Jonathan Pryce
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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- 2026 · Under Salt Marsh as Solomon Bevan
- 2025 · The Thursday Murder Club as Stephen
- 2025 · The Penguin Lessons as Headmaster Buckle
- 2025 · William Tell as Attinghausen
- 2024 · 3 Body Problem as Mike Evans
- 2023 · One Life as Martin Blake
- 2023 · Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Scrooge: A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley (voice)
- 2022 · The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking as Self - Narrator
- 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
- 2021 · Stories of You and I as Narrator
- 2020 · Tales from the Loop as Russ
- 2019 · The Two Popes as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
- 2019 · He Dreams of Giants as Himself
- 2019 · Gone Hollywood as Benny Landau
- 2018 · The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as Don Quixote
- 2017 · The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mr. John Dickens
- 2017 · The Wife as Joe Castleman
- 2017 · Becoming Cary Grant as Cary Grant (voice)
- 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
- 2016 · The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Shylock
- 2015 · Shylock's Ghost as Self
- 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 · Listen Up Philip as Ike
- 2014 · The Salvation as Mayor Nathan Keane
- 2014 · The Ghost and the Whale as Whale
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- 2013 · G.I. Joe: Retaliation as U.S. President
- 2012 · The Story of Musicals as Self
- 2011 · Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
- 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 · Clone as Dr Victor Blenkinsop
- 2008 · My Zinc Bed as Victor
- 2008 · What Is Brazil? as Self
- 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 · Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars as Sherlock Holmes
- 2006 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Governor 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
- 2005 · Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
- 2004 · Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane as Self
- 2004 · De-Lovely as Gabriel
- 2003 · David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Narrator
- 2003 · Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Governor Weatherby Swann
- 2003 · What a Girl Wants as Alistair Payne
- 2002 · Mad Dogs as Supreme Being
- 2002 · Best Ever Bond as Self / Elliot Carver
- 2002 · Unconditional Love as Victor Fox
- 2002 · ChalkZone as The Quicksand Man (voice)
- 2002 · Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Master Schoemacker
- 2001 · The Affair of the Necklace as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
- 2001 · Victoria & Albert as King Leopold I of Belgium
- 1999 · Stigmata as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
- 1998 · Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
- 1998 · Ronin as Seamus O'Rourke
- 1998 · Highly Classified: The World of 007 as Self
- 1997 · Tomorrow Never Dies as Elliot Carver
- 1997 · The Secrets of 007 as Self
- 1997 · Regeneration as Capt. William Rivers
- 1997 · David as Saul
- 1997 · David as Saul
- 1997 · Davide as Saul
- 1996 · Evita as Juan Perón
- 1995 · Carrington as Lytton Strachey
- 1994 · Shopping as Conway
- 1994 · A Troll in Central Park as Alan (voice)
- 1994 · Great Moments in Aviation as Duncan Stewart
- 1994 · A Business Affair as Alec Bolton
- 1993 · The Age of Innocence as Rivière
- 1993 · Barbarians at the Gate as Henry Kravis
- 1993 · Mr. Wroe's Virgins as John Wroe
- 1992 · Glengarry Glen Ross as James Lingk
- 1992 · Freddie As F.R.O.7. as Trilby (voice)
- 1991 · Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
- 1990 · The Man from the Pru as William Wallace
- 1989 · The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon as Self - 'The Engineer'
- 1989 · The Rachel Papers as Norman
- 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
- 1986 · Haunted Honeymoon as Charles Abbot
- 1985 · The Doctor and the Devils as Robert Fallon
- 1985 · Brazil as Sam Lowry
- 1984 · An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
- 1983 · The Ploughman's Lunch as James Penfield
- 1983 · Something Wicked This Way Comes as Mr. Dark
- 1982 · Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
- 1982 · Murder Is Easy as Mr. Ellsworthy
- 1982 · Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
- 1981 · Loophole as Taylor
- 1980 · Breaking Glass as Ken
- 1980 · The Day Christ Died as Herod
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1977 · BBC2 Play of the Week as Nicholas
- 1976 · Voyage of the Damned as Joseph Manasse
- 1976 · Bill Brand as Jamie Finn
- 1975 · The Death of a Young Young Man as Tommy
- 1974 · Playhouse as Playleader
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1970 · Doomwatch as Police Constable
- Future · Sleeping Lions as
- Future · Une autre histoire as
- 2026 · Flavia as Dr. Kissing
- 2025 · World of Westeros Ambient Video as High Sparrow
- 2022 · The Spirit of 1926 as Narrator
- 2019 · Piney: The Lonesome Pine as Grandpa Sid
- 2018 · To Provide All People as Retired Neurosurgeon
- 2016 · Aberfan: The Green Hollow as
- 2016 · The White King as Colonel Fitz
- 2016 · One Last Dance as John
- 2014 · Sluizer Speaks as
- 2014 · Under Milk Wood as Mr. Pugh
- 2012 · King Lear as King Lear
- 2012 · Dark Blood as Harry Fletcher
- 2012 · Patience (After Sebald) as Voiceover
- 2011 · City State as Jimmy
- 2010 · The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins as
- 2008 · Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began as Ian Fleming (voice)
- 2008 · The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen as Self / Horatio Jackson
- 2007 · The Moon and the Stars as James Clavel / Scarpia
- 2006 · Brothers of the Head as Henry Couling
- 2003 · Quest for the Giant Squid as Narrator
- 2002 · Taliesin Jones as Da
- 2001 · Bride of the Wind as Gustav Mahler
- 2001 · Very Annie Mary as Jack Pugh
- 2001 · Deceit as Mark
- 2000 · Easter Tales as The Thief
- 2000 · The Suicide Club as Bourne
- 1999 · Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Master
- 1999 · Titanic: Answers From The Abyss as Narrator
- 1996 · A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' as Self
- 1994 · Deadly Advice as Dr. Ted Philips
- 1993 · Thicker Than Water as Sam
- 1993 · Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
- 1992 · A Child's Garden of Verses as Narrator / Father (voice)
- 1988 · The World Within Us as Voice
- 1988 · Consuming Passions as Mr. Farris
- 1983 · Martin Luther, Heretic as Martin Luther
- 1981 · The Caretaker as Mick
- 1981 · Timon of Athens as Timon
- 1979 · Comedians as Gethin Price
- 1978 · For Tea on Sunday as Nicholas
- 1976 · Play Things as Playleader
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Keep Her Quiet as Bernie Porter