Jonathan Pryce
Acting • Born 1947-06-01
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 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".
Filmography
168 credits
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Movie • 2003
Governor Weatherby Swann
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Movie • 2006
Governor Weatherby Swann
Brazil
Movie • 1985
Sam Lowry
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Movie • 2007
Governor Weatherby Swann
Tomorrow Never Dies
Movie • 1997
Elliot Carver
Bedtime Stories
Movie • 2008
Marty Bronson
Stigmata
Movie • 1999
Cardinal Daniel Houseman
David
Movie • 1997
Saul
What a Girl Wants
Movie • 2003
Alistair Payne
The Age of Innocence
Movie • 1993
Rivière
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Movie • 1986
Jack
The Brothers Grimm
Movie • 2005
Delatombe
Leatherheads
Movie • 2008
CC Frazier
Soul of the Ocean
Movie • 2023
Narrator (voice)
Haunted Honeymoon
Movie • 1986
Charles Abbot
Ronin
Movie • 1998
Seamus O'Rourke
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Movie • 1983
Mr. Dark
Evita
Movie • 1996
Juan Perón
Glengarry Glen Ross
Movie • 1992
James Lingk
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Movie • 2010
Breaking Glass
Movie • 1980
Ken
Barbarians at the Gate
Movie • 1993
Henry Kravis
A Troll in Central Park
Movie • 1994
Alan (voice)
Taliesin Jones
Movie • 2002
Da
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Movie • 1988
The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
The Rachel Papers
Movie • 1989
Norman
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Movie • 2009
U.S. President
De-Lovely
Movie • 2004
Gabriel
Very Annie Mary
Movie • 2001
Jack Pugh
Echelon Conspiracy
Movie • 2009
Mueller
City State
Movie • 2011
Jimmy
The Moon and the Stars
Movie • 2007
James Clavel / Scarpia
Carrington
Movie • 1995
Lytton Strachey
Regeneration
Movie • 1997
Capt. William Rivers
The Affair of the Necklace
Movie • 2001
Cardinal Louis de Rohan
The Doctor and the Devils
Movie • 1985
Robert Fallon
A Business Affair
Movie • 1994
Alec Bolton
Flavia
Movie • 2026
Dr. Kissing
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie • 2005
The Engineer (segment "Miss Saigon") (archive footage)
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Movie • 2013
U.S. President
Voyage of the Damned
Movie • 1976
Joseph Manasse
Hysteria
Movie • 2011
Dr. Robert Dalrymple
Bride of the Wind
Movie • 2001
Gustav Mahler
My Zinc Bed
Movie • 2008
Victor
Patience (After Sebald)
Movie • 2012
Voiceover
Loophole
Movie • 1981
Taylor
Great Moments in Aviation
Movie • 1994
Duncan Stewart
Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Movie • 1992
Trilby (voice)
Quest for the Giant Squid
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
Movie • 2004
Self
The Ploughman's Lunch
Movie • 1983
James Penfield
Titanic: Answers From The Abyss
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Consuming Passions
Movie • 1988
Mr. Farris
The Man from the Pru
Movie • 1990
William Wallace
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Movie • 1998
Professor Henry Higgins / The Engineer
The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon
Movie • 1989
Self - 'The Engineer'
Listen Up Philip
Movie • 2014
Ike
Deadly Advice
Movie • 1994
Dr. Ted Philips
The Suicide Club
Movie • 2000
Bourne
The Witness is a Whale
Movie • 2022
Self - Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Movie • 1999
The Master
William Tell
Movie • 2025
Attinghausen
Man on Fire
Movie • 1987
Michael
Under Milk Wood
Movie • 2014
Mr. Pugh
Selling Hitler
Movie • 1993
Gerd Heidemann
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Movie • 2022
Jacob Marley (voice)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars
Movie • 2007
Sherlock Holmes
The Salvation
Movie • 2014
Mayor Nathan Keane
The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking
Movie • 2022
Self - Narrator
One Life
Movie • 2023
Martin Blake
Dough
Movie • 2015
Nat
The Penguin Lessons
Movie • 2025
Headmaster Buckle
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Movie • 2002
Master Schoemacker
Comedians
Movie • 1979
Gethin Price
Mad Dogs
Movie • 2002
Supreme Being
Narcopolis
Movie • 2015
Sidorov
Brothers of the Head
Movie • 2006
Henry Couling
A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
Movie • 1996
Self
The Healer
Movie • 2017
Raymond Heacock
The Wife
Movie • 2017
Joe Castleman
King Lear
Movie • 2012
King Lear
Best Ever Bond
Movie • 2002
Self / Elliot Carver
Thicker Than Water
Movie • 1993
Sam
The White King
Movie • 2016
Colonel Fitz
What Is Brazil?
