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Jeremy Irons to Star in Showtime’s The Borgias

Jeremy Irons
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Jeremy Irons
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Tony Award winner Jeremy Irons is set to star in Showtime’s new historical drama The Borgias, according to published reports. The new series is slated for an early 2011 premiere and will replace The Tudors in the Showtime lineup. Neil Jordan is scheduled to executive produce the series and will direct the first two episodes.

Borgias is set in Italy in 1492, and follows a powerful crime family that’s headed by patriarch Rodrigo Borgia, played by Irons.

The actor, as recently reported, will appear in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Dennis Kelly’s The Gods Weep this spring. His many stage credits include The Real Thing, for which he won the Tony Award, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Never So Good, Embers, Impressionism, and A Little Night Music.

He received the Oscar for Reversal of Fortune and the Emmy Award for Elizabeth I. His many other film and television credits include Being Julia, Appaloosa, The Merchant of Venice, and Brideshead Revisited.