Acting • AGE 77
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 an...


The Crystal Planet
Governor Mordokan (voice)
2026

What is dyslexia?
The Inventor
2026

Wild Transylvania – Dracula's Hidden Kingdom
Narrator
2026

Last Movies
Self - Narrator
2026

This Ordinary Thing
Self (voice)
2025

Mara: Rebirth
Narrator (voice)
2025

Palestine 36
High Commissioner Wauchope
2025

The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl
Self
2025

The Count of Monte Cristo
Abbé Faria
2025

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
2024

Quintessentially Irish
Self
2024

The Immortals: The Wonder of the Museo Egizio
2024

The Beekeeper
Wallace Westwyld
2024

Codice Carla
Self
2023

Once Upon a Studio
Scar (voice)
2023

The Cello
Francesco
2023

Making The Flash: Worlds Collide
Self - 'Alfred'
2023

The Flash
Alfred Pennyworth
2023

Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled
Self
2023

Tom Hanks: The Nomad
Self (archive footage)
2023

Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
Self (archive footage)
2022

Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
Self
2022

The Pentaverate
Jeremy Irons
2022

Eye of the Leopard: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
2022

Eternal Enemies: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
2022

Ultimate Enemies: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
2022

Relentless Enemies: Revealed
Narrator (voice)
2022

Living With Big Cats: Revealed
Narrator
2022

The Way of the Cheetah
Narrator (voice)
2022

Munich - The Edge of War
Neville Chamberlain
2021

House of Gucci
Rodolfo Gucci
2021

Napoleon: In the Name of Art
2021

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto
Self
2021

Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Self
2021

Architects of Ancient Arabia
Narrator
2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League
Alfred
2021

Nepal Beyond
Executive Producer
2021

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Lawrence Philips
2020

Jade Eyed Leopard
Narrator (voice)
2020

The Morning Show
Martin Levy
2019

Watchmen
Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
2019

The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Self - Host / Narrator (voice)
2019

An Actor Prepares
Atticus
2018

Better Start Running
Garrison
2018

Red Sparrow
Vladimir Korchnoi
2018

Justice League
Alfred
2017

Birds Like Us
Mi (voice)
2017

Their Finest
Secretary of War
2017

Assassin's Creed
Alan Rikkin
2016

The Sultan and the Saint
Narrator
2016

The Man Who Knew Infinity
G. H. Hardy
2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Alfred
2016

Race
Avery Brundage
2016

DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League
2016

Correspondence
Ed Phoerum
2016

I Wish For You
Grandfather
2016

High-Rise
Anthony Royal
2015

The Genius of George Boole
Narrator (voice)
2015

Earthquake On Everest
Narrator (voice)
2015

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Self
2015

Metropolis
2015

Endless Corridor
Narrator
2014

The Voysey Inheritance
Edward Voysey
2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014

Game of Lions
Narrator (voice)
2013

Muse of Fire
Self
2013

The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Self
2013

The Wind Gods
Narrator (voice)
2013

Night Train to Lisbon
Raimund
2013

Beautiful Creatures
Macon Ravenwood
2013

Racing Legends
Self
2012

Trashed
Himself
2012

The Words
The Old Man
2012

The Hollow Crown
Henry IV
2012

Shakespeare Uncovered
Himself
2012

Seeds of Freedom
Narator
2012

Prohibition
Reader (voice)
2011

Margin Call
John Tuld
2011

The Borgias
Rodrigo Borgia
2011

The Last Lions
Narrator
2011

Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
2010

The Majestic Plastic Bag
Narrator
2010

The Power of the Powerless
2009

Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz
2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
2009

