Early life

Irons was born in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the son of Paul Dugan Irons (1913-1983), an accountant, and Barbara Anne Brereton Brymer (née Sharpe; 1914-1999). His paternal great-great-grandfather was a Metropolitan Policeman who was sacked for drunkenness, and later a Chartist; one of his mother's distant ancestors was from County Cork, Ireland, where Irons lives as of at least February 2011. He additionally has a home in his birth town of Cowes. Irons has a brother, Christopher (born 1943), and a sister, Felicity Anne (born 1944).

Irons was educated at the independent Sherborne School in Dorset from circa 1962 to 1966. He was the drummer and harmonica player in a four-man school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom.

Acting career

Early work

Irons trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and later became president of its fundraising appeal. He performed a number of plays, and busked on the streets of Bristol, before appearing on the London stage as John the Baptist and Judas opposite David Essex in Godspell, which opened at the Roundhouse on 17 November 1971 before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre playing a total of 1,128 performances.

Television

He made several appearances on British television, including the children's television series Play Away and as Franz Liszt in the BBC 1974 series Notorious Woman. More significantly he starred in the 13-part adaptation of H.E. Bates' novel Love for Lydia for London Weekend Television (1977), and attracted attention for his key role as the pipe-smoking German student, a romantic pairing with Judi Dench in Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of Aidan Higgins' novel Langrishe, Go Down for BBC television (1978).

The role which brought him fame was that of Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1981). First broadcast on ITV, the show ranks among the greatest British television dramas, with Irons receiving a Golden Globe nomination for his performance. Brideshead reunited him with Anthony Andrews, with whom he had appeared in The Pallisers seven years earlier. In the same year he starred in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman opposite Meryl Streep.

After these major successes, in 1982 he played the leading role of an exiled Polish building contractor, working in the Twickenham area of South West London, in Jerzy Skolimowski's independent film Moonlighting, widely seen on television, a performance which extended his acting range. On 23 March 1991, Irons hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC in the US, and appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes' Surprise Party sketch.

In 2005, Irons won both an Emmy award and a Golden Globe award for his supporting role in the TV mini-series, Elizabeth I. A year later Irons was one of the participants in the third series of the BBC documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?. In 2008 he played Lord Vetinari in Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic, an adaptation for Sky One.

On 6 November 2008, TV Guide reported he would star as photographer Alfred Stieglitz with Joan Allen as painter Georgia O'Keeffe, in a Lifetime Television biopic, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). Irons also appeared in the documentary for Irish television channel TG4, Faoi Lan Cheoil in which he learned to play the fiddle.

On 12 January 2011, Irons was a guest-star in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit called "Mask". He played Dr. Cap Jackson, a sex therapist. He reprised the role on an episode titled "Totem" that ran on 30 March 2011.

Irons stars in the 2011 U.S. premium cable network Showtime's series The Borgias, a highly fictionalised account of the Renaissance dynasty of that name. Irons portrays patriarch Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI.

Film

Irons made his film debut in Nijinsky in 1980. He appeared sporadically in films during the 1980s, including the Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Mission in 1986, and in the dual role of twin gynecologists in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers in 1988. Other films include Danny the Champion of the World (1989), Reversal of Fortune (1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, Kafka (1991), Damage (1993), M. Butterfly (1993), The House of the Spirits (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, the voice of Scar in The Lion King (1994), portraying Simon Gruber in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), co-starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996), the 1997 remake of Lolita, and as the musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1998 film version of The Man in the Iron Mask.

Other roles include the evil wizard Profion in the film Dungeons and Dragons (2000) and Rupert Gould in Longitude (2000). He played the Über-Morlock in the film The Time Machine (2002). In 2004, Irons played Severus Snape in Comic Relief's Harry Potter parody, "Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan". In 2005, he appeared in the films Casanova opposite Heath Ledger, and Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven. He has co-starred with John Malkovich in two films; The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and Eragon (2006), though they did not have any scenes together in the latter.

In 2008, Irons co-starred with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen in Appaloosa, directed by Harris. In 2011, Irons appeared alongside Kevin Spacey in the thriller Margin Call. Irons played Alfred Pennyworth in Warner Bros.' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

Theatre

Irons has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company three times in 1976, 1986-87 and 2010. After years of success in the West End in London, Irons made his New York debut in 1984 and won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance opposite Glenn Close in The Real Thing.

