
Jonathan Pryce
Biography
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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Acting History
2025
The Thursday Murder Club as Stephen
2025The Penguin Lessons as Headmaster Buckle
2025William Tell as Attinghausen
20243 Body Problem as Mike Evans
2023One Life as Martin Blake
2023Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
2022Scrooge: A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley (voice)
2022The Spirit of 1926 as Narrator
2022The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking as Self - Narrator
2022All the Old Knives as Bill Compton
2022The Witness is a Whale as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022Slow Horses as David Cartwright
2022Save the Cinema as Mr. Morgan
2021Stories of You and I as Narrator
2020Tales from the Loop as Russ
2019The Two Popes as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
2019He Dreams of Giants as Himself
2019Piney: The Lonesome Pine as Grandpa Sid
2019Gone Hollywood as Benny Landau
2018The Wife as Joe Castleman
2018To Provide All People as Retired Neurosurgeon
2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as Don Quixote
2017The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mr. John Dickens
2017Becoming Cary Grant as Cary Grant (voice)
2017The Healer as Raymond Heacock
2017Taboo as Stuart Strange
2016To Walk Invisible as Patrick Brontë
2016The Crown as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
2016Aberfan: The Green Hollow
2016Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance as Special Finale Guest Star
2016The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe as Shylock
2016The White King as Colonel Fitz
2016One Last Dance as John
2015Shylock's Ghost as Self
2015Narcopolis as Sidorov
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Documentary Now! as Owen Teale-Griffith
2015Dough as Nat
2015Woman in Gold as Chief Justice Rehnquist
2015Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life as Self
2015Wolf Hall as Cardinal Wolsey
2014Sluizer Speaks
2014Listen Up Philip as Ike
2014Under Milk Wood as Mr. Pugh
2014The Salvation as Mayor Nathan Keane
2014The Ghost and the Whale as Whale
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2013G.I. Joe: Retaliation as U.S. President
2012King Lear as King Lear
2012Dark Blood as Harry Fletcher
2012Patience (After Sebald) as Voiceover
2012The Story of Musicals as Self
2011Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
2011City State as Jimmy
2011Hysteria as Dr. Robert Dalrymple
2011Game of Thrones as High Sparrow
2010The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
2009G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as U.S. President
2009Echelon Conspiracy as Mueller
2008Bedtime Stories as Marty Bronson
2008Clone as Dr Victor Blenkinsop
2008Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began as Ian Fleming (voice)
2008My Zinc Bed as Victor
2008What Is Brazil? as Self
2008The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen as Self / Horatio Jackson
2008Leatherheads as CC Frazier
2007Cranford as Mr. Buxton
2007The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Governor Weatherby Swann
2007Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars as Sherlock Holmes
2007The Moon and the Stars as James Clavel / Scarpia
2006Brothers of the Head as Henry Couling
2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as Weatherby Swann
2005The New World as King James
2005The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life as Self
2005The Brothers Grimm as Delatombe
2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
2004Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane as Self
2004De-Lovely as Gabriel
2003An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Self
2003David Bowie - Sound and Vision as Narrator
2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl as Governor Weatherby Swann
2003Quest for the Giant Squid as Narrator
2003What a Girl Wants as Alistair Payne
2002Mad Dogs as Supreme Being
2002Best Ever Bond as Self / Elliot Carver
2002Unconditional Love as Victor Fox
2002ChalkZone as The Quicksand Man (voice)
2002Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister as Master Schoemacker
2002Taliesin Jones as Da
2001The Affair of the Necklace as Cardinal Louis de Rohan
2001Victoria & Albert as King Leopold I of Belgium
2001Bride of the Wind as Gustav Mahler
2001Very Annie Mary as Jack Pugh
2001Deceit as Mark
2000Tales from the Madhouse as The Thief
2000The Suicide Club as Bourne
1999Stigmata as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
1999Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Master
1999Titanic: Answers From The Abyss as Narrator
1998Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
1998Ronin as Seamus O'Rourke
1998Highly Classified: The World of 007
1997Tomorrow Never Dies as Elliot Carver
1997The Secrets of 007 as Self
1997Regeneration as Capt. William Rivers
1997David as Saul
1997David as Saul
1997Davide as Saul
1996Evita as Juan Perón
1996A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' as Self
1995Carrington as Lytton Strachey
1994Shopping as Conway
1994A Troll in Central Park as Alan (voice)
1994Great Moments in Aviation as Duncan Stewart
1994Deadly Advice as Dr. Ted Philips
1994A Business Affair as Alec Bolton
1993The Age of Innocence as Rivière
1993Thicker Than Water as Sam
1993Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
1993Barbarians at the Gate as Henry Kravis
1993Mr. Wroe's Virgins as John Wroe
1992Glengarry Glen Ross as James Lingk
1992Freddie As F.R.O.7. as Trilby (voice)
1992A Child's Garden of Verses as Narrator / Father (voice)
1991Selling Hitler as Gerd Heidemann
1990The Man from the Pru as William Wallace
1989The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon as Self - 'The Engineer'
1989The Rachel Papers as Norman
1988The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
1988Whose Line Is It Anyway? as Himself
1988The Storyteller as King
1988The World Within Us as Voice
1988Consuming Passions as Mr. Farris
1987Man on Fire as Michael
1986Jumpin' Jack Flash as Jack
1986Haunted Honeymoon as Charles Abbot
1985The Doctor and the Devils as Robert Fallon
1985Brazil as Sam Lowry
1984An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
1983Martin Luther, Heretic as Martin Luther
1983The Ploughman's Lunch as James Penfield
1983Something Wicked This Way Comes as Mr. Dark
1982Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
1982Murder Is Easy as Mr. Ellsworthy
1982Praying Mantis as Christian Magny
1981Loophole as Taylor
1981The Caretaker as Mick
1981Timon of Athens as Timon
1980Breaking Glass as Ken
1980The Day Christ Died as Herod
1979Comedians as Gethin Price
1978For Tea on Sunday as Nicholas
1978An Audience with... as Self
1977BBC2 Play of the Week as Nicholas
1976Voyage of the Damned as Joseph Manasse
1976Bill Brand as Jamie Finn
1976Play Things as Playleader
1975The Death of a Young Young Man as Tommy
1974Playhouse as Playleader
1971Great Performances as Self - Narrator (voice)
1970Doomwatch as Police Constable
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner/Performer
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1953The Oscars as Self
—Under Salt Marsh as Solomon Bevan
—Flavia de Luce
—Keep Her Quiet
—Sleeping Lions









