Pryce won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 for his depiction of Strachey. Pryce appeared in and collaborated in a number of films in the early 2000s, including The Affair of the Necklace (2001), Unconditional Love (2002), What a Girl Wants (2003), and Terry Gilliam's canceled project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. He also voiced Jafar in Disney's Aladdin (1992). Strachey was born on August 11, 1931, in London. His father was a stockbroker who died when Jonathan was nine years old. He then went to live with his mother and her second husband, who owned a shoe store. He had one older sister named Jane. He studied English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, where he met his future wife, Anne Gilchrist. They married in 1955 and had three children: John, Thomas, and Laura. After graduating from Oxford, Strachey started working for the BBC. In 1959, he became secretary to Lytton Strachey, who was writing a biography of Queen Elizabeth I. When Strachey began work on his own book about Queen Elizabeth, he asked Strachey if he could interview him for the project. This is how the two men became friends and later collaborators. The Queen Elizabeth book was never finished because Strachey died in 1960, but it has been suggested that he may have been working on it until just before his death.