Jeremy Irons on stage and screen
The following is an on stage and screen filmography of the English stage actor Jeremy Irons; he is known for his work on stage, theatre, film, and television.
Theatre[]
Following training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Irons first acted with the school's theater company:
Year | Production | Role | Venue |
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1969 | The Winter's Tale | Florizel | Bristol Old Vic |
Hay Fever | Simon | ||
What the Butler Saw | Nick | ||
Major Barbara | |||
A Servant of Two Masters | |||
Macbeth | |||
The Boy Friend | |||
1970 | As You Like It | ||
Oh! What a Lovely War | Little Theatre Bristol | ||
The School for Scandal | |||
1971–1973 | Godspell | John/Judas | Roundhouse and Wyndham's Theatre |
1973 | The Diary of a Madman | The Madman | Act Inn |
1974 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro | Young Vic |
The Caretaker | Mick | ||
1975 | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | Roundhouse |
1976 | Wild Oats | Harry Thunder | Aldwych Theatre |
1977 | Stratford and Piccadilly Theatre | ||
1978 | The Rear Column | Jameson | Globe Theatre |
1984 | The Real Thing | Henry | New York |
1986 | The Winter's Tale | Leontes | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
The Rover | Willmore | Swan Theatre and Mermaid Theatre | |
1986 | Richard II | Richard II | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
1987 | Barbican Theatre | ||
2003 | A Little Night Music | Fredrick Egerman | New York |
2005 | Celebration | Russell | Gate Theatre and Albery Theatre |
2006 | Embers | Henrik | Duke of York's Theatre |
2008 | Never So Good | Harold Macmillan | National Theatre |
2009 | Impressionism | Thomas Buckle | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre |
2013 | The Mystery Plays | God | Gloucester Cathedral and Worcester Cathedral |
2016 | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone | Bristol Old Vic |
2018 | Wyndham's Theatre, BAM and Wallis Annenberg Center |
Film[]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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1980 | Nijinsky | Mikhail Fokine | Herbert Ross | |
1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Charles Henry Smithson/Mike | Karel Reisz | |
1982 | Moonlighting | Nowak | Jerzy Skolimowski | |
1983 | Betrayal | Jerry | David Jones | |
1984 | The Wild Duck | Harold | Henri Safran | |
Swann in Love | Charles Swann | Volker Schlöndorff | ||
1985 | The Statue of Liberty | Himself | Ken Burns | Voice Documentary |
1986 | The Mission | Father Gabriel | Roland Joffé | |
1988 | Dead Ringers | Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle | David Cronenberg | |
1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Guy Jones | Michael Winner | |
Australia | Edouard Pierson | Jean-Jacques Andrien | ||
Danny, the Champion of the World | William Smith | Gavin Millar | ||
1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow | Barbet Schroeder | |
1991 | The Beggar's Opera | Prisoner | Jirí Menzel | |
Kafka | Kafka | Steven Soderbergh | ||
1992 | The Timekeeper | H.G. Wells | Jeff Blyth | Short film |
Waterland | Tom Crick | Stephen Gyllenhaal | ||
Damage | Dr. Stephen Fleming | Louis Malle | ||
1993 | M. Butterfly | René Gallimard | David Cronenberg | |
The House of the Spirits | Esteban Trueba | Bille August | ||
1994 | Spaceship Earth | Narrator (3rd edition) | Voice Documentary short | |
The Lion King | Scar | Roger Allers Rob Minkoff |
Voice | |
1995 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | Simon Gruber | John McTiernan | |
1996 | Stealing Beauty | Alex | Bernardo Bertolucci | |
1997 | Chinese Box | John | Wayne Wang | |
Lolita | Humbert Humbert | Adrian Lyne | ||
1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Aramis | Randall Wallace | |
1999 | Faeries | The Shapeshifter | Gary Hurst | Voice |
Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City | Poseidon | Gary Goddard | Voice Short film | |
2000 | Dungeons & Dragons | Profion | Courtney Solomon | |
2001 | The Fourth Angel | Jack Elgin | John Irvin | |
2002 | Callas Forever | Larry Kelly | Franco Zeffirelli | |
The Time Machine | The Über-Morlock | Simon Wells | ||
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen | Valentin Valentin | Claude Lelouch | ||
2004 | Mathilde | Col. De Petris | Nina Mimica | |
The Merchant of Venice | Antonio | Michael Radford | ||
Being Julia | Michael Gosselyn | István Szabó | ||
2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Tiberias | Ridley Scott | |
Casanova | Pucci | Lasse Hallström | ||
2006 | Inland Empire | Kingsley Stewart | David Lynch | |
Eragon | Brom | Stefen Fangmeier | ||
Eye of the Leopard | Narrator | Dereck Joubert | Voice Documentary | |
2008 | Appaloosa | Randall Bragg | Ed Harris | |
2009 | The Pink Panther 2 | Alonso Avellaneda | Harald Zwart | |
2011 | Margin Call[1] | John Tuld | J. C. Chandor | |
The Last Lions | Narrator | Dereck Joubert | Voice Documentary | |
