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Jeremy Irons

(1948-), Actor

Sitter in 5 portraits
Irons first appeared on the London stage was as John the Baptist opposite David Essex in Godspell. His role as Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited shot him to fame in 1981. In 1984 Irons won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance opposite Glenn Close in The Real Thing. Other film appearances include the dual role of mad twin physicians in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, Reversal of Fortune, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the voice of Scar in The Lion King. In 2008 he played Harold Macmillan in Howard Brenton's play, Never So Good and Henry IV in the television adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays, The Hollow Crown (2012).

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Jeremy Irons, by Stuart Pearson Wright - NPG 6752

Jeremy Irons

by Stuart Pearson Wright
pencil and white heightening, 2005
NPG 6752

Jeremy Irons, by Lord Snowdon - NPG x27864

Jeremy Irons

by Lord Snowdon
bromide print, 1981
NPG x27864

Stars of the British Screen, by Norman Parkinson - NPG x126889

Stars of the British Screen

by Norman Parkinson
cibachrome print, 11 December 1985
NPG x126889

Stars of the British Screen, by Norman Parkinson - NPG x126895

Stars of the British Screen

by Norman Parkinson
bromide fibre print, 11 December 1985
NPG x126895

Actors, by Alistair Morrison - NPG x36500

Actors

by Alistair Morrison
bromide print, May 1987
NPG x36500

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