Jonathan Pryce Wiki: Age, Net Worth, TV Show, Movie & More

Pirates Of The Caribbean famed Jonathan Pryce is an award-winning and critically acclaimed Welsh actor. He hails from North Wales and is internationally regarded as the greatest on screen and stage with a high net worth. He is known for transcending the industry with immense versatility and powerful presence. Jonathan Pryce effortlessly moved between Hollywood studio films and the Classical West End. It gave him a range of work that included bold, independent cinema and the Broadway musical. For forty years he has created some of the most memorable characters and had been on the ‘must work with’ list of many accomplished directors.

Born on June 1, 1947, birth name of Jonathan Pryce was John Price. He was born in Flintshire, Wales, UK. His parents ran a small grocery shop. After finishing his schooling from Holywell Grammar School. Later he joined Edge Hill College where he was also training to be a teacher. And that was where he first took part in theatre production. Also, it was there where one of his tutors was immensely impressed by his performance and had applied to the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art on his behalf. There he was offered the scholarship. He met Kate Fahy, his longtime girlfriend in 1974; he began his career at the hugely influential Liverpool Everyman Theatre. It helped in grounding his politics and talent. He had marked his presence by a definite performance as Hamlet and made a breakthrough screen appearance in Brazil, the masterpiece of Terry Gilliam in 1985. Jonathan Pryce has always been an actors actor. His choices were bold as they should be and truthful as well. They gave life to multi-layered and exciting characters. They made it hard to believe he is just one man. He had begun his acting career by making guest appearances on TV shows. Also, he appeared in the plays such as Comedians for which he received Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. And his performance in Hamlet won him Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. After his performances in the movie like Something Wicked This Way Comes, Brazil and The Doctor And The Devils, his popularity started increasing. He has the net worth of $ 5 Million now with a new movie at hand named The Man Who Invented Christmas which will be released on 22 November this year.

After graduation, Jonathan Pryce joined Everyman Theatre Liverpool Company. With his talents, he was able to become the theatre’s artistic director eventually. Later, he performed with The Royal Shakespeare Company as well. In Doomwatch, a British TV Sci-fi program he made his first minor appearance in 1972. In 1975, he appeared in the play Comedians in which he played a lead role. In 1978 he played a wonderful role in Antony And Cleopatra. In 1980, he appeared in Macbeth as the titular character for which he was appreciated. Voyage Of The Damned in the year 1976 was his first debut movie. The film was directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and he had played a minor role. The movie received three Oscar nominations. Something Wicked This Way Comes was the first movie in which he had played a significant role. The movie came in 1983 and was a horror fantasy. It was directed by Jack Clayton and won few awards and nominations but was a commercial failure. It was in the same year Jonathan Pryce appeared in lead roles in the movies Martin Luther Heretic and The Ploughman’s lunch. In upcoming years, he appeared in many movies in the lead roles and supporting roles. Some of the renowned ones are Brazil that came in 1985, in 1986 came Haunted Honeymoon, Glengarry Glenn Ross in 1992, A Business Affair and Shopping in 1994. In 1995 he won two awards for the role he played in the movie Carrington. Brazil is a dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gillian. Alongside, he continued playing guest roles in the TV shows like Screen Two and Tickets For The Titanic. In 1993 he also played the lead in the television movie Barbarians At The Gate. Regeneration in 1997, Stigmata in 1999, The Affair Of The Necklace in 2001 and Unconditional Love in 2002 were the movies in which he played Important roles. He also played an important role in the eighteenth movie of the James Bond Series named Tomorrow Never Dies. However, he gained his fame from the first movie of the series Pirates Of The Caribbean which was Pirates Of The Caribbean : The Curse Of The Black Pearl. He also reprised his roles in the sequels of the file named Pirates Of The Caribbean : Dead Man's Chest and Pirates Of The Caribbean : At The World’s End. Many critics praised his role in the Pirates Of The Caribbean . He played Sherlock Holmes in the TV film Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars in 2007. He did other famous films as well to name G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in 2009, G.I. Joe: Retaliation in 2013, The Salvation in 2014, Narcopolis in 2015 and To Walk Invisible in 2016. He also played a significantly important role in a few episodes of The Game Of Thrones, a popular American fantasy drama series for which he was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award. His most recent upcoming movie is The Man Who Invented Christmas and adaptation from Les Standiford’s book. It is a British-Irish Canadian Drama Film. The Man Who Invented Christmas is directed by Bharat Nalluri

Jonathan Pryce won two Tony Awards for best actors for his role in Comedians in 1977 and Miss Saigon in 1991. For Hamlet, he won a Laurence Olivier Award in 1980. Jonathan Pryce received the ‘Valladolid International Film Festival Award’ for Best Actor for the 1992 drama film Glengarry Glen Ross. For the 1995 film Carrington he Evening Standard British Film Award for the best actor along with the other best actor award at Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, University Of Liverpool awarded him an Honorary Doctorate. For his contributions to the drama, he was appointed as the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 Birthday Honors.

Thirty-Seven years Ago, Jonathan Pryce met Kate. They worked together at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, were in their early 20s and happily married to someone. Pryce was happily married for three years Two weeks after he met Kate, they both left their spouses. Jonathan says it was an extraordinary meeting like a real coup de foudre. They have three children Patrick who is 26 years old, Gabriela who is 22 years old and the youngest Phoebe who is 19. However, they never married. He said they never felt the necessity of marrying and that he was glad he met Kate then. He is good friends with his ex-wife and his husband, but it took some time to develop it that ways.

He was one among the stars in Dark Blood with Judy Davis and River Phoenix. However, the movie was never released due to the death of River Phoenix during the film. He originated the role of The Engineer in Miss Saigon. He was nominated for Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor in 2002 for his performance in "My Fair Lady," a 2001 musical, at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton and then later at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He became the associate member of Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts and was the artistic director of Liverpool Everyman during seventies. He appeared in most of Infiniti's television ads of Nissan's luxury car division in America in the mid-1990s. Pryce starred in Broadway play "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Norbert Leo Butz in 2006. Jonathan Pryce was considered for the role of Arthur Parker in Pennies from Heaven which came in 1978. Pryce was seen for a role in Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, according to the Michael Palin diaries. Jonathan Pryce will be playing the role of Pope Francis in the Netflix’s series, Anthony Hopkins will play the Pope and Pope Benedict.

He has numerous performing credits in his name. Apart from Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, he was nominated for many other prominent awards. To name a few of them BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie. British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television. This says a lot about the man. He grew up in a very small bungalow in Carmel village near Holywell in Wales. Pryce wanted to be a pop singer when he was a child, and after school, he aspired to be an artist, a painter to be specific. Although he is a well-known name in movies, he still wants to be a painter. In fact, he is very good at painting and does life-studies. He longs for sleep as he is an insomniac and he loves wearing scarves. He has a vast collection of scarves. Pryce loves his Audi A4 with low emission and start-stop facility.He also owns a bike but has not ridden it yet. Jonathan Pryce regrets not learning to play a musical instrument, especially piano. Jonathan Pryce is a man who tries to see good in everyone. He is a private man and doesn’t like to talk much about himself. He is as humble as talented. His presence has taken the movies to a notch up. The characters he has played are immortal because he played them. He will always be loved, for the man he is, for the characters he has played and for his contribution to drama and movies. His upcoming movie, The Man Who Invented Christmas is awaited.