🎬Jeremy Irons

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	The Beekeeper (2024)	Wallace Westwyld		7.1
2	The Cello (2023)	Francesco	-	-
3	Once Upon a Studio (2023)	Scar (voice)		8.8
4	Tom Hanks: The Nomad (2023)	Self (archive footage)		5
5	The Flash (2023) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Alfred Pennyworth		6.7
6	House of Gucci (2021) Most waited movies 2021	Rodolfo Gucci		6.5
7	Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) Top 100 by FilmGator	Alfred		7.9
8	Munich – The Edge of War (2021)	Neville Chamberlain		6.9
9	Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)	Lawrence Philips		6
10	Better Start Running (2018)	Garrison	-	-
11	Red Sparrow (2018)	Vladimir Korchnoi		6.8
12	An Actor Prepares (2018)	Atticus	-	-
13	Justice League (2017)	Alfred		6.4
14	Birds Like Us (2017)	Mi (voice)	-	-
15	Their Finest (2017)	Secretary of War		6.8
16	Correspondence (2016)	Ed Phoerum		6.5
17	The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)	G. H. Hardy		7.3
18	DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League (2016)	Self		8.5
19	Race (2016)	Avery Brundage		6.9
20	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)	Alfred		6.4
21	Assassin's Creed (2016)	Alan Rikkin		6.1
22	High-Rise (2015)	Anthony Royal		6.3
23	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	Macon Ravenwood		6.4
24	Night Train to Lisbon (2013)	Raimund		6.5
25	Muse of Fire (2013)	Self	-	-
26	Trashed (2012)	Himself	-	-
27	The Words (2012)	The Old Man		7.2
28	The Last Lions (2011)	Narrator		7.5
29	Margin Call (2011) Oscars 2012	John Tuld		7
30	The Pink Panther 2 (2009)	Avellaneda		5.8
31	Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)	Self (archive footage)		7.8
32	Appaloosa (2008)	Randall Bragg		6.6
33	Eragon (2006)	Brom		5.8
34	The Secret Policeman's Ball: The Ball in the Hall (2006)	Self	-	-
35	Inland Empire (2006)	Kingsley Stewart		6.3
36	Casanova (2005)	Pucci		6.5
37	Kingdom of Heaven (2005)	Tiberias		7
38	Gallipoli (2005)	Narrator		8
39	Being Julia (2004) Oscars 2005	Michael Gosselyn	-	-
40	The Merchant of Venice (2004)	Antonio		5.8
41	Callas Forever (2002)	Larry Kelly	-	-
42	The Time Machine (2002) Oscars 2003	Über-Morlock		6.6
43	Last Call (2002)	F. Scott Fitzgerald	-	-
44	Dungeons & Dragons (2000)	Profion		5.1
45	The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)	Aramis		6.5
46	Lolita (1997)	Humbert Humbert		6.5
47	Stealing Beauty (1996)	Alex Parrish		7.5
48	The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)	Self	-	-
49	Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)	Simon		7.8
50	The Lion King (1994)	Scar (voice)		8.4
51	The House of the Spirits (1993)	Esteban Trueba		7.5
52	M. Butterfly (1993)	René Gallimard		6.2
53	Damage (1992)	Dr. Stephen Fleming		6.7
54	Kafka (1991)	Kafka	-	-
55	Reversal of Fortune (1990)	Claus von Bülow		4
56	A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)	Guy Jones	-	-
57	Dead Ringers (1988)	Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle		7.4
58	The Mission (1986)	Father Gabriel		8.4
59	Betrayal (1983)	Jerry		5
60	The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)	Charles Henry Smithson / Mike	-	-
61	Highlander	-	-	-