One of the big screen’s best known and most recognisable faces, Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, will be in Derry later this month to present his documentary feature film during the Foyle Film Festival.
Jeremy Irons.
As part of its education programme, the festival will give schools, students and young people the opportunity to enjoy a series of films, workshops, guest masterclasses and satellite.
This year, under the central theme of “legacy,” the curriculum focused programme will explore how historical events such as the Holocaust, the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and Martin Luther King’s iconic, “I have a dream speech,” have been recorded and remembered.
Running from November 18 to November 29, special guests will include Academy Award winning actor Jeremy Irons, who will present his new environmental documentary feature film, “Trashed,” and take part in a post-screening discussion with students on the legacy of mankind’s destruction of the environment.
Irons, who this week accepted the Lifetime Achievement award at the prestigious Savannah Film Festival, has an impressive impressive career spanning nearly 50 years with his moving grossing in the region of one billion American dollars.
Irons hot to fame in 1981’s “Brideshead Revisited,” the highbrow “Downton Abbey” of its day.
He held his own playing opposite Meryl Streep in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” and opposite himself as malevolent identical-twin gynecologists in “Dead Ringers.”
Irons has won an Oscar (as Claus von Bulow in “Reversal of Fortune”), two Emmys; SAG, Cesar and Tony Awards, and half a dozen Golden Globe nominations, most recently as the elegantly thuggish Pope in Showtime’s “The Borgias.”
He also received rave reviews playing the villain opposite Bruce Willis in the 1995 action thriller, “Die Hard With a Vengeance.”
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