Jeremy Irons is an award winning stage and screen actor. His performances have earned him prestigious accolades including an Academy Award® for Best Actor for his performance as Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune. He is also a Golden Globe® Award, Primetime Emmy® Award, and SAG Award® winner. He received a Tony for his Broadway performance in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing. Other film credits include The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Mission and Dead Ringers. In 2007, he won a second Golden Globe for his work in the TV mini-series Elizabeth. He has since continued his acting career with roles in feature films Margin Call; The Words, Beautiful Creatures and Night Train to Lisbon plus a recurring role on the television series The Borgia’s
His distinct voice has become as much in demand as the man himself. Jeremy has provided the voice of Scar in Disney's The Lion King, narrated for the ride Spaceship Earth at Epcot in Orlando, recorded the novel Lolita, and read excerpts from the novel The Red Shoes. His most recent readings include hugely popular broadcasts of works by T.S. Eliot and the War Poets.
Jeremy is no stranger to mathematicians, in his most recent film he is co-stars in The Man Who Knew Infinity, a biopic of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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