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.
