Jonathan Pryce

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Sir
Jonathan Pryce
CBE
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Pryce at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Born
John Price

(1947-06-01) 1 June 1947 (age 77)
Carmel, Flintshire, Wales
Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
OccupationActor
Years active1972–present
Spouse
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(m. 2015)​
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Sir Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor who is known for his performances on stage and in film and television. He has received numerous awards, including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards, and a knighthood for services to drama. He has also received nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.

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After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he began his career as a stage actor in the early 1970s. His work in theatre includes an Olivier Award–winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet in 1980 and as The Engineer in the stage musical Miss Saigon in 1990. On the Broadway stage he earned Tony Awards—the first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut role in Comedians (1977), the second for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway transfer of the musical Miss Saigon (1991).

Pryce's theatre work led to several supporting roles in film and television. His breakthrough screen performance was in Terry Gilliam's satirical dystopian black comedy film Brazil (1985). Critically lauded for his versatility, [1] [2] Pryce has appeared in big-budget films including Evita (1996), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003–2007), as well as independent films such as the film adaptation of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Martin Scorsese's period drama The Age of Innocence (1993), Christopher Hampton's Carrington (1995), Terrence Malick's historical film The New World (2005) and the drama The Wife (2017) opposite Glenn Close. In 2019, he earned his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Pope Francis in The Two Popes alongside Anthony Hopkins playing Pope Benedict XVI. [3]

For his work on television, he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performances in Barbarians at the Gate (1993) and Return to Cranford (2010). Pryce has gained acclaim for his roles as Thomas Wolsey in the BBC limited series Wolf Hall (2015), the High Sparrow in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2015–2016) and Sir Stuart Strange in the series Taboo (2017). In 2022, he succeeded Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip in the final two seasons of the award-winning Netflix historical drama series The Crown , gaining nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. [4] [5] [6] Since 2022, he appears as David Cartwright in Slow Horses . [7]

Early life

Pryce was born John Price on 1 June 1947 in Carmel, Flintshire, the son of Margaret Ellen (née Williams) and Isaac Price, a former coal miner who ran a small general grocery shop with his wife. [8] He has two older sisters and was raised a Welsh Presbyterian. [9] He was educated at Holywell Grammar School, [8] and at the age of 16, went to art college before he started training to be a teacher at Edge Hill College (now Edge Hill University) in Ormskirk, Lancashire. [8] While studying, he took part in a college theatre production and applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). [8] Pryce was subsequently awarded a scholarship to RADA, graduating in 1971, with Acting (RADA Diploma). [10]

He joined Equity, and took "Jonathan Pryce" as his stage name because his birth name was too similar to that of a performer already represented by Equity. [8] [11] [12] While at RADA, he worked as a door-to-door salesman of velvet paintings. [13]

Career

1972–1984: Rise to prominence

Despite finding RADA "strait-laced" [12] and being told by his tutor that he could never aspire to do more than playing villains on Z-Cars , [14] Pryce joined the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool upon graduation and eventually became its artistic director. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Nottingham Playhouse. [15] [16] To gain his Equity card, he made his first screen appearance in a minor role in "Fire & Brimstone", a 1972 episode of the science fiction drama series Doomwatch . He then starred in two television films directed by Stephen Frears: Daft as a Brush and Playthings.

After leaving Everyman, Pryce joined Sir Richard Eyre at the Nottingham Playhouse and starred in Trevor Griffiths' play Comedians , in a role specially written for him. The production moved to the Old Vic Theatre in London. Pryce reprised the role on Broadway in 1976, this time directed by Mike Nichols, and for which Pryce won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. It was around this time that he appeared in his first film role, playing the character Joseph Manasse in the drama Voyage of the Damned , starring Faye Dunaway. He did not, however, abandon the stage, appearing from 1978 to 1979 in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio, and Antony and Cleopatra as Octavius Caesar. [17] [18]

In 1980, his performance in the title role of Hamlet at the Royal Court Theatre won him an Olivier Award, and was acclaimed by some critics as the definitive Hamlet of his generation. [19] [20] That year, Pryce had a small but pivotal role as Zarniwoop in the 12th episode of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, one that he reprised for the Quintessential Phase which was broadcast in 2005. In his original role as Zarniwoop, Pryce's character questions the "ruler of the Universe", a solipsist who has been chosen to rule arguably because of either his inherent manipulability, or immunity therefrom, on his philosophical opinions. Around the same time, in 1980, he also appeared in the film Breaking Glass . In 1983, Pryce played the role of the sinister Mr Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes , based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same title. Afterward, he began appearing mostly in films, such as the Ian McEwan-scripted The Ploughman's Lunch , and Martin Luther, Heretic (both also 1983).

