Jonathan Pryce is a Welsh actor best known for playing Pope Francis in The Two Popes. He has also appeared in Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Pirates of the Caribbean. He will succeed Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip in the final two seasons of the award-winning Netflix historical drama series The Crown.
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Jonathan Pryce CBE is a Welsh actor. He is best known for playing Pope Francis in The Two Popes. He has also appeared in Evita, Tomorrow Never Dies, and Pirates of the Caribbean. In August 2020, it was announced that he would succeed Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip in the final two seasons of the award-winning Netflix historical drama series The Crown. Pryce was born John Price on 1 June 1947 in Carmel, Flintshire, the son of Margaret Ellen and Isaac Price, a former coal miner who ran a small general grocery shop with his wife. He was educated at Holywell Grammar School and, at the age of 16, went to art college before he started training to be a teacher at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk, Lancashire. While studying, he took part in a college theatre production, and applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art for an application form on his behalf. His breakthrough screen performance was in Terry Gilliam’s satirical dystopian black comedy film Brazil. In 1980, his performance in the title role of Hamlet at the Royal Court Theatre won him an Olivier Award, and was acclaimed by some critics as the definitive Hamlet of his generation. In 1983, Pryce played the sinister Mr Dark Way in Something Wicked This Way Comes, based on the novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. After appearing in the film Breaking Glass, he mostly appeared in films such as The Age of Innocence, Carrington, The New World, and The Wife. He also had a small role as Zarniwoop in the 12th episode of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series, which was broadcast in 2005.
In the original role, he has been chosen to rule the Universe because of his inherent manipulability, or therefrom, on his philosophical opinions on his opinions on the world. In 2019, he earned his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Pope Francis. He will appear in the HBO series Game of Thrones and Sir Stuart Strange in the series Taboo in the summer of 2020. He won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut role in Comedians, and the second for Best Actor In a Musical for his role as The Engineer in the musical Miss Saigon. He joined the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool upon graduation and eventually became its artistic director. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Nottingham Playhouse. To gain his Equity card, he made his first screen appearance in a minor role in a 1972 episode of Doomwatch. He then starred in two television films directed by Stephen Frears: Daft as a Brush and Playthings. After leaving Everyman, he starred in Trevor Griffiths’ play Comedians in a role specially written for him. He reprised the role on Broadway in 1976, this time directed by Mike Nichols, and for which Price won the 1977 Tony Award. He appeared in The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio, and Antony and Cleopatra as Octavius Caesar.
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