Jonathan Pryce

Actor Jun 1 (age 78) Carmel, Flintshire, Wales, UK 1953–2026 (73 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Game of Thrones

High Sparrow

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Governor Weatherby Swann

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Governor Weatherby Swann

Film

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Governor Weatherby Swann

Film

The Crown

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Film

Brazil

Sam Lowry

Film

The Two Popes

Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis

Film

Taboo

Stuart Strange

Filmography

Acting (171)

Movies (137)

Flavia

2026 Upcoming

Apr 4

The Thursday Murder Club

as Stephen

William Tell

as Attinghausen

The Penguin Lessons

as Headmaster Buckle

One Life

as Martin Blake

Soul of the Ocean

as Narrator (voice)

All the Old Knives

as Bill Compton

The Witness is a Whale

2022

as Self - Narrator (voice)

9.0

Save the Cinema

2022

as Mr. Morgan

6.2

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

2022

as Jacob Marley (voice)

6.8

The Spirit of 1926

2022

as Narrator

The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking

2022

as Self - Narrator

Stories of You and I

2021

as Narrator

He Dreams of Giants

2019

as Himself

6.5

The Two Popes

2019

as Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis

7.5

Gone Hollywood

2019

as Benny Landau

Piney: The Lonesome Pine

as Grandpa Sid

The Wife

as Joe Castleman

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

2018

as Don Quixote

6.7

To Provide All People

2018

as Retired Neurosurgeon

6.0

The Man Who Invented Christmas

as Mr. John Dickens

The Healer

as Raymond Heacock

Becoming Cary Grant

as Cary Grant (voice)

6.6

The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2016

as Shylock

To Walk Invisible

2016

as Patrick Brontë

7.2

Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance

2016

as Special Finale Guest Star

7.9

The White King

2016

as Colonel Fitz

5.3

Aberfan: The Green Hollow

2016

6.3

One Last Dance

2016

as John

Narcopolis

2015

as Sidorov

4.6

Woman in Gold

2015

as Chief Justice Rehnquist

7.3

Dough

2015

as Nat

5.8

Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life

2015

as Self

7.4

Shylock's Ghost

2015

as Self

The Salvation

2014

as Mayor Nathan Keane

6.5

The Ghost and the Whale

as Whale

Sluizer Speaks

Listen Up Philip

as Ike

Under Milk Wood

as Mr. Pugh

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

2013

as U.S. President

5.7

King Lear

2012

as King Lear

Dark Blood

2012

as Harry Fletcher

5.8

Patience (After Sebald)

2012

as Voiceover

6.4

Hysteria

2011

as Dr. Robert Dalrymple

6.7

City State

2011

as Jimmy

5.2

Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching

2011

as Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)

10.0

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

2010

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

as U.S. President

Echelon Conspiracy

as Mueller

Bedtime Stories

as Marty Bronson

Leatherheads

as CC Frazier

Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began

2008

as Ian Fleming (voice)

7.0

My Zinc Bed

2008

as Victor

4.4

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen

2008

as Self / Horatio Jackson

7.8

What Is Brazil?

2008

as Self

6.4

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

2007

as Governor Weatherby Swann

7.3

The Moon and the Stars

2007

as James Clavel / Scarpia

4.5

Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars

2007

as Sherlock Holmes

6.8

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

2006

as Governor Weatherby Swann

Brothers of the Head

as Henry Couling

The Brothers Grimm

as Delatombe

The New World

as King James

The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life

2005

as Self

7.1

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

as The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)

