RECENT CREDITS
The Pink Panther 2 (FILM)  Feb. 6, 2009
Appaloosa (FILM)  Sep. 19, 2008
Eragon (FILM)  Dec. 15, 2006
Inland Empire (FILM)  Dec. 6, 2006
Casanova (FILM)  Dec. 25, 2005


HIGHLIGHTS
2006 Offered an award winning performance opposite Helen Mirren in "Elizabeth I" a joint HBO/Channel 4 production
2006 Cast as Brom, a former Dragon Rider in "Eragon" a fantasy/adventure movie based on the novel of the same name
2005 Starred in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" about the 12th-century Crusades
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

The Tempest   -Alonso
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Cecilia   -Giacomo Puccini
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Georgia O'Keeffe  2009 -Alfred Stieglitz
Actor
TV


The Pink Panther 2  2009 -Avellaneda
Actor
Film


Appaloosa  2008 -Randall Bragg
Actor
Film


Actor
TV


Eragon  2006 -Brom
Actor
Film


Inland Empire  2006 -Kingsley Stewart
Actor
Film


Casanova  2005 -Bishop Pucci
Actor
Film


Elizabeth I  2005 -Earl of Leicester
Actor
TV


Kingdom of Heaven  2005 -Tiberias
Actor
Film


The 77th Annual Academy Awards  2005 -Presenter
Actor
TV


The Merchant of Venice  2004 -Antonio
Actor
Film


Callas Forever  2004 -Larry Kelly
Actor
Film


Being Julia  2004 -Michael Gosselyn
Actor
Film


Dame Edna: Live at the Palace  2004 -Interviewee
Actor
TV


And Now Ladies and Gentlemen  2003 -Valentin
Actor
Film


The Lion King  2002 -of Scar
Song Performer, Voice
Film


Langrishe, Go Down  2002 -Otto Beck
Actor
Film


Last Call  2002 -F Scott Fitzgerald
Actor
TV


Time Machine  2002 -UberMorlock
Actor
Film


Dungeons and Dragons: the Movie  2000 -Mage Profion
Actor
Film


Longitude  2000 -Rupert Gould
Actor
TV


Into the Amazon: First Contact  2000 -Narration
Narrator
TV


Faeries  2000 -of Shapeshifter
Voice
TV


Actor
Film


Actor
TV


Lolita  1998 -Humbert Humbert
Actor
Film


Chinese Box  1998 -John
Actor
Film


The Man in the Iron Mask  1998 -Father Aramis
Actor
Film


Voice
TV


Stealing Beauty  1996 -Alex Parrish
Actor
Film


Russia's Last Tsar  1996 -Narration
Narrator
TV


Seekers of the Lost Treasure  1995 -Narration
Narrator
TV


Actor
Film


The 67th Annual Academy Awards  1995 -Presenter
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


The House of the Spirits  1994 -Esteban Trueba
Actor
Film


Actor
TV


M. Butterfly  1993 -Rene Gallimard
Actor
Film


The Dream  1993 -The Man
Actor
TV


Damage  1993 -Dr Stephen Fleming
Actor
Film


Waterland  1992 -Tom Crick
Actor
Film


Tales From Hollywood  1992 -Odon von Horvath
Actor
TV


Carnival of the Animals  1992 -Narration
Narrator
TV


Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Kafka  1991 -Kafka
Actor
Film


Reversal of Fortune  1990 -Claus Von Bulow
Actor
Film


The Civil War  1990
Voice
TV


A Chorus of Disapproval  1989 -Guy Jones
Actor
Film


Danny, The Champion of the World  1989 -William Smith
Actor
TV


Dead Ringers  1988 -Beverly Mantle, Elliot Mantle
Actor, Actor
Film


Actor
TV


The Talk Show  1986
Actor
TV


The Mission  1986 -Father Gabriel
Actor
Film


Voice
TV


Un Amour de Swann  1984 -Charles Swann
Actor
Film


Betrayal  1983 -Jerry
Actor
Film


Brideshead Revisited  1982 -Charles Ryder
Actor
TV


Moonlighting  1982 -Nowak
Actor
Film


The French Lieutenant's Woman  1981 -Charles, Mike
Actor, Actor
Film


Nijinsky  1980 -Mikhail Fokine
Actor
Film


The Pallisers  1977 -Frank Tregear
Actor
TV


Notorious Woman  1975 -Franz Liszt
Actor
TV


Australia   -Edouard Pierson
Actor
Film


Opera Zebracka   -Prisoner
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


The Masterbuilders   -Narration
Narrator
Film


The Fourth Angel   -Jack Elgin
Actor
Film


The Wild Duck   -Harold Ackland
Actor
Film




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Highlights

2006 Offered an award winning performance opposite Helen Mirren in "Elizabeth I" a joint HBO/Channel 4 production
2006 Cast as Brom, a former Dragon Rider in "Eragon" a fantasy/adventure movie based on the novel of the same name
2005 Starred in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" about the 12th-century Crusades
2005 Co-starred as in Lasse Hallström's "Casanova," opposite Heath Ledger
2004 Cast in "Being Julia" which centers around stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge in 1930's London
2004 Cast opposite Al Pacino and Joseph Fiennes in "The Merchant of Venice" a Shakespearian adaptation, set in 16th century Venice
2003 Joined co-star Patricia Kaas for the feature "And Now Ladies and Gentlemen"
2002 Co-starred with Fanny Ardant in "Callas Forever"
2001 Cast opposite Forest Whitaker in "The Fourth Angel"
2000 Co-starred in the British TV drama "Longitude", written and directed by Charles Sturridge
2000 Offered over-the-top villainous turn in "Dungeons and Dragons"
1998 Offered a fine turn as the swashbucling Aramis, one of the original Musketeers, in "The Man in the Iron Mask"
1997 Portrayed Humbert Humbert in Adrian Lyne's remake of "Lolita"; released in the USA in 1998
1996 Cast as a dying writer in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Stealing Beauty"
1995 Played the villain in "Die Hard With a Vengeance"
1994 Voiced the villainous Scar in Disney's "The Lion King"
1993 Played a cheating spouse in "Damage"
1993 Acted the role of a French diplomat who falls in love with a Chinese performer who harbors a secret in "M Butterfly"; second film with Cronenberg
1991 Cast in title role of Stephen Soderbergh's "Kafka"
1990 Earned acclaim and a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Claus von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune"
1988 Breakthrough screen role, played twins in David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers"
1986 Teamed opposite Robert De Niro in "The Mission"
1985 Directed video for Carly Simon's song "Tired of Being Blonde"
1984 Broadway debut in "The Real Thing"
1984 Starred in "Swann in Love", adapted from Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu"
1983 Co-starred with Ben Kingsley and Patricia Hodge in "Betrayal"
1981 Cast opposite Meryl Streep in "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
1980 Film debut as Mikhail Fokine in "Nijinsky"
1979 Breakthrough TV role, Charles Ryder in "Brideshead Revisited"
1975 TV debut as Franz Liszt in BBC miniseries "Notorious Woman" (shown on PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" November-December of same year)
1973 London stage debut as John the Baptist in "Godspell," Round House Theatre (later at Wyndham's Theatre for two years)
1971 Made stage debut in "Hay Fever" with Bristol Old Vic company; company member for three years


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