Jeremy Irons
Born September 19, 1948 (Age: 77)
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Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Biography
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 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Irons's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. It would earn him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His first major film role came in the romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990). Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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 and has appeared in many West End theatre productions, including the Shakespeare plays The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, receiving the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Irons's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. It would earn him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His first major film role came in the romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990).
Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).
On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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Filmography
No Image
Highlander
Unknown
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The Beekeeper 2
2027
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as Wallace Westwyld
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Age: 78
Last Movies
2026
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as Self - Narrator
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Age: 77
Palestine 36
2025
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as High Commissioner Wauchope
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Age: 77
The Beekeeper
2024
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as Wallace Westwyld
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Age: 75
The Cello
2023
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as Francesco
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Age: 74
The Flash
2023
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as Alfred Pennyworth
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Age: 74
House of Gucci
2021
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as Rodolfo Gucci
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Age: 73
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
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as Alfred
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Age: 72
Better Start Running
2018
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as Garrison
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Age: 69
Red Sparrow
2018
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as Vladimir Korchnoi
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Age: 69
Justice League
2017
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as Alfred
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Age: 69
Their Finest
2017
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as Secretary of War
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Age: 68
Assassin's Creed
2016
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as Alan Rikkin
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Age: 68
The Man Who Knew Infinity
2016
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as G. H. Hardy
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Age: 67
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
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as Alfred
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Age: 67
Race
2016
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as Avery Brundage
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Age: 67
Correspondence
2016
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as Ed Phoerum
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Age: 67
I Wish For You
2016
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as Grandfather
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Age: 67
High-Rise
2015
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as Anthony Royal
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Age: 67
Beautiful Creatures
2013
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as Macon Ravenwood
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Age: 64
The Words
2012
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as The Old Man
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Age: 63
Seeds of Freedom
2012
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as Narator
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Age: 63
Margin Call
2011
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as John Tuld
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Age: 63
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
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as Self
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Age: 61
The Power of the Powerless
2009
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as
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Age: 61
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 60
The Chronoscope
2009
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as Narrator
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Age: 60
The Pink Panther 2
2009
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as Avellaneda
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Age: 60
Appaloosa
2008
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as Randall Bragg
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Age: 60
Lynch 2
2007
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as Self
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Age: 58
J.M.W. Turner: A National Gallery of Art Film Presentation
2007
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as Narrator
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Age: 58
Eragon
2006
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as Brom
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Age: 58
Inland Empire
2006
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as Kingsley Stewart
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Age: 58
The Path to Redemption
2006
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as Self
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Age: 57
Mathilde
2006
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as Col. De Petris
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Age: 57
Casanova
2005
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as Pucci
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Age: 57
Revisiting Brideshead
2005
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as Self
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Age: 57
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
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as Tiberias
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Age: 56
Fiat Croma
2005
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as Lead
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Age: 56
The Merchant of Venice
2004
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as Antonio
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Age: 56
Callas Forever
2002
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as Larry Kelly
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Age: 53
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2002
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as Valentin Valentin
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Age: 53
Last Call
2002
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as F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Age: 53
Ohio Impromptu
2002
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as Reader / Listener
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Age: 53
The Time Machine
2002
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as Über-Morlock
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Age: 53
The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons"
2001
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as Self
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Age: 52
Dungeons & Dragons
2000
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as Profion
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Age: 52
Longitude
2000
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as Rupert Gould
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Age: 51
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
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as Aramis
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Age: 49
The Lolita Story
1998
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as Himself
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Age: 49
Chinese Box
1997
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as John
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Age: 49
Lolita
1997
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as Humbert Humbert
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Age: 49
Stealing Beauty
1996
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as Alex Parrish
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Age: 47
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
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as Simon
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Age: 46
The Making of the Lion King
1994
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as Self
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Age: 45
The Lion King
1994
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as Scar (voice)
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Age: 45
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 45
The House of the Spirits
1993
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as Esteban Trueba
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Age: 45
M. Butterfly
1993
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as René Gallimard
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Age: 45
Damage
1992
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as Dr. Stephen Fleming
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Age: 44
Tales from Hollywood
1992
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as Odon Von Horvath
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Age: 44
Earth and the American Dream
1992
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as Reader (voice)
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Age: 44
Waterland
1992
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as Tom Crick
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Age: 43
From Time to Time
1992
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as H.G. Wells
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Age: 43
Kafka
1991
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as Kafka
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Age: 43
The Beggar's Opera
1991
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as Prisoner
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Age: 43
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
1991
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as Narrator
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Age: 42
Reversal of Fortune
1990
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as Claus von Bülow
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Age: 42
Australia
1989
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as Edouard Pierson
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Age: 40
Danny and the Dirty Dog: The Making of 'Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World'
1989
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as Narrator
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Age: 40
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
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as Guy Jones
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Age: 40
Danny the Champion of the World
1989
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as William Smith
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Age: 40
No Image
The Dream
1989
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as
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Age: 40
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988
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as Self
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Age: 40
Dead Ringers
1988
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as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle
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Age: 40
The Making of Dead Ringers
1988
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as Self - Actor
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Age: 39
The Mission
1986
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as Father Gabriel
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Age: 37
The Statue of Liberty
1985
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 37
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
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as Self
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Age: 36
The Captain's Doll
1983
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as Captain Alexander Hepburn
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Age: 34
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
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as Charles Henry Smithson / Mike
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Age: 32
Nijinsky
1980
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as Mikhail Fokine
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Age: 31
Langrishe, Go Down
1978
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as Otto Beck
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Age: 30