7.2

De-Lovely

2004

as Gabriel

6.1

Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane

2004

as Self

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

2003

as Governor Weatherby Swann

7.8

What a Girl Wants

2003

as Alistair Payne

6.3

David Bowie - Sound and Vision

2003

as Narrator

10.0

Quest for the Giant Squid

2003

as Narrator

An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

as Self

Unconditional Love

as Victor Fox

Taliesin Jones

as Da

Best Ever Bond

as Self / Elliot Carver

5.0

Mad Dogs

2002

as Supreme Being

4.3

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

2002

as Master Schoemacker

6.3

Deceit

2001

as Mark

3.7

The Affair of the Necklace

2001

as Cardinal Louis de Rohan

Very Annie Mary

as Jack Pugh

Victoria & Albert

as King Leopold I of Belgium

Bride of the Wind

as Gustav Mahler

The Suicide Club

as Bourne

Stigmata

as Cardinal Daniel Houseman

6.3

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

1999

as The Master

7.4

Titanic: Answers From The Abyss

as Narrator

Ronin

as Seamus O'Rourke

Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh

1998

as Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer

2.0

Highly Classified: The World of 007

Tomorrow Never Dies

as Elliot Carver

Regeneration

as Capt. William Rivers

David

as Saul

The Secrets of 007

as Self

Evita

as Juan Perón

A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'

1996

as Self

Carrington

1995

as Lytton Strachey

6.1

A Troll in Central Park

as Alan (voice)

Shopping

as Conway

A Business Affair

as Alec Bolton

Deadly Advice

as Dr. Ted Philips

Great Moments in Aviation

as Duncan Stewart

The Age of Innocence

as Rivière

Barbarians at the Gate

as Henry Kravis

Thicker Than Water

as Sam

Selling Hitler

as Gerd Heidemann

Glengarry Glen Ross

as James Lingk

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

as Trilby (voice)

A Child's Garden of Verses

1992

as Narrator / Father (voice)

The Man from the Pru

1990

as William Wallace

The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon

1989

as Self - 'The Engineer'

7.2

The Rachel Papers

1989

as Norman

5.0

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

1988

as The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson

Consuming Passions

as Mr. Farris

The World Within Us

as Voice

Man on Fire

as Michael

Haunted Honeymoon

as Charles Abbot

Jumpin' Jack Flash

as Jack

Brazil

as Sam Lowry

The Doctor and the Devils

1985

as Robert Fallon

6.2

An Audience with Mel Brooks

1984

as Self (uncredited)

6.5

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983

as Mr. Dark

6.4

Martin Luther, Heretic

1983

as Martin Luther

The Ploughman's Lunch

as James Penfield

Murder Is Easy

as Mr. Ellsworthy

Praying Mantis

as Christian Magny

Timon of Athens

as Timon

The Caretaker

as Mick

Loophole

as Taylor

The Day Christ Died

as Herod

Breaking Glass

as Ken

Comedians

as Gethin Price

For Tea on Sunday

as Nicholas

Voyage of the Damned

1976

as Joseph Manasse

6.0

Play Things

1976

as Playleader

The Death of a Young Young Man

1975

as Tommy

Une autre histoire

Keep Her Quiet

Sleeping Lions

Television (34)

Under Salt Marsh

as Solomon Bevan

3 Body Problem

as Mike Evans

Slow Horses

as David Cartwright

Slow Horses

as David Cartwright

Tales from the Loop

as Russ

Taboo

as Stuart Strange

The Crown

as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

8.2

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

as Self

6.2

Documentary Now!

2015

as Owen Teale-Griffith

7.0

Wolf Hall

2015

as Cardinal Wolsey

7.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self - Guest

5.2

The Story of Musicals

2012

as Self

Game of Thrones

as High Sparrow

Game of Thrones

as High Sparrow

Clone

as Dr Victor Blenkinsop

6.5

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

Cranford

as Mr. Buxton

ChalkZone

as The Quicksand Man (voice)

7.5

Easter Tales

2000

as The Thief

Davide

1997

as Saul

David

1997

as Saul

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

as John Wroe

Selling Hitler

as Gerd Heidemann

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

as Himself

The Storyteller

as King

Praying Mantis

as Christian Magny

An Audience with...

1978

as Self

5.3

BBC2 Play of the Week

as Nicholas

Bill Brand

as Jamie Finn

Playhouse

as Playleader

Great Performances

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Doomwatch

as Police Constable

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

The Oscars

as Self