After an absence from the London stage for 18 years, in 2006 he co-starred with Patrick Malahide in Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Sándor Márai's novel Embers at the Duke of York's Theatre.

He made his National Theatre debut playing former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (1957-1963) in Never So Good, a new play by Howard Brenton which opened at the Lyttelton on 19 March 2008. In 2009, Irons appeared on Broadway opposite Joan Allen in the play Impressionism. The play ran through 10 May 2009 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.

Other ventures

Audio

Irons has had extensive voice work in a range of different fields throughout his career. He read the audiobook recording of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (he had also appeared in the 1997 film version of the novel), and James and the Giant Peach by the celebrated children's author Roald Dahl.

One of his best known film roles has turned out to be lending his distinctive voice to Scar in The Lion King (1994) serving as the main antagonist of the film. Irons has since provided voiceovers for three Disney World attractions. He narrated the Spaceship Earth ride, housed in the large geodesic globe at Epcot in Florida from October 1994 to July 2007. He was also the English narrator for the Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic at the Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris. He voiced H. G. Wells in the English language version of the former Disney attraction The Timekeeper. He also reprised his role as Scar in Fantasmic. He is also one of the readers in the 4x CD boxed set of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, produced by Marc Sinden and sold in aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund.

He serves as the English language version of the audio guide for Westminster Abbey in London. Irons has served as voice-over in two big cat documentary films by National Geographic: Eye of the Leopard, which was released in 2006, and The Last Lions, which was released on 18 February 2011. He also currently narrates the French-produced documentary series about volcanoes, Life on Fire. The series premiered on PBS in the United States on 2 January 2013.

In 2008, two researchers, a linguist and a sound engineer, found "the perfect voice" to be a combination of Irons' and Alan Rickman's voices based on a sample of 50 voices. Coincidentally, the two actors played brothers in the Die Hard series of films. Speaking at 200 words per minute and pausing for 1.2 seconds between sentences, Irons came very close to the ideal voice model, with the linguist Andrew Linn explaining why his "deep gravelly tones" inspired trust in listeners.

Music

In 1985, Irons directed a music video for Carly Simon and her heavily promoted single, "Tired of Being Blonde", and in 1994, he had a cameo role in the video for Elastica's hit single "Connection".

Irons has contributed to other musical performances, recording William Walton's Façade with Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale conducted by the composer, and in 1987 the songs from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, released on the Decca label. Irons sang segments of "Be Prepared" in the film The Lion King. After his voice gave out during toward the end of that musical number, Jim Cummings took over as Scar's singing voice.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Noël Coward's birth, Irons sang a selection of his songs at the 1999 Last Night of the Proms held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, ending with "London Pride", a patriotic song written in the spring of 1941 during the Blitz. In 2003, Irons played Fredrik Egerman in a New York revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, and two years later appeared as King Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot at the Hollywood Bowl. He performed the Bob Dylan song "Make You Feel My Love" on the 2006 charity album Unexpected Dreams - Songs From the Stars.

In 2009, Irons appeared on the Touchstone album Wintercoast, recording a narrative introduction to the album. Recording took place in New York City, New York in February 2009 during rehearsals for his Broadway play Impressionism.

Personal life

Irons married Julie Hallam in 1969 and subsequently divorced. He married Irish actress Sinéad Cusack on 28 March 1978. They have two sons, Samuel "Sam" Irons (b. 1978), who works as a photographer, and Maximilian "Max" Irons (b. 1985), also an actor. Both of Irons's sons have appeared in films with their father - Sam as the eponymous hero in Danny, Champion of the World and Max in Being Julia. Irons's wife and children are Catholic; Irons has also been described as a practising Catholic. But of himself, he has stated, "I don't go to church much because I don't like belonging to a club, and I don't go to confession or anything like that, I don't believe in it. But I try to be aware of where I fail and I occasionally go to services. I would hate to be a person who didn't have a spiritual side because there's nothing to nourish you in life apart from retail therapy."

Irons owns Kilcoe Castle (which he had painted a rusty pink) in County Cork, Ireland. and has become involved in local politics there. He also has another Irish residence in the Liberties, Dublin. Irons is a patron of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company. Irons also has a house in Watlington in South Oxfordshire, England.

Irons was bestowed an Honorary-Life Membership by the University College Dublin Law Society in September 2008, in honour of his contribution to television, film, audio, music and theatre. Also in 2008, Irons was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Southampton Solent University. Along with his native English, Irons is also fluent in French.

