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Full Jonathan Pryce Biography
Jonathan Pryce (born June 1, 1947) is a Welsh film, television, musical theatre/stage actor who has featured in such Hollywood films include Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrow Never Dies, Evita, and The New World.
Pryce was born John Price in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales to Margaret Ellen (Williams), a retail cashier and shopkeeper, and Isaac Price, a coal miner who also ran a small general grocery shop. He has two older sisters. Price was educated at Holywell Grammar School (today Holywell high school), after which he started training to be a teacher at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk. It was then that he became interested in acting and after taking drama classes, he won a scolarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
In 1980, his performance in the title role of Hamlet at the Royal Court Theatre was acclaimed by some critics as the definitive Hamlet of his generation. He received an Olivier Award for the role which included a guttural rendition of the words of the ghost of Hamlet's father uttered as if in his demonic possession. That year he also appeared as Ken in Breaking Glass, and had a small but pivotal role 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.
Pryce has shown himself a diverse actor, playing downtrodden and timid characters in Brazil, Timon of Athens (1981, TV), and Glengarry Glen Ross while also filling strong and authoritative roles in Evita as Juan Peron, the evil media baron Elliot Carver in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies and Seamus O'Rourke, a coldblooded assassin in John Frankenheimer's Ronin. In 1997, he won the Best Actor Award at Cannes for his performance as Lytton Strachey in the film Carrington. He portrayed a somewhat comic version of the Master in the 1999 Doctor Who spoof Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.
From January to July of 2006, Pryce replaced John Lithgow as Lawrence Jameson in the musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He has appeared as Governor Weatherby Swann in all three of the Pirates of the Caribbean feature films.
In 2007 he played Sherlock Holmes in the BBC production Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars. Later that year he appeared as Shelly Levene in a new West End production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at London's Apollo Theatre, from September 2007 to January 2008.
Price has been married to actress Kate Fahy since 1974, the couple has three children: Patrick, Gabriel and Phoebe. |
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