:Jonathan Pryce

Pryce was born John Price on 1 June 1947 in Carmel, Flintshire, the son of Margaret Ellen (née Williams) and Isaac Price, a former coal miner who ran a small general grocery shop with his wife. He has two older sisters and was raised a Welsh Presbyterian.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oKdfi3SZqs| archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211116/8oKdfi3SZqs| archive-date=2021-11-16 | url-status=live|title=Jonathan Pryce: Being Pope Is A Lonely Job| date= 20 December 2019|via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}} He was educated at Holywell Grammar School, and at the age of 16, went to art college before he started training to be a teacher at Edge Hill College (now Edge Hill University) in Ormskirk, Lancashire. While studying, he took part in a college theatre production and applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Pryce was subsequently awarded a scholarship to RADA, graduating in 1971, with Acting (RADA Diploma).{{Cite web|url= https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/jonathan-pryce/ |title= RADA Student & graduate profiles - Jonathan Pryce |work= rada.ac.uk |access-date= May 12, 2021 }}

He joined Equity, and took "Jonathan Pryce" as his stage name because his birth name was too similar to that of a performer already represented by Equity.{{Cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/halloffame/showbiz/jonathan_pryce.shtml |title= Jonathan Pryce |work= bbc.co.uk |access-date= 28 October 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030416030542/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/halloffame/showbiz/jonathan_pryce.shtml |archive-date= April 16, 2003 |url-status=dead}}"[http://www.tribute.ca/people/bio/2478 Jonathan Pryce Biography]". Tribute.ca. Retrieved 28 October 2007.(16 August 2002). "[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/aug/16/artsfeatures I always wanted to be a pop star...]". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2007. While at RADA, he worked as a door-to-door salesman of velvet paintings.(8 October 2007). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20071113234713/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2007%2F10%2F08%2Fbtpryce108.xml Why Jonathan Pryce is right for Mamet]". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 June 2008.

Despite finding RADA "strait-laced" and being told by his tutor that he could never aspire to do more than playing villains on Z-Cars,(10 July 2001). "[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/07/24/btpryc24.xml&page=2 Life with lots of Doolittles]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 June 2008. Pryce joined the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool upon graduation and eventually became its artistic director. He performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Nottingham Playhouse.(6 March 2007). "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/03_march/06/sherlock_pryce.shtml Jonathan Pryce is Sherlock Holmes]". BBC.co.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2007."[https://web.archive.org/web/20111002194447/http://www.onsayfa.com/oyuncu/jonathan-pryce-t518.html Jonathan Pryce Mini Biography]". Ön Sayfa. Retrieved 28 October 2007. To gain his Equity card, he made his first screen appearance in a minor role in "Fire & Brimstone", a 1972 episode of the science fiction drama series Doomwatch. He then starred in two television films directed by Stephen Frears: Daft as a Brush and Playthings.

After leaving Everyman, Pryce joined Sir Richard Eyre at the Nottingham Playhouse and starred in Trevor Griffiths' play Comedians, in a role specially written for him. The production moved to the Old Vic Theatre in London. Pryce reprised the role on Broadway in 1976, this time directed by Mike Nichols, and for which Pryce won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. It was around this time that he appeared in his first film role, playing the character Joseph Manasse in the drama Voyage of the Damned, starring Faye Dunaway. He did not, however, abandon the stage, appearing from 1978 to 1979 in the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of The Taming of the Shrew as Petruchio, and Antony and Cleopatra as Octavius Caesar.[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/tamingOfTheShrew.html The RSC Shakespeare – Plot summaries, The Taming of the Shrew] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822062746/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/tamingOfTheShrew.html |date=22 August 2010 }}. Retrieved 18 June 2008.[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/antonyAndCleopatra.html The RSC Shakespeare – Plot summaries, Antony and Cleopatra] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203131926/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/antonyAndCleopatra.html |date= 3 December 2008 }}. Retrieved 18 June 2008.

In 1980, his performance in the title role of Hamlet at the Royal Court Theatre won him an Olivier Award, and was acclaimed by some critics as the definitive Hamlet of his generation."[http://www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet/about/stage.html Performance history of Hamlet] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118125408/http://www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet/about/stage.html |date=18 November 2007 }}". Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 6 November 2007"[http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards/winners/ Laurence Olivier Awards: Past winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031212214818/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards/winners |date=12 December 2003 }}". The Society of London Theatre. Retrieved 6 November 2007. That year, Pryce had a small but pivotal role as Zarniwoop in the 12th episode of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series, one that he reprised for the Quintessential Phase which was broadcast in 2005. In his original role as Zarniwoop, Pryce's character questions the "ruler of the Universe", a solipsist who has been chosen to rule arguably because of either his inherent manipulability, or immunity therefrom, on his philosophical opinions. Around the same time, in 1980, he also appeared in the film Breaking Glass. In 1983, Pryce played the role of the sinister Mr Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes, based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same title. Afterward, he began appearing mostly in films, such as the Ian McEwan-scripted The Ploughman's Lunch, and Martin Luther, Heretic (both also 1983).