Activism

Charity work

At the 1991 Tony Awards, Irons was one of the few celebrities to wear the recently created red ribbon to support the fight against AIDS, and he was the first celebrity to wear it onscreen. He supports a number of other charities, including the Prison Phoenix Trust in England, and the London-based Evidence for Development which seeks to improve the lives of the world’s most needy people by preventing famines and delivering food aid, for both of which he is an active patron.

In 2010, Irons starred in a promotional video for "The 1billionhungry project" - a worldwide drive to attract at least one million signatures to a petition calling on international leaders to move hunger to the top of the political agenda. He was named Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2011.

Irons provided the narration of the 2013 documentary "Sahaya Going Beyond" about the work of the charity Sahaya International. Irons is patron of London-based drama school, The Associated Studios.

In November 2015, Irons supported the No Cold Homes campaign by the UK charity Turn2us. Irons was one of nearly thirty celebrities, which include Helen Mirren, Hugh Laurie and Ed Sheeran, to donate items of winter clothing to the campaign, with the proceeds used to help people in the UK struggling to keep their home warm in winter.

Political views

In 1998, Irons and his wife were named in the list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party, a year after its return to government with Tony Blair's victory in the 1997 United Kingdom general election, after 18 years in opposition. In 2004, he publicly declared his support for the Countryside Alliance, referring to the 2004 Hunting Act as an "outrageous assault on civil liberties" and "one of the two most devastating parliamentary votes in the last century".

Irons is an outspoken critic of the death penalty and has supported the campaign by the human rights organisation Amnesty International UK to abolish capital punishment worldwide. Among his arguments in 2007, Irons states the death penalty infringes on two fundamental human rights, the right to life, and no-one shall be subject to torture, adding that while the person accused of a crime may have abused those rights, to advocate the same be done to them is to join them.

In April 2013, Irons was asked by Huffpost Live host Josh Zepps his opinion on the fight for same-sex marriage in the United States. Irons responded, "Could a father not marry his son?" Zepps responded with an argument that laws against incest prevent such a union. Irons argued that "it's not incest between men. Incest is there to protect us from inbreeding, but men don't breed," and wondered whether same-sex marriage might allow fathers to bequeath their estates to their sons to avoid taxation. On the issue of advocates calling for same-sex marriage as opposed to civil unions, he said, "It seems to me that now they're fighting for the name," and, "I worry that it means somehow we debase, or we change, what marriage is. I just worry about that." He later clarified his comments, saying he was providing an example of a situation that could cause a "legal quagmire" under the laws that allow same-sex marriage, and that he had been misinterpreted. He added that some gay relationships are "healthier" than their straight counterparts.

He was also one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas at the 2015 UK general election.

Irons, who supports a woman's choice to have an abortion having said that he believes that "women should be allowed to make the decision", nonetheless agreed with a pro-life advocate, being quoted as saying that "the church is right to say it’s a sin".

Alternative medicine

He has been criticised in the British Medical Journal for his fundraising activities in support of The College of Medicine, an alternative medicine lobby group in the UK linked to Prince Charles.

Work

Theatre

Following training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school Irons initially stayed with the company:

Year	Production	Role	Venue
1969	The Winter's Tale	Florizel	Bristol Old Vic
1969	Hay Fever	Simon
1969	What the Butler Saw	Nick
1969	Major Barbara
1969	A Servant of Two Masters
1969	Macbeth
1969	The Boy Friend
1970	As You Like It
1970	Oh! What a Lovely War		Little Theatre Bristol
1970	The School for Scandal
1971-1973	Godspell	John/Judas	Roundhouse and Wyndham's Theatre
1973	The Diary of a Madman	The Madman	Act Inn
1974	Much Ado About Nothing	Don Pedro in	Young Vic
1974	The Caretaker	Mick
1975	The Taming of the Shrew	Petruchio	Roundhouse
1976	Wild Oats	Harry Thunder	Aldwych Theatre
1977			Stratford and Piccadilly Theatre
1978	The Rear Column	Jameson	Globe Theatre
1984	The Real Thing	Henry	New York
1986	The Winter's Tale	Leontes	Royal Shakespeare Theatre
1986	The Rover	Willmore	Swan Theatre and Mermaid Theatre
1986	Richard II	Richard II	Royal Shakespeare Theatre
1987			Barbican Theatre
2003	A Little Night Music	Fredrik Egerman	New York
2005	Celebration	Russell	Gate Theatre and Albery Theatre
2006	Embers	Henrik	Duke of York's Theatre
2008	Never So Good	Harold Macmillan	National Theatre
2009	Impressionism	Thomas Buckle	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
2013	The Mystery Plays	God	Gloucester Cathedral and Worcester Cathedral
2016	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone	Bristol Old Vic

