Actor
Jonathan Pryce
- Born: 1 June 1947, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
- Estimated net worth: 3 million USD
Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor known for his versatility in both film and theatre. He gained recognition for roles in films like 'Brazil' and 'The Two Popes.' His career spans decades, marked by a reputation for deep character portrayals and a distinctive…
Jonathan Pryce: best films and shows
About Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor known for his versatility in both film and theatre. He gained recognition for roles in films like 'Brazil' and 'The Two Popes.' His career spans decades, marked by a reputation for deep character portrayals and a distinctive voice. Pryce often excels in dramatic roles but has also showcased his comedic talent.
- Born
- 1 June 1947, Carmarthen, Wales, UK
- Known for
- Acting
- Height
- 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
- Spouses
- Kate Fahy (1974-present)
- Children
- 3 children: Phoebe Pryce, Patrick Pryce, and Simon Pryce
- Parents
- Isaac Pryce and Margaret Pryce
- Estimated net worth
- 3 million USD
Fun facts about Jonathan Pryce
- Jonathan Pryce played the role of Fagin in the West End production of 'Oliver!' and received critical acclaim for his performance.
- He is a passionate advocate for various social and political causes, often using his platform to raise awareness.
Famous Jonathan Pryce quotes
“I am not a number, I am a free man!”
“I will not be a puppet on a string.”
“The Pope is a man of the people.”
Jonathan Pryce: coming up
- Bristol (Movie)10 March 2027
- It's All Going Very Well... (Movie, Harold)13 March 2027
- Elden Ring (Movie)3 March 2028
Credits and dates: TMDB.
Jonathan Pryce filmography
Cast (182)
| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2028 | Elden Ring Movie | Unknown character | |
| 2027 | Bristol Movie | Unknown character | |
| 2026 | Flavia Movie | Dr. Kissing | 5.9 |
| 2026 | Under Salt Marsh TV | Solomon Bevan | 6.6 |
| 2025 | The Thursday Murder Club Movie | Stephen | 6.6 |
| 2025 | The Penguin Lessons Movie | Headmaster Buckle | 7.1 |
| 2025 | William Tell Movie | Attinghausen | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 3 Body Problem TV | Mike Evans | 7.5 |
| 2023 | One Life Movie | Martin Blake | 7.8 |
| 2022 | Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Movie | Jacob Marley (voice) | 6.8 |
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| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Spirit of 1926 Movie | Narrator | |
| 2022 | The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking Movie | Self - Narrator | |
| 2022 | All the Old Knives Movie | Bill Compton | 6.0 |
| 2022 | Soul of the Ocean Movie | Self - Narrator | 2.0 |
| 2022 | The Witness is a Whale Movie | Self - Narrator (voice) | 9.0 |
| 2022 | Slow Horses TV | David Cartwright | 8.0 |
| 2022 | Save the Cinema Movie | Mr. Morgan | 6.2 |
| 2021 | Stories of You and I Movie | Narrator | |
| 2020 | Tales from the Loop TV | Russ | 7.0 |
| 2019 | The Two Popes Movie | Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis | 7.5 |
| 2019 | He Dreams of Giants Movie | Self | 6.5 |
| 2019 | Piney: The Lonesome Pine Movie | Grandpa Sid | 6.5 |
| 2019 | Gone Hollywood Movie | Benny Landau | |
| 2018 | To Provide All People Movie | Retired Neurosurgeon | 8.0 |
| 2018 | The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Movie | Don Quixote | 6.7 |
| 2018 | Run Movie | Dr Amadi | 8.0 |
| 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas Movie | Mr. John Dickens | 6.8 |
| 2017 | The Wife Movie | Joe Castleman | 7.1 |
| 2017 | Becoming Cary Grant Movie | Cary Grant (voice) | 6.6 |
| 2017 | The Healer Movie | Raymond Heacock | 7.1 |
| 2017 | Taboo TV | Stuart Strange | 7.9 |