2012 | The Words | The Old Man | Brian Klugman Lee Sternthal |
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Trashed | Himself | Candida Brady | Documentary; also executive producer | |
2013 | Night Train to Lisbon | Raimund Gregorius | Bille August | |
Beautiful Creatures | Macon Ravenwood | Richard LaGravenese | ||
2015 | High-Rise | Anthony Royal | Ben Wheatley | |
The Man Who Knew Infinity | G. H. Hardy | Matthew Brown | ||
2016 | The Correspondence | Ed Phoerum | Giuseppe Tornatore | |
Race | Avery Brundage | Stephen Hopkins | ||
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice[2] | Alfred Pennyworth | Zack Snyder | ||
Their Finest | Secretary of War | Lone Scherfig | ||
Assassin's Creed | Alan Rikkin | Justin Kurzel | ||
2017 | Birds Like Us | Mi | Faruk Šabanović | Voice[3][4] |
Justice League | Alfred Pennyworth | Zack Snyder | ||
2018 | Red Sparrow | Vladimir Korchnoi | Francis Lawrence | |
Better Start Running | Garrison | Brett Simon | Also executive producer | |
An Actor Prepares | Atticus Smith | Steve Clark | ||
2020 | Love, Weddings & Other Disasters | Lawrence Phillips | Dennis Dugan | |
2021 | Munich – The Edge of War | Neville Chamberlain | Christian Schwochow | |
House of Gucci | Rodolfo Gucci | Ridley Scott | ||
TBA | Cello | TBA | Darren Lynn Bousman | Post-production |
Television[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Nephew George | Episode: "The Case of the Mirror of Portugal" |
1974 | The Pallisers | Frank Tregear | 6 episodes |
Notorious Woman | Franz Liszt | 2 episodes | |
1975 | Churchill's People | Samuel Ross | Episode: "Liberty Tree" |
1977 | Love for Lydia | Alex Sanderson | 7 episodes |
1978 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Otto Beck | Episode: "Langrishe Go Down" |
1979 | BBC Play of the Month | Edward Voysey | Episode: "The Voysey Inheritance" |
1981 | Brideshead Revisited[5] | Charles Ryder | 11 episodes |
1983 | The Captain's Doll | Captain Alex Hepworth | Television film |
1989 | The Dream | The Man | Television short |
1990 | The Civil War | Various roles | Voices 9 episodes |
1991 | Saturday Night Live | Himself (host) | Episode: "Jeremy Irons/Fishbone" |
1992 | Performance | Odon Von Horvath | Episode: "Tales from Hollywood" |
1996 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century | Siegfried Sassoon | Voice 3 episodes |
2000 | Longitude | Rupert Gould | 4 episodes |
2001 | The Short Life of Anne Frank | Narrator | Voice Television documentary |
2002 | Last Call | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Television film |
2003 | Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do | Severus Snape | Television special |
2005 | Elizabeth I | Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | 2 episodes |
2008 | The Colour of Magic | Havelock Vetinari | 2 episodes |
2009 | The Magic 7 | Thraxx | Voice Television film |
Georgia O'Keeffe[6] | Alfred Stieglitz | Television film | |
2010 | Arena | Various Characters | Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration" |
2011 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[7] | Dr. Cap Jackson | 2 episodes |
2011–2013 | The Borgias | Rodrigo Borgia | 29 episodes |
2012 | The Simpsons | Bar Rag | Voice Episode: "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" |
Henry IV Part I and Part II | Henry IV | 2 episodes | |
2013 | Life on Fire | Narrator | Voice 6 episodes |
2019 | Watchmen | Adrian Veidt | 8 episodes |
2021 | The Emirates From Above | Narrator | Voice Television documentary[8] |
Awards and nominations[]
References[]
- ^ Kay, Jeremy (25 January 2011). "Margin Call is a fine crash movie, but no banker". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ "Jesse Eisenberg and Jeremy Irons Join the Cast of Warner Bros. Pictures' Untitled Superman/Batman Film from Director Zack Snyder". Business Wire. 31 January 2014.
- ^ "CineLink Work in Progress Selection 2015" (PDF). Sarajevo Film Festival. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
- ^ "First Bosnian animated feature film "Birds Like Us" is completed". Klix.ba. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ^ Dempster, Sarah; Dent, Grace; Mangan, Lucy; Lawson, Mark; Wollaston, Sam; Vine, Richard (19 July 2015). "The top 50 TV dramas of all time: 2-10". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "Lifetime to Paint Bio of Georgia O'Keeffe" TV Guide. 6 November 2008. Retrieved on 7 November 2008.
- ^ "SVU Scoop: Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons to Guest-Star". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ "National Geographic Announces "The Emirates From Above" Premiering In December". disneyplusinformer.com. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
External links[]
- Jeremy Irons at IMDb
- Jeremy Irons on stage and screen at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jeremy Irons at the TCM Movie Database
Categories:
- Male actor filmographies
- British filmographies