1985–2002: Established actor

He achieved a breakthrough with his role as the subdued protagonist Sam Lowry in the Terry Gilliam science fiction dystopian dark comedy, Brazil (1985). [21] After Brazil, Pryce appeared in the historical thriller The Doctor and the Devils (also 1985) and then in the Gene Wilder-directed film Haunted Honeymoon (1986). During this period of his life, Pryce continued to perform on stage, and gained particular notice as the successful but self-doubting writer Trigorin in a London production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in late 1985. [22] From 1986 to 1987 Pryce played the lead part in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth , which also starred Sinéad Cusack as Lady Macbeth. [23] Pryce worked once again with Gilliam in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), playing "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson". The film was a notorious financial fiasco, [24] with production costing more than $40 million, when the original budget was $23.5 million. [25] [26] The following year Pryce appeared in three of the earliest episodes of the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? , alongside Paul Merton and John Sessions, [27] and in Uncle Vanya , again a play by Chekhov, at the Vaudeville Theatre. [28] After a series of major dramatic roles on stage, including Vanya and Macbeth, Pryce decided he wanted to do musicals after seeing his friend Patti LuPone in the original London production of Les Misérables . [29]

He successfully returned to the stage originating the role of The Engineer, a Eurasian pimp, in the West End musical Miss Saigon . His performance was praised in England where he won the Olivier and Variety Club awards, [30] [31] but when the production transferred to Broadway the Actors' Equity Association (AEA) tried to stop Pryce from portraying The Engineer because, according to their executive secretary, "[t]he casting of a Caucasian actor made up to appear Asian is an affront to the Asian community." [32] The London production featured Pryce in yellowface, wearing prosthetics to alter the shape of his eyes and makeup to alter the colour of his skin. [33] The show's producer, Cameron Mackintosh, decided to cancel the $10 million New York production. [34] Realising that its decision would result in the loss of many jobs, and after Pryce received much support from fellow actors (both Charlton Heston and John Malkovich threatened to leave the union if Pryce was not allowed to perform) the AEA decided to make a deal with Mackintosh, allowing Pryce to appear in the production. He won a Tony Award for his performance in 1991. [35] [36] The controversy over Pryce's casting in Miss Saigon provided playwright David Henry Hwang the inspiration for his plays Face Value and Yellow Face . [37]

Made in the same period, Pryce starred in the ITV mini-series Selling Hitler (1991) as Gerd Heidemann. Pryce returned to the London stage the following year to star for one night only at the Royal Festival Hall for an AIDS charity alongside Elaine Paige and Lilliane Montivecchi in the 1992 revival of the Federico Fellini-inspired musical Nine . [38] Pryce featured, alongside Kathy Burke and Minnie Driver, in the BBC serial Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1993), directed by Danny Boyle. Pryce played Henry Kravis in the HBO produced made-for-TV movie Barbarians at the Gate (1993). He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and for a Golden Globe Award for his role. [39] Also during 1993, Pryce starred alongside River Phoenix and Judy Davis in the unfinished film Dark Blood , but production had to be shut down when, 11 days short of completion, Phoenix died from a drug overdose. [40] Director George Sluizer, who owns the rights to what has been filmed, has made available some of the raw material, which features Pryce and Phoenix on a field in Utah, on his personal website. [41] Between 1993 and 1997, Pryce, on a multimillion-dollar contract became the spokesman for the Infiniti automobile marque in a series of American television commercials, in particular for the Infiniti J30 and Infiniti Q45. In one of these advertisements Pryce appeared alongside jazz singer Nancy Wilson in a Prague nightclub. [42] In 1994, Pryce portrayed Fagin in a revival of the musical Oliver! , [43] and starred alongside Emma Thompson in the film Carrington (1995), which centres on a platonic relationship between gay writer Lytton Strachey and painter Dora Carrington. For his portrayal of Strachey, Pryce received the Best Actor Award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. [44]

