Uncommonly early 3.25 x 5.5-inch black and white glossy portrait, boldly signed in black fountain pen around 1980s, at the onset of his film career. In good condition. Elegant, handsome British star Jeremy Irons was lured from the classical stage to play Charles Ryder in Granada Television's celebrated serial adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited (1981), after which he was was much in demand as a romantic lead.  He was memorable in films like Swann in Love (1984), The Wild Duck (1984), The Mission (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), Kafka (1991), From Time to Time (1992), Damage (1992), M. Butterfly (1993), The House of the Spirits (1993), Disney's The Lion King (1994), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1994), Stealing Beauty (1996), Lolita (1997), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Dungeons and Dragons (2000), The Time Machine (2002), Fitzgerald (2002), Being Julia (2004), Ergaon (2006), and The Pink Panther 2 (2009), and snagged an Oscar for his work in Reversal of Fortune (1990).

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