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Sherry Jackson
- Sherry Jackson
Sherry Jackson (born February 15, 1942, Wendell, Idaho) is an American actress and former child star. She made her film debut at seven years old in the musical You're My Everything, starring Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey. During the course of appearing in several of the Ma and Pa Kettle movies during the 1950s as Susie Kettle, one of the titular couple's numerous children. Jackson also appeared in The Breaking Point with John Garfield, the actor's penultimate role before his sudden death two years later. In 1952, Jackson portrayed the emotionally volatile visionary and ascetic Jacinta Marto in The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, and the following year played John Wayne's daughter in the football-oriented Trouble Along the Way. Jackson may be best-remembered today for her role as older daughter Terry Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (AKA Make Room for Daddy) from 1953–58. During the course of her five years on the show, she established a strong bond with her on-screen mother, Jean Hagen, but Hagen left the series after the third season in 1956. Worn out from the relentless pace of producing the show, Jackson left the program once her five-year contract ended two years later. Over the next few years, Jackson broadened her range of acting roles, appearing as a hit woman on 77 Sunset Strip, an alcoholic on Mr. Novak, and an unstable mother-to-be on Wagon Train. She then took advantage of her abundant sex appeal in guest appearances on Lost in Space, Batman and the original Star Trek series. On the latter program, she made one of her more memorable portrayals as the android "Andrea" in the episode, "What are Little Girls Made Of?" When Blake Edwards remade the Peter Gunn television series as a feature film entitled Gunn in 1967, Jackson was filmed in a nude scene that appeared only in the international version, not the U.S. release.[citation needed] Stills of the nude scene appeared in the August 1967 issue of Playboy magazine, in a pictorial entitled "Make Room For Sherry". The movie has not yet been released on VHS or DVD. That same year, Jackson began a five-year relationship with business executive and horse breeder Fletcher R. Jones, a union that ended on November 7, 1972, when Jones was killed in a California plane crash. Five months after Jones' death, Jackson filed suit against his estate, asking more than $1 million, with her attorneys stating that Jones had promised to provide her with at least $25,000 a year for the rest of her life. The litigation proved to be unsuccessful. Jackson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960. It is located at 6324 Hollywood Blvd. Partial filmography Lorna Doone (1951), as Young Annie Ridd The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952), as Jacinta Marto Trouble Along the Way (1953), as Carole Williams The Danny Thomas Show (TV series, 1953–1958), as Terry Williams The Rifleman (TV series), as Rebecca Snipe in the episode "The Sister" Come Next Spring (1956) Maverick (TV series, 1957) as Annie Haines in the episode "Naked Gallows" The Swamp Fox (TV series, 1959), as Melanie Culpin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960), as Mary Jane Wilkes Maverick (TV series, 1961) as Erma Kerr in the episode "Red Dog" The Twilight Zone (1962), as Comfort in the episode "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964), as Geraldine Lost in Space (TV Series, 1966) as Effra in the Season 1 episode "The Space Croppers" Batman (TV series, 1966) as Pauline in the Season 1 episode "Death in Slow Motion" Batman (TV series, 1966) as Pauline in the Season 1 episode "The Riddler's False Notion" Star Trek (TV series, 1966) as Andrea in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" The Wild Wild West (TV series, 1967) as Michele in the Season 2 episode "The Vicious Valentine" The Mini-Skirt Mob (American International Pictures-AIP) as Connie- Fran Jeffries
- Fran Jeffries
- Fran Jeffries
Fran Jeffries (born May 18, 1937) is an American singer, actress, and model. Career She had a cameo in the 1963 film The Pink Panther, in which she sang a song called "Meglio Stasera (It Had Better Be Tonight)" while she danced provocatively around a fireplace. She also sang a number in the first sequel, A Shot in the Dark. Her figure was highlighted, albeit briefly, in a minor role in Sex and the Single Girl. She sang on The Tom Jones Show in 1969 with the host, doing a duet of "You've Got What it Takes". She was featured in Playboy Magazine a couple years later, in 1971 at the age of 35, in a pictorial entitled "Frantastic!". Ten years later she posed a second time for Playboy at the age of 45. This second pictorial was titled "Still Frantastic!". Photos reveal that, at some point in her