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Pryce in October 2007

During the early 2000s Pryce starred and participated in a variety of movies, such as The Affair of the Necklace (2001), and Unconditional Love (2002). While the success of some of these films was variable, the 2001 London stage production of My Fair Lady and his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins was acclaimed by observers. [45] Martine McCutcheon, who portrayed Eliza Doolittle, was sick during much of the show's run. McCutcheon was replaced by her understudy Alexandra Jay, who would also fall sick hours before a performance, forcing her understudy, Kerry Ellis, to take the lead. On her first night, Pryce introduced Ellis to the audience before the show by saying "This will be your first Eliza, my second today and my third this week. Any member of the audience interested in playing Eliza can find applications at the door. Wednesday and Saturday matinee available." [46] Pryce performed with four Elizas during the course of 14 months. The show was nominated for four Laurence Olivier Awards on 2001: Best Actress in a Musical for Martine McCutcheon, Outstanding Musical Production, Best Theatre Choreographer and Best Actor in a Musical for Pryce. Pryce lost to Philip Quast, and McCutcheon won in her category.

2003–2013: Theatre and franchise roles

In April 2003 Pryce returned to the non-musical stage with A Reckoning, written by American dramatist Wesley Moore. The play co-starred Flora Montgomery and after premiering at the Soho Theatre in London was described by The Daily Telegraph as "one of the most powerful and provocative new American plays to have opened since David Mamet's Oleanna ." [47] Pryce had a role in live-action Disney Studios action-adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), in which he portrayed a fictional Governor of Jamaica, Weatherby Swann, a film he has described as "one of those why-not movies." [28] Pryce portrayed Governor Weatherby Swann the father of Elizabeth Swan portrayed by Keira Knightley. He reprised the role of Governor Weatherby Swann for the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). Both were filmed at the same time but released a year apart. [48]

After Pirates, Pryce appeared in several large-scale motion pictures, such as the romantic teen comedy What a Girl Wants (2003), and De-Lovely (2004), his second musical film, a chronicle of the life of songwriter Cole Porter, for which Kevin Kline and Pryce covered a Porter song called "Blow, Gabriel, Blow". The Brothers Grimm (2005), Pryce's third completed film with Terry Gilliam, starred Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, and The New World (2005), in which he had a cameo role as King James I. In 2005, Pryce was nominated for another Olivier Award in the best actor category for his role in the 2004 London production of The Goat or Who is Sylvia? , where he played Martin, a goat-lover who has to face the recriminations of his cheated-on wife, played by his real-life wife Kate Fahy. Pryce's performance was highly praised, but he lost the Olivier to Richard Griffiths. [49] [50] [51]

Pryce lent his voice to the French animated film, Renaissance (2006), which he stated he wanted to do because he had never "done anything quite like it before." [52] Pryce returned to the Broadway stage replacing John Lithgow, from January to July 2006, as Lawrence Jameson in the musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels . [53] During early 2007, the BBC serial Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars was first broadcast with Pryce in the lead. [15] From September 2007 through June 2008, he returned to the theatre portraying Shelly Levene in a new West End production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at the Apollo Theatre, London. [54] Pryce also appeared as part of an ensemble cast in the 2008 real-time strategy video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 , playing the role of Marshall Robert Bingham [55] alongside Tim Curry, J.K. Simmons, George Takei and several other veteran actors. [56]

2015–present: Resurgence and acclaim

Pryce with Adam Driver, Stellan Skarsgard, and Terry Gilliam at premiere of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2018 33.jpg
Pryce with Adam Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, and Terry Gilliam at premiere of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

In 2015, he joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 5 as the High Sparrow. [57] Pryce admitted that one of the main reasons he took on the role was because of how influential the character is plot-wise. While initially being quite sceptical about "sword and sorcery" shows, Pryce later had a change of heart after his positive experiences on the Thrones sets. [58] In 2015, he also appeared at The Globe Theatre as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice . His real life daughter Phoebe played Shylock's daughter Jessica. In 2015, he joined the cast of The Healer starring with Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Camilla Luddington, and Jorge Garcia. [59] In 2018 he portrayed Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote starring Adam Driver.

