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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-06-01 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Carmel, Flintshire, Wales, UK

Jonathan Pryce

Biography:

Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer.

After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and meeting his long time partner, English actress Kate Fahy, in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's "Hamlet", led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film "Brazil". Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has participated in big-budget films such as "Evita", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The New World", as well as independent projects such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Carrington". His career in theatre has also been prolific, and he has won two Tony Awards—the first in 1977 for his Broadway debut in "Comedians", the second for his 1991 role as "The Engineer" in the musical "Miss Saigon".

Known For

Acting

2025

William Tell as Attinghausen
The Penguin Lessons as The Headmaster

2024

3 Body Problem as Mike Evans

2023

Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
One Life as Martin Blake

2022

The Witness is a Whale as Self - Narrator (voice)
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley (voice)
All the Old Knives as Bill Compton
Save the Cinema as Mr. Morgan
Slow Horses as David Cartwright

2021

2020

2019

The Two Popes as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis

2018

The Wife as Joe Castleman
To Provide All People as Retired Neurosurgeon

2017

The Healer as Raymond Heacock
The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mr. John Dickens
Becoming Cary Grant as Cary Grant (voice)
Taboo as Stuart Strange

2016

The White King as Colonel Fitz
To Walk Invisible as Patrick Brontë
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance as Special Finale Guest Star
The Crown as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

2015

Dough as Nat
Narcopolis as Sidorov
Woman in Gold as Chief Justice Rehnquist
Documentary Now! as Owen Teale-Griffith
Wolf Hall as Cardinal Wolsey

2014

Under Milk Wood as Mr. Pugh
The Salvation as Mayor Nathan Keane

2013

G.I. Joe: Retaliation as U.S. President

2012

King Lear as King Lear
Dark Blood as Harry Fletcher

2011

City State as Jimmy
Hysteria as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
Game of Thrones as High Sparrow

2010

2009

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as U.S. President

2008

Bedtime Stories as Marty Bronson
Leatherheads as CC Frazier
My Zinc Bed as Victor
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began as Ian Fleming (voice)
Clone as Dr Victor Blenkinsop

2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Governor Weatherby Swann
The Moon and the Stars as James Clavel / Scarpia
Cranford as Mr. Buxton

2006

Brothers of the Head as Henry Couling
The One Show as Self - Guest

2005

The Brothers Grimm as Delatombe
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
The New World as King James

2004

De-Lovely as Gabriel

2003

What a Girl Wants as Alistair Payne

2002

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Master Schoemacker
Mad Dogs as Supreme Being
Best Ever Bond as Self / Elliot Carver
Unconditional Love as Victor Fox
ChalkZone as The Quicksand Man (voice)

2001

Very Annie Mary as Jack Pugh
The Affair of the Necklace as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
Bride of the Wind as Gustav Mahler
Il gioco as Mark
Victoria & Albert as King Leopold I of Belgium

2000

1999

Stigmata as Cardinal Daniel Houseman

1998

Ronin as Seamus O'Rourke
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer

1997

Tomorrow Never Dies as Elliot Carver
David as Saul
Regeneration as Capt. William Rivers
David as Saul
Davide as Saul

1996

Evita as Juan Perón

1995

Carrington as Lytton Strachey

1994

A Troll in Central Park as Alan (voice)
A Business Affair as Alec Bolton
Great Moments in Aviation as Duncan Stewart
Deadly Advice as Dr. Ted Philips
Shopping as Conway

1993

Barbarians at the Gate as Henry Kravis
Mr. Wroe's Virgins as John Wroe

1992

Glengarry Glen Ross as James Lingk
Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Trilby (voice)
A Child's Garden of Verses as Narrator / Father (voice)

1991

Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann

1990

The Man from the Pru as William Wallace

1989

1988

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
Consuming Passions as Mr. Farris

1987

Man on Fire as Michael

1986

Haunted Honeymoon as Charles Abbot

1985

Brazil as Sam Lowry
The Doctor and the Devils as Robert Fallon

1984

An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)

1983

The Ploughman's Lunch as James Penfield
Martin Luther, Heretic as Martin Luther

1982

Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
Murder Is Easy as Mr. Ellsworthy
Praying Mantis as Christian Magny

1981

Loophole as Taylor

1980

1979

Comedians as Gethin Price

1978

For Tea on Sunday as Nicholas

1976

Voyage of the Damned as Joseph Manasse
Play Things as Playleader
Bill Brand as Jamie Finn

1975

1970

Doomwatch as Police Constable

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Winner
Tony Awards as Self - Winner/Performer
Tony Awards as Self - Presenter

1953

The Oscars as Self

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The Thursday Murder Club as Stephen Best