career, she appeared onstage with Bob Hope. Personal life Jeffries has been married three times: Steven Schaeffer, musician, (March 16, 1971 - September 1973) (divorced) Richard Quine (1920–1989), actor, producer, director (1965 - June 10, 1969) (divorced) Dick Haymes (1918–1980), actor, singer, (1958 - January 1965) (divorced) Has 1 daughter, Stephanie Haymes (Taupin) Roven. Filmography The Buccaneer (1958) as Cariba - Mawbee Girl The Pink Panther (1963) as Greek 'cousin' Sex and the Single Girl (1964) as Gretchen A Shot in the Dark (1964) Harum Scarum (1965) as Aishah A Talent for Loving (1969) Police Woman (1 episode, 1976) as Tracy Discography "Sex and the Single Girl" was released on MGM in 1964 as a single and an LP. In 1966, Fran Jeffries recorded an album for Monument Records, This Is Fran Jeffries; a collection of standards and popular songs, produced by Fred Foster with arrangements by Dick Grove and Bill Justis, including a rendition of Lennon-McCartney's "Yesterday". Other recordings include an LP on Warwick (Fran: Can Really Hang You Up The Most). In 2000, Jeffries released a recording All the Love, again a collection of standards. Accumalative song recordings: Sex and the Single Girl Yesterday Springtime (Can Really Hang You Up the Most) All the Love Gone Now My Lonely Corner Life Goes On Honey and Wine Ain't Misbehavin' Accumalative songs for movies: Meglio Stasera Sex and the Single Girl The Anniversary Song- Jennifer Jones
- Jennifer Jones
- Jennifer Jones
Phylis Lee Isley (March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009), better known by her stage name Jennifer Jones, was an American actress. A five-time Academy Award nominee, Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Song of Bernadette (1943). Early life Jones was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Flora Mae and Phillip Ross Isley. An only child, she was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school. Her parents toured the Midwest in a traveling tent show that they owned and operated. Jones attended Monte Cassino Junior College in Tulsa and Northwestern University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, before transferring to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1938. It was there that she met and fell in love with fellow acting student Robert Walker. The couple married on January 2, 1939. Jones and Walker returned to Tulsa for a 13-week radio program, arranged by Jones' father, and then made their way to Hollywood. Jones landed two small roles, first in a 1939 John Wayne western titled New Frontier, followed by a serial entitled Dick Tracy's G-Men. In these two films, she was billed as 'Phyllis Isley' (Phyllis now spelled with two Ls). However, she failed a screen test for Paramount Pictures and decided to return to New York City. Career While Walker found steady work in radio programs, Isley worked part-time modeling hats for the Powers Agency while looking for possible acting jobs. When she learned of auditions for the lead role in Claudia, Rose Franken’s hit play, she presented herself to David O. Selznick’s New York office but fled in tears after what she thought was a bad reading. Selznick, however, overheard her audition and was impressed enough to have his secretary call her back. Following an interview, she was signed to a seven-year contract. She was carefully groomed for stardom and given a new name: Jennifer Jones. Director Henry King was impressed by her screen test as Bernadette Soubirous for The Song of Bernadette (1943) and she won the coveted role over hundreds of applicants. In 1944, on her 25th birthday, Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Bernadette Soubirous. That year, Jones' friend, Ingrid Bergman, was also a Best Actress nominee for her work in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Jones apologized to Bergman, who replied, "No, Jennifer, your Bernadette was better than my Maria." Jones presented the Best Actress Oscar the following year to Bergman for Gaslight Over the next two decades, Jones appeared in a wide range of roles selected by Selznick. Her dark beauty and sensitive nature appealed to audiences and she projected a variable range. Her initial saintly image — as shown in her first starring role — was a stark contrast three years later when she was cast as a provocative bi-racial woman in Selznick’s controversial film Duel in the Sun (1946). Other notable films included Since You Went Away (1944), Love Letters (1945), Cluny Brown (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Madame Bovary (1949), We Were Strangers (1949), Gone to Earth (1950), Carrie (1952), Ruby Gentry (also 1952), Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953), Beat the Devil (1953), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), Good Morning Miss Dove (also 1955), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) starring