In 2018, Pryce starred alongside Dame Eileen Atkins in Florian Zeller's play, The Height of the Storm at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End to rapturous reviews. The play was named best play of the year by The Guardian . [60] The play was transferred to Broadway stage where it ran from September to November 2019 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club with Pryce and Atkins reprising their performances. The play and the performances received a strong reception from New York critics. Marilyn Stasio of Variety praised the leading actors describing Pryce's performance as an elderly man struggling with early forms of dementia as "achingly sensitive", and like "quicksilver". [61]

Late that same year, Pryce portrayed Pope Francis, opposite Anthony Hopkins playing Pope Benedict XVI, in the acclaimed Netflix film The Two Popes , directed by Fernando Meirelles, which was released that winter on Netflix. Meirelles cast him for his striking resemblance to the real Pope Francis. The film and their performances received critical acclaim, with Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter praising their chemistry, writing in particular of Pryce, "[He] goes head-to-head against Hopkins and matches him in subtlety as well as charismatic force." [62] He received his first ever Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the film. [63] In August 2020, it was announced that Pryce would portray Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the final two seasons of Netflix's The Crown . [64] His performance in the fifth season earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series – Comedy/Musical or Drama. [65]

Personal life

Pryce has been married twice. While working at the Everyman Theatre in 1972, Pryce met actress Kate Fahy; after a decades-long relationship, they married in 2015. They live in London and have three children. [66] Pryce was raised in the Presbyterian Church of Wales [9] but is no longer religious. [67]

In 2006, Pryce was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liverpool. [68] He is a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama [69] and a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). [70] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours. [71]

Pryce was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity. [72] [73]

