Jeremy Irons won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Claus von Bulow in “Reversal of Fortune.” He has also been honored with a Golden Globe Award, Primetime Emmy Award, Tony Award and SAG Award for his work.
The British Irons has an extraordinary legacy of film, television and theater performances including “The French Lieutenant's Woman,” in which he starred opposite Meryl Streep; “The Mission”; and David Cronenberg’s “Dead Ringers.” Irons starred in “Damage” and “M. Butterfly” before he made pop culture history as the voice of the evil lion Scar in Disney’s classic “The Lion King.” Irons showed his grasp of the action genre starring opposite Bruce Willis in “Die Hard: With A Vengeance,” and also starred as Humbert Humbert in Adrian Lyne's “Lolita.”
Other career highlights include: “Being Julia” with Annette Bening; “Appaloosa” with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen; and Bertolucci's “Stealing Beauty.” Irons received a Tony for his performance in Tom Stoppard's “The Real Thing” and most recently appeared in London in the National Theatre’s “Never so Good” and in the Royal Shakespeare Company's “The Gods Weep.” Irons is probably best known for his role as Charles Ryder in the cult TV serial “Brideshead Revisited.” Irons joined Helen Mirren and director Tom Hooper in the award-winning television miniseries “Elizabeth I.” He was also recently lauded for his portrayal of iconic photographer Alfred Stieglitz in the award-winning biographical picture “Georgia O’Keeffe.”
Irons' latest role sees him taking on the mantle of the eponymous Rodrigo Borgia in Showtime's epic drama series “The Borgias,” now in its third season of production. In 2012 Irons was also seen on the big screen in the award winning independent feature “Margin Call” with Kevin Spacey and “The Words,” with Bradley Cooper, featured closing night at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Also in 2012, Irons starred as Henry IV, directed by Richard Eyre, in a series of three films for the “Cultural Olympiad for Britain 2012”: “Henry IV” parts one and two, “Henry V,” and “Richard II”—BBC2 adaptations for a Shakespeare season created in collaboration with Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes.
Irons has also completed production on “The Night Train to Lisbon,” directed by Bille August, as well as “Beautiful Creatures,” shot in Louisiana and directed by Richard LaGravenese. Irons adds the credit of executive producer and featured actor in “Trashed,” a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
