Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Acting

Born September 19, 1948 · Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK

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 an…

Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

1989

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

2005

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

1975

Wetten, dass..?

Wetten, dass..?

1981

The View

The View

1997

Acting(218)

2027The Beekeeper 2Wallace Westwyld

2026The Crystal PlanetGovernor Mordokan (voice)

2026What is dyslexia?The Inventor

2026Dracula's Hidden KingdomSelf - Narrator

2026Last MoviesSelf - Narrator

2025This Ordinary ThingSelf (voice)

2025Mara: RebirthNarrator (voice)

2025Palestine 36High Commissioner Wauchope

2025The Lion King at the Hollywood BowlSelf

2025The Count of Monte CristoAbbé Faria

2024Alec Guinness: A Class Actself

2024Quintessentially IrishSelf

2024The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio

2024The BeekeeperWallace Westwyld

2023Codice CarlaSelf

2023Once Upon a StudioScar (voice)

2023The CelloFrancesco

2023Making The Flash: Worlds CollideSelf - 'Alfred'

2023The FlashAlfred Pennyworth

2023Liv Ullmann: A Road Less TravelledSelf

2023Tom Hanks: The NomadSelf (archive footage)

2022Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland JofféSelf (archive footage)

2022Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel ConformistSelf

2022The PentaverateJeremy Irons

2022Eye of the Leopard: RevealedNarrator (voice)

2022Eternal Enemies: RevealedNarrator (voice)

2022Ultimate Enemies: RevealedNarrator (voice)

2022Relentless Enemies: RevealedNarrator (voice)

2022Living With Big Cats: RevealedNarrator

2022The Way of the CheetahNarrator (voice)

2021Munich - The Edge of WarNeville Chamberlain

2021House of GucciRodolfo Gucci

2021Napoleon: In the Name of Art

2021Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il restoSelf

2021Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in HollywoodSelf

2021Architects of Ancient ArabiaNarrator

2021Zack Snyder's Justice LeagueAlfred

2020Love, Weddings & Other DisastersLawrence Philips

2020Jade Eyed LeopardNarrator (voice)

2019The Morning ShowMartin Levy

2019WatchmenAdrian Veidt / Ozymandias

2019The Prado Museum: A Collection of WondersSelf - Host / Narrator (voice)

2018An Actor PreparesAtticus

2018Better Start RunningGarrison

2018Red SparrowVladimir Korchnoi

2017Justice LeagueAlfred

2017Birds Like UsMi (voice)

2017Their FinestSecretary of War

2016Assassin's CreedAlan Rikkin

2016The Sultan and the SaintNarrator

2016The Man Who Knew InfinityG. H. Hardy

2016Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeAlfred

2016RaceAvery Brundage

2016DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League

2016CorrespondenceEd Phoerum

2016I Wish For YouGrandfather

2015High-RiseAnthony Royal

2015The Genius of George BooleNarrator (voice)

2015Emotional UncertaintiesSelf

2015Earthquake On EverestNarrator (voice)

2015StarTalk with Neil deGrasse TysonSelf

2014Endless CorridorNarrator

2014The Voysey InheritanceEdward Voysey

2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf

2013Game of LionsNarrator (voice)

2013Muse of FireSelf

2013The Sunflower Superjam 2012Self

2013Goodbye GranadalandSelf

2013The Wind GodsNarrator (voice)

2013Night Train to LisbonRaimund

2013Beautiful CreaturesMacon Ravenwood

2012Racing LegendsSelf

2012TrashedHimself

2012Another Way HomeNarrator

2012The WordsThe Old Man

2012The Hollow CrownHenry IV

2012Shakespeare UncoveredHimself

2012Seeds of FreedomNarator

2011ProhibitionReader (voice)

2011Margin CallJohn Tuld

2011The BorgiasRodrigo Borgia

2011The Last LionsNarrator

2010Harold Pinter: A CelebrationSelf

2010The Majestic Plastic BagNarrator

2009The Power of the Powerless

2009Georgia O'KeeffeAlfred Stieglitz

2009Waking Sleeping BeautySelf (archive footage)

2009The ChronoscopeNarrator

2009The Pink Panther 2Avellaneda

2008AppaloosaRandall Bragg

2008Magic in the air, Bantry House MusicFestival audience member

20081984Television Voice

2008The Colour of MagicPatrician

2008Eden at the End of the WorldNarrator

2008The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1Patrician

2008The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2Patrician

2007Lynch 2Self

2007J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film PresentationNarrator

2006Inland EmpireKingsley Stewart

2006The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the HallSelf

2006Eye of the LeopardNarrator

2006The Path to RedemptionSelf

2006Relentless Enemies: Lions and BuffaloNarrator (voice)

2006MathildeCol. De Petris

2005CasanovaPucci

2005Revisiting BridesheadSelf

2005The Merchant of VeniceHimself

2005Elizabeth IEarl of Leicester

2005Kingdom of HeavenTiberias

2005GallipoliNarrator

2005The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSelf

2005Fiat CromaLead

2004The Merchant of VeniceAntonio

2004Who Do You Think You Are?Self

2004Being JuliaMichael Gosselyn

2003Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and LionsNarrator (voice)

2003Working ShakespeareHost

2003Kingdom of David: The Saga of the IsraelitesReadings (Voice)

2003The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the WorldNarrator

2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereSelf

2003Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on FilmSelf - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")

2002Callas ForeverLarry Kelly

2002And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...Valentin Valentin

2002Last CallF. Scott Fitzgerald

2002Heart of the FestivalSelf (archive footage)

2002Ohio ImpromptuReader / Listener

2002The Time MachineÜber-Morlock

2001The Short Life of Anne FrankNarrator (English version)

2001The Fourth AngelJack Elgin

2001The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"Self

2000Dungeons & DragonsProfion

2000LongitudeRupert Gould

2000LongitudeRupert Gould

1999Law & Order: Special Victims UnitDr. Cap Jackson

1999FaeriesThe Shapeshifter (voice)

1998The Man in the Iron MaskAramis

1998The Lolita StoryHimself

1997Chinese BoxJohn

1997LolitaHumbert Humbert

1997The ViewSelf

1996E! True Hollywood Story

1996Stealing BeautyAlex Parrish

1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American MoviesSelf

1995Die Hard: With a VengeanceSimon

1995A Night to Die ForSelf

1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf

1994The Making of the Lion KingSelf

1994The Lion KingScar (voice)

1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!Self (archive footage)

1994BrisantSelf

1993The House of the SpiritsEsteban Trueba

1993M. ButterflyRené Gallimard

1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest

1992DamageDr. Stephen Fleming

1992Tales from HollywoodOdon Von Horvath

1992Earth and the American DreamReader (voice)

1992WaterlandTom Crick

1992Blast 'EmSelf (uncredited)

1992HBO First Look

1992From Time to TimeH.G. Wells

1991PerformanceOdon Von Horvath

1991The Beggar's OperaPrisoner

1991'Still Life' at the Penguin CafeNarrator

1990Reversal of FortuneClaus von Bülow

1990The Civil WarVarious (voice)

1990Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!Self (archive footage)

1989The SimpsonsBar Rag (voice)

1989AustraliaEdouard Pierson

1989Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'Narrator

1989A Chorus of DisapprovalGuy Jones

1989Danny the Champion of the WorldWilliam Smith

1988Sesame Street: Put Down the DuckieSelf

1988Dead RingersBeverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle

1988Comic Relief

1988The Making of Dead RingersSelf - Actor

1987Daytime Live

1986The MissionFather Gabriel

1986Rabbit Ears - The Steadfast Tin SoldierNarrator (voice)

1986Looney Tunes 50th AnniversarySelf

1985The Statue of LibertySelf (voice)

1985Night of 100 Stars IISelf

1984The Wild DuckHarold

1984Swann in LoveCharles Swann

1983BetrayalJerry

1983The Captain's DollCaptain Alexander Hepburn

1982NatureNarrator

1982MoonlightingNowak

1982American PlayhouseÖdön von Horváth

1981Brideshead RevisitedCharles Ryder

1981The French Lieutenant's WomanCharles Henry Smithson / Mike

1981Wetten, dass..?Self

1980NijinskyMikhail Fokine

1978Langrishe, Go DownOtto Beck

1977BBC2 Play of the WeekOtto Beck

1977Love for LydiaAlex Sanderson

1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host

1974Churchill's PeopleSamuel Ross

1974Notorious WomanFranz Liszt

1974The PallisersFrank Tregear

1971Film '72Self

1971The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesNephew

1971Great PerformancesSelf

1965BBC Play of the MonthEdward Voysey

1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf

1956Tony AwardsSelf - Host

1953The OscarsSelf

A Magnificent Death from a Shattered Hand

Broadway: The Next GenerationSelf

The Well of Saint NobodyWilliam

Water People: The Story of UsThe Ocean (voice)

RihanaJulian Miles

RSC Meets USA: Working ShakespeareSelf (Host)