# Jeremy Irons on stage and screen

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

## 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 |
| 1969 | Hay Fever | Simon | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1969 | What the Butler Saw | Nick | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1969 | Major Barbara | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1969 | The Servant of Two Masters | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1969 | Macbeth | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1969 | The Boy Friend | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1970 | As You Like It | | Bristol Old Vic |
| 1970 | Oh! What a Lovely War | | Little Theatre Bristol |
| 1970 | The School for Scandal | | Little Theatre Bristol |
| 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 |
| 1974 | The Caretaker | Mick | Young Vic |
| 1975 | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | Roundhouse |
| 1976 | Wild Oats | Harry Thunder | Aldwych Theatre |
| 1977 | Wild Oats | Harry Thunder | 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 |
| 1986 | The Rover | Willmore | Swan Theatre and Mermaid Theatre |
| 1986 | Richard II | Richard II | Royal Shakespeare Theatre |
| 1987 | Richard II | Richard II | Barbican Theatre |
| 2003 | A Little Night Music | Fredrick Egerman | New York City Opera |
| 2005 | Celebration | Russell | Gate Theatre and Albery Theatre |
| 2005 | Camelot | King Arthur | Hollywood Bowl |
| 2006 | Embers | Henrik | Duke of York's Theatre |
| 2006 | Pinter Plays, Poetry & Prose | | Teatro Carignano, Turin |
| 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 | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone | 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 |
| 2017 | Ashes to Ashes (Special creation for the Europe Theatre Prize) | Devlin | Teatro Argentina, Rome |

## 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 | |
| 1984 | 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 | |
| 1989 | Australia | Edouard Pierson | |
| 1989 | Danny, the Champion of the World | William Smith | |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | Claus von Bülow | |
| 1991 | Beggar's Opera | Prisoner | |
| 1991 | Kafka | Franz Kafka | |
| 1992 | The Timekeeper | H. G. Wells | Short film |
| 1992 | Waterland | Tom Crick | |
| 1992 | Damage | Dr. Stephen Fleming | |
| 1993 | M. Butterfly | René Gallimard | |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Esteban Trueba | |
| 1994 | Spaceship Earth | Narrator (3rd edition) | Voice; Documentary short |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Scar | Voice |
| 1995 | Die Hard with a Vengeance | Simon Gruber | |
| 1996 | Stealing Beauty | Alex | |
| 1997 | Chinese Box | John | |
| 1997 | Lolita | Humbert Humbert | |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Aramis | |
| 1999 | Faeries | The Shapeshifter | Voice |
| 1999 | 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 | |
| 2002 | The Time Machine | The Über-Morlock | |
| 2002 | And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen | Valentin Valentin | |
| 2004 | Mathilde | Col. De Petris | |
| 2004 | The Merchant of Venice | Antonio | |
| 2004 | Being Julia | Michael Gosselyn | |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Tiberias | |
| 2005 | Casanova | Pucci | |
| 2006 | Inland Empire | Kingsley Stewart | |
| 2006 | Eragon | Brom | |
| 2006 | Eye of the Leopard | Narrator | Voice; Documentary |
| 2008 | Appaloosa | Randall Bragg | |
| 2009 | The Pink Panther 2 | Alonso Avellaneda | |
| 2011 | Margin Call | John Tuld | |
| 2011 | The Last Lions | Narrator | Voice; Documentary |
| 2012 | The Words | The Old Man | |
| 2012 | Trashed | Himself | Documentary; also executive producer |
| 2013 | Night Train to Lisbon | Raimund Gregorius | |
| 2013 | Beautiful Creatures | Macon Ravenwood | |
| 2015 | High-Rise | Anthony Royal | |
| 2015 | The Man Who Knew Infinity | G. H. Hardy | |
| 2016 | The Correspondence | Ed Phoerum | |
| 2016 | Race | Avery Brundage | |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Alfred Pennyworth | |
| 2016 | Their Finest | Secretary of War | |
| 2016 | Assassin's Creed | Alan Rikkin | |
| 2017 | Birds Like Us | Kondor/Mi | Voice |
| 2017 | Justice League | Alfred Pennyworth | |
| 2018 | Red Sparrow | Vladimir Korchnoi | |
| 2018 | Better Start Running | Garrison | Also executive producer |
| 2018 | An Actor Prepares | Atticus Smith | |
| 2020 | Love, Weddings & Other Disasters | Lawrence Phillips | |
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Alfred Pennyworth | Director's cut of Justice League |
| 2021 | Munich – The Edge of War | Neville Chamberlain | |
| 2021 | House of Gucci | Rodolfo Gucci | |
| 2023 | The Flash | Alfred Pennyworth | |
| 2023 | The Cello | Francesco | |
| 2023 | Once Upon a Studio | Scar | Voice; Short film |
| 2024 | The Beekeeper | Wallace Westwyld | |
| TBA | Palestine 36 | | Post-production |

## 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 |
| 1974 | 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 | 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 | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | The Magic 7 | Thraxx | Voice; Television film |
| 2009 | Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz | Television film |
| 2010 | Arena | Various Characters | Episode: "Harold Pinter: A Celebration" |
| 2011 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 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" |
| 2012 | 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 |
| 2021 | The Emirates from Above | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2022 | The Pentaverate | Narrator | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Abbé Faria | 8 episodes |