Through the years of his prolific acting career, this star of films such as Lolita<\/i>, Die Hard: With a Vengeance<\/i>, The Man in the Iron Mask<\/i>, and Damage<\/i> has performed alongside such renowned performers as Meryl Streep, Ben Kingsley, Liv Tyler, Juliette Binoch, Glenn Close, Melanie Griffith and Rachel Weisz. Irons has portrayed romantic lovers, torn intellectuals and even psychopaths. In the film Lolita <\/i>(1997) he flawlessly portrays Professor Humbert, who smoulders with devastating desire for his very young stepdaughter. This film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s novel of the same name was directed by romantic drama specialist Adrian Lyne, who has films such as Fatal Attraction <\/i>and 9 1\/2 Weeks<\/i> under his belt. Today, many readers of Lolita<\/i> cannot imagine the mad, miserably enamoured professor as anyone other than Irons. Jeremy Irons was born on 19 September, 1948 in the small town of Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, Great Britain. He received his acting education at Bristol\u2019s Old Vic School, and after graduating he accepted an engagement with their travelling theatre troupe. His first step towards a stable acting career was performing in serials such as The Pallisers <\/i>(1975) and Love for Lydia <\/i>(1977). His breakthrough role could be considered the biographical film of the renowned dancer Nijinsky<\/i> (1981), where Irons played famed choreographer Mikhail Fokine. He drew considerable attention with his second film, The French Lieutenant\u2019s Woman <\/i>(1981), where he acted alongside Meryl Streep. Here he portrays two spiritually connected people \u2013 an intellectual and a lover, who fall in love with a mysterious woman. These roles were perfectly suited to Irons\u2019 temperament, and he was their ideal performer, thanks in part to his elegant, even patrician features and striking eyes. Irons also lent his mournful face to other roles of fated lovers. On the silver screen he has succumbed to the love of numerous ladies: Patricia Hodge in Betrayal<\/i> (1982), Ornella Muti in Swann in Love <\/i>(1984) and Juliette Binoche in Damage<\/i> (1992). The first significant acknowledgement of Irons\u2019 work came in 1984. For his role in the Broadway production The Real Thing<\/i>, where he performed with Glenn Close, he was granted the prestigious theatrical prize the Tony Award. Four years later, he received a Best Actor award from the New York Film Critics Circle Award for his double role as twin-brother gynaecologists in the picture Dead Ringers<\/i>.
In 1990, he earned the most prestigious film award, an Oscar, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role in the film Reversal of Fortune<\/i>, based on true events, where he played an aristocrat accused of twice attempting to murder his wife. Irons excelled in the picture The Mission<\/i> (1986) with Robert De Niro, where he took the role of a Jesuit missionary who attempts to spread Christianity among Amazonian natives and puts stake in their defence. Irons has also visited Prague, thanks to the filming of Kafka <\/i>(1991), the fictitious picture inspired by the writer Franz Kafka, a Prague native. The film was directed by the famed Steven Soderbergh, who entrusted Irons with the lead role as Jewish bureaucrat Kafka. During his stay in Prague, Irons also acted in the film version of V\u00e1clav Havel\u2019s The Beggar\u2019s Opera<\/i>, shot by Ji\u0159\u00ed Menzel.
Irons remembers meeting Ji\u0159\u00ed Menzel for dinner and asking him if he could act in Menzel\u2019s film. Menzel invited Irons to do so, so he came, and they dressed him and made him up. They filmed the scene in two hours and Irons was paid twenty-five dollars. It was a fantastic collaboration according to Irons, who recounted it during his 2005 stay in Bratislava, when he was a guest of the TOM 2004 awards ceremony. He also visited Bratislava in 1991, on his way from the Prague filming to Berlin. He spent one day in Slovakia, buying an accordion and pictures. Irons\u2019 wife is actress Sin\u00e9ad Cusack. They acted together in Bernardo Bertolucci\u2019s Stealing Beauty<\/i> (1995), which was also the final film of popular French actor Jean Marais.
Irons\u2019 name is also connected with Hollywood. He played the main villain, craving money and revenge, in Die Hard: With a Vengeance<\/i>, alongside Bruce Willis. In The Man in the Iron Mask<\/i> he portrayed Aramis, whose undergoes a religious conversion. His co-actors in that film included John Malkovich and G\u00e9rard Depardieu. In Ridley Scott\u2019s epic Kingdom<\/i> Heaven<\/i>, he is reincarnated as Commander Tiberias. And he took the role of an evil wizard in the film adaptation of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons<\/i>. Irons\u2019 hobbies include riding horses and motorcycles, skiing and gardening. ———————————————————————————————————– Organizers:<\/b> ART FILM, n.o., FORZA Production House Co-Organizers:<\/b> the Town of Tren\u010dianske Teplice, the Town of Tren\u010d\u00edn, Health Spa Tren\u010dianske Teplice
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