Jeremy Irons

British actor (born 1948)

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Born 1948
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1992

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Updated 2026-08-23

He won an Oscar playing the man accused of trying to kill his heiress wife, voiced Disney's most urbane villain, and spent three seasons as a Borgia pope — a career built on making moral ambiguity sound like silk.

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Jeremy John Irons trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and launched his stage career in 1969, working through Shakespeare in the West End before taking Broadway in 1984 with The Real Thing, which won him a Tony. Film came with The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1981, the same year he played Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited and became a name. The next decade brought Betrayal, The Mission, and the psychosexual chill of Dead Ringers, then the Academy Award in 1990 for Reversal of Fortune's Claus von Bülow. He voiced Scar in The Lion King in 1994, played across Lolita, Die Hard with a…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

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I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. An actor like Al Pacino lives to act.

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The movie industry is run by accountants in Hollywood and it's as simple as this; everyone has a number on their computer.

— Lipworth, Elaine, "King of all his castles"

Jeremy Irons

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I'm a very difficult person. My wife's a very difficult person. Living together is difficult but all marriages are the same - desperately difficult.

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Jeremy Irons

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Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?

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