opposite Gregory Peck and A Farewell to Arms (1957). Her leading men during this period included Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, John Garfield, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Robert Stack, John Gielgud, Rock Hudson, and Jason Robards. The portrait of Jones for the film Portrait of Jennie was painted by Robert Brackman. Her last big-screen appearance came in the spectacular disaster film The Towering Inferno (1974), in which she danced with Fred Astaire before a fire threatened partygoers in a new San Francisco skyscraper who were celebrating its official opening as tallest building in the world. Her exit from the picture was also the most sympathetic when, after helping to assist two children to escape the disaster, her character fell 110 stories to her death from a scenic elevator on the outside of the building which was derailed following an explosion. Her touching performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Scenes from early on in the movie showed paintings lent to the production from the Norton Simon art gallery. Simon was her husband at the time the movie was produced. Personal life Jones's first marriage produced two sons, Robert Walker, Jr. (born April 15, 1940; Jones's only child who would not predecease her), and Michael Walker (March 13, 1941 – December 27, 2007). Both later became actors. Jones had an affair with film producer David O. Selznick, which eventually led to her separation from Walker in November 1943 and divorce in June 1945. Jones married Selznick on July 13, 1949, a union which lasted until his death on June 22, 1965. After his death, she semi-retired from acting. According to media reports, Jones attempted suicide in November 1967 after hearing of the death of close friend Charles Bickford. She was found unconscious at the base of a cliff overlooking Malibu Beach; she was hospitalized in a coma before eventually recovering. Her daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976), committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976. This led to Jones's interest in mental health issues. In 1980, she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation For Mental Health And Education. The Foundation pledged $400,000 to be used exclusively for the world renowned Mary Jennifer Selznick Workshop Program, named in honor of Jones's late daughter. On May 29, 1971, Jones married multi-millionaire industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Norton Simon, whose son Robert had committed suicide in 1969. Years before, Simon had attempted to buy the portrait of her used in the film Portrait of Jennie. Simon later met Jones at a party hosted by fellow industrialist and art collector Walter Annenberg. Norton Simon died in June 1993. Four years before his death, Simon resigned as President of Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and Jennifer Jones-Simon was appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees, President and Executive Officer. In 1996, she began working with architect Frank Gehry and landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power on renovating the museum and gardens. She remained active as the director of the Norton Simon Museum until 2003 when she was given emeritus status. Jones was a breast cancer survivor. Actress Susan Strasberg, who would die of the disease in 1999 and was then married to actor Christopher Jones, named her own daughter Jennifer Robin Jones in the older actress's honor. Death Jones enjoyed a quiet retirement, living with her son Robert Walker Jr. and his family in Malibu, for the last six years of her life. She granted no interviews and rarely appeared in public. She died of natural causes on Thursday, December 17, 2009, aged 90. She was cremated, at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale. Filmography Year Title Role Notes Film 1939 New Frontier Celia Braddock as Phyllis Isley 1939 Dick Tracy's G-Men Gwen Andrews as Phyllis Isley 1943 The Song of Bernadette Bernadette Soubirous Academy Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama 1944 Since You Went Away Jane Deborah Hilton Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1945 Love Letters Singleton/Victoria Morland Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress 1946 Cluny Brown Cluny Brown 1946 Duel in the Sun Pearl Chavez Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress 1948 Portrait of Jennie Jennie Appleton 1949 We Were Strangers China Valdés 1949 Madame Bovary Emma Bovary 1949 Gone to Earth Hazel Woodus 1952 Carrie Carrie Meeber 1952 Ruby Gentry Ruby Gentry 1953 Beat the Devil Mrs. Gwendolen Chelm 1953 Terminal Station Mary Forbes 1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Dr. Han Suyin Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress 1953 Good Morning Miss Dove Miss Dove 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Betsy Rath 1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street Elizabeth Barrett 1957 A Farewell to Arms Catherine Barkley 1962 Tender Is the Night Nicole Diver 1966 The Idol Carol 1969 Angel, Angel, Down We Go Astrid Steele a.k.a Cult of the Damned 1974 The Towering Inferno Lisolette Mueller Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture- Kate Jackson