The Chronoscope
Narrator
2009

The Pink Panther 2
Avellaneda
2009

Appaloosa
Randall Bragg
2008

Magic in the air, Bantry House Music
Festival audience member
2008

1984
Television Voice
2008

The Colour of Magic
Patrician
2008

Eden at the End of the World
Narrator
2008

The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
Patrician
2008

The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
Patrician
2008

Lynch 2
Self
2007

J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
Narrator
2007

Eragon
Brom
2006

Inland Empire
Kingsley Stewart
2006

Eye of the Leopard
Narrator
2006

The Path to Redemption
Self
2006

Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
Narrator (voice)
2006

Mathilde
Col. De Petris
2006

Casanova
Pucci
2005

Revisiting Brideshead
Self
2005

The Merchant of Venice
Himself
2005

Elizabeth I
Earl of Leicester
2005

Kingdom of Heaven
Tiberias
2005

Gallipoli
Narrator
2005

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
2005

Fiat Croma
Lead
2005

The Merchant of Venice
Antonio
2004

Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2004

Being Julia
Michael Gosselyn
2004

Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions
Narrator (voice)
2003

Working Shakespeare
Host
2003

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites
Readings (Voice)
2003

The Hittites: A Civilization that Changed the World
Narrator
2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")
2003

Callas Forever
Larry Kelly
2002

And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Valentin Valentin
2002

Last Call
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2002

Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
2002

Ohio Impromptu
Reader / Listener
2002

The Time Machine
Über-Morlock
2002

The Short Life of Anne Frank
Narrator (English version)
2001

The Fourth Angel
Jack Elgin
2001

The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
Self
2001

Dungeons & Dragons
Profion
2000

Longitude
Rupert Gould
2000

Longitude
Rupert Gould
2000

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dr. Cap Jackson
1999

Faeries
The Shapeshifter (voice)
1999

The Man in the Iron Mask
Aramis
1998

The Lolita Story
Himself
1998

Chinese Box
John
1997

Lolita
Humbert Humbert
1997

The View
Self
1997

E! True Hollywood Story
1996

Stealing Beauty
Alex Parrish
1996

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
1995

Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Simon
1995

A Night to Die For
Self
1995

Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994

The Making of the Lion King
Self
1994

The Lion King
Scar (voice)
1994

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
1994

Brisant
Self
1994

The House of the Spirits
Esteban Trueba
1993

M. Butterfly
René Gallimard
1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993

Damage
Dr. Stephen Fleming
1992

Tales from Hollywood
Odon Von Horvath
1992

Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
1992

Waterland
Tom Crick
1992

Blast 'Em
Self (uncredited)
1992

HBO First Look
1992

From Time to Time
H.G. Wells
1992

Kafka
Kafka
1991

Performance
Odon Von Horvath
1991

The Beggar's Opera
Prisoner
1991

'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
Narrator
1991

Reversal of Fortune
Claus von Bülow
1990

The Civil War
Various (voice)
1990

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Self (archive footage)
1990

The Simpsons
Bar Rag (voice)
1989

Australia
Edouard Pierson
1989

Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
Narrator
1989

A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones
1989

Danny the Champion of the World
William Smith
1989

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
1988

Dead Ringers
Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
1988

The Making of Dead Ringers
Self - Actor
1988

The Mission
Father Gabriel
1986

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
Self
1986

The Statue of Liberty
Self (voice)
1985

Night of 100 Stars II
Self
1985

The Wild Duck
Harold
1984

Swann in Love
Charles Swann
1984

Betrayal
Jerry
1983

The Captain's Doll
Captain Alexander Hepburn
1983

Nature
Narrator
1982

Moonlighting
Nowak
1982

Brideshead Revisited
Charles Ryder
1981

The French Lieutenant's Woman
Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
1981

Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981

Nijinsky
Mikhail Fokine
1980

Langrishe, Go Down
Otto Beck
1978

BBC2 Play of the Week
Otto Beck
1977

Love for Lydia
Alex Sanderson
1977

Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975

Churchill's People
Samuel Ross
1974

Notorious Woman
Franz Liszt
1974

The Pallisers
Frank Tregear
1974

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Nephew
1971

Great Performances
Self
1971

BBC Play of the Month
Edward Voysey
1965

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962

Tony Awards
Self - Host
1956

The Oscars
Self
1953

Broadway: The Next Generation
Self

Highlander

Rihana
Julian Miles