Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions including The Winters Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell, Richard II and Embers. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppards The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.

Irons was born in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the son of Paul Dugan Irons , an accountant, and Barbara Anne Brereton Brymer . His paternal greatgreatgrandfather was a Metropolitan Policeman who was sacked for drunkenness, and later a Chartist one of his mothers distant ancestors was from County Cork, Ireland, where Irons lives as of at least February 2011. He additionally has a home in his birth town of Cowes. Irons has a brother, Christopher , and a sister, Felicity Anne .

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