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
Baron Zemo
for Baron Zemo in The Underworld: Part VII
Suggested by underworld_stories
After escaping Fisk's labyrinth Spider-Man and Daredevil make it back to New York where they regroup with Nick Fury, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Hawkeye. Now with the knowledge of Fisk's return and his connections to Zemo, the team knows they have to act fast before the war becomes a full on takeover. They meet up with Punisher's crew, Iceman, Black Widow, Black Panther, and Wolverine and let them know this isn't just a war. Everyone gears up while Matt tries to talk Spider-Man out of taking the symbiote into battle but Spider-Man refuses to let go. They arrive at the new Fisk Tower and launch a full scale assault. They find Fisk who has been harboring Zemo and Zola. A fight breaks out and they manage to arrest Zola but Zemo and Fisk make it to the top of the building where they try to escape on the helicopter but Spider-Man using all his strength grabs the helicopter and pulls it back but when they use the boost, he has to use the full power of the symbiote to encase them. This results in an explosion sending Peter Parker and Zemo tumbling all the way down. Fisk manages to get a hold of the ledge of the tower and pull himself back up but he's arrested. Matt realizes the symbiote is on the ledge and not with Peter, meaning they don't know if he survived the fall.
