Jonathan pryce imdb
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Jonathan Pryce is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning actor of the stage and screen. He is best known for Brazil, Glengarry Glen Ross,Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The Pirates of the Caribbean series, as well as his widely recognised performances as High Sparrow in HBO’s Game of Thrones and Cardinal Wolsey in BBC’s Wolf Hall. On stage, Jonathan starred in: Comedians in London and on Broadway, for which he received a Tony Award; Hamlet, for which he received an Olivier Award; and in the original West End and Broadway productions of Miss Saigon, for which he received both the Olivier and Tony Awards. Jonathan received further Olivier nominations for his performances in West End’s Oliver and My Fair Lady, and received widespread critical acclaim for his performance as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice which originated at The Globe and toured to America, China and Venice. Other standout performances include leading roles in&nbs
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Jonathan Pryce
Welsh actor (born 1947)
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, four Primetime Emmy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.
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
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Once described by a fellow actor as "like being on stage with a killer shark", the reticent Jonathan Pryce has been equally at home on stage and screen in a distinguished career that has encompassed everything from Shakespeare and fantasy to musicals and Bond villains.
orn in Holywell, North Wales to a miner turned grocer (Pryce drove the family van during school holidays), he enrolled on the teacher training course in art at Eden Hill College in Ormskirk. For his subsidiary subject he chose drama "because it was the easiest". Encouraged by a drama teacher, he won a scholarship to RADA, where he was informed that he'd only ever play villains on Z Cars (BBC, 1962-1978). Ironically, his first television appearance was as a policeman in Doomwatch (BBC, 1970-72).
During the early part of his career, he honed his craft at the Liverpool Everyman and the Nottingham Playhouse. His vibrant portrayal of skinhead comic Gethin Price in the Playhouse production of Trevor Griffiths' The Comedians, transferred to Broadway and won him a Best Actor Tony award and compelled one audience
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