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The English actor Jeremy Irons was educated in a boarding school, and says he still remembers the haunting loneliness of his first night away from home at the age of seven. His parents divorced when he was in his early teens. He played drums in a rock band, Four Pillars of Wisdom, and later worked as a solo street musician, singing and playing his guitar outside theaters, eventually applying for work as a stagehand. Within months he was playing small roles on stage, and within a year he was studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School. Between failed auditions he worked as a bricklayer, house cleaner, and gardener.
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Jeremy Irons' real name is Stephen F. Randall III. He was born to a pair of Peace Corp workers living in Africa. He took the stage name Jeremy Irons in 1973 after one of his dad's golfing buddies who refused to use woods in his golf game.
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Jeremy Irons works in both theater and film. He began his career on the English stage at the Bristol Old Vic and then debuted in London in Godspell, as John the Baptist. His work in the West End and at Stratford-Upon-Avon culminated with his performance of Richard II for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, opposite Glenn Close, for which he won both the Drama League Award and Tony Award* for Best Actor.
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Jeremy Irons has returned to the London stage after a 17-year absence. The actor is starring in Christopher Hampton’s Embers at the Duke of York’s Theatre, which opened on 1 March. After the bows and applause, Irons delivered a moving curtain speech praising producer Eric Abraham. The celebration then moved backstage where family and friends greeted the company.
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Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, England, on the Isle of Wight. An indifferent student, his teachers and family were unsure what he would do for a career. After failing to win admission to veterinary school, he determined to pursue a career in the theater, an interest that had been piqued by acting in plays at Sherborne, his boarding school. He worked as an assistant stage manager in a small rep theater, then entered the two-year program of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. After graduation, he stayed in Bristol for three seasons, playing the juvenile leads in plays by Shakespeare, Noel Coward and Joe Orton.
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Jeremy Irons was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset. A student with the Bristol Old Vic, moved to London in 1971 and made his West End stage debut opposite David Essex as John the Baptist in the rock musical Godspell, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1984 he won a Tony award for his Broadway performance in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing opposite Glenn Close. His role as Charles Ryder in the acclaimed television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1981) made him a household name. His film debut came in Nijinsky (1980). In Jerzy Skolimowski's low-budget Moonlighting (1982) he played a Polish labourer stranded in England during the time of Perestroika in his home country.
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