- Kate Jackson
- Kate Jackson
Kate Jackson (born October 29, 1948) is an American actress, director, and producer, perhaps best known for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels. Jackson is a three-time Emmy Award nominee in the Best Actress category, has been nominated for several Golden Globe Awards, and has won the titles of Favorite Television Actress in England, and Favorite Television Star in Germany—several times—for her work in the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King. She co-produced that series through her production company, Shoot the Moon Enterprises Ltd., with Warner Brothers Television. Jackson has starred in a number of theatrical and TV films, and played the lead role on the short-lived television adaptation of the film Baby Boom. Early life and career Lucy Kate Jackson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Ruth and Hogan Jackson, a business executive. She attended The Brooke Hill School for Girls and then went on to the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of the Delta Rho chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, but during her sophomore year at the University of Mississippi, she moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Jackson worked as an NBC page at the network's Rockefeller Center studios and did summer stock in Vermont before landing a small role as the mysterious, silent ghost Daphne Harridge on the 1960s supernatural daytime quasi-soap opera Dark Shadows. In 1971, Jackson had a starring role as Tracy Collins in Night of Dark Shadows, the second feature film based on the daytime serial. She was joined by her Dark Shadows castmates Lara Parker, David Selby, Grayson Hall, Nancy Barrett, John Karlen, and Thayer David. This movie was more loosely based on the series than House of Dark Shadows was, and it did not fare as well at the box office as the first film did. The same year, she worked with James Stewart in two episodes of the short-lived sitcom, The Jimmy Stewart Show. She then appeared as nurse Jill Danko, wife of a character played by Sam Melville, for four seasons on the 1970s crime drama The Rookies. A supporting cast member, Jackson filled her free time by studying directing and editing. She also appeared in several TV films during this period. Jackson's performance was well received in the 1972 independent film Limbo, one of the first theatrical films to address the Vietnam War and the wives of soldiers who were POWs, MIA or killed in action (KIA). She also appeared in an all-star ensemble cast in Death Scream, a 1975 television dramatization of the circumstances surrounding a real-life 1964 murder as reported in a sensational article in the New York Times. Charlie's Angels In 1975, she met with Rookies producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg to discuss her contractual obligation to star in another television series for Spelling/Goldberg Productions upon that show's cancellation. Goldberg told her of a series that was available — because "every network has passed on it", The Alley Cats. Spelling said that when he told Jackson the title of the series had to be changed and asked her what she would like to call it, she replied, Charlie's Angels, pointing to a picture of three female angels on the wall behind Spelling. At the beginning of the third season of Charlie's Angels, Jackson was offered the Meryl Streep role in the feature film Kramer vs Kramer (1979), but was forced to turn it down because Spelling told her that they were unable to rearrange the hit show's shooting schedule to give her time off to do the film. At the end of the third season, Jackson left the show saying, "I served it well and it served me well, now it's time to go." In 1982, Jackson starred opposite her Rookies co-star, Michael Ontkean, and Harry Hamlin in the feature film Making Love, directed by Arthur Hiller. It was a movie some considered to be ahead of its time, and attempted to deal sensitively with the issue of homosexuality. However, it received tepid reviews and did poorly at the box office. Scarecrow and Mrs. King Jackson made what was for the time a whopping $6,000,000 deal with CBS to star in a comedy series. She elected instead to accept the starring role in Scarecrow and Mrs. King, a one-hour action drama in which she played housewife Amanda King opposite Bruce Boxleitner's spy, code-named "Scarecrow". Jackson also co-produced the series