, he 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.[52]

Music

In 1985, 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".[53]

Irons has contributed to other musical performances, recording

Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale conducted by the composer, and in 1987 the songs from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, released on the Decca label. Irons sang segments of "Be Prepared" in the film The Lion King
.

To mark the 100th anniversary of

Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars.[55]

In 2009, Irons appeared on the

Wintercoast, recording a narrative introduction to the album.[56] Recording took place in New York City in February 2009 during rehearsals for his Broadway play Impressionism
.

Political views and activism

At the 1991 Tony Awards, Irons was one of the few celebrities to wear the red ribbon to support the fight against AIDS. He was the first celebrity to wear it onscreen.[57][58][59]

In 1998, 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 years in opposition.[60] He was also one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election.[61]

In 2004, he 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".[62]

Irons is an outspoken critic of the death penalty and has supported the campaign by the human rights organisation

Amnesty International UK to abolish capital punishment worldwide.[63] Among his arguments, Irons states the death penalty "infringes on two fundamental human rights, the right to life, and no-one shall be subject to torture", adding that while the person accused of a crime "may have abused those rights, to advocate the same be done to them is to join them".[63]

During a 2007 Q&A with The Guardian, Irons named Tony Blair as the living person he most admired; reasoning "For living so publicly with the knowledge that he's not perfect." He then named George W. Bush as the living person he most despised, stating "to hold his position he should have surrounded himself with more reliable people."[64]

In 2009, 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.[65]

In 2011, Irons was criticised in the

King Charles.[66]

In 2013, 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 could be "manipulated" to allow fathers to avoid paying tax when passing on their estates to their sons, because he supposed "incest laws would not apply to men".[67][68] He later clarified his comments, saying he was providing an example of a situation that could cause a "legal quagmire" under the laws that allow same-sex marriage, and that he had been "misinterpreted". He added that "some gay relationships are more long term, responsible and even healthier in their role of raising children, than their hetero[sexual] equivalents".[69] He said in a BBC interview that he wished he had "buttoned [his] lip" before asking if its legalisation would see fathers marry sons.[70][71]

He supports the legal availability of abortion, having said that he believes that "women should be allowed to make the decision". Irons also agreed with an abortion opponent and was quoted as saying that "the church is right to say it's a sin".[72]

Philanthropy

He is the Patron of the Emergency Response Team Search and Rescue (ERTSAR),[73] which is a United Nations–recognised life saving disaster response search and rescue team and registered charity. It is based in his home County of Oxfordshire, England. He supports a number of other charities, including The Prison Phoenix Trust in England, and the London-based Evidence for Development, which seeks to improve the lives of the world's most needy people by preventing famines and delivering food aid, for both of which he is an active patron.[74][75][76] In 2000, 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.[77][78]

In 2010, Irons starred in a promotional video,[79] 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.[80]

Irons was named Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2011.[81] He provided the narration of the 2013 documentary (by Andrew Lauer[82]) Sahaya Going Beyond about the work of the charity Sahaya International.[83]

In November 2015, Irons supported the No Cold Homes campaign by the UK charity Turn2us.[84] Irons was one of nearly thirty celebrities, who included Helen Mirren, Hugh Laurie and Ed Sheeran, to donate items of winter clothing to the campaign, with the proceeds used to help people in the UK struggling to keep their homes warm in winter.[84]

Irons is a patron of the

Southampton Solent University.[89] On 20 July 2016, Irons was announced as the first Chancellor of Bath Spa University.[90]

Personal life

Clan Dermod MacCarthy

Irons married Julie Hallam in 1969, but they divorced later that year.

Catholic; Irons has also been described as a practising Catholic[91]
and has stated:

I don't go to church much because I don't like belonging to a club, and I don't go to confession or anything like that, I don't believe in it. But I try to be aware of where I fail and I occasionally go to services. I would hate to be a person who didn't have a spiritual side because there's nothing to nourish you in life apart from retail therapy.[92]

He owns Kilcoe Castle near

mews house in Notting Hill, London.[96]

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."[97]

In 2013, Irons said he was a smoker and an avid fan of cigars, naming Romeo y Julieta as his favourite brand. He said, "My curse is that I'm a cigarette smoker. I make my own cigarettes. So I have a tendency to inhale when I smoke a cigar. I have to keep reminding myself not to."[98]

Acting credits

Awards and nominations

On 17 December 2017, he was awarded the XVI Europe Theatre Prize, in Rome.[99] The Prize organization stated:

With Jeremy Irons, life and art have been mixed to the point of creating an inimitable style, as man and actor, which blends an air of freedom with the enviable capacity to enter into the spirit of the most varied productions, in theatre, cinema and television, without ever betraying himself or giving up his independence. In productions great and small, with an unflinching love for his profession, Jeremy Irons says of himself: "I became an actor to be a rogue and vagabond, so I don't think the establishment would be able to welcome me as one of its own – because I'm not." His versatility as an actor, as much at ease in Shakespeare as in a hit television series, comes from being part of a profession that he loves and in which he is loved.[100]

On that occasion he 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.[101]

Year Organizations Category Nominated Work Result
1991
Academy Awards
Best Actor Reversal of Fortune Won [102]
1981
BAFTA Awards
Best Film Actor in a Leading Role The French Lieutenant's Woman Nominated
1982 Best Television Actor in a Leading Role Brideshead Revisited
1982
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television [103]
1986 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama The Mission [103]
1990 Reversal of Fortune Won [103]
2006 Best Supporting Actor – Television
Elizabeth I
[103]
2009 Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television
Georgia O'Keeffe
Nominated [103]
2011 Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama The Borgias [103]
1985
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album
The Real Thing [104]
1982
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie
Brideshead Revisited
1997 Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century Won
2006
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie
Elizabeth I
2014 Outstanding Narrator Game of Lions
2020
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie
Watchmen Nominated [105]
2006
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Elizabeth I Won [106]
2009 Georgia O'Keeffe Nominated [107]
2013 The Hollow Crown [108]
2022 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture House of Gucci
1984
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actor in a Play The Real Thing Won [109]
2017 Europe Theatre Prize [99]

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