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Nephew George		TV series (1 episode: "The Case of the Mirror of Portugal")
1974	The Pallisers	Frank Tregear	Hugh David & Ronald Wilson	TV series (6 episodes)
1974	Notorious Woman	Franz Liszt	Waris Hussein	TV mini-series
1975	The Liberty Tree			TV film
1975	Churchill's People	Samuel Ross		TV series (1 episode: "Liberty Tree")
1977	Love for Lydia	Alex Sanderson		TV series (6 episodes)
1978	BBC2 Play of the Week	Otto Beck		TV series (1 episode: "Langrishe Go Down")
1979	BBC Play of the Month	Edward Voysey		TV series (1 episode: "The Voysey Inheritance")
1980	Nijinsky	Mikhail Fokine	Herbert Ross
1981	French Lieutenant's Woman, TheThe French Lieutenant's Woman	Charles Henry Smithson/Mike	Karel Reisz
1981	Brideshead Revisited	Charles Ryder		TV mini-series (11 episodes)
1982	Moonlighting	Nowak	Jerzy Skolimowski
1982	Spaceship Earth	3rd Edition Narrator		Short
1983	The Captain's Doll	Captain Alex Hepworth		TV film
1983	Betrayal	Jerry	David Jones
1984	The Wild Duck	Harold	Henri Safran
1984	Swann in Love	Charles Swann	Volker Schlöndorff
1985	Rabbit Ears: The Steadfast Tin Soldier	Storyteller		Short
1986	Mission, TheThe Mission	Father Gabriel	Roland Joffé
1988	Dead Ringers	Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle	David Cronenberg
1989	Chorus of Disapproval, AA Chorus of Disapproval	Guy Jones	Michael Winner
1989	Australia	Edouard Pierson	Jean-Jacques Andrien
1989	Danny, the Champion of the World	William Smith	Gavin Millar
1989	The Dream			TV film
1990	The Civil War	Various	Ken Burns	TV mini-series (9 episodes)
1990	Reversal of Fortune	Claus von Bülow	Barbet Schroeder	Won Academy Award
1991	Beggar's Opera, TheThe Beggar's Opera	Prisoner
1991	Kafka	Kafka	Steven Soderbergh
1991	Saturday Night Live	Host		TV series (1 episode: "Jeremy Irons/Fishbone")
1992	Timekeeper, TheThe Timekeeper	H.G. Wells		Short
1992	Waterland	Tom Crick	Stephen Gyllenhaal
1992	Performance	Odon Von Horvath		TV series (1 episode: "Tales from Hollywood")
1992	Damage	Dr. Stephen Fleming	Louis Malle
1993	M. Butterfly	René Gallimard	David Cronenberg
1993	House of the Spirits, TheThe House of the Spirits	Esteban Trueba	Bille August
1994	Spaceship Earth	Narrator
1994	Lion King, TheThe Lion King	Scar (voice)	Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
1995	Die Hard with a Vengeance	Simon Gruber	John McTiernan
1996	The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century	Siegfried Sassoon		TV series (3 episodes)
1996	Stealing Beauty	Alex	Bernardo Bertolucci
1997	Chinese Box	John	Wayne Wang
1997	Lolita	Humbert Humbert	Adrian Lyne
1998	Man in the Iron Mask, TheThe Man in the Iron Mask	Aramis	Randall Wallace
1999	Faeries	The Shapeshifter (voice)	Gary Hurst
1999	Islands of Adventure: Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City	Poseidon (voice)		Short
2000	Dungeons & Dragons	Profion	Courtney Solomon
2000	Longitude	Rupert Gould	Charles Sturridge	TV series (4 episodes)
2000	Ohio Impromptu	Reader/Listener		Short
2001	The Short Life of Anne Frank	Narrator		Dutch TV documentary
2001	Fourth Angel, TheThe Fourth Angel	Jack Elgin	John Irvin
2002	Callas Forever	Larry Kelly	Franco Zeffirelli
2002	Last Call	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Henry Bromell	TV film
2002	Time Machine, TheThe Time Machine	Über-Morlock	Simon Wells
2002	And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen	Valentin Valentin	Claude Lelouch
2003	Freedom: A History of Us	King James I/Lord Grey/Thomas Paine		TV series (3 episodes)
2003	Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do	Severus Snape		TV film
2004	Mathilde	Col. De Petris	Nina Mimica
2004	Merchant of Venice, TheThe Merchant of Venice	Antonio	Michael Radford
2004	Being Julia	Michael Gosselyn	István Szabó
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Tiberias	Ridley Scott
2005	Casanova	Pucci	Lasse Hallström
2005	Elizabeth I	Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester	Tom Hooper	TV mini-series
2005	Once Upon a Halloween	Cauldron (voice)		Video
2006	Inland Empire	Kingsley Stewart	David Lynch
2006	Eragon	Brom	Stefen Fangmeier
2008	Colour of Magic, TheThe Colour of Magic	Havelock Vetinari	Vadim Jean	TV film
2008	Appaloosa	Randall Bragg	Ed Harris
2009	The Magic 7	Thraxx (voice)	Roger Holzberg	TV film
2009	Pink Panther 2, TheThe Pink Panther 2	Alonso Avellaneda	Harald Zwart
2009	Georgia O'Keeffe	Alfred Stieglitz	Bob Balaban	TV film
2011	Margin Call	John Tuld	J. C. Chandor
2011	The Last Lions	Narrator	Dereck Joubert
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Cap Jackson		TV series (2 episodes)
2011-2013	Borgias, TheThe Borgias	Rodrigo Borgia		TV series (29 episodes)
2012	The Words	The Old Man	Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal
2012	Trashed	Himself	Candida Brady
2012	The Simpsons	Bar Rag (voice)		TV series (1 episode: "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches")
2012	Henry IV Part I and Part II	Henry IV	Richard Eyre
2013	Life on Fire	Narrator	Jaques Bedel, Bertrand Loyer, François de Riberolles	TV documentary series (6 episodes)
2013	Night Train to Lisbon	Raimund Gregorius	Bille August
2013	Beautiful Creatures	Macon Ravenwood	Richard LaGravenese
2015	High-Rise	Anthony Royal	Ben Wheatley
2016	Race	Avery Brundage	Stephen Hopkins
2016	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Alfred Pennyworth	Zack Snyder
2016	The Man Who Knew Infinity	G. H. Hardy	Matthew Brown
2016	Assassin's Creed	Alan Rikkin	Justin Kurzel	Post-production
2017	Justice League Part One	Alfred Pennyworth	Zack Snyder	Filming

