Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons (born in Cowes, Island of Wight, England, September 19, 1948), a classically trained theater actor, starred with Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981) directed by Karel Reisz from the 1969 novel by John Fowles, with Robert De Niro in The Mission (1986) by Roland Joffé, with Glenn Close in Reversal of Fortune (1990) by Barbet Schroeder, The House of the Spirits (1993) directed by Bille August from the 1982 novel by Isabella Allende. He was directed by David Cronenberg in Dead Ringers (1988) and M Butterfly (1993), by Louis Malle in Damage (1992) with Juliette Binoche, by Adrian Lyne in Lolita (1997) from the 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, by Istvån Szabó in Being Julia (2004) with Annette Bening, by Ridley Scott in Kingdom of Heaven (2005). He acted with Viggo Mortensen in Appaloosa (2008) directed by Ed Harris, with Kevin Spacey in Margin Call (2011), with Dev Patel in The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016) about Indian mathematician Ramanujan, with Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow (2018), with Adam Driver in House of Gucci (2021) by Ridley Scott. On television he acted in Brideshead Revisited (1982), Elizabeth I (2005) with Helen Mirren, Georgia O’Keefe (2008) with Joan Allen, The Borgias (2011-2013).