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Jeremy Irons (born
September 19, 1948) is an Academy Award, Tony, Screen Actors Guild, two-time
Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning English film, television and stage
actor.
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Birth name Jeremy John
Irons
Born September 19, 1948
(age 58)
Cowes, Isle of Wight,
England
Height 6'1" (1.85 m)
Spouse(s) Sinéad Cusack
Notable roles Claus von
Bülow in
Reversal of Fortune
Scar in
The Lion King
Tiberias in Kingdom of
Heaven
Academy Awards
Academy Award for Best
Actor
1990 Reversal of Fortune
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting
Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
2005 Elizabeth I
Tony Awards
Best Performance by a
Leading Actor in a Play
1984 The Real Thing
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Early
life
Jeremy John Irons was
born in Cowes, Isle of Wight to Paul Dugan Irons and Barbara Anne. He was
educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, (c. 1962-1966), a member of Abbey House,
where he rose to the modest rank of Hallkeeper — a disciplinary role he
performed with humour and compassion. He achieved some fame as the drummer and
harmonica player (most memorably for his rendition of "Moon River" on harmonica)
in a four-man school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom. They performed, in
a classroom normally used as a physics lab, for the entertainment of boys
compulsorily exiled from their houses for two hours on Sunday afternoons. He was
also known within Abbey House as half of a comic duo performing skits on
Halloween and at end-of-term House Suppers.
Career
He trained as an actor at
the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and is now President of its fundraising
appeal. He performed a number of plays and supported himself by busking on the
streets of Bristol, before appearing on the London stage as John the Baptist
opposite David Essex in Godspell. After several appearances on British
television, including the children's television series Playaway, and an
adaptation of the H.E. Bates novel Love for Lydia in 1977, his film debut came
in 1980 in Nijinsky. The role which brought him fame was that of Charles Ryder
in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in 1981.
Brideshead reunited him with Anthony Andrews, with whom he had appeared in The
Pallisers seven years earlier. Also in 1981, he starred in the film The French
Lieutenant's Woman opposite Meryl Streep.
In 1984 Irons won a Tony
Award for his Broadway performance opposite Glenn Close in The Real Thing. He
appeared sporadically in films during the 1980s, including the Cannes Palme d'Or
winner The Mission in 1986, and in the dual role of twin physicians in David
Cronenberg's Dead Ringers in 1988. Other films include Reversal of Fortune
(1990) (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Kafka (1991), Damage
(1993), The House of the Spirits (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close and
Meryl Streep, Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995), 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 (1998).
One of his best known
film roles has turned out to be the voice of Scar in The Lion King (1994). Irons
has since provided voiceovers for two Disney World attractions. He narrated the
Spaceship Earth ride, housed in the large geodesic globe at Epcot, and voiced
H.G. Wells in the English version of the former Disney attraction The
Timekeeper.
In 2005, he appeared in
the films Casanova opposite Heath Ledger, and Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven.
Also in 2005, Irons won both an Emmy award and a Golden Globe award for his
supporting role in the TV mini-series, Elizabeth I. He is currently appearing on
the West End stage in the play Embers.
On July 18, 2006, the BBC
announced that Irons would be one of the participants in the third series of
their documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?[1] He also played the
storyteller Brom in the 2006 film version of Eragon.
Private life
Irons is married to Irish
actress Sinéad Cusack, and is the father of two sons, Samuel James Irons (born
16 September 1978) and Maximilian Paul Irons (born 17 October 1985), both of
whom have appeared in films with their father.
Trivia
In 1985, Irons directed a
music video for Carly Simon and her heavily promoted single, "Tired of Being
Blonde". Although the song was not a hit, the video - featuring the fast
cutting, parallel narratives and heavy use of stylized visual effects that were
a staple of pop videos at the time - received ample attention on MTV and other
outlets.
In Lorin Maazel's 2005
opera 1984 Irons's voice boomed over the telescreen.
At the 1991 Tony Awards,
Jeremy Irons was one of the few celebrities to wear the recently created red
ribbon to support the fight against AIDS, and he was the first celebrity to wear
it onscreen.[1][2] He supports a number of other charities, including the Prison
Phoenix Trust of which he is an active patron.
He is famous among fans
of The Simpsons for having a name difficult to anagram (when Lisa tries to come
up with an anagram of his name, the best she can do is Jeremy's Iron).[3]
(Jeremy Irons - Is Ron Jeremy)
He is a fan of English
football club Portsmouth F.C.
His voice has been copied
by Matt Morgan to read out text messages on Russell Brand's 6 Music radio show,
which are particularly evil or iniquitous.
Jeremy Irons played
Severus Snape in Comic Relief's Harry Potter parody, Harry Potter and the Secret
Chamberpot of Azerbaijan.
Irons read the audio book
recording of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist.
Selected filmography
Nijinsky (1980)
The French Lieutenant's
Woman (1981)
Brideshead Revisited
(1981)
Moonlighting (1982)
The Wild Duck (1983)
The Mission (1986)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Danny Champion of the
World (1989)
Australia (1989)
Reversal of Fortune
(1990) (Academy Award for Best Actor)
Damage (1992)
The Timekeeper (1992)
M. Butterfly (1993)
The House of the Spirits
(1993)
The Lion King (1994)
(voice)
Die Hard: With a
Vengeance (1995)
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Chinese Box (1997)
Lolita (1997)
The Man in the Iron Mask
(1998)
Faeries (1999) (voice)
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
The Night of the Iguana
(2001)
The Time Machine (2002)
Callas Forever (2002)
Being Julia (2004)
The Merchant of Venice
(2004)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
The Magic 7 (2005) (TV)
Elizabeth I (2005) (TV)
(Emmy Win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, Golden
Globe, Screen Actors Guild)
Casanova (2005)
Eragon (2006)
INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
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