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Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor and activist. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969 and has 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's break-out role came in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981) and is frequently ranked among the greatest British television dramas as well as greatest literary adaptations. It would earn him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His first major film role came in the romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in dramas, such as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he was praised for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). Irons has won multiple awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the accused attempted murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune (1990). Irons had roles in Steven Soderbergh's mystery thriller Kafka (1991), the period drama The House of the Spirits (1993), the romantic drama M. Butterfly (1993), voiced Scar in Disney's The Lion King (1994), played Simon Gruber in the action film Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1997) and Aramis in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). He starred in the action adventure Dungeons & Dragons (2000), played Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (2004), appeared in Being Julia (2004), the historical drama Kingdom of Heaven (2005), the fantasy-adventure Eragon (2006), the Western Appaloosa (2008), and the indie drama Margin Call (2011). In 2016, he appeared in Assassin's Creed and portrayed Alfred Pennyworth in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). On television, Irons appeared in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, receiving a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Pope Alexander VI in the Showtime historical series The Borgias. In 2019, he appeared as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias in HBO's Watchmen. He is one of the few actors who have achieved the "Triple Crown of Acting" in the US, winning an Oscar for film, an Emmy for television and a Tony Award for theatre. In October 2011, he was nominated the Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Jeremy Irons
Shockwave
for Shockwave in Transformers: Space Bridge
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Transformers: Space Bridge is a 2027 American science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Zack Snyder, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Spielberg and Blomkamp, based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Devastator and the third installment and penultimate film in the Cybertron Quadrilogy. The ensemble cast includes Peter Cullen, Sasha Calle, Jeffrey Combs, Idris Elba, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Nash, John Cena, Katherine Waterston, Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne, and Josh Brolin. In the film, Optimus Prime and his second-in-command Windblade must battle the evil Shockwave in the wake of his creation of the space bridge. Transformers: Space Bridge was released on December 3rd, 2027; it received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, the former deeming it as an improvement over the previous film, with praise for its story, direction, screenplay, performances (particularly Cullen, Calle, Irons, and Brolin), action sequences, visual effects, and musical score. It was deemed one of the best of the quadrilogy, though its ending was harshly criticized. It was also a financial success like the first two films, grossing $916 million worldwide against a budget of $167 million and a break-even point of $260 million. A sequel entitled Transformers: Cybertron Falls was released one year later and concluded the storyline.