with Warner Brothers Television through her production company, Shoot the Moon Enterprises. It was during this series that she developed a keen interest in directing. When asked on the set one afternoon "What do you do tomorrow?", Jackson replied, "I don't work, I just direct." Scarecrow and Mrs. King was on the air from 1983–1987, The series was strong enough in the ratings that it beat its NBC competition, Boone. During filming of the show's fourth season, in January 1987, Jackson elected to receive a mammogram for the first time, a test which led to the diagnosis of a small malignant tumor. This time, her series' producer — the only person she told about the diagnosis—worked with her to reschedule her work on the show. Checking into a hospital under an alias, her course of action was to undergo a lumpectomy. Jackson returned to the series a week later, working with the aid of painkillers through five weeks of radiation treatments. Later career Receiving a "clean bill of health", Jackson followed up the cancelled Scarecrow and Mrs. King by taking on the main role in Baby Boom, a 1988 TV sitcom version of the original movie starring Diane Keaton, but it lasted only one season. In 1989, she starred in the film Loverboy playing Patrick Dempsey's mother. She had taken the job in order to work with the director, Joan Micklin Silver, having admired the work Silver had done on the film Hester Street. In September 1989, another mammogram indicated residual breast cancer which the previous operation had missed. This time the course of action was a partial mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. “The range of emotions you go through is amazing”, she says. “But I made a conscious decision to be positive.” Jaclyn Smith cancelled a trip to New York City, meeting Jackson at her doctor’s office before she checked into the hospital. “I’d been crying before I got there,” says Smith. “Then I saw Kate, and she had a smile on her face. She said, 'We've gotten through other things, like divorces, and we'll get through this.' And we did.” When Jackson awoke after surgery, “The first thing I heard was good news. My lymph nodes were clean.” Back at home she read medical journals, switched to a macrobiotic diet and came to terms with her reconstructive surgery. “I'm never going to have the perfect body”, she says. “I'm not into facelifts and lip poufs. But I can wear a strapless evening gown, a bustier or whatever is required for a part.” Jackson starred in several TV movies over the next several years, while working for breast cancer awareness. In 1995, on the heels of a night filming schedule on location, she checked herself into an Alabama hospital for tests due to a feeling of malaise and an inability to sleep. After several tests, Dr. Gerald Pohost, now head of cardiology at U.S.C., diagnosed that Jackson had been born with an atrial septal defect, a tiny hole in her heart which had previously gone undetected despite Jackson's active lifestyle. She underwent open heart surgery to correct the defect, although as cardiologist Dr. P. K. Shah related in a February 3, 2006, appearance with Jackson on Larry King Live, the current treatment no longer involves surgery. She has appeared in TV movies and has made numerous guest appearances on TV. She dialed down her professional pursuits when her son, Charles Taylor Jackson, was adopted in 1995. She stated at the time, "I don't see how I can go about a directing career and be a good mom at the same time. And if I'm not a good mom, I don't think it matters much what else I do well." She has dedicated herself to speaking out on the subjects of breast cancer and heart health and in 2003, was awarded the "Power of Love" award by the American Heart Association for her work. Recent years In 2004, the television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels aired, with actress Lauren Stamile portraying Jackson. In August 2006, Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith, the three original Angels, appeared together in a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards in a tribute to the recently-deceased Spelling at the Shrine Auditorium. Jackson played Elizabeth Prentiss, the mother of FBI Agent Emily Prentiss (played by Paget Brewster) on Criminal Minds. In August 2008, she was a guest judge on an episode of Jaclyn Smith's Bravo reality series Shear Genius, presiding over a hairdressing competition to update the original trio's signature hairdos. On August 3, 2010, it was announced that Jackson would be writing a memoir, to be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. Titled The Smart One, the book is scheduled be released on October 11, 2011. Filmography TV series Dark Shadows (1970–1971) Daphne Harridge The Rookies (1972–1976) Jill Danko Charlie's Angels (1976–1979) Sabrina Duncan Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983–1987) Mrs. Amanda