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".
Born: 01 June 1947
Played In
TV Show
Jan 2026
Under Salt Marsh
Solomon Bevan
Movie
Aug 2025
The Thursday Murder Club
Stephen
Movie
Mar 2025
The Penguin Lessons
Headmaster Buckle
Movie
Jan 2025
William Tell
Attinghausen
TV Show
Mar 2024
3 Body Problem
Mike Evans
Movie
Dec 2023
One Life
Martin Blake
Movie
Jan 2023
Soul of the Ocean
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Nov 2022
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Jacob Marley (voice)
Movie
Nov 2022
The Spirit of 1926
Narrator
Movie
May 2022
The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking
Self - Narrator
Movie
Apr 2022
All the Old Knives
Bill Compton
Movie
Apr 2022
The Witness is a Whale
Self - Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Apr 2022
Slow Horses
David Cartwright
Movie
Jan 2022
Save the Cinema
Mr. Morgan
Movie
Jan 2021
Stories of You and I
Narrator
TV Show
Apr 2020
Tales from the Loop
Russ
Movie
Nov 2019
The Two Popes
Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
Movie
Nov 2019
He Dreams of Giants
Himself
Movie
Sep 2019
Piney: The Lonesome Pine
Grandpa Sid
Movie
Jan 2019
Gone Hollywood
Benny Landau
Movie
Aug 2018
The Wife
Joe Castleman
Movie
Jun 2018
To Provide All People
Retired Neurosurgeon
Movie
May 2018
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Don Quixote
Movie
Oct 2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Mr. John Dickens
Movie
May 2017
Becoming Cary Grant
Cary Grant (voice)
Movie
Feb 2017
The Healer
Raymond Heacock
TV Show
Jan 2017
Taboo
Stuart Strange
Movie
Dec 2016
To Walk Invisible
Patrick Brontë
TV Show
Nov 2016
The Crown
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Movie
Oct 2016
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Movie
Sep 2016
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance
Special Finale Guest Star
Movie
Aug 2016
The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Shylock
Movie
Jun 2016
The White King
Colonel Fitz
Movie
Jan 2016
One Last Dance
John
Movie
Oct 2015
Shylock's Ghost
Self
Movie
Sep 2015
Narcopolis
Sidorov
TV Show
Sep 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
TV Show
Aug 2015
Documentary Now!
Owen Teale-Griffith
Movie
Apr 2015
Dough
Nat
Movie
Mar 2015
Woman in Gold
Chief Justice Rehnquist
Movie
Feb 2015
Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
Self
TV Show
Jan 2015
Wolf Hall
Cardinal Wolsey
Movie
Dec 2014
Sluizer Speaks
Movie
Oct 2014
Listen Up Philip
Ike
Movie
Jun 2014
Under Milk Wood
Mr. Pugh
Movie
May 2014
The Salvation
Mayor Nathan Keane
Movie
Mar 2014
The Ghost and the Whale
Whale
TV Show
Feb 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
Movie
Mar 2013
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
U.S. President
Movie
Nov 2012
King Lear
King Lear
Movie
Sep 2012
Dark Blood
Harry Fletcher
Movie
Jan 2012
Patience (After Sebald)
Voiceover
TV Show
Jan 2012
The Story of Musicals
Self
Movie
Nov 2011
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
Movie
Oct 2011
City State
Jimmy
Movie
Jun 2011
Hysteria
Dr. Robert Dalrymple
TV Show
Apr 2011
Game of Thrones
High Sparrow
Movie
Jan 2010
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Movie
Aug 2009
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
U.S. President
Movie
Feb 2009
Echelon Conspiracy
Mueller
Movie
Dec 2008
Bedtime Stories
Marty Bronson
TV Show
Nov 2008
Clone
Dr Victor Blenkinsop
Movie
Oct 2008
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
Ian Fleming (voice)
Movie
Aug 2008
My Zinc Bed
Victor
Movie
Apr 2008
What Is Brazil?
Self
Movie
Apr 2008
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Self / Horatio Jackson
Movie
Mar 2008
Leatherheads
CC Frazier
TV Show
Nov 2007
Cranford
Mr. Buxton
TV Show
Sep 2007
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Self
Movie
May 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Governor Weatherby Swann
Movie
Mar 2007
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Sherlock Holmes
Movie
Feb 2007
The Moon and the Stars
James Clavel / Scarpia
Movie
Jul 2006
Brothers of the Head
Henry Couling
Movie
Jul 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Governor Weatherby Swann
Movie
Dec 2005
The New World
King James
Movie
Dec 2005
The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life
Self
Movie
Aug 2005
The Brothers Grimm
Delatombe
Movie
Aug 2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
Movie
Oct 2004
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
Self
Movie
Jul 2004
De-Lovely
Gabriel
Movie
Dec 2003
An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Self
Movie
Nov 2003
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Narrator
Movie
Jul 2003
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Governor Weatherby Swann
Movie
Jul 2003
Quest for the Giant Squid
Narrator
Movie
Mar 2003
What a Girl Wants
Alistair Payne
Movie
Dec 2002
Mad Dogs
Supreme Being
Movie
Nov 2002
Best Ever Bond
Self / Elliot Carver
Movie
Aug 2002
Unconditional Love
Victor Fox
TV Show
Mar 2002
ChalkZone
The Quicksand Man (voice)
Movie
Mar 2002
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Master Schoemacker
Movie
Feb 2002
Taliesin Jones
Da
Movie
Nov 2001
The Affair of the Necklace
Cardinal Louis de Rohan
Movie
Aug 2001
Victoria & Albert
King Leopold I of Belgium
Movie
Jun 2001
Bride of the Wind
Gustav Mahler
Movie
May 2001
Very Annie Mary
Jack Pugh
Movie
Apr 2001
Deceit
Mark
TV Show
Apr 2000
Easter Tales
The Thief
Movie
Jan 2000
The Suicide Club
Bourne
Movie
Sep 1999
Stigmata
Cardinal Daniel Houseman
Movie
Mar 1999
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
The Master
Movie
Jan 1999
Titanic: Answers From The Abyss
Narrator
Movie
Nov 1998
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
Movie
Sep 1998
Ronin
Seamus O'Rourke
Movie
Jan 1998
Highly Classified: The World of 007
Self
Movie
Dec 1997
Tomorrow Never Dies
Elliot Carver
Movie
Dec 1997
The Secrets of 007
Self
Movie
Aug 1997
Regeneration
Capt. William Rivers
TV Show
Apr 1997
David
Saul
Movie
Mar 1997
David
Saul
TV Show
Mar 1997
Davide
Saul
Movie
Dec 1996
Evita
Juan Perón
Movie
Jun 1996
A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
Self
Movie
May 1995
Carrington
Lytton Strachey
Movie
Dec 1994
Shopping
Conway
Movie
Oct 1994
A Troll in Central Park
Alan (voice)
Movie
May 1994
Great Moments in Aviation
Duncan Stewart
Movie
Apr 1994
Deadly Advice
Dr. Ted Philips
Movie
Mar 1994
A Business Affair
Alec Bolton
Movie
Sep 1993
The Age of Innocence
Rivière
Movie
Jul 1993
Thicker Than Water
Sam
Movie
Apr 1993
Selling Hitler
Gerd Heidemann
Movie
Mar 1993
Barbarians at the Gate
Henry Kravis
TV Show
Feb 1993
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
John Wroe
Movie
Sep 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross
James Lingk
Movie
Aug 1992
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Trilby (voice)
Movie
Apr 1992
A Child's Garden of Verses
Narrator / Father (voice)
TV Show
Jun 1991
Selling Hitler
Gerd Heidemann
Movie
Jun 1990
The Man from the Pru
William Wallace
Movie
Dec 1989
The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
Self - 'The Engineer'
Movie
May 1989
The Rachel Papers
Norman
Movie
Dec 1988
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
TV Show
Sep 1988
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Himself
TV Show
May 1988
The Storyteller
King
Movie
Apr 1988
The World Within Us
Voice
Movie
Apr 1988
Consuming Passions
Mr. Farris
Movie
Sep 1987
Man on Fire
Michael
Movie
Oct 1986
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jack
Movie
Jul 1986
Haunted Honeymoon
Charles Abbot
Movie
Oct 1985
The Doctor and the Devils
Robert Fallon
Movie
Feb 1985
Brazil
Sam Lowry
Movie
Feb 1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Self (uncredited)
Movie
Nov 1983
Martin Luther, Heretic
Martin Luther
Movie
May 1983
The Ploughman's Lunch
James Penfield
Movie
Apr 1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Mr. Dark
TV Show
Nov 1982
Praying Mantis
Christian Magny
Movie
Jan 1982
Murder Is Easy
Mr. Ellsworthy
Movie
Jan 1982
Praying Mantis
Christian Magny
Movie
Jun 1981
Loophole
Taylor
Movie
Jun 1981
The Caretaker
Mick
Movie
Apr 1981
Timon of Athens
Timon
Movie
Oct 1980
Breaking Glass
Ken
Movie
Mar 1980
The Day Christ Died
Herod
Movie
Oct 1979
Comedians
Gethin Price
Movie
Mar 1978
For Tea on Sunday
Nicholas
TV Show
Jan 1978
An Audience with...
Self
TV Show
Sep 1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
Nicholas
Movie
Dec 1976
Voyage of the Damned
Joseph Manasse
TV Show
Jun 1976
Bill Brand
Jamie Finn
Movie
May 1976
Play Things
Playleader
Movie
Jan 1975
The Death of a Young Young Man
Tommy
TV Show
Mar 1974
Playhouse
Playleader
TV Show
Jan 1971
Great Performances
Self - Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Feb 1970
Doomwatch
Police Constable
TV Show
Apr 1956
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
TV Show
Apr 1956
Tony Awards
Self - Winner/Performer
TV Show
Apr 1956
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
TV Show
Mar 1953
The Oscars
Self
Movie
Flavia de Luce
Movie
Sleeping Lions
Movie
Keep Her Quiet
Bernie Porter