The New Yorker Festival: Jeremy Irons Talks with Rebecca Mead

Jeremy Irons is a film, stage, and television actor. He made his Broadway début in 1984 in Tom Stoppard’s play “The Real Thing,” for which he received a Tony Award for Best Actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film “Reversal of Fortune,” and both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for his role in the television miniseries “Elizabeth I.” He has also starred in the films “Lolita,” “The Man in the Iron Mask,” and, most recently, “The Man Who Knew Infinity.”

Rebecca Mead joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997. She has profiled many subjects, among them Lena Dunham, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Santiago Calatrava, Nico Muhly, Slavoj Zizek, and Loïc Gouzer. She has also written more than a hundred Talk of the Town stories. She is the author of “One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding” and “My Life in Middlemarch.”

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