Age: 77
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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
Massimo D’Agostino
for Massimo D’Agostino in L’Oro e l’Ebano (The Gold and the Ebony)
Suggested by mr95
Thirty-two years ago, the D’Agostino family—lords of the Italian luxury automotive world—shocked the Milanese aristocracy by adopting an orphaned infant during a business trip to West Africa. Raised as Lorenzo D’Agostino, the boy grew up in a world of private jets, renaissance art, and the heavy expectation to lead the family empire. Lorenzo is a master of Italian culture, a connoisseur of wine, and a brilliant engineer, yet he has always felt like a beautiful outsider in his own home. When a critical semiconductor shortage threatens the D’Agostino factory, a merger is proposed with the Vidal Group, a Spanish-Italian conglomerate that controls the raw materials. The price? A dynastic union between Lorenzo and the Vidal heiress, Isabella Vidal-Moretti. Isabella is a whirlwind of Spanish fire and Italian precision—a world-class equestrian who was promised to a different future. The wedding at a villa in Tuscany is a cold, spectacular affair. Their marriage begins as a "cold war" of two strangers forced into a bedroom they don't want to share. However, as they travel between the stables of Andalusia and the workshops of Milan, they discover a shared love for "The Soul of the Machine"—the art of craftsmanship and the thrill of the ride. In the quiet moments between high-stakes board meetings, a business deal slowly ignites into a deep, unbreakable bond.
