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Biography #2 (for And Now Ladies & Gentlemen)
Jeremy Irons began his career in theatre at the Bristol Old Vic and continued it with a London debut in Godspell as John the Baptist. His work in the West End and at Stratford-on-Avon culminated with his performances of Richard II and A Winter's Tale for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing opposite Glenn Close, for which he won both the Drama League Award and the Tony Award for Best Actor.Irons won the 1990 Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance as Claus Von Bulow in Barbet Schroeder's Reversal of Fortune. And his dual role as twins in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers won him the Best Actor Award from the New York Film Critics Circle and a Canadian Genie. His many memorable film roles also include Harold Pinter's Betrayal, Volker Schlondorff's Swann in Love, Roland Joffe's The Mission and The French Lieutenant's Woman opposite Meryl Streep.
Irons went on to star in Steven Soderbergh's Kafka, David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly and Billie August's The House of The Spirits. In 1994, Irons created the voice of Scar for Disney's The Lion King and followed that by playing the villain in Die Hard: With A Vengeance and taking a turn in Bernardo Bertolucci's romantic drama Stealing Beauty.
Irons' films also include Wayne Wang's Chinese Box; The Man In The Iron Mask, in which he co-starred with Gerard Depardieu, Leonardo DiCaprio, and John Malkovich; and the the role Humbert Humbert in Adrian Lyne's Lolita. He appeared as the Uber-Morlock in The Time Machine and then starred in John Irvin's The Fourth Angel. Last year Irons portrayed F. Scott Fitzgerald in Last Call, a Showtime feature production. Most recently, he played the manager of Maria Callas in Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever, opposite Fanny Ardant.
Bio courtesy Paramount Classics for "And Now Ladies & Gentlemen" (03-Aug-2003)
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