King Baby Boom (1988–1989) J.C Wiatt Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (2002) Candy Criminal Minds (2007) Elizabeth Prentiss Feature films Night of Dark Shadows (1971) Tracy Collins Limbo (1972) Sandy Lawton Thunder and Lightning (1977) Nancy Sue Hunnicut Dirty Tricks (1981) Polly Bishop Making Love (1982) Claire Elliott Loverboy (1989) Diane Bodek Error in Judgment (1998) Shelley Larceny (2004) Mom No Regrets (2004) Suzanne Kennerly Error in Judgement (2004) TV movies The New Healers (1972) Nurse Michelle Johnson Movin' On (1972) Cory Satan's School for Girls (1973) Roberta Lockhart Killer Bees (1974) Victoria Wells Death Cruise (1974) Mary Frances Radney Death Scream (1975) Carol Death at Love House (1976) Donna Gregory James at 15 (1977) Robin Topper (1979) Marion Kirby Inmates: A Love Story (1981) Jane Mount Thin Ice (1981) Linda Rivers Listen to Your Heart (1983) Frannie Greene The Stranger Within (1990) Mare Blackburn Quiet Killer (1992) Dr. Nora Hart Homewrecker (1992) (voice) Lucy Arly Hanks (1993) Arly Hanks Adrift (1993) Katie Nast Empty Cradle (1993) Rita Donahue Armed and Innocent (1994) Patsy Holland Justice in a Small Town (1994) Sandra Clayton A Kidnapping in the Family (1996) DeDe Cooper Panic in the Skies! (1996) Flight Attendant Laurie Ann Pickett What Happened to Bobby Earl? (1997) Rose Earl Satan's School for Girls (2000) The Dean A Mother's Testimony (2001)] Director Julian Chojnacki The Perfect Suspect (2006) Maureen Hansen Personal life In 1978, Jackson married fellow Southerner, the actor/producer Andrew Stevens, the son of actress Stella Stevens; they divorced in 1982. She married David Greenwald in 1982, but they divorced two years later. Her third marriage was to stuntman Tom Hart in 1991, but they also divorced two years later. In 1995, Jackson adopted a son, Charles Taylor Jackson. In May 2010, Jackson filed a lawsuit against her financial advisor, Richard B. Francis, claiming his actions cost Jackson more than $3 million and brought her to financial ruin. In December 2010, the parties reached an undisclosed settlement. Awards and nominations Emmy Awards 1977: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (nomination) for Charlie's Angels 1978: Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series (nomination) for James at 15 1978: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (nomination) for Charlie's Angels. Golden Globe 1977: Best TV Actress — Drama (nomination) for Charlie's Angels 1978: Best TV Actress — Drama (nomination) for Charlie's Angels 1979: Best TV Actress — Drama (nomination) for Charlie's Angels 1985: Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series — Drama (nomination) for Scarecrow and Mrs. King Bravo Golden Otto Germany (won 3 times) 1986: TV Star (winner) for Scarecrow and Mrs. King 1987: TV Star (winner) for Scarecrow and Mrs. King 1988: TV Star (winner) for Scarecrow and Mrs. King Bravo Bronze Otto Germany 1990: TV Star (winner) for Scarecrow and Mrs. King- Takeshi Kaneshiro
- Jeremy Irons
- Jeremy Irons
- Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and Richard II. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor. Irons's first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama The French Lieutenant's Woman, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in such films as Moonlighting (1982), Betrayal (1983), and The Mission (1986), he gained critical acclaim for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller Dead Ringers (1988). In 1990, Irons played accused murderer Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune, and took home multiple awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. Other notable films have included The House of the Spirits (1993), The Lion King (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Lolita (1997), The Merchant of Venice (2004), Being Julia (2004), and Appaloosa (2008). Irons has also made several notable appearances on television. He earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his breakout role in the ITV series Brideshead Revisited (1981). In 2006, Irons starred opposite Helen Mirren in the historical miniseries Elizabeth I, for which he received a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since 2011, he has been starring in the Showtime historical drama The Borgias. Early life Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, the son of Barbara Anne Brereton Brymer (née Sharpe; 1914–1999), a housewife, and Paul Dugan Irons (1913–1983), an accountant. Part of his maternal ancestry is Irish, and his great-grandfather was one of the first Metropolitan Policemen, and later a chartist. Irons has a brother, Christopher (born 1943), and a sister, Felicity Anne (born 1944). He was educated at the independent Sherborne School in Dorset, (c. 1962–66). He achieved