Acting

Jonathan Pryce

Born June 1, 1947 · Carmel, Flintshire, Wales, UK (age 79)

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 p…

Known For

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · 2003

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

MovieAdventureFantasy

When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack to rescue her—only to uncover a terrifying curse that turns Barbossa’s crew into the undead.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · 2006

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

MovieAdventureFantasy

Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End · 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

MovieAdventureFantasy

After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip on the seas under Lord Cutler Beckett—now in control of Davy Jones—the fate of piracy hangs by a thread. Now, they must unite the pirate lords for one final stand. But as loyalties are tested and alliances shift, each must ultimately choose where they stand in the battle for freedom on the high seas.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

G.I. Joe: Retaliation · 2013

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

MovieActionScience Fiction

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra · 2009

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

MovieAdventureAction

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies · 1997

Tomorrow Never Dies

MovieAdventureAction

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club · 2025

The Thursday Murder Club

MovieComedyMystery

A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.

What a Girl Wants

What a Girl Wants · 2003

What a Girl Wants

MovieFamilyComedy

American Daphne Reynolds heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her boho mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost father is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · 2003

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

MovieAdventureFantasy

When wily pirate Captain Barbossa seizes Jack Sparrow’s beloved ship, the Black Pearl, and kidnaps the governor’s daughter, Elizabeth Swann, blacksmith Will Turner reluctantly teams up with the unpredictable pirate Jack to rescue her—only to uncover a terrifying curse that turns Barbossa’s crew into the undead.

Governor Weatherby Swann

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · 2006

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

MovieAdventureFantasy

Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down the still-beating heart of Jones. But he won’t do it alone: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are drawn back into another one of his perilous quests—assuming they can evade execution for aiding a pirate.

Governor Weatherby Swann

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End · 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

MovieAdventureFantasy

After losing Captain Jack Sparrow to the locker of Davy Jones, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Captain Barbossa journey to the ends of the earth to rescue him. And as the East India Trading Company tightens its grip on the seas under Lord Cutler Beckett—now in control of Davy Jones—the fate of piracy hangs by a thread. Now, they must unite the pirate lords for one final stand. But as loyalties are tested and alliances shift, each must ultimately choose where they stand in the battle for freedom on the high seas.

Governor Weatherby Swann

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

G.I. Joe: Retaliation · 2013

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

MovieActionScience Fiction

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

U.S. President

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra · 2009

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

MovieAdventureAction

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

U.S. President

Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies · 1997

Tomorrow Never Dies

MovieAdventureAction

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.

Elliot Carver

The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club · 2025

The Thursday Murder Club

MovieComedyMystery

A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.

Stephen

What a Girl Wants

What a Girl Wants · 2003

What a Girl Wants

MovieFamilyComedy

American Daphne Reynolds heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her boho mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost father is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

Alistair Payne

The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm · 2005

The Brothers Grimm

MovieAdventureFantasy

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

Delatombe

Brazil

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Sam Lowry

All the Old Knives

All the Old Knives · 2022

All the Old Knives

MovieThrillerMystery

When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.

Bill Compton

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories · 2008

Bedtime Stories

MovieFantasyComedy

Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a bewildered Skeeter manage his own unruly fantasies now that the outrageous characters and situations from his mind have morphed into actual people and events?

Marty Bronson

Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross · 1992

Glengarry Glen Ross

MovieCrimeDrama

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.

James Lingk

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence · 1993

The Age of Innocence

MovieDramaRomance

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

Rivière

One Life

One Life · 2023

MovieHistoryDrama

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the Kindertransport.

Martin Blake

Ronin

MovieActionThriller

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.

Seamus O'Rourke

The Penguin Lessons

The Penguin Lessons · 2025

The Penguin Lessons

In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his compassion for others thanks to an unlikely friendship with a penguin.

Headmaster Buckle

The New World

The New World · 2005

MovieDramaHistory

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

King James

The Two Popes

The Two Popes · 2019

MovieDramaHistory

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis

William Tell

William Tell · 2025

MovieActionAdventure

The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, desiring more land, invades neighbouring Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation. Protagonist William Tell, a formerly peaceful hunter, finds himself forced to take action as his family and homeland come under threat from the oppressive Austrian King and his ruthless warlords.

Attinghausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen · 1988

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

MovieFantasyAdventure

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

The Wife

The Wife · 2017

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Joe Castleman

Echelon Conspiracy

Echelon Conspiracy · 2009

Echelon Conspiracy

MovieActionThriller

Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth - then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.

Mueller

Stigmata

Stigmata · 1999

MovieHorrorThriller

A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.

Cardinal Daniel Houseman

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones · 2011

Game of Thrones

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

High Sparrow

Slow Horses

Slow Horses · 2022

SeriesCrimeDrama

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

David Cartwright

The Crown

The Crown · 2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

William Wallace

3 Body Problem

3 Body Problem · 2024

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

Mike Evans

Playhouse

Playhouse · 1974

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Playleader

Taboo

SeriesDramaMystery

Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.

Stuart Strange

Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall · 2015

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

Cardinal Wolsey

ChalkZone

ChalkZone · 2002

SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure

When anything is erased from a chalkboard, it’s not really gone – it just enters a realm called the Chalkzone. And fifth grader Rudy Tabootie found a way to go there! With a piece of “White Lightning” chalk, he can enter the Chalkzone any time he likes. In the Chalkzone, Rudy befriends Snap, a bold superhero Rudy drew years ago. But Rudy soon discovers not every doodle is friendly.

The Quicksand Man (voice)

Documentary Now!

Documentary Now! · 2015

Documentary Now!

Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.

Owen Teale-Griffith

The Storyteller

The Storyteller · 1988

The Storyteller

SeriesAction & AdventureFamily

The Storyteller, aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.

King

Tales from the Loop

Tales from the Loop · 2020

Tales from the Loop

SeriesDramaMystery

The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.

Russ

Under Salt Marsh

Under Salt Marsh · 2026

Under Salt Marsh

SeriesCrimeMystery

Morfa Halen is a tight-knit Welsh town precariously nestled between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that threatens its very existence. As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to gather far out at sea, former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis discovers the body of her 8-year-old pupil, Cefin, seemingly drowned. The discovery sends shockwaves through the community, reviving the ghost of an unsolved cold case that rocked the town three years prior - the disappearance of Jackie’s niece, Nessa, which cost her career.

Solomon Bevan

Cranford

Cranford · 2007

A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Mr. Buxton

BBC2 Play of the Week

BBC2 Play of the Week · 1977

BBC2 Play of the Week

SeriesDramaComedy

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

Nicholas

Doomwatch

Doomwatch · 1970

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.

Police Constable

Bill Brand · 1976

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.

Jamie Finn

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

Mr. Wroe's Virgins · 1993

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

Prophet John Wroe preaches of the coming Apocalypse and appeals for seven virgins to 'serve' him in his home. This series is their story. Based on the novel by Jane Rogers.

John Wroe

Selling Hitler

Selling Hitler · 1991

SeriesComedyDrama

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a bloodhound reporter for the German magazine Stern, believes he's stumbled onto the greatest literary find of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Shrouded in secrecy, Heidemann and the men of Stern attempt to pull off the greatest scoop in publishing history, blinded by their greed to the fact that the diaries are, in fact, crude forgeries.

Gerd Heidemann

Easter Tales

Easter Tales · 2000

Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. The eight are linked by one unifying and crucial event in their lives: each of them has had an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth in some way — an experience that has left an indelible mark.

The Thief

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars · 2007

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

SeriesMysteryCrime

A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.

Sherlock Holmes

Clone

Clone is a 2008 BBC Three comedy series starring Jonathan Pryce and Mark Gatiss, centred on the creation and education of the world's first human clone. Its first series of six 30-minute episodes premiered on 17 November 2008.

Dr Victor Blenkinsop

David

SeriesDramaMystery

The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: "Now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." (I Samuel, 8:5). And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king, Saul. Saul, however, has incessant doubts about his mission. The influential prophet Samuel turns away from Saul in order to select a new king according to God's will: David. He is still a young boy, tending sheep in the fields, when, secretly Samuel oints him as the next king of the Israelites.

Saul

Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis · 1982

SeriesCrimeDrama

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.

Christian Magny