Age, Biography, and Wiki
Jeremy Irons was born to Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant, and Barbara Anne Brereton Brymer. He is the youngest of three siblings, with an older brother, Christopher, and a sister, Felicity Anne. As of 2025, Jeremy Irons is 76 years old. He is known for his distinctive voice and has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his role in "Reversal of Fortune" .
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| Date of Birth | 19 September 1948 |
| Age | 76 Years |
| Birth Place | Cowes, Isle of Wight, England |
| Horoscope | Virgo |
| Country | England |
Height, Weight & Measurements
While specific measurements like height and weight are not widely documented, Jeremy Irons is recognized for his tall and slender build, which complements his commanding presence on screen.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Jeremy Irons married briefly in 1969 to Julie Hallam but divorced the same year. He later married Irish actress Sinéad Cusack in 1978, with whom he has two sons, Samuel and Maximilian. Both sons have appeared in films alongside their father .
In 2022, Irons played British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the period spy thriller Munich – The Edge of War. The following year, he reprised the role of Alfred Pennyworth in The Flash and also returned to voice Scar in Disney's centenary animated short Once Upon a Studio. In 2024, he performed Scar's song at the Hollywood Bowl's The Lion King 30th Anniversary – A Live-to-Film Concert Event. In 2024, Irons was cast in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show where he will portray Alex Levy's (Jennifer Aniston) father for season 4.
At the 1991 Tony Awards, Irons was one of the few celebrities to wear the red ribbon to support the fight against AIDS. He was the first celebrity to wear it onscreen. In 1998, Irons and his wife were named in the list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party, a year following its return to government with Tony Blair's victory in the 1997 general election, following eighteen years in opposition. He was also one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 general election. In 2004, he publicly declared his support for the Countryside Alliance, referring to the 2004 Hunting Act as an "outrageous assault on civil liberties" and "one of the two most devastating parliamentary votes in the last century".
Irons married Julie Hallam in 1969, but they divorced later that year. He married Irish actress Sinéad Cusack on 28 March 1978. They have two sons, Samuel "Sam" Irons (born 1978), who works as a photographer, and who co-starred with his father in Danny, the Champion of the World, and Maximilian "Max" Irons (born 1985), also an actor. Both of Irons's sons have appeared in films with their father. Irons's wife and children are Catholic; Irons has also been described as a practising Catholic, yet has stated:
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| Husband | Julie Hallam (m. 1969-1969) Sinéad Cusack (m. 1978) |
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Net Worth and Salary
Jeremy Irons has an estimated net worth of $25 million, primarily earned through his successful acting career in film, television, and theater. His roles in notable projects like "The Mission," "Elizabeth I," and "The Lion King" have contributed significantly to his wealth .
Career, Business, and Investments
Irons began his career on stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and gradually transitioned to screen roles. Some of his most notable works include "Brideshead Revisited," "The Borgias," and "Watchmen." He has also been involved in various business ventures, including real estate investments, owning homes in Ireland, England, and other locations . His voice acting as Scar in "The Lion King" remains one of his most iconic roles.
Irons received classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and started his acting career on stage in 1969. He 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 trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and later became president of its fundraising appeal. He performed a number of plays, and busked on the streets of Bristol, before appearing on the London stage as John the Baptist and Judas opposite David Essex in Godspell, which opened at the Roundhouse on 17 November 1971 before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre playing a total of 1,128 performances. Irons's television career began on British television in the early 1970s, including appearances on the children's series Play Away and as Franz Liszt in the BBC series Notorious Woman (1974). More significantly, he starred in the 13-part adaptation of H. E. Bates's novel Love for Lydia (1977) for London Weekend Television, and attracted attention for his key role as the pipe-smoking German student, a romantic pairing with Judi Dench, in Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of Aidan Higgins's novel Langrishe, Go Down (1978) for BBC Television. Irons has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company three times in 1976, 1986–1987 and 2010.
In 2012, he starred and worked as executive producer of the environmental documentary film Trashed. Irons has had extensive voice work in a range of different fields throughout his career. He read the audiobook recording of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist', Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (he had also appeared in the 1997 film version of the novel), and James and the Giant Peach by the children's author Roald Dahl. In particular, he was praised for recording the poetry of T. S. Eliot for BBC Radio 4. Beginning in 2012 with The Waste Land, he went on to record Four Quartets in 2014, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock on the centenary of its publication in 2015, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats in 2016. He finally completed recording the entire canon of T. S. Eliot which was broadcast over New Year's Day 2017. In 2020, Irons was one of 40 British voices to read three to four verses (broadcast daily) of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 150-verse 18th century poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He portrayed the mathematician G. H. Hardy in the 2015 film The Man Who Knew Infinity.
Irons is an outspoken critic of the death penalty and has supported the campaign by the human rights organisation Amnesty International UK to abolish capital punishment worldwide. Among his arguments, Irons states the death penalty "infringes on two fundamental human rights, the right to life, and no-one shall be subject to torture", adding that while the person accused of a crime "may have abused those rights, to advocate the same be done to them is to join them". During a 2007 Q&A with The Guardian, Irons named Tony Blair as the living person he most admired; reasoning "For living so publicly with the knowledge that he's not perfect." He then named George W. Bush as the living person he most despised, stating "to hold his position he should have surrounded himself with more reliable people." In 2009, Irons signed a petition in support of Polish film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. In 2011, Irons was criticised in the British Medical Journal for his fundraising activities in support of the College of Medicine, an alternative medicine lobby group in the UK linked to King Charles.
Irons is a patron of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company, which produces Shakespearean plays annually in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, and a London-based drama school, The Associated Studios. Irons was bestowed an Honorary Life Membership by the University College Dublin Law Society in September 2008, in honour of his contribution to television, film, audio, music, and theatre. Also in 2008, Irons was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Southampton Solent University. On 20 July 2016, Irons was announced as the first Chancellor of Bath Spa University.
Over his career he has received numerous accolades including nominations for his roles on stage and screen including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards, and Grammy Award. He received the Honorary César in 2014.
Social Network
Jeremy Irons maintains a relatively low profile on social media platforms, focusing more on his acting career than online presence.
The role which significantly raised his profile was Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1981). First broadcast on ITV, the show ranks among the most successful British television dramas, with Irons receiving nominations for the British Academy Television Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. which is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. Brideshead reunited him with Anthony Andrews, with whom he had appeared in The Pallisers seven years earlier. Around the same time he starred in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman (also 1981) opposite Meryl Streep. Vincent Canby of The New York Times compared him to a young Laurence Olivier writing, "Mr. Irons seems to be one of the few actors today who could be so completely convincing as the Victorian lover who thinks he's ahead of his time, being a follower of Darwin and a socially enlightened member of his privileged class, but who finds, ultimately, that he still has a long way to go."
He serves as the English-language version of the audio guide for Westminster Abbey in London. He voiced English soldier and WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon in The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1997), receiving the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. Other films include Danny the Champion of the World (1989), Reversal of Fortune (1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, Kafka (1991), Damage (1993), M. Butterfly (1993) working again with David Cronenberg, The House of the Spirits (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder and Antonio Banderas. Afterwards, he portrayed Simon Gruber in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), co-starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson. He also featured in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996), the 1997 remake of Lolita, and the 1998 film version of The Man in the Iron Mask, playing the musketeer Aramis share credit with Leonardo DiCaprio, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu and Gabriel Byrne.
In 2013, Irons caused controversy for an interview with the Huffington Post, in which he said he "doesn't have a strong feeling either way" on gay marriage but expressed fears that it could "debase marital law", suggesting it could be "manipulated" to allow fathers to avoid paying tax when passing on their estates to their sons, because he supposed "incest laws would not apply to men". He later clarified his comments, saying he was providing an example of a situation that could cause a "legal quagmire" under the laws that allow same-sex marriage, and that he had been "misinterpreted". He added that "some gay relationships are more long term, responsible and even healthier in their role of raising children, than their hetero equivalents". He said in a BBC interview that he wished he had "buttoned my lip" before asking if its legalisation would see fathers marry sons. At the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020, Irons said, "I applaud the legislation of same-sex marriage, wherever it has been attained. I hope that such enlightened legislation will continue to spread into more and more societies".
"I don't go to church much because I don't like belonging to a club, and I don't go to confession or anything like that, I don't believe in it. But I try to be aware of where I fail and I occasionally go to services. I would hate to be a person who didn't have a spiritual side because there's nothing to nourish you in life apart from retail therapy."
Education
Irons attended the Sherborne School in Dorset from 1962 to 1966. He was musically inclined and played the drums and harmonica in a school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom. Later, he honed his acting skills at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which marked the beginning of his professional career .
This article provides an overview of Jeremy Irons' life, career achievements, and financial standing as of 2025. His enduring success in the entertainment industry is a testament to his talent and dedication to his craft.
Irons has a brother, Christopher (born 1943), and a sister, Felicity Anne (born 1944). He was educated at the independent Sherborne School in Dorset from 1962 to 1966. He was the drummer and harmonica player in a four-man school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom.