Jonathan Pryce

Born: January 6 1947
Where: Holywell, North Wales, UK

An actor equally at home on stage or in front of the camera, Pyce has starred opposite Madonna in Evita and even played a Bond villain.

His debut was in a small part in Voyage of the Damned about refugee Jews.

He went on to mark time in such projects as Breaking Glass and Loophole before making his first impression as a manipulative journalist in Peter Greenaway's The Ploughman's Lunch and as the hapless clerk at the center of Terry Gilliam's dystopian epic Brazil.

Pryce's best showcases have been the 1985 historical thriller The Doctor and the Devils and the dramatic ensemble piece Glengarry Glen Ross.

He also shone in Martin Scorsese's lushly beautiful The Age of Innocence and delivered a subtle, nuanced portrayal of British author Lytton Strachey in Christopher Hampton's Carrington.

After his 1995 successes Pryce landed the role of Juan Peron opposite Madonna's Evita, the long-awaited film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, directed by Alan Parker.

He continued as a psychiatrist deeply affected by the WWI soldiers he is treating in Gillies MacKinnon's Regeneration.

He also landed the key villain role in Tomorrow Never Dies, Pierce Brosnan's second outing as James Bond.

After Ronin and Stigmata, Pryce appeared in several UK productions, foreign films and television projects before returning to the big screen as Cardinal Louis de Rohan in The Affair of the Necklace.

He was a welcome presence in the US/Brit teen comedy What a Girl Wants starring Amanda Bynes and The Pirates of the Caribbean, as Keira Knightley's aristocratic father.