Artists

British-born actor Jeremy Irons has an extraordinary legacy of film, television, and theater performances. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune. Other film highlights include The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Mission, Dead Ringers, Damage, M. Butterfly, Being Julia, Appaloosa, Stealing Beauty, and Margin Call; he is also the voice of the evil lion Scar in the Disney classic The Lion King, starred opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard: With A Vengeance, and played Humbert Humbert in Adrian Lyne's Lolita.

Irons received a Tony Award for his performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing and more recently appeared on the London stage in the National Theatre’s Never so Good and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Gods Weep.

Irons may be best known for his role as Charles Ryder in the cult TV series Brideshead Revisited. Other television credits include Elizabeth I, the award-winning miniseries directed by Tom Hooper, and portraying the iconic photographer Alfred Stieglitz in the award-winning biographical picture Georgia O’Keeffe. In 2010, he took on the role of Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime series The Borgias, a historical fiction drama set around the turn of the 16th century created by Neil Jordan.

In 2012, Irons was featured in Trashed, an award-winning documentary about the environment directed by Candida Brady for which he was the executive producer.