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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.
At the grand opening of Abstergo Destinations' extravagant new hotel resort in the now peaceful Rook Islands, a group of vacationers and Abstergo executives including CEO Alan Rikkin, secretly the Grand Master of the Templars a.k.a. Megiddo, are taken hostage by the White Masks, prompting Rainbow Six to be deployed on the South Island to handle the crisis. Jason Brody and Liza Snow, recently engaged and back to resolve the trauma of their previous time on the Islands, are trapped in the hotel playing cat and mouse with the leader of the White Masks, their past tormentor and nemesis Vaas Montenegro. Vaas now works for former Kyrati dictator and wanted war criminal Pagan Min, who is using the hostages as leverage while his private army searches the North Island for a Piece of Eden in a Rakyat shrine. Ghost Recon are inserted via HALO jump to capture Pagan after being tipped off to his location by DedSec hacktivist Clara Lille who has joined forces with William Miles, Mentor of the Assassins, following Abstergo Industries' acquisition of Blume Corporation. Miles plans to use the confusion to assassinate Rikkin, and retrieve the Piece of Eden which Pagan has combined with the Dagger of Time, creating temporal rifts across the Rook Islands. Out of the rifts emerge individuals from across history; Shay Cormac, who teams up with Juhani Otso Berg to eliminate Miles and save Rikkin; Edward Kenway, who meets his adult son Haytham and grandson Connor for the first time; and the Prince of Persia, determined to reclaim the Dagger and restore time.
