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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
Darth Vader
for Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Suggested by geekking97
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Three years into the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker finds himself torn between loyalty to his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, apprentice Ahsoka Tano and wife Padmé Amidala on one hand - and the seductive powers of the Sith and Chancellor Palpatine on the other. Struggling to do the right thing, he verifies the suspicions that Palpatine is the Sith Lord known as Darth Sidious who has been behind everything from the invasion of Naboo to the Separatist Crisis to the Clone Wars. Ultimately, Anakin's fear of losing Padmé draws him to ultimately turn his back on the Jedi Order, thus completing his journey to the Dark Side of the Force and his transformation into Darth Vader. In the waning hours of the Republic and the rise of the Galactic Empire; Padmé, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Jar-Jar Binks, R2-D2, C-3PO, Captain Rex, Admiral Yularen and the founding members of the Rebel Alliance must fight and even make the ultimate sacrifices in order to keep the fires of hope alight.