Acting credits

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1976 Voyage of the Damned Joseph Manasse
1980 Breaking Glass Ken
1981 Loophole Taylor
1983 Something Wicked this Way Comes Mr. Dark
The Ploughman's Lunch James Penfield
1985 Brazil Sam Lowry
The Doctor and the Devils Robert Fallon
1986 Haunted Honeymoon Charles Abbot
Jumpin' Jack Flash Jack
1987 Man on Fire Michael
1988 Consuming Passions Mr Farris
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
1989 The Rachel Papers Norman
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross James Lingk
Freddie as F.R.O.7 TrilbyVoice
1993 Dark Blood Harry
The Age of Innocence Rivière
1994 A Business Affair Alec Bolton
A Troll in Central Park AlanVoice
Deadly Advice Dr. Ted Philips
Great Moments in Aviation Duncan Stewart
Shopping Conway
1995 Carrington Lytton Strachey
1996 Evita Colonel Juan Perón
1997 Regeneration Dr. William Rivers AKA Behind the Lines
Tomorrow Never Dies Elliot Carver
1998 Ronin Seamus O'Rourke
1999 Stigmata Cardinal Houseman
Deceit Mark
2001 Very Annie Mary Jack Pugh
Bride of the Wind Gustav Mahler
The Affair of the Necklace Cardinal Louis de Rohan
2002 Unconditional Love Victor Fox
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Governor Weatherby Swann
What a Girl Wants Alistair Payne
2004 De-Lovely Gabriel
2005 The Brothers Grimm General Vavarin Delatombe
The New World King James
Brothers of the Head Henry Couling
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Governor Weatherby Swann
Renaissance Paul DellenbacVoice; English dub
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Governor Weatherby Swann
2008 Leatherheads CC Frazier
Bedtime Stories Martin "Marty" Bronson
2009 Echelon Conspiracy Mueller
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra President of the United States
2011 Hysteria Dr. Robert Dalrymple
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation President of the United States/Zartan
2014 Listen Up Philip Ike Zimmerman
The Salvation Mayor Keane
2015 Woman in Gold Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Narcopolis Yuri Sidorov
Dough Nat
2016 The White King Colonel Fitz
2017 The Ghost and the Whale Whale
The Healer Raymond Heacock
The Wife Joe Castleman
The Man Who Invented Christmas John Dickens
2018 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Don Quixote
2019 The Two Popes Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio
2022 Save the Cinema Mr Morgan
All the Old Knives Bill Compton
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Jacob Marley Voice
2023 One Life Martin Blake
2024 William Tell TBA
The Penguin Lessons TBA
TBA The Thursday Murder Club TBAPost-production
Flavia TBAFilming
Note: The source for Pryce's filmography is taken from the British Film Institute. [74]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1972 Doomwatch Police Constable1 episode
1975–1979 Play for Today Gethin Price / Tommy2 episodes
1976 BBC2 Playhouse Playleader1 episode
1976 Bill Brand Jamie Finn1 episode
1977 Chalk and Cheese Dave Finn1 episode
1978Play of the WeekNicholas1 episode
1980 The Day Christ Died Herod Antipas Television film
1980 Spine Chillers Reader5 episodes
1982 Murder Is Easy Mr. EllsworthyTelevision film
1982Praying MantisChristian MagnyTelevision film
1983 Martin Luther, Heretic Martin Luther Television film
1988 Tickets for the Titanic Rev Richard Hopkins1 episode
1988 The Storyteller King1 episode
1988–1989 Whose Line Is It Anyway? Himself6 episodes
1990 Screen Two William Wallace1 episode
1990 The Jim Henson Hour King1 episode
1991 Selling Hitler Gerd Heidemann Miniseries, 5 episodes
1993Mr. Wroe's Virgins John Wroe Miniseries, 4 episodes
1993 Barbarians at the Gate Henry Kravis Television film
1993 Thicker than Water SamTelevision film
1997 David Saul Television film
1999 The Curse of Fatal Death The Master Television short
2001 Victoria & Albert King Leopold I of Belgium Miniseries, 2 episodes
2002 The Wonderful World of Disney Master Schoenmacker1 episode
2007 Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes Television film
2008 My Zinc Bed Victor QuinnTelevision film
2008 Clone Dr. Victor BlenkinsopMain role, 6 episodes
2009 Return to Cranford Mr. Buxton2 episodes
2014 Under Milk Wood Mr. PughTelevision film
2015 Wolf Hall Cardinal Wolsey Miniseries, 4 episodes
2015–2016 Game of Thrones The High Sparrow Main role, 12 episodes
2016 To Walk Invisible Patrick Brontë Television film
2017 Taboo Sir Stuart StrangeMain role, 8 episodes
2018 Imagine Cary Grant (voice)1 episode
2020 Tales from the Loop Russ4 episodes
2022–2024 Slow Horses David CartwrightGuest role (seasons 1-3), main role (season 4)
2022 Documentary Now! Owen Teale-Griffith1 episode
2022–2023 The Crown Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Main role (Seasons 5–6)
2024 3 Body Problem Mike Evans5 episodes
2024 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Cardinal WolseyMiniseries
TBA Under Salt Marsh TBAUpcoming TV series
Note The source for Pryce's television appearances comes from the British Film Institute. [74]

Theatre

YearTitleRoleVenue
1976 Comedians Gethin Price Music Box Theatre, Broadway
1977 Accidental Death of an Anarchist The Fool Belasco Theatre, Broadway
1978–79 Measure for Measure Angelo Royal Shakespeare Theatre, UK
1986–87 Macbeth Macbeth
1989–91 Miss Saigon The Engineer Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Broadway Theatre, Broadway
1992 Nine Guido Contini Royal Festival Hall, London
1993 Cabaret The EmceeStudio cast recording
1994–95 Oliver! Fagin The London Palladium, London
2001 My Fair Lady Henry Higgins Royal National Theatre and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
2004 The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? Martin Almeida Theatre, London [75]
2005–06 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Lawrence Jameson Imperial Theatre, Broadway
2007–08 Glengarry Glen Ross Shelley Levene Apollo Theatre, London
2009DimetosDimetos Donmar Warehouse, London
2010 The Caretaker Davies Trafalgar Studios, London
2012 King Lear Lear Almeida Theatre, London
2013 My Fair Lady Henry Higgins Kennedy Center
2016 The Merchant of Venice Shylock Shakespeare's Globe, UK
2018–19 The Height of the Storm André Wyndham's Theatre, London
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Field Marshall Robert Bingham [55]

Awards and honours

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