Jeremy Irvine

At 34 years old, Jeremy Irvine has this physical status:

Jeremy William Fredric Smith (born 18 June 1990), better known as Jeremy Irvine, is an English actor who made his film debut in the epic war film War Horse (2011).

In the film version of Great Expectations, he played Philip "Pip" Pirrip in 2012. Irvine went for two months without food, lost around two stone (13 kg), and did his own torture scene stunts in The Railway Man (2013), earning him a reputation as a method actor.

He has since appeared in The Woman in Black: An Angel of Death (2015), as well as in the direct-to-video film version of the novel Fallen (2016).

Early life

Jeremy William Fredric Smith was born in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, where he was born. Bridget Smith Smith, his mother, is a Liberal Democrat councillor on (and later chief) the South Cambridgeshire District Council, and his father, Chris Smith, is an engineer.

He has two younger brothers, one of whom portrayed a younger version of Irvine's Pip in Great Expectations. Both three boys have diabetes. The stage surname of Irvine was his grandfather's first name. Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, his great-grandfather, wrote the quote that was used as the inscription on London's Gurkha Memorial.

At the age of 16, Irvine began acting. "I never fitted in, which led to acting," he says. I was looking for something different." While attending Bedford Modern School, he appeared in Romeo alongside other principal roles in plays, as well as a stint with the National Youth Theatre.

Irvine spent two years on letterboxes in an attempt to find acting work after completing a one-year foundation course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), which he attended with Sam Claflin. He was close to giving up acting for good right before he was given his big break in War Horse. During an interview with CBS News while promoting Great Expectations, he described this as the lowest point in his life and admitted that he considered switching to a different career path: "I'd kind of hit rock bottom and I guess that was stupid and I just wasted three to four years of my life." My father wanted to work as a welder. He was an engineer at the company where he was working. I was right about doing it."

Personal life

"I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was six years old" in Irvine. "I was on four injections a day, which I administered myself." Both his two brothers are diabetic. Irvine has participated in experiments with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) to analyze an artificial pancreas, a portable insulin pump attached to a portable insulin pump. During 2005 and 2007, Addenbrooke's Hospital at the University of Cambridge conducted the experiments. During a visit to the Cambridge Welcome Trust Clinical Research Facility on February 7, Irvine shared his diabetes experiences with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. After becoming president of the JDRF in 2012, he was back in the Duchess on January 31, 2013 at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's inpatient adolescent ward.

Irvine ducks the spotlight and seeks to protect anonymity, saying, "I realised very quickly that I didn't want to be famous," so I don't go to Mahiki, I simply go down the pub with all my friends." When asked about his ascension to fame, he said, "I had maybe a month of people approaching me in the street and then it died down." I try to ignore all of this and pretend that none of it exists. We're only acting. A lot of it is re-housing homeless people, so it's a real job. "I make believe and dressing up for a living." He now lives in West Hampstead, London.

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Career

Irvine worked in his local supermarket and also did web design prior to gaining success as an actor. He played Luke in the television series Life Bites and appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2010 production of Dunsinane. He was quoted in Interview Magazine, saying: "My friends all took the mick out of me for Dunsinane saying, 'You're gonna be the tree'. Indeed, in my first scene, I was waving two branches."

In June 2010, he was cast in the lead role of the 2011 Steven Spielberg film War Horse. The film was an adaption of Michael Morpurgo's novel, also entitled War Horse. Spielberg revealed that he had been looking for an unknown actor for War Horse, stating: "I looked at hundreds of actors and newcomers for Albert – mainly newcomers – and nobody had the heart, the spirit or the communication skills that Jeremy had." Irvine was asked to read a section of the War Horse script on camera in order to check his West Country accent. In an attempt to prepare himself for the role of Albert, Irvine took up weight training and gained approximately 14 pounds of muscle. He also underwent two months of intensive horse riding. He spent so much time recreating the Battle of Somme scene in the film that he ended up contracting trench foot. For his work in the film, he was nominated for the London Film Critics' Choice Award for Young British Performer Of The Year and Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer.

In April 2011, Variety reported that Irvine had been cast as Pip in a 2012 film adaptation of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. In October 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that he was set to play the young Eric Lomax in the film production of The Railway Man. He then starred in the independent film Now Is Good, alongside Dakota Fanning. In February 2013 Variety stated that he had been cast in a film based on the novel The World Made Straight. Also in 2013, he was cast as Daniel Grigori in the film Fallen, based on the young adult series of the same name.

On 12 August 2014, Deadline reported that Irvine had been cast as Percy Bysshe Shelley in Mary Shelley's Monster. The film has been described as "a story of youth that transcends time, a gothic romance, a love triangle that involves a dark passenger." In November 2015, he starred in Don Broco's music video for the song "Nerve". Irvine attended the same school, Bedford Modern, as the band's members. The following month, Irvine joined the cast of the feature film remake of Billionaire Boys Club.

In 2018, Irvine portrayed the younger version of Sam Carmichael (Pierce Brosnan) in the sequel to Mamma Mia!, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. In July 2017, Irvine confirmed via his Instagram that he had joined the cast of The Last Full Measure alongside Tommy Hatto and Zach Roerig.

In 2019, he starred as John Randolph Bentley in the USA Network television series Treadstone.

In May 2021, Irvine was cast as Alan Scott in the HBO Max live-action television series based on Green Lantern.

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