Jeremy Irons Highlights

  • 2006: Offered an award winning performance opposite Helen Mirren in "Elizabeth I" a joint HBO/Channel 4 production
  • 2006: Cast as Brom, a former Dragon Rider in "Eragon" a fantasy/adventure movie based on the novel of the same name
  • 2005: Co-starred as in Lasse Hallström's "Casanova," opposite Heath Ledger
  • 2005: Starred in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" about the 12th-century Crusades
  • 2004: Cast opposite Al Pacino and Joseph Fiennes in "The Merchant of Venice" a Shakespearian adaptation, set in 16th century Venice
  • 2004: Cast in "Being Julia" which centers around stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge in 1930's London
  • 2003: Joined co-star Patricia Kaas for the feature "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen"
  • 2002: Co-starred with Fanny Ardant in "Callas Forever"
  • 2001: Cast opposite Forest Whitaker in "The Fourth Angel"
  • 2000: Co-starred in the British TV drama "Longitude", written and directed by Charles Sturridge
  • 2000: Offered over-the-top villainous turn in "Dungeons and Dragons"
  • 1998: Offered a fine turn as the swashbucling Aramis, one of the original Musketeers, in "The Man in the Iron Mask"
  • 1997: Portrayed Humbert Humbert in Adrian Lyne's remake of "Lolita"; released in the USA in 1998
  • 1996: Cast as a dying writer in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty"
  • 1995: Played the villain in "Die Hard With a Vengeance"
  • 1994: Voiced the villainous Scar in Disney's "The Lion King"
  • 1993: Played a cheating spouse in "Damage"
  • 1993: Acted the role of a French diplomat who falls in love with a Chinese performer who harbors a secret in "M Butterfly"; second film with Cronenberg
  • 1991: Cast in title role of Stephen Soderbergh's "Kafka"
  • 1990: Earned acclaim and a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Claus von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune"
  • 1988: Breakthrough screen role, played twins in David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers"
  • 1986: Teamed opposite Robert De Niro in "The Mission"
  • 1985: Directed video for Carly Simon's song "Tired of Being Blonde"
  • 1984: Starred in "Swann in Love", adapted from Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu"
  • 1984: Broadway debut in "The Real Thing"
  • 1983: Co-starred with Ben Kingsley and Patricia Hodge in "Betrayal"
  • 1981: Cast opposite Meryl Streep in "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
  • 1980: Film debut as Mikhail Fokine in "Nijinsky"
  • 1979: Breakthrough TV role, Charles Ryder in "Brideshead Revisited"
  • 1975: TV debut as Franz Liszt in BBC miniseries "Notorious Woman" (shown on PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" November-December of same year)
  • 1973: London stage debut as John the Baptist in "Godspell," Round House Theatre (later at Wyndham's Theatre for two years)
  • 1971: Made stage debut in "Hay Fever" with Bristol Old Vic company; company member for three years