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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 Irons
Alfred Pennyworth
for Alfred Pennyworth in Batman TV show
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Bruce Wayne is the only child of the millionaire couple Thomas and Martha Wayne, when, at the age of eight, his parents were murdered after an assault. Bruce was deeply traumatized, and his life was never the same, Bruce was raised by is butler Alfred Pennyworth. Although a millionaire, Bruce did not take advantage of the comforts and luxuries he could have enjoyed. He spent his youth obsessed with vengeance and prevented the tragedy that had afflicted his parents from occurring with any other innocent. Bruce was stubborn to devote the rest of his life to fighting criminals and protecting innocents as a vigilante. He left Gotham City and traveled to various parts of the world, learning arts and techniques that could be useful in his goal, such as martial combat, investigation, disguise, self control, etc. He returned to Gotham years later, already an adult, determined to use everything he had learned to fight crime as a vigilante, Bruce tried at first to be an anonymous vigilante, but was almost arrested and killed. Back in his mansion, Bruce saw a Bat cross the window and this gave him the inspiration that he would have to put fear in the criminals, pretending to be a supernatural being, like a BatMan. So Bruce excavated the cave below his mansion, creating his secret headquarters, the bat-cave; diverted money and technology from their companies and fortune to set up an arsenal of weapons and vehicles. He created his Bat uniform, acting as a night watchman with a supernatural and demonic appearance, mixed with darkness.