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Work	Result
1978	Clarence Derwent Award for Best Male in a Supporting Role	The Rear Column	Won
1981	BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Nominated
	British Academy Television Award for Best Actor	Brideshead Revisited	Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie		Nominated
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
1984	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play	The Real Thing	Nominated
	Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance		Won
	Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album		Nominated
	Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play		Won
1986	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama	The Mission	Nominated
1987	David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor		Won
1988	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor	Dead Ringers	Won
	Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor		Won
	Saturn Award for Best Actor		Nominated
1990	Academy Award for Best Actor	Reversal of Fortune	Won
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor		Won
	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor		Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor		Won
	David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor		Won
	Giffoni Film Festival - François Truffaut Award	N/A	Won
	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama	Reversal of Fortune	Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor		Won
	National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor		Won
1994	Annie Award for Best Achievement for Voice Acting	The Lion King	Won
	MTV Movie Award for Best Villain		Nominated
1996	Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture	Stealing Beauty	Nominated
1997	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance	The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century	Won
1998	European Film Awards for Special Achievement	N/A	Won
1999	MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss	Lolita	Nominated
2002	Honorary César	N/A	Won
	PRISM Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie or Miniseries	Last Call	Nominated
2004	Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture	Being Julia	Nominated
2005	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Elizabeth I	Won
	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Movie		Won
2006	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie		Won
2009	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film	Georgia O'Keeffe	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Movie		Nominated
	Satellite Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
2011	Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Drama	The Borgias	Nominated
	Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast	Margin Call	Nominated
2012	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Movie	The Hollow Crown	Nominated
	Independent Spirit Award - Robert Altman Award	Margin Call	Won
	Phoenix Film Critics Society for Best Ensemble Acting		Nominated
	Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble		Nominated
2014	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator	"Game of Lions"	Won

[ Source: Wikipedia ]