
Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
2008
as Festival audience member
Also known as: Jeremy John Irons
Acting
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.

2008
as Festival audience member

1994
as Self

2003
as Narrator (voice)

2001
as Narrator (English version)
TBA
2012
as Narrator

2021
as Narrator
1989

2002
as Reader / Listener

2009
as Narrator

2006
as Narrator

1994
as Scar (voice)

2021

1995
as Self

2021
as Alfred

2025
as High Commissioner Wauchope

1988
as Self - Actor

2022
as Narrator (voice)

2006
as Narrator (voice)

2010
as Narrator

2015
as Narrator (voice)

1986
as Father Gabriel

2000
as Rupert Gould

1995
as Simon

2016
as Avery Brundage

2024
as Wallace Westwyld

2019
as Self - Host / Narrator (voice)

2012
as Himself

2011
as Narrator

2025
as Self

2016
as G. H. Hardy

2005
as Narrator

1997
as Humbert Humbert

1988
as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle

2005
as Tiberias

1982
as Nowak

2006
as Kingsley Stewart

1986
as Self

1993
as Esteban Trueba

2021
as Neville Chamberlain

2011
as John Tuld

2016
as Narrator

2004
as Antonio

1985
as Self (voice)

1992
as Reader (voice)

1984
as Harold

1996
as Alex Parrish

2012
as The Old Man

1998
as Aramis

2023
as Alfred Pennyworth

1990
as Claus von Bülow

2021
as Rodolfo Gucci

1993
as René Gallimard

2008
as Randall Bragg

1992
as Dr. Stephen Fleming

2018
as Vladimir Korchnoi

2013
as Self

2013
as Raimund

2005
as Pucci

1991
as Kafka

1981
as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike

2004
as Michael Gosselyn

2024
as Self

2016
as Ed Phoerum

2002
as Über-Morlock

2002
as Larry Kelly

1992
as Tom Crick

1989
as William Smith

2017
as Alfred

2008
as Television Voice

1990
as Self

2013
as Macon Ravenwood

2016
as Self

1998
as Himself

2024

2024
as self

2016
as Alfred

2020
as Lawrence Philips

2018
Executive Producer

1983
as Jerry

2002
as F. Scott Fitzgerald

2018
as Atticus

1997
as John

2009
as Avellaneda

2002
as Valentin Valentin

2015
as Anthony Royal

2003
as Narrator

1984
as Charles Swann

2022
as Self

2023
as Self (archive footage)

2016
as Alan Rikkin

1989
as Guy Jones

2022
as Narrator (voice)

2001
as Jack Elgin

2006
as Brom

1999
as The Shapeshifter (voice)

2009
as Alfred Stieglitz

2015
as Narrator (voice)
1986
as Narrator (voice)

2013
as Narrator (voice)

2014
as Narrator

1980
as Mikhail Fokine

2000
as Profion

2023
as Francesco

1991
as Prisoner

1989
as Edouard Pierson

2022
as Mi (voice)

2023
as Self - 'Alfred'

1978
as Otto Beck

1992
as Odon Von Horvath

2005
as Himself
TBA
as Governor Mordokan (voice)
TBA
as Professor Julian Miles

1992
as H.G. Wells

1995
as Self

2008
as Narrator

2007
as Self
TBA

2013
as Narrator (voice)

2010
as Self

1991
as Narrator
TBA
as The Ocean (voice)
2013
as Self

2009

2012
as Narator

2013
as Self
2015
as Self

2020
as Narrator (voice)

2021
as Self

2022
as Narrator (voice)

2022
as Narrator

2022
as Narrator (voice)

2022
as Narrator (voice)

2005
as Self

2006
as Col. De Petris

2016
as Grandfather

2021
as Self

2023
as Traveller (archived audio)

2014
as Edward Voysey

2022
as Self (archive footage)

2023
as Self

2001
as Self

2024
as Narrator
TBA
as Nigel
TBA
as William

2007
as Narrator

1989
as Narrator

1983
as Captain Alexander Hepburn
TBA
as Wallace Westwyld

2021
Executive Producer
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