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Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Pryce began his career as a stage actor in the early 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. His breakthrough screen performance was in Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil. Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has appeared in big-budget films including Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Pirates of the Caribbean, as well as independent films such as Glengarry Glen Ross, The Age of Innocence, Carrington, The New World and The Wife.
Birth Name
John Price
Born
Sunday, 01 June 1947
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| 3 Body Problem | Mike Evans | 2024 |
| One Life | Martin Blake | 2023 |
| All the Old Knives | Bill Compton | 2022 |
| Slow Horses | David Cartwright | 2022 |
| Save the Cinema | Mr. Morgan / Mr Morgan | 2022 |
| He Dreams of Giants | Himself / Self | 2021 |
| GMA3: What You Need to Know | Self | 2020 |
| Tales from the Loop | Russ | 2020 |
| Nessun nome nei titoli di coda | Self | 2020 |
| The Oscars | Self - Nominee | 2020 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| 3 Body Problem | Mike Evans | 2024 |
| One Life | Martin Blake | 2023 |
| All the Old Knives | Bill Compton | 2022 |
| Slow Horses | David Cartwright | 2022 |
| Save the Cinema | Mr. Morgan / Mr Morgan | 2022 |
| He Dreams of Giants | Himself / Self | 2021 |
| GMA3: What You Need to Know | Self | 2020 |
| Tales from the Loop | Russ | 2020 |
| Nessun nome nei titoli di coda | Self | 2020 |
| The Oscars | Self - Nominee | 2020 |
| The Two Popes | Pope Francis / Jorge Bergoglio / Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio | 2019 |
| Piney: The Lonesome Pine | Grandpa Sid | 2019 |
| Love, Gilda | Self | 2018 |
| The Wife | Joe Castleman | 2018 |
| The Man Who Killed Don Quixote | Don Quixote | 2018 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas | Mr. John Dickens | 2017 |
| Becoming Cary Grant | Cary Grant (voice) / Cary Grant | 2017 |
| The Healer | Raymond Heacock | 2017 |
| The White King | Colonel Fitz | 2017 |
| Taboo | Sir Stuart Strange / Stuart Strange | 2017 |
| Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters | Patrick Brontë | 2016 |
| The Crown | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 2016 |
| Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary | The Engineer (finale) / Special Finale Guest Star | 2016 |
| Narcopolis | Yuri Sidorov / Sidorov | 2015 |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015 |
| Documentary Now! | Owen Teale-Griffith | 2015 |
| Dough | Nat Dayan / Nat | 2015 |
| Woman in Gold | Chief Justice Rehnquist | 2015 |
| Sluizer Speaks | Self | 2015 |
| Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life | Self / High Sparrow | 2015 |
| Wolf Hall | Cardinal Wolsey | 2015 |
| The Salvation | Mayor Nathan Keane | 2014 |
| Listen Up Philip | Ike Zimmerman / Ike | 2014 |
| Under Milk Wood | Mr. Pugh | 2014 |
| The Ghost and the Whale | Whale | 2014 |
| G.I. Joe: Retaliation | President / U.S. President | 2013 |
| Dark Blood | Harry Fletcher | 2012 |
| Patience | Voiceover | 2012 |
| The Story of Musicals | Self | 2012 |
| Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching | Richard Wilhelm - English | 2011 |
| City State | Jimmy | 2011 |
| Hysteria | Dr. Robert Dalrymple | 2011 |
| Game of Thrones | High Sparrow | 2011 |
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | U.S. President | 2009 |
| Genius | Self | 2009 |
| Echelon Conspiracy | Mueller | 2009 |
| Bedtime Stories | Marty Bronson | 2008 |
| Clone | Dr. Victor Blenkinsop / Dr Victor Blenkinsop | 2008 |
| My Zinc Bed | Victor Quinn / Victor | 2008 |
| The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen | Horatio Jackson / Self | 2008 |
| Leatherheads | CC Frazier | 2008 |
| Cranford | Mr Buxton | 2007 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Governor Weatherby Swann / Weatherby Swann | 2007 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars | Sherlock Holmes | 2007 |
| The Moon and the Stars | James Clavel / Scarpia | 2007 |
| The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006 |
| Brothers of the Head | Henry Couling | 2006 |
| 50 Films to See Before You Die | Self | 2006 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | Governor Weatherby Swann / Weatherby Swann | 2006 |
| The 60th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 2006 |
| Renaissance | Paul Dellenbach | 2006 |
