Jeremy Irons

Personal context

Summary

Jeremy Irons is an English actor known for Brideshead Revisited, Reversal of Fortune, Dead Ringers, The Lion King, and The Borgias. His varied screen work includes literary adaptations, historical dramas, and psychologically complex or morally compromised characters. In 2020, he said he supported women’s equality and protection from harassment, same-sex marriage, and women’s right to abortion, after earlier remarks on those issues drew criticism. He has also campaigned for Amnesty International on human rights and the death penalty, and supported environmental causes.