| 2016 | To Walk Invisible Movie | Patrick Brontë | 7.2 |
| 2016 | The Crown TV | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | 8.2 |
| 2016 | Aberfan: The Green Hollow Movie | Unknown character | 6.3 |
| 2016 | Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance Movie | Special Finale Guest Star | 8.0 |
| 2016 | The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Movie | Shylock | |
| 2016 | The White King Movie | Colonel Fitz | 5.3 |
| 2016 | One Last Dance Movie | John | |
| 2015 | Shylock's Ghost Movie | Self | |
| 2015 | Narcopolis Movie | Sidorov | 4.6 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV | Self | 6.1 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV | Self - Guest | 6.1 |
| 2015 | Documentary Now! TV | Owen Teale-Griffith | 7.2 |
| 2015 | Dough Movie | Nat | 5.8 |
| 2015 | Woman in Gold Movie | Chief Justice Rehnquist | 7.3 |
| 2015 | Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life Movie | Self | 7.4 |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall TV | Cardinal Wolsey | 7.5 |
| 2014 | Sluizer Speaks Movie | Unknown character | |
| 2014 | Listen Up Philip Movie | Ike | 5.8 |
| 2014 | The Salvation Movie | Mayor Nathan Keane | 6.5 |
| 2014 | Under Milk Wood Movie | Mr. Pugh | 6.2 |
| 2014 | The Ghost and the Whale Movie | Whale | 4.6 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers TV | Self - Guest | 5.1 |
| 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation Movie | U.S. President | 5.7 |
| 2012 | King Lear Movie | King Lear | |
| 2012 | Dark Blood Movie | Harry Fletcher | 6.0 |
| 2012 | Patience (After Sebald) Movie | Voiceover | 6.4 |
| 2012 | The Story of Musicals TV | Self | |
| 2011 | Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching Movie | Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice) | 10.0 |
| 2011 | City State Movie | Jimmy | 5.3 |
| 2011 | Hysteria Movie | Dr. Robert Dalrymple | 6.7 |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones TV | High Sparrow | 8.5 |
| 2010 | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Movie | Unknown character | |
| 2009 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Movie | U.S. President | 5.8 |
| 2009 | Echelon Conspiracy Movie | Mueller | 6.1 |
| 2008 | Bedtime Stories Movie | Marty Bronson | 6.2 |
| 2008 | Clone TV | Dr Victor Blenkinsop | 6.5 |
| 2008 | Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began Movie | Ian Fleming (voice) | 7.0 |
| 2008 | My Zinc Bed Movie | Victor | 4.4 |
| 2008 | What Is Brazil? Movie | Self | 6.6 |
| 2008 | The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen Movie | Self / Horatio Jackson | 7.8 |
| 2008 | Leatherheads Movie | CC Frazier | 5.9 |
| 2007 | Cranford TV | Mr. Buxton | 8.1 |
| 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show TV | Self | 4.5 |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Movie | Governor Weatherby Swann | 7.3 |
| 2007 | Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars TV | Sherlock Holmes | |
| 2007 | Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Movie | Sherlock Holmes | 6.8 |
| 2007 | HR Movie | Peter | |
| 2007 | The Moon and the Stars Movie | James Clavel / Scarpia | 5.1 |
| 2006 | Brothers of the Head Movie | Henry Couling | 5.5 |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Movie | Governor Weatherby Swann | 7.4 |
| 2005 | The New World Movie | King James | 6.5 |
| 2005 | The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life Movie | Self | 7.1 |
| 2005 | The Brothers Grimm Movie | Delatombe | 5.9 |
| 2005 | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards Movie | The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage) | 7.2 |
| 2004 | Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane Movie | Self | |
| 2004 | De-Lovely Movie | Gabriel | 6.1 |
