
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born 1 June 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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Credits
- 2025 · The Thursday Murder Club as Stephen
- 2025 · William Tell as Attinghausen
- 2024 · 3 Body Problem as Mike Evans
- 2023 · One Life as Martin Blake
- 2022 · Scrooge: A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley (voice)
- 2022 · All the Old Knives as Bill Compton
- 2022 · The Witness is a Whale as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Slow Horses as David Cartwright
- 2022 · Save the Cinema as Mr. Morgan
- 2020 · Tales from the Loop as Russ
- 2019 · The Two Popes as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
- 2019 · Gone Hollywood as Benny Landau
- 2017 · The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mr. John Dickens
- 2017 · The Healer as Raymond Heacock
- 2017 · Taboo as Stuart Strange
- 2016 · To Walk Invisible as Patrick Brontë
- 2016 · The Crown as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- 2016 · Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance as Special Finale Guest Star
- 2015 · Narcopolis as Sidorov
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Documentary Now! as Owen Teale-Griffith
- 2015 · Dough as Nat
- 2015 · Woman in Gold as Chief Justice Rehnquist
- 2015 · Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life as Self
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Cardinal Wolsey
- 2014 · The Salvation as Mayor Nathan Keane
- 2014 · Listen Up Philip as Ike
- 2014 · The Ghost and the Whale as Whale
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2013 · G.I. Joe: Retaliation as U.S. President
- 2012 · King Lear as King Lear
- 2011 · Hysteria as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as High Sparrow
- 2009 · G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as U.S. President
- 2009 · Echelon Conspiracy as Mueller
- 2008 · Bedtime Stories as Marty Bronson
- 2008 · Leatherheads as CC Frazier
- 2007 · Cranford as Mr. Buxton
- 2007 · The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
- 2007 · Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Governor Weatherby Swann
- 2007 · The Moon and the Stars as James Clavel / Scarpia
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Weatherby Swann
- 2005 · The New World as King James
- 2005 · The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life as Self
- 2005 · The Brothers Grimm as Delatombe
- 2004 · De-Lovely as Gabriel
- 2003 · Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Governor Weatherby Swann
- 2003 · What a Girl Wants as Alistair Payne
- 2002 · Unconditional Love as Victor Fox
- 2002 · ChalkZone as The Quicksand Man (voice)
- 2001 · The Affair of the Necklace as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
- 2000 · The Suicide Club as Bourne
- 1999 · Stigmata as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
- 1999 · Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Master
- 1998 · Ronin as Seamus O'Rourke
- 1998 · Highly Classified: The World of 007 as
- 1997 · Tomorrow Never Dies as Elliot Carver
- 1997 · David as Saul
- 1995 · Carrington as Lytton Strachey
- 1994 · Great Moments in Aviation as Duncan Stewart
- 1994 · Deadly Advice as Dr. Ted Philips
- 1993 · The Age of Innocence as Rivière
- 1992 · Glengarry Glen Ross as James Lingk
- 1992 · Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Trilby (voice)
- 1989 · The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon as Self - 'The Engineer'
- 1988 · The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
- 1988 · Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Himself
- 1988 · The Storyteller as King
- 1987 · Man on Fire as Michael
- 1986 · Jumpin' Jack Flash as Jack
- 1985 · Brazil as Sam Lowry
- 1983 · The Ploughman's Lunch as James Penfield
- 1982 · Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
- 1981 · Loophole as Taylor
- 1978 · For Tea on Sunday as Nicholas
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1977 · BBC2 Play of the Week as Nicholas
- 1975 · The Death of a Young Young Man as Tommy
- 1974 · Playhouse as Playleader
- 1970 · Doomwatch as Police Constable
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner/Performer
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Sleeping Lions as
- 2025 · The Penguin Lessons as Headmaster Buckle
- 2023 · Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking as Self - Narrator
- 2019 · He Dreams of Giants as Himself
- 2018 · The Wife as Joe Castleman
- 2018 · The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as Don Quixote
- 2017 · Becoming Cary Grant as Cary Grant (voice)
- 2016 · Aberfan: The Green Hollow as
- 2016 · The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Shylock
- 2016 · The White King as Colonel Fitz
- 2014 · Under Milk Wood as Mr. Pugh
- 2012 · The Story of Musicals as Self
- 2011 · City State as Jimmy
- 2008 · The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen as Self / Horatio Jackson
- 2007 · Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars as Sherlock Holmes
- 2006 · Brothers of the Head as Henry Couling
- 2005 · Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
- 2003 · An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Self
- 2002 · Mad Dogs as Supreme Being
- 2002 · Best Ever Bond as Self / Elliot Carver
- 2001 · Victoria & Albert as King Leopold I of Belgium
- 2001 · Very Annie Mary as Jack Pugh
- 1998 · Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
- 1997 · The Secrets of 007 as Self
- 1997 · Regeneration as Capt. William Rivers
- 1996 · Evita as Juan Perón
- 1994 · Shopping as Conway
- 1994 · A Troll in Central Park as Alan (voice)
- 1994 · A Business Affair as Alec Bolton
- 1993 · Barbarians at the Gate as Henry Kravis
- 1993 · Mr. Wroe's Virgins as John Wroe
- 1989 · The Rachel Papers as Norman
- 1988 · Consuming Passions as Mr. Farris
- 1986 · Haunted Honeymoon as Charles Abbot
- 1984 · An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
- 1983 · Martin Luther, Heretic as Martin Luther
- 1983 · Something Wicked This Way Comes as Mr. Dark
- 1982 · Murder Is Easy as Mr. Ellsworthy
- 1980 · Breaking Glass as Ken
- 1976 · Bill Brand as Jamie Finn
- Future · Under Salt Marsh as
- 2022 · The Spirit of 1926 as Narrator
- 2021 · Stories of You and I as Narrator
- 2019 · Piney: The Lonesome Pine as Grandpa Sid
- 2018 · To Provide All People as Retired Neurosurgeon
- 2016 · One Last Dance as John
- 2015 · Shylock's Ghost as Self
- 2014 · Sluizer Speaks as
- 2012 · Dark Blood as Harry Fletcher
- 2012 · Patience (After Sebald) as Voiceover
- 2011 · Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
- 2010 · The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins as
- 2008 · Clone as Dr Victor Blenkinsop
- 2008 · Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began as Ian Fleming (voice)
- 2008 · My Zinc Bed as Victor
- 2008 · What Is Brazil? as Self
- 2004 · Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane as Self
- 2003 · David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Narrator
- 2003 · Quest for the Giant Squid as Narrator
- 2002 · Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Master Schoemacker
- 2002 · Taliesin Jones as Da
- 2001 · Bride of the Wind as Gustav Mahler
- 2001 · Il gioco as Mark
- 2000 · Tales from the Madhouse as The Thief
- 1999 · Titanic: Answers From The Abyss as Narrator
- 1997 · David as Saul
- 1997 · Davide as Saul
- 1996 · A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' as Self
- 1993 · Thicker Than Water as Sam
- 1993 · Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
- 1992 · A Child's Garden of Verses as Narrator / Father (voice)
- 1991 · Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
- 1990 · The Man from the Pru as William Wallace
- 1988 · The World Within Us as Voice
- 1985 · The Doctor and the Devils as Robert Fallon
- 1982 · Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
- Future · Flavia de Luce as
- 1981 · The Caretaker as Mick
- 1981 · Timon of Athens as Timon
- 1980 · The Day Christ Died as Herod
- 1979 · Comedians as Gethin Price
- 1976 · Voyage of the Damned as Joseph Manasse
- 1976 · Play Things as Playleader