| The New World | King James | 2005 |
| Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
| The Brothers Grimm | Delatombe | 2005 |
| De-Lovely | Gabe / Gabriel | 2004 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Governor Weatherby Swann / Weatherby Swann | 2003 |
| Imagine | Self / Cary Grant | 2003 |
| What a Girl Wants | Alistair Payne | 2003 |
| Mad Dogs | Supreme Being | 2002 |
| Best Ever Bond | Self / Elliot Carver | 2002 |
| Unconditional Love | Victor Fox | 2002 |
| Taliesin Jones | Da / Tal's Dad | 2002 |
| The Affair of the Necklace | Cardinal Louis de Rohan | 2001 |
| Bride of the Wind | Gustav Mahler | 2001 |
| Very Annie Mary | Jack Pugh | 2001 |
| Deceit | Mark | 2001 |
| A History of Britain | (voice) | 2000 |
| The Suicide Club | Bourne | 2000 |
| Stigmata | Cardinal Daniel Houseman | 1999 |
| The Book That Wrote Itself | Mr. Pryce | 1999 |
| Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death | The Master | 1999 |
| Supernatural Science | Narrator / Self - Narrator | 1999 |
| The Directors | Sam Lowry | 1999 |
| Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh | Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer | 1998 |
| Ronin | Seamus O'Rourke | 1998 |
| Highly Classified: The World of 007 | Self | 1998 |
| Tomorrow Never Dies | Elliot Carver | 1997 |
| The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files | Self | 1997 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | Master Schoenmacker | 1997 |
| Behind the Lines | Capt. William Rivers | 1997 |
| Evita | Juan Perón | 1996 |
| E! True Hollywood Story | Himself | 1996 |
| Carrington | Lytton Strachey | 1995 |
| A Troll in Central Park | Alan (voice) / Alan | 1994 |
| Shopping | Conway | 1994 |
| Great Moments in Aviation | Duncan Stewart | 1994 |
| A Business Affair | Alec Bolton | 1994 |
| Deadly Advice | Dr. Ted Philips | 1994 |
| The Age of Innocence | Rivière | 1993 |
| The 47th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 1993 |
| Barbarians at the Gate | Henry Kravis | 1993 |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | James Lingk | 1992 |
| Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Trilby (voice) / Trilby | 1992 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| A Child's Garden of Verses | Narrator / Father / Father (voice) | 1992 |
| The 45th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Winner & Performer | 1991 |
| The Heat Is On | Self / The Engineer / Self - 'The Engineer' | 1989 |
| The Rachel Papers | Norman | 1989 |
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson | 1988 |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Self | 1988 |
| Consuming Passions | Mr. Farris | 1988 |
| MuppeTelevision | King | 1987 |
| Man on Fire | Michael | 1987 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| The Storyteller | King | 1987 |
| Hotel London | 1987 | |
| HBO Storybook Musicals | (voice) | 1987 |
| Jumpin' Jack Flash | Jack | 1986 |
| Haunted Honeymoon | Charles / Charles Abbot | 1986 |
| What Is Brazil? | Self | 1985 |
| The Doctor and the Devils | Robert Fallon | 1985 |
| Brazil | Sam Lowry | 1985 |
| Screen Two | William Wallace | 1985 |
| Martin Luther, Heretic | Luther / Martin Luther | 1983 |
| The Ploughman's Lunch | James Penfield | 1983 |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Mr. Dark | 1983 |
| Murder Is Easy | Mr. Ellsworthy | 1982 |
| Praying Mantis | Christian Magny | 1982 |
| Timon of Athens | Timon | 1981 |
| Loophole | Taylor | 1981 |
| Breaking Glass | Ken | 1980 |
| CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley | Self | 1979 |
| The South Bank Show | (archive footage) | 1978 |
| Voyage of the Damned | Joseph Manasse | 1976 |
| Bill Brand | Jamie Finn | 1976 |
| Working in the Theatre | Self - Actor / Self | 1976 |
| BBC2 Playhouse | Playleader | 1974 |
| Film '72 | Self | 1971 |
| Great Performances | Narrator | 1971 |
| Scrooge: A Christmas Carol | Jacob Marley | 1970 |
| Play for Today | Tommy / Gethin Price | 1970 |
| Doomwatch | Police Constable | 1970 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2023 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical-Comedy or Drama Television Series | Nominated |
| 2020 | Oscar | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 2020 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |
| 2010 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
| 1994 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 1993 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