Movie • 2008
Self
Shylock's Ghost
Movie • 2015
Self
Woman in Gold
Movie • 2015
Chief Justice Rehnquist
Timon of Athens
Movie • 1981
Timon
The Thursday Murder Club
Movie • 2025
Stephen
Shopping
Movie • 1994
Conway
Praying Mantis
Movie • 1982
Christian Magny
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
Movie • 2016
Sluizer Speaks
Movie • 2014
To Walk Invisible
Movie • 2016
Patrick Brontë
Murder Is Easy
Movie • 1982
Mr. Ellsworthy
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Movie • 2017
Mr. John Dickens
Becoming Cary Grant
Movie • 2017
Cary Grant (voice)
Martin Luther, Heretic
Movie • 1983
Martin Luther
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance
Movie • 2016
Special Finale Guest Star
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Movie • 1984
Self (uncredited)
The Day Christ Died
Movie • 1980
Herod
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Movie • 2018
Don Quixote
To Provide All People
Movie • 2018
Retired Neurosurgeon
The Two Popes
Movie • 2019
Jorge Bergoglio / Pope Francis
The Caretaker
Movie • 1981
Mick
Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began
Movie • 2008
Ian Fleming (voice)
Unconditional Love
Movie • 2002
Victor Fox
David Bowie - Sound and Vision
Movie • 2003
Narrator
He Dreams of Giants
Movie • 2019
Himself
The Ghost and the Whale
Movie • 2014
Whale
The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life
Movie • 2005
Self
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Movie • 2008
Self / Horatio Jackson
A Child's Garden of Verses
Movie • 1992
Narrator / Father (voice)
The Death of a Young Young Man
Movie • 1975
Tommy
Deceit
Movie • 2001
Mark
All the Old Knives
Movie • 2022
Bill Compton
Piney: The Lonesome Pine
Movie • 2019
Grandpa Sid
Highly Classified: The World of 007
Movie • 1998
Self
The Secrets of 007
Movie • 1997
Self
Save the Cinema
Movie • 2022
Mr. Morgan
The New World
Movie • 2005
King James
The Merchant of Venice - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Movie • 2016
Shylock
Dark Blood
Movie • 2012
Harry Fletcher
Stories of You and I
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Play Things
Movie • 1976
Playleader
Wisdom of Changes - Richard Wilhelm and the I Ching
Movie • 2011
Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce Richard Wilhelm - English(voice)
For Tea on Sunday
Movie • 1978
Nicholas
Victoria & Albert
Movie • 2001
King Leopold I of Belgium
Game of Thrones: A Day in the Life
Movie • 2015
Self
The World Within Us
Movie • 1988
Voice
Sleeping Lions
Movie
The Spirit of 1926
Movie • 2022
Narrator
Gone Hollywood
Movie • 2019
Benny Landau
One Last Dance
Movie • 2016
John
Keep Her Quiet
Movie
Bernie Porter
World of Westeros Ambient Video
Movie • 2025
High Sparrow
Une autre histoire
Movie
Doomwatch
TV • 1970
Police Constable
The Storyteller
TV • 1988
King
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
TV • 2007
Self
Clone
TV • 2008
Dr Victor Blenkinsop
The Crown
TV • 2016
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Taboo
TV • 2017
Stuart Strange
Cranford
TV • 2007
Mr. Buxton
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
High Sparrow
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
Documentary Now!
TV • 2015
Owen Teale-Griffith
Bill Brand
TV • 1976
Jamie Finn
ChalkZone
TV • 2002
The Quicksand Man (voice)
Mr. Wroe's Virgins
TV • 1993
John Wroe
3 Body Problem
TV • 2024
Mike Evans
Praying Mantis
TV • 1982
Christian Magny
Selling Hitler
TV • 1991
Gerd Heidemann
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Tales from the Loop
TV • 2020
Russ
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
TV • 1988
Himself
Wolf Hall
TV • 2015
Cardinal Wolsey
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Under Salt Marsh
TV • 2026
Solomon Bevan
Slow Horses
TV • 2022
David Cartwright
David
TV • 1997
Saul
Davide
TV • 1997
Saul
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Playleader
BBC2 Play of the Week
TV • 1977
Nicholas
The Story of Musicals
TV • 2012
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self - Narrator (voice)
Easter Tales
TV • 2000
The Thief