Jeremy Irons

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  UK 41 11/21/1987 (12 weeks)

Jeremy John Irons (born September 19, 1948 in Cowes , Isle of Wight ) is a British actor , Oscar and Golden Globe award winner.

life and work

Jeremy Irons was born to Barbara Anne and Paul Dugan Irons. His mother was a housewife, his father an accountant. His great-grandfather was one of the earliest cops for the Metropolitan Police Service in London and later a chartist . Irons has an older brother and an older sister.

Irons, who originally wanted to be a veterinarian, worked in several television and theater productions from the 1970s before his breakthrough in 1981 with the lead role in the ITV multi-part Reunion with Brideshead and in The Beloved of the French Lieutenant . Soon he was one of the most sought-after character actors in Hollywood and Europe. In 1988 he played in Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg a dual role that earned him much praise. For his portrayal of Claus von Bülow in The Affair of Sunny von B. , he received the Oscar for best leading actor in 1991 . In 1993 he worked again with Cronenberg for M. Butterfly . In 1994 he spoke for the Disney film The Lion King the bad lion Scar.

He gained great popularity and fame in 1995 through his role as the villain in Die Hard: Now all the more with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson . To date, the film is Jeremy Irons' greatest financial success. In 1997 he starred in Lolita and the Alexandre Dumas film The Man in the Iron Mask . In 2006 he stood again with John Malkovich for the film Eragon - The Legacy of the Dragon Riders in front of the camera. The two had previously worked together for The Man in the Iron Mask . In 2007, Irons received the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor in a TV movie for Elizabeth I . End of March 2008, he joined in a supporting role as Lord Havelock Vetinari in the second live-action adaptation equal to two books by British author Terry Pratchett in (The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic) .

On January 15, 1994, Jeremy Irons was at Wetten, dass ..? guest in Linz - there he performed together with Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker from the Scorpions and interpreted the song Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton in an unplugged version.

In 2020, Irons was selected as the jury president of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival . Because of his earlier controversial statements, for example on abortion or same-sex marriage, there was criticism of the decision of the new festival management.

Jeremy Irons has been married to actress Sinéad Cusack since 1978 . The couple have two sons, Max Irons and Sam Irons . In the 1989 film Danny the Champion , his son Sam Irons played the title role; Jeremy Irons took on the role of Danny's father. In 2012 he appeared in front of the camera alongside Alden Ehrenreich , Alice Englert , Emmy Rossum , Emma Thompson and Viola Davis in the drama Beautiful Creatures .

German dubbing voice

In the German dubbing, Frank Glaubrecht and Thomas Fritsch are alternately his standard voices .

Filmography (selection)

Prizes and awards

Jeremy Irons has won 28 international film awards to date and has been nominated for 31 more. In 2017 he was awarded the European Theater Prize together with Isabelle Huppert . It is only the second time - after Michel Piccoli (2001) - that actors have been awarded this prize.

Web links

Commons : Jeremy Irons  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
  2. ↑ Prisma Online - with current TV information
  3. ↑ Biography ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on film-zeit.de.
  4. ↑ Jeremy Irons hurts credibility. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Jeremy Irons Joins Beautiful Creatures; Rest of Cast Creeped Out on dreadcentral.com and Beautiful Creatures - An immortal loveBeautiful Creatures in the cinema on tvdigital.de
  6. ↑ European Theater Prize to Isabelle Huppert and Jeremy Irons , accessed on November 19, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Irons, Jeremy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irons, Jeremy John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Cowes , Isle of Wight , United Kingdom