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unusual facts about Jeremy Irons



Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Among the most notable of the many distinguished actors on the School's list of alumni are the Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeremy Irons and multiple Academy Award nominees Miranda Richardson and Pete Postlethwaite.

Claus von Bülow

Jeremy Irons starred as Claus von Bülow (a performance which won him both the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Actor), Ron Silver as Dershowitz, and Glenn Close as Sunny von Bülow.

Danny, the Champion of the World

It was directed by Gavin Millar and starred Jeremy Irons as William and his son Samuel Irons as Danny, with Robbie Coltrane as Victor Hazell.

Jeremy Isaacs

Ted Turner sought out Isaacs (confusing him with the actor Jeremy Irons) for the role of executive producer for his 1998 24-episode Cold War series.

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites

The documentary features original music by Erik Friedlander, and is narrated by an all-star voice-cast which includes F. Murray Abraham, Rene Auberjonois, Keith David, Jeremy Irons, and Derek Jacobi.

Love for Lydia

It featured several actors in performances which were early in their television careers, including Christopher Blake, Mel Martin, Christopher Hancock, Peter Davison, Jeremy Irons, Ralph Arliss and Sherrie Hewson.

Richard Janes

Janes started as a child actor working on a wide range of television programs such as The Demon Headmaster, Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and Longitude where he played opposite Jeremy Irons.

Rupert Gould

The actor Jeremy Irons played him in Longitude, a dramatisation of Dava Sobel's book Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, which recounted in part Gould's work in restoring the chronometers.

The Wild Duck

A 1983 film version in English by Tutte Lemkow produced in Australia by Phillip Emanuel and directed by Henri Safran, the characters' names completely Anglicized, starred Jeremy Irons and Liv Ullmann.

Three Cups Hotel

The hotel was used in the making of the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman in 1981, featuring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep.


see also

Adam Birtwistle

Fascinated by ‘performers’ of all descriptions, his subjects vary from the astronomer, Sir Patrick Moore, and Winston Churchill, through to the actor Jeremy Irons and Dame Marjorie Scardino.