Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

Jeremy Irons is an English actor known for his roles on stage, screen and television.

Irons at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con.

Theatre

Following his training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons first acted with the school's theatre company:

Year	Production	Role	Venue
1969	The Winter's Tale	Florizel	Bristol Old Vic
	Hay Fever	Simon
	What the Butler Saw	Nick
	Major Barbara
	The 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
1984–1985	The Real Thing	Henry	Plymouth Theatre (Broadway)
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 City Opera
2005	Celebration	Russell	Gate Theatre and Albery Theatre
	Camelot	King Arthur	Hollywood Bowl
2006	Embers	Henrik	Duke of York's Theatre
2006	Pinter Plays, Poetry & Prose		Teatro Carignano, Turin[1][2]
2008	Never So Good	Harold Macmillan	National Theatre
2009	Impressionism	Thomas Buckle	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway
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
2017	Correspondence 1944–1959 Readings from the epistles between Albert Camus and Maria Casares	Albert	Teatro Argentina, Rome[3][4]
	Ashes to Ashes (Special creation for the Europe Theatre Prize)	Devlin

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Nijinsky	Mikhail Fokine
1981	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Charles Henry Smithson/Mike
1982	Moonlighting	Nowak
1983	Betrayal	Jerry
1984	The Wild Duck	Harold
	Swann in Love	Charles Swann
1985	The Statue of Liberty	Himself	Voice; Documentary
1986	The Mission	Father Gabriel
1988	Dead Ringers	Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
1989	A Chorus of Disapproval	Guy Jones
	Australia	Edouard Pierson
	Danny, the Champion of the World	William Smith
1990	Reversal of Fortune	Claus von Bülow
1991	Beggar's Opera	Prisoner
	Kafka	Franz Kafka
1992	The Timekeeper	H. G. Wells	Short film
	Waterland	Tom Crick
	Damage	Dr. Stephen Fleming
1993	M. Butterfly	René Gallimard
	The House of the Spirits	Esteban Trueba
1994	Spaceship Earth	Narrator (3rd edition)	Voice; Documentary short
	The Lion King	Scar	Voice[5]
1995	Die Hard with a Vengeance	Simon Gruber
1996	Stealing Beauty	Alex
1997	Chinese Box	John
	Lolita	Humbert Humbert
1998	The Man in the Iron Mask	Aramis
1999	Faeries	The Shapeshifter	Voice[5]
	Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City	Poseidon	Voice; Short film
2000	Dungeons & Dragons	Profion
2001	The Fourth Angel	Jack Elgin
2002	Callas Forever	Larry Kelly
	The Time Machine	The Über-Morlock
	And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen	Valentin Valentin
2004	Mathilde	Col. De Petris
	The Merchant of Venice	Antonio
	Being Julia	Michael Gosselyn
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Tiberias
	Casanova	Pucci
2006	Inland Empire	Kingsley Stewart
	Eragon	Brom
	Eye of the Leopard	Narrator	Voice; Documentary
2008	Appaloosa	Randall Bragg
2009	The Pink Panther 2	Alonso Avellaneda
2011	Margin Call[6]	John Tuld
	The Last Lions	Narrator	Voice; Documentary
2012	The Words	The Old Man
	Trashed	Himself	Documentary; also executive producer
2013	Night Train to Lisbon	Raimund Gregorius
	Beautiful Creatures	Macon Ravenwood
2015	High-Rise	Anthony Royal
	The Man Who Knew Infinity	G. H. Hardy
2016	The Correspondence	Ed Phoerum
	Race	Avery Brundage
	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Alfred Pennyworth	[7]
	Their Finest	Secretary of War
	Assassin's Creed	Alan Rikkin	[8]
2017	Birds Like Us	Kondor/Mi	Voice[9][10]
	Justice League	Alfred Pennyworth	[11]
2018	Red Sparrow	Vladimir Korchnoi	[12]
	Better Start Running	Garrison	Also executive producer[13]
	An Actor Prepares	Atticus Smith	[14]
2020	Love, Weddings & Other Disasters	Lawrence Phillips	[15]
2021	Zack Snyder's Justice League	Alfred Pennyworth	Director's cut of Justice League[16]
	Munich – The Edge of War	Neville Chamberlain	[17]
	House of Gucci	Rodolfo Gucci	[18]
2023	The Flash	Alfred Pennyworth	[19]
	The Cello	Francesco	[20]
	Once Upon a Studio	Scar	Voice;[5][21] Short film
2024	The Beekeeper	Wallace Westwyld	[22]
TBA	Palestine 36		Post-production[23]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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	Play of the Week (BBC2)	Otto Beck	Episode: Langrishe, Go Down
1979	Play of the Month (BBC2)	Edward Voysey	Episode: The Voysey Inheritance
1981	Brideshead Revisited[24]	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	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
2009	The Magic 7	Thraxx	Voice; Television film
	Georgia O'Keeffe[25]	Alfred Stieglitz	Television film
2010	Arena	Various Characters	Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration"
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[26]	Dr. Cap Jackson	2 episodes
2011–13	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	6 episodes
2019	Watchmen	Adrian Veidt	8 episodes
2021	Napoleon – In the Name of Art	Presenting narrator	Documentary
	The Emirates from Above	Narrator
2022	The Pentaverate		6 episodes
2024	The Count of Monte Cristo	Abbé Faria	8 episodes
2025	Nature (TV program)	Narrator	Episode: “Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom”