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Jeremy Irons

Profession: Actor
Place/Date of Birth: Cowes, Isle of Wight , 19 September 2020

He has managed to boost the islands economy simply by staying in a hotel on the island while filming the first part of his new anti war film - Mathilde. Then again - he did spend £65,000 in the two months he was there - quite a lot especially in a place where the average take home per week is £100.

The small island of Sveti Stefani is no stranger to stars - Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor have both stayed there in the past, before the economic crisis caused by the Balkan war. The manager of the hotel Sveti Stefan Hotel Pero Radjenovic is delighted - saying that thanks to Jeremy Irons they can now do important repair work and it was a reminder of the ’good old days’. Jeremy is now off to film the second part of his film in Croatia - I wonder what he can do for them while his there?

Biography
Jeremy John Irons was born on 19 September 2020 in Cowes, Isle of Wight. Educated at the prestigious Sherbourne School he acheived early ’fame’ in school-friend band The Four Pillars of Wisdom.

Clearly his brush with schoolboy fame spurred Jeremy on to grander things and he soon enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, performing in a number of plays and supporting himself by busking. A role opposite David Essex in Godspell may have gained him some recognition but as a presenter for Playaway he earned himself respect from a generation of square-eyed kids.

A film debut, Nijinsky, came in 1980 but this was soon to be overshadowed by a television role which would make Irons one of Britain’s best loved and most well respected actors. His portrayal of Charles Ryder in the spectacular adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited remains one of the most celebrated in televisual history.

In the same year, 1981, he also made quite a name for himself in films, beginning with a part opposite Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant’s Woman. With a number of appearances in films and on TV and stage throughout the ’80s and ’90s Irons was soon able to pick and choose his roles and in fact made such a choice with Reversal of Fortune as to win himself the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Another generation of children has also taken Irons (or at least his voice) to their hearts as nasty lion Scar, in the Lion King, and as the voice of two Disney World attractions. More recently he has appeared in fantasy Eragon, Casanova, alongside Heath Ledger and Kingdom of Heaven.

Married to fellow actor Sinead Cusack Irons has two sons, Samuel and Maximilian, and lives in Ireland.