| 2003 | David Bowie - Sound and Vision Movie | Narrator | 10.0 |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Movie | Governor Weatherby Swann | 7.8 |
| 2003 | Quest for the Giant Squid Movie | Narrator | |
| 2003 | What a Girl Wants Movie | Alistair Payne | 6.3 |
| 2002 | Mad Dogs Movie | Supreme Being | 4.8 |
| 2002 | Best Ever Bond Movie | Self / Elliot Carver | 5.7 |
| 2002 | Unconditional Love Movie | Victor Fox | 6.0 |
| 2002 | ChalkZone TV | The Quicksand Man (voice) | 7.3 |
| 2002 | Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Movie | Master Schoemacker | 6.5 |
| 2002 | Taliesin Jones Movie | Da | 7.0 |
| 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace Movie | Cardinal Louis de Rohan | 5.6 |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert Movie | King Leopold I of Belgium | 7.6 |
| 2001 | Bride of the Wind Movie | Gustav Mahler | 4.2 |
| 2001 | Very Annie Mary Movie | Jack Pugh | 5.3 |
| 2001 | Deceit Movie | Mark | 5.2 |
| 2000 | Easter Tales TV | The Thief | |
| 2000 | The Suicide Club Movie | Bourne | 6.0 |
| 1999 | Stigmata Movie | Cardinal Daniel Houseman | 6.3 |
| 1999 | Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death Movie | The Master | 7.5 |
| 1999 | Titanic: Answers From The Abyss Movie | Narrator | 6.5 |
| 1998 | Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh Movie | Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer | 6.7 |
| 1998 | Ronin Movie | Seamus O'Rourke | 7.0 |
| 1998 | Highly Classified: The World of 007 Movie | Self | 7.0 |
| 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies Movie | Elliot Carver | 6.4 |
| 1997 | The Secrets of 007 Movie | Self | 7.9 |
| 1997 | Regeneration Movie | Capt. William Rivers | 5.5 |
| 1997 | David TV | Saul | |
| 1997 | David Movie | Saul | 6.6 |
| 1996 | Evita Movie | Juan Perón | 6.0 |
| 1996 | A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita' Movie | Self | 8.0 |
| 1995 | Carrington Movie | Lytton Strachey | 6.2 |
| 1994 | Shopping Movie | Conway | 5.4 |
| 1994 | A Troll in Central Park Movie | Alan (voice) | 5.1 |
| 1994 | Great Moments in Aviation Movie | Duncan Stewart | 4.9 |
| 1994 | Deadly Advice Movie | Dr. Ted Philips | 4.7 |
| 1994 | A Business Affair Movie | Alec Bolton | 4.8 |
| 1993 | The Age of Innocence Movie | Rivière | 7.0 |
| 1993 | Thicker Than Water Movie | Sam | 5.0 |
| 1993 | Selling Hitler Movie | Gerd Heidemann | 8.0 |
| 1993 | Barbarians at the Gate Movie | Henry Kravis | 6.9 |
| 1993 | Mr. Wroe's Virgins TV | John Wroe | 5.6 |
| 1992 | Glengarry Glen Ross Movie | James Lingk | 7.3 |
| 1992 | Freddie As F.R.O.7. Movie | Trilby (voice) | 5.2 |
| 1992 | A Child's Garden of Verses Movie | Narrator / Father (voice) | |
| 1991 | Selling Hitler TV | Gerd Heidemann | 7.0 |
| 1990 | The Man from the Pru Movie | William Wallace | 9.0 |
| 1989 | The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon Movie | Self - 'The Engineer' | 7.5 |
| 1989 | The Rachel Papers Movie | Norman | 5.1 |
| 1988 | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Movie | The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson | 7.0 |
| 1988 | Whose Line Is It Anyway? TV | Himself | 7.7 |
| 1988 | The Storyteller: The Three Ravens Movie | King | |
| 1988 | The Storyteller TV | King | 8.2 |
| 1988 | The World Within Us Movie | Voice | |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions Movie | Mr. Farris | 8.3 |
| 1987 | Man on Fire Movie | Michael | 5.7 |
| 1987 | Tickets for the Titanic TV | Rev Richard Hopkins | 7.0 |
| 1986 | Jumpin' Jack Flash Movie | Jack | 6.1 |
| 1986 | Haunted Honeymoon Movie | Charles Abbot | 5.4 |
| 1985 | The Doctor and the Devils Movie | Robert Fallon | 6.3 |
| 1985 | Brazil Movie | Sam Lowry | 7.7 |
| 1985 | Screen Two TV | William Wallace | 7.1 |
| 1985 | Screen Two TV | Duncan Stewart | 7.1 |
| 1984 | An Audience with Mel Brooks Movie | Self (uncredited) | 7.0 |
| 1983 | Martin Luther, Heretic Movie | Martin Luther | 7.0 |
| 1983 | The Ploughman's Lunch Movie | James Penfield | 4.8 |
| 1983 | Something Wicked This Way Comes Movie | Mr. Dark | 6.5 |
| 1982 | Praying Mantis TV | Christian Magny | |
| 1982 | Murder Is Easy Movie | Mr. Ellsworthy | 6.6 |
| 1982 | Praying Mantis Movie | Christian Magny | 6.2 |
| 1981 | Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore TV | Roger Flower | 6.0 |
| 1981 | Loophole Movie | Taylor | 6.3 |
| 1981 | The Caretaker Movie | Mick | |
| 1981 | Timon of Athens Movie | Timon | 8.5 |
| 1980 | Breaking Glass Movie | Ken | 6.9 |
| 1980 | The Day Christ Died Movie | Herod | 6.3 |
| 1979 | Comedians Movie | Gethin Price | 7.5 |
| 1978 | For Tea on Sunday Movie | Nicholas | |
| 1978 | An Audience with... TV | Self | 5.3 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week TV | Nicholas | 7.0 |
| 1977 | The Sound of Laughter TV | Mr Ambrose | |
| 1976 | Voyage of the Damned Movie | Joseph Manasse | 6.0 |
| 1976 | Bill Brand TV | Jamie Finn | 7.2 |
| 1976 | Play Things Movie | Playleader | |
| 1975 | The Death of a Young Young Man Movie | Tommy | |
| 1974 | Playhouse TV | Playleader | 7.0 |
| 1971 | Film '72 TV | Self | 5.1 |
| 1971 | Great Performances TV | Self - Narrator (voice) | 6.1 |
| 1970 | Doomwatch TV | Police Constable | 6.4 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards TV | Self - Winner | |
| 1956 | Tony Awards TV | Self - Winner / Performer | |
| 1956 | Tony Awards TV | Self - Presenter | |
| 1953 | The Oscars TV | Self | 7.1 |
| TBA | Mavis Eccleston TV | Dennis Eccleston | |
| TBA | Keep Her Quiet Movie | Bernie Porter | |
| TBA | Sleeping Lions Movie | Unknown character |
Latest releases
- Flavia2026 / TMDB 5.9
- The Thursday Murder Club2025 / TMDB 6.6
- The Penguin Lessons2025 / TMDB 7.1
- William Tell2025 / TMDB 6.2
- One Life2023 / TMDB 7.8
- Scrooge: A Christmas Carol2022 / TMDB 6.8
Questions about Jonathan Pryce
What are some of Jonathan Pryce's most famous films?
Jonathan Pryce is well-known for his roles in 'Brazil,' 'The Two Popes,' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.' His performances have earned him critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base.
Has Jonathan Pryce won any major awards?
Jonathan Pryce has received numerous awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for 'The Age of Innocence' and has been nominated for Tony Awards for his stage performances.
What was Jonathan Pryce's first film?
Jonathan Pryce's film debut was in the 1976 film 'The Last Days of Man on Earth,' where he played a supporting role that marked the beginning of his film career.
How did Jonathan Pryce start his acting career?
Jonathan Pryce began his acting career in theatre, performing in various productions before transitioning to film. His stage work laid the foundation for his future success in film and television.
What is Jonathan Pryce's estimated net worth?
Jonathan Pryce's estimated net worth is around 3 million USD, reflecting his successful career in acting across multiple platforms, including film, television, and theatre.
Has Jonathan Pryce ever played a historical figure?
Yes, Jonathan Pryce portrayed Pope Francis in 'The Two Popes,' a role that showcased his ability to bring real-life figures to life with depth and nuance.
What is a defining characteristic of Jonathan Pryce's acting style?
Jonathan Pryce is known for his ability to embody complex characters, often utilizing his distinctive voice and expressive mannerisms to convey deep emotional truths.
What is one of Jonathan Pryce's notable stage performances?
One of Jonathan Pryce's notable stage performances was as Fagin in the West End revival of 'Oliver!' His portrayal was highly praised and highlighted his strong theatrical background.