"I'm not a star, I'm an actor — there's a difference!"
Sir Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born John Price; 1 June 1947 in Carmel, Wales) is a Welsh actor and singer.
He made his breakthrough screen performance in the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's book Something Wicked This Way Comes in 1983, and since then has become known as a respected and talented performer on both screen and stage. After Terry Gilliam's Brazil, he became a regular of Gilliam's filmography.
Film Roles
- 1981 Timon of Athens as Timon
- 1983 Something Wicked This Way Comes as Mr. Dark
- 1985 Brazil as Sam Lowry
- 1986 Haunted Honeymoon as Charles
- 1986 Jumpin' Jack Flash as Jack
- 1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson
- 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross as James Lingk
- 1994 Deadly Advice as Dr. Ted Philips
- 1994 Shopping as Conway
- 1994 A Troll in Central Park as Alan
- 1996 Evita as Colonel Juan Perón
- 1997 Tomorrow Never Dies as Elliot Carver
- 1998 Ronin as Seamus O'Rourke
- 1999 Stigmata as Cardinal Houseman
- Pirates of the Caribbean as Governor Weatherby Swann
- 2003 What a Girl Wants as Alistair Payne
- 2005 The Brothers Grimm as General Vavarin Delatombe
- 2005 The New World as King James
- 2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as US President/Zartan
- 2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation as US President/Zartan
- 2017 The Man Who Invented Christmas as John Dickens
- 2018 The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as Javier/Don Quixote
- 2019 The Two Popes as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later Pope Francis
Television Roles
- 1988-1990 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.K. Version)
- 1999 Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death as The Master
- 2008 ChalkZone as the Quicksand Man
- 2008 Clone as Dr. Victor Blenkinsop
- 2015 Wolf Hall as Cardinal Wolsey
- 2015-2016 Game of Thrones as the High Sparrow
- 2017 Taboo as Sir Stuart Strange
- 2022-2023 The Crown (2016) as Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh
- 2024 3 Body Problem
Stage Roles
- 1980 Hamlet as Hamlet
- 1989 Uncle Vanya as Astrov
- 1989 Miss Saigon as The Engineer
- 1994 Oliver! as Fagin
- 2001 My Fair Lady as Professor Higgins
- 2007 Glengarry Glen Ross as Shelly Levene
- 2012 King Lear as Lear
- 2015 The Merchant of Venice as Shylock
Video Game Roles
- 2008 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 as Field Marshal Robert Bingham
Tropes & Trivia applying to his works:
- Separated-at-Birth Casting: Many have noted his resemblance to Jorge Mario Bergoglio / Pope Francis, and his role as the High Sparrow in HBO's Game of Thrones as an austere man of faith who challenges the rigid clergy and pretty much redefines piety has helped the comparison. It came full circle when he played Bergoglio/Francis himself in Netflix's The Two Popes.
