Jeremy Irons

1948-

Biography: life and films

Jeremy Irons is an English actor. He was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England on 19th September 1948.

His best films as an actor include Jerzy Skolimowski's Moonlighting (1982), Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Roger Allers's The Lion King (1994), John McTiernan's crime-thriller Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) and Claude Lelouch's thriller And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002).

Jeremy Irons has so far appeared in 43 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: David Cronenberg (2 films) and Bille August (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (28 films), romance (12), Thriller (8), comedy-drama (5), Fantasy (4), comedy-romance (3), history (2) and Animation (2).

Our average rating for Jeremy Irons over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: a = actor

The Pallisers [TV] (1974) [a]

Nijinsky (1980) [a]

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) [a]

Moonlighting (1982) [a]

Betrayal (1983) [a]

The Wild Duck (1983) [a]

Un amour de Swann (1984) [a]

The Statue of Liberty (1985) [a]

The Mission (1986) [a]

A Chorus of Disapproval (1988) [a]

Dead Ringers (1988) [a]

Australia (1989) [a]

Reversal of Fortune (1990) [a]

Kafka (1991) [a]

Damage (1992) [a]

Waterland (1992) [a]

M. Butterfly (1993) [a]

The House of the Spirits (1993) [a]

The Lion King (1994) [a]

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) [a]

Stealing Beauty (1996) [a]

Chinese Box (1997) [a]

Lolita (1997) [a]

The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) [a]

Faeries (1999) [a]

Dungeons & Dragons (2000) [a]

The Fourth Angel (2001) [a]

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002) [a]

Callas Forever (2002) [a]

The Time Machine (2002) [a]

Being Julia (2004) [a]

Mathilde (2004) [a]

The Merchant of Venice (2004) [a]

Casanova (2005) [a]

Kingdom of Heaven (2005) [a]

Eragon (2006) [a]

Inland Empire (2006) [a]

Appaloosa (2008) [a]

The Pink Panther 2 (2009) [a]

Margin Call (2011) [a]

The Words (2012) [a]

Beautiful Creatures (2013) [a]

Night Train to Lisbon (2013) [a]

High-Rise (2015) [a]

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) [a]

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) [a]

Race (2016) [a]



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