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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
J. Jonah Jameson
for J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Season 3 Episode 14
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The episode opens in the Daily Bugle as Ned Leeds, Eddie Brock, and Betty Brant all discuss the strange things that have been happening with the organized crime in New York. Jameson tells them to get back to work but Ned suggests they go and talk to Harry Osborn who thanks to Norman Osborn the world now thinks is working with Wilson Fisk who is known for paying off the cops to keep his private business up and running. The three go to the new Oscorp building but fail to find Harry. As the three go to leave they spot Wilson Fisk and Sergei Kravinoff entering Oscorp. The three of them follow Fisk as he goes out back and is talking with Norman Osborn. In shock the three go to leave but Ned accidentally knocks over a box and the three start running as Sergei chases them down. The three get cornered as Sergei walks up to them. Just then Spider-Man arrives and fights Sergei while Captain Stacy gets the three of them out of there. Fisk and Norman arrive as Spider-Man and Sergei fight and aim their guns at Spider-Man. Fisk asks Spider-Man how the cops found their base and Spider-Man tells him he let them capture him and he had a tracker in his shoe. Fisk tells him it doesn't matter if he exposes them because he'll die anyway thanks to the poison. Distracted by what Fisk said Sergei lunges at Peter. We cut to Ned, Eddie, and Betty as they get out and back to the Bugle where they reveal to the work that Norman Osborn is alive.
