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Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the 2019 film "The Two Popes."
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 a…
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Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor and singer. He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the 2019 film "The Two Popes." 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".
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Jonathan Pryce's Filmography
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Elden Ring
No Poster
Bristol
Flavia
as Dr. Kissing
The Thursday Murder Club
as Stephen
The Penguin Lessons
as Headmaster Buckle
William Tell
as Attinghausen
One Life
as Martin Blake
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
as Jacob Marley (voice)
The Spirit of 1926
as Narrator
The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking
as Self - Narrator
All the Old Knives
as Bill Compton
Soul of the Ocean
as Self - Narrator
The Witness is a Whale
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Save the Cinema
as Mr. Morgan
No Poster
Stories of You and I
as Narrator
The Two Popes
as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
He Dreams of Giants
as Self
Piney: The Lonesome Pine
as Grandpa Sid
Gone Hollywood
as Benny Landau
No Poster
To Provide All People
as Retired Neurosurgeon
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
as Don Quixote
Run
as Dr Amadi
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mr. John Dickens
The Wife
as Joe Castleman
Becoming Cary Grant
as Cary Grant (voice)
The Healer
as Raymond Heacock
To Walk Invisible
as Patrick Brontë
No Poster
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance
as Special Finale Guest Star
The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
as Shylock
The White King
as Colonel Fitz
One Last Dance
as John
No Poster
Shylock's Ghost
as Self
Narcopolis
as Sidorov
Dough
as Nat
Woman in Gold
as Chief Justice Rehnquist
Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
as Self
Sluizer Speaks
Listen Up Philip
as Ike
The Salvation
as Mayor Nathan Keane
Under Milk Wood
as Mr. Pugh
The Ghost and the Whale
as Whale
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
as U.S. President
King Lear
as King Lear
Dark Blood
as Harry Fletcher
Patience (After Sebald)
as Voiceover
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
City State
as Jimmy
Hysteria
as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
as U.S. President
Echelon Conspiracy
as Mueller
Bedtime Stories
as Marty Bronson
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
as Ian Fleming (voice)
My Zinc Bed
as Victor
What Is Brazil?
as Self
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
as Self / Horatio Jackson
Leatherheads
as CC Frazier
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Governor Weatherby Swann
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
as Sherlock Holmes
No Poster
HR
as Peter
The Moon and the Stars
as James Clavel / Scarpia
Brothers of the Head
as Henry Couling
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Governor Weatherby Swann
The New World
as King James
The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life
as Self
The Brothers Grimm
as Delatombe
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
as Self
De-Lovely
as Gabriel
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
as Narrator
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
as Governor Weatherby Swann
No Poster
Quest for the Giant Squid
as Narrator
What a Girl Wants
as Alistair Payne
Mad Dogs
as Supreme Being
Best Ever Bond
as Self / Elliot Carver
Unconditional Love
as Victor Fox
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
as Master Schoemacker
No Poster
Taliesin Jones
as Da
The Affair of the Necklace
as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
Victoria & Albert
as King Leopold I of Belgium
Bride of the Wind
as Gustav Mahler
Very Annie Mary
as Jack Pugh
Deceit
as Mark
The Suicide Club
as Bourne
Stigmata
as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
as The Master
Titanic: Answers From The Abyss
as Narrator
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
Ronin
as Seamus O'Rourke
Highly Classified: The World of 007
as Self
Tomorrow Never Dies
as Elliot Carver
The Secrets of 007
as Self
Regeneration
as Capt. William Rivers
David
as Saul
Evita
as Juan Perón
A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
as Self
Carrington
as Lytton Strachey
Shopping
as Conway
A Troll in Central Park
as Alan (voice)
Great Moments in Aviation
as Duncan Stewart
Deadly Advice
as Dr. Ted Philips
A Business Affair
as Alec Bolton
The Age of Innocence
as Rivière
Thicker Than Water
as Sam
Selling Hitler
as Gerd Heidemann
Barbarians at the Gate
as Henry Kravis
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)
No Poster
The Man from the Pru
as William Wallace
The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
as Self - 'The Engineer'
The Rachel Papers
as Norman
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
The Storyteller: The Three Ravens
as King
The World Within Us
as Voice
Consuming Passions
as Mr. Farris
Man on Fire
as Michael
Jumpin' Jack Flash
as Jack
Haunted Honeymoon
as Charles Abbot
The Doctor and the Devils
as Robert Fallon
Brazil
as Sam Lowry
Praying Mantis
as Christian Magny
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
Martin Luther, Heretic
as Martin Luther
The Ploughman's Lunch
as James Penfield
Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Mr. Dark
Murder Is Easy
as Mr. Ellsworthy
Loophole
as Taylor
The Caretaker
as Mick
Timon of Athens
as Timon
Breaking Glass
as Ken
The Day Christ Died
as Herod
Comedians
as Gethin Price
For Tea on Sunday
as Nicholas
Voyage of the Damned
as Joseph Manasse
Play Things
as Playleader
The Death of a Young Young Man
as Tommy
No Poster
Keep Her Quiet
as Bernie Porter
No Poster