some fame as the drummer and harmonica player (most memorably for his rendition of "Stairway to Heaven" on harmonica) in a four-man school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom. They performed, in a classroom normally used as a physics lab, for the entertainment of boys compulsorily exiled from their houses for two hours on Sunday afternoons. He was also known within Abbey House as half of a comic duo performing skits on Halloween and at end-of-term House Suppers. Irons has stated that his family is Catholic, but of himself he states, "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." Acting career Irons trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and is now 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. Irons was bestowed an Honorary-Life Membership by the Law Society (University College Dublin) in September 2008, in honour of his contribution to television, film, audio, music and theatre.[citation needed] 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). 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. Almost as a 'lap of honour' 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. 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 O'Keeffe biopic. 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 that ran on 30 March 2011. Irons stars in the 2011 U.S. premium cable network Showtime's series The Borgias, a highly fictionalized 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, 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 from the movie 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 movies; The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and Eragon (2006), though they did not have any scenes together in Eragon. 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 film Margin Call. Theatre Irons has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company three times in 1976, 1986–87 and 2010. In 1984, Irons made his New York debut 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 Harold Macmillan 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 read the audio book recording of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, and the audio book recording of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (he had also appeared in the 1997 film version of the novel)). One of his best known film roles has turned out to be lending his distinctive voice to the villain Scar in The Lion King (1994). Irons has since provided voiceovers for three Disney World attractions. He narrated the Spaceship Earth ride, housed in the large geodesic globe at Epcot, from November 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 also voiced H.G. Wells in the English version of the former Disney attraction The Timekeeper. He also played 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 was originally to star as the Phantom in a 2006 French musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, though the project was canceled. He will be the narrator for Val Kilmer and Bill Pullman's brand-new Lewis and Clark movie from Revolution Studios. 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 is a 2011 motion-picture, released on 18 February. Music In 1985, Irons directed a music video for Carly Simon and her heavily promoted single, "Tired of Being Blonde". Although the song was not a hit, the video —featuring the fast cutting, parallel narratives and heavy use of stylized visual effects that were a staple of pop videos at the time— received ample attention on MTV and other outlets. In 1994 Jeremy Irons had a cameo role in the video for Elastica's hit single "Connection". Irons was one of the many naked men sitting down around Elastica as they performed the song. Irons has since claimed that this three-minute slice of nudity was his most enjoyable work to date. Irons has contributed to other musical performances, recording William Walton's Façade with Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and in 1987 the songs from Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, released on the Decca label. He sang a selection of Noël Coward at the 1999 Last Night of the Proms in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Coward's birth. In 2003 he 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. Jeremy Irons also sang the song "Be Prepared" in the movie The Lion King. However, he actually sang only a section of the song after having vocal problems; Jim Cummings finished the last few lines. Irons 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 in February 2009 during rehearsals for his Broadway play Impressionism. Personal life Irons married Irish actress Sinéad Cusack in March 1978. They have two sons, Samuel James Brefni Irons (16 September 1978), who works as a photographer, and Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons (17 October 1985), also an actor, who appeared in the 2006 Burberry fashion campaign[citation needed] and Red Riding Hood. Both of Irons' 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 lives in the small town of Watlington, Oxfordshire and the village of Ballydehob, in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. He has been the patron since 2002 of the Thomley Activity Centre, an Oxfordshire non-profit activity centre for disabled children. 