Career retrospective will take place on Friday 9 September 2016
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has today announced that Oscar-winning and double BAFTA-nominated actor Jeremy Irons will discuss his craft and career at a special ‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ event at BAFTA’s headquarters, 195 Piccadilly in London, on Friday 9 September. Public tickets will be available to book from 1pm on Friday 5 August at www.bafta.org/whats-on/.
BAFTA is proud to announce Audi as the partner to A Life in Pictures. BAFTA’s Chief Executive Amanda Berry OBE said: “BAFTA and Audi have enjoyed a long and successful partnership and I am thrilled they are now supporting A Life in Pictures. Audi is a brand synonymous with innovation and creativity, and one that is hugely supportive of film.”
‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ is a long-running series of onstage interviews in which some of the film world’s leading talent share insights into the experiences that helped them hone and develop their craft. The series has hosted such figures as Kenneth Branagh, Cate Blanchett, David Fincher, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Sam Mendes, Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet and Peter Greenaway.
With a career spanning several decades, British actor Jeremy Irons has an extraordinary legacy of film, television and theatre performances.
After training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969. His first major film role came in 1981 with The French Lieutenant’s Woman, for which he received a BAFTA nomination in 1982. In the same year, Irons also received a BAFTA nomination for perhaps his best-known performance, as Charles Ryder in the multi-BAFTA-winning television series Brideshead Revisited. Irons made his New York debut in 1984 and won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance opposite Glenn Close in The Real Thing.
In 1990, Irons played accused murderer Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune, winning multiple awards for his performance, including an Oscar for Best Actor. Other film credits include The Mission (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995), Lolita (1997), The Lion King (1997), Being Julia (2004), Appaloosa (2008), and award-winning independent feature Margin Call (2011).
Irons’ most recent films include High-Rise (2015), the JG Ballard adaptation from director Ben Wheatley; The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016), directed by Matthew Brown; Race (2016), directed by Stephen Hopkins, based on the true story of Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympics; The Correspondence (2016), an English-language Italian romantic film directed by Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore; and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), directed by Zack Snyder, in which Irons plays the role of Alfred Pennyworth.
In December 2016, Irons will star alongside Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the game-based film Assassin’s Creed, directed by Justin Kurzel.
Event details:
BAFTA A Life in Pictures: Jeremy Irons
Friday 9 September at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London
19.00 Champagne Taittinger Reception
19.30 Event Begins
21. 00 Event Ends
Recordings of previous events in the A Life in Pictures series are available on BAFTA Guru, BAFTA’s online learning channel (www.bafta.org/guru).
For further information, please contact:
Charlotte Inett at freuds
T: +44 (0)20 3003 6350
E: [email protected]
Eleanor Pickering at BAFTA
T: +44 (0) 20 7292 5863
E: [email protected]
For images, logos, accreditation, transcripts and more, visit www.bafta.org/press.
About BAFTA
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public. In addition to its Awards ceremonies, BAFTA has a year-round programme of learning events and initiatives – featuring workshops, masterclasses, scholarships, lectures and mentoring schemes – in the UK, USA and Asia; it offers unique access to the world’s most inspiring talent and connects with a global audience of all ages and backgrounds. BAFTA relies on income from membership subscriptions, individual donations, trusts, foundations and corporate partnerships to support its ongoing outreach work. To access the best creative minds in film, television and games production, visit www.bafta.org/guru. For more, visit www.bafta.org.
About Audi
As the Official Car partner to BAFTA for over 14 years, Audi support all of the Academy’s events in the UK. Not least the EE British Academy Film and British Academy Television Awards ceremonies, to ensure VIP guests arrive at the red carpet in style. Audi also partner with ‘BAFTA Breakthrough Brits in partnership with Burberry’, supporting rising stars within the film, television and games industries. To exemplify its philosphy of ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ (‘Progress Through Technology’) and maintain this strong performance, the brand has embarked upon an investment programme that will channel a total of €24 billion into new model development and innovative technologies by 2019. Audi lives up to its corporate responsibility and has strategically established the principle of sustainability for its products and processes. The long-term goal is CO2-neutral mobility. Through Audi’s long association with film, they are proud to support BAFTA in bringing exceptional talent to these exclusive ‘BAFTA A Life in Pictures’ events. For more, visit www.audi.co.uk