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. He is a fan of English football club Portsmouth. 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, of which he is an active patron. Politics In 1998, Irons and his wife were named in the list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party. In 2004, he publicly declared his support for the Countryside Alliance, referring to the hunting ban as an "outrageous assault on civil liberties". 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. 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: Florizel in The Winter's Tale, Bristol Old Vic 1969 Simon in Hay Fever (Noël Coward) Bristol Old Vic 1969 Nick in What the Butler Saw (Joe Orton) Bristol Old Vic 1969 Major Barbara (Shaw) Bristol Old Vic 1969 A Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni) Bristol Old Vic 1969 Macbeth, Bristol Old Vic 1969 The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson) Bristol Old Vic 1969 As You Like It, Bristol Old Vic 1970 Oh! What a Lovely War, Little Theatre Bristol 1970 The School for Scandal (Sheridan) Little Theatre Bristol 1970 John/Judas in Godspell, Roundhouse and Wyndham's Theatre, November 1971–1973 The Madman in The Diary of a Madman (Gogol), Act Inn 1973 Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Young Vic Mick in The Caretaker (Pinter) Young Vic 1974 Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, New Shakespeare Company, Roundhouse 1975 Harry Thunder in Wild Oats (John O'Keefe) RSC Aldwych Theatre, December 1976; RSC Stratford and Piccadilly Theatre 1977 Jameson in The Rear Column (Simon Gray), Globe Theatre, February 1978 – Clarence Derwent Award Henry in The Real Thing (Tom Stoppard) New York 1984 —Tony Award for Best Actor Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford 1986) Willmore in The Rover (Aphra Behn) RSC Swan Theatre and Mermaid Theatre 1986 Richard II in Richard II, RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1986, Barbican Theatre 1987 Fredrik Egerman in A Little Night Music (Sondheim) New York, 2003 Russell in Celebration, a Pinter staged reading, Gate Theatre, Dublin/Albery Theatre, 2005 Henrik in Embers (Christopher Hampton/Sándor Márai novel) Duke of York's Theatre March 2006 Harold Macmillan in Never So Good (Howard Brenton) National Theatre Lyttelton, March 2008 Thomas Buckle in Impressionism (Michael Jacobs) Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Broadway, March 2009 Filmography Year Title Role Notes 1980 Nijinsky Mikhail Fokine 1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman Charles Henry Smithson/ Mike Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role 1981 Brideshead Revisited Charles Ryder Nominated — British Academy Television Award for Best Actor Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film 1982 Moonlighting Nowak 1983 Betrayal Jerry 1984 The Wild Duck Harold 1984 Swann in Love Charles Swann 1986 The Mission Father Gabriel Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama 1988 A Chorus of Disapproval Guy Jones 1987 My Fair Lady Henry Higgins 1988 Dead Ringers Beverly Mantle/ Elliot Mantle Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Actor 1989 Australia Edouard Pierson 1989 Danny, the Champion of the World William Smith 1990 Reversal of Fortune Claus von Bülow Academy Award for Best Actor Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor 1991 The Beggar's Opera Prisoner 1991 Kafka Kafka 1992 The Timekeeper H.G. Wells 1992 Waterland Tom Crick 1992 Damage Dr. Stephen Fleming 1993 M. Butterfly René Gallimard 1993 The House of the Spirits Esteban Trueba 1994 Spaceship Earth Narrator 1994 The Lion King Scar voice actor Annie Award for Best Achievement for Voice Acting Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Villain 1995 Die Hard with a Vengeance Simon Gruber 1996 Stealing Beauty Alex Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture 1997 Chinese Box John 1997 Lolita Humbert Humbert 1998 The Man in the Iron Mask Aramis 1999 Islands of Adventure: Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City Poseidon voice actor 2000 Dungeons & Dragons Profion 2000 Longitude Rupert Gould Television series (4 episodes) 2001 The Fourth Angel Jack Elgin 2001 Beckett on Film – Ohio Impromptu Reader/ Listener 2002 Callas Forever Larry Kelly 2002 Last Call F. Scott Fitzgerald 2002 The Time Machine Über-Morlock 2003 And Now... 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