He achieved a breakthrough with his role as the subdued protagonist Sam Lowry in the Terry Gilliam science fiction dystopian dark comedy, Brazil (1985)."[http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilmsew.html Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Movies (Brazil #13)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331185021/http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilmsew.html |date=31 March 2014 }}". FilmSite.org. Retrieved 26 November 2007. After Brazil, Pryce appeared in the historical thriller The Doctor and the Devils (also 1985) and then in the Gene Wilder-directed film Haunted Honeymoon (1986). During this period of his life, Pryce continued to perform on stage, and gained particular notice as the successful but self-doubting writer Trigorin in a London production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in late 1985."[http://masterclass.org.uk/masters.php?ar_id=118 Jonathan Pryce's Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220100605/http://masterclass.org.uk/masters.php?ar_id=118 |date=20 December 2008 }}". The Theatre Royal Haymarket website. Retrieved 26 November 2007. From 1986 to 1987 Pryce played the lead part in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth, which also starred Sinéad Cusack as Lady Macbeth.[http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/macbeth.html The RSC Shakespeare – Plot summaries, The Tragedy of Macbeth] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223084232/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/macbeth.html |date=23 December 2014 }}. Retrieved 18 June 2008. Pryce worked once again with Gilliam in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), playing "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson". The film was a notorious financial fiasco,Robert Parish, James (2006). Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops. Wiley. {{ISBN|0-471-69159-3}} with production costing more than $40 million, when the original budget was $23.5 million."[http://www.halleonard.com/item_detail.jsp?itemid=314112&order=41&refer=browse&start=L&end=M&catcode=05 Losing The Light – Terry Gilliam & The Munchausen Saga (a summary)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311203556/http://www.halleonard.com/item_detail.jsp?itemid=314112&order=41&refer=browse&start=L&end=M&catcode=05 |date=11 March 2007 }}". Hal Leonard Online. Retrieved 6 November 2007."[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=adventuresofbaronmunchausen.htm The Adventures of Baron Munchausen]". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 6 November 2007. The following year Pryce appeared in three of the earliest episodes of the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, alongside Paul Merton and John Sessions,"[http://www.whoseline.net/show/epguide/01guide.html "Whose Line is it Anyway?" – Episode Guide – Series one (1988)]". WhoseLine.net. Retrieved 26 November 2007. and in Uncle Vanya, again a play by Chekhov, at the Vaudeville Theatre.(18 March 2003). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20030909070652/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2003%2F03%2F18%2Fbtpry18.xml Work with Martine again? I think not]". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 June 2008. After a series of major dramatic roles on stage, including Vanya and Macbeth, Pryce decided he wanted to do musicals after seeing his friend Patti LuPone in the original London production of Les Misérables.Shenton, Mark (15 June 2008). "[http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3008926 Q&A – Jonathan Pryce] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118230552/http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3008926 |date=18 January 2008 }}". Broadway.com in London. Retrieved 15 June 2008.

He successfully returned to the stage originating the role of The Engineer, a Eurasian pimp, in the West End musical Miss Saigon. His performance was praised in England where he won the Olivier and Variety Club awards,"[http://www.screenrush.co.uk/personne/fichepersonne.html?cpersonne=544 Jonathan Pryce Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229101455/http://www.screenrush.co.uk/personne/fichepersonne.html?cpersonne=544 |date=29 December 2008 }}". Allocine.co.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2007.O'Keefe, Robert (20 September 1999). "[https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/miss-saigon-1999 Miss Saigon 10th Anniversary show 1990 Review]". London Theatre Guide Online. Retrieved 26 November 2007. but when the production transferred to Broadway the Actors' Equity Association (AEA) tried to stop Pryce from portraying The Engineer because, according to their executive secretary, "[t]he casting of a Caucasian actor made up to appear Asian is an affront to the Asian community."Rothstein, Mervyn (8 August 1990). "Union Bars White in Asian Role; Broadway May Lose 'Miss Saigon'". The New York Times. The London production featured Pryce in yellowface, wearing prosthetics to alter the shape of his eyes and makeup to alter the colour of his skin.{{Cite news |last=Paulson |first=Michael |date=2017-03-17 |title=The Battle of 'Miss Saigon': Yellowface, Art and Opportunity |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/theater/the-battle-of-miss-saigon-yellowface-art-and-opportunity.html |access-date=2022-10-17 |issn=0362-4331}} The show's producer, Cameron Mackintosh, decided to cancel the $10 million New York production.Rich, Frank (10 August), 1990). "[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DD1E39F933A2575BC0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3 Jonathan Pryce, 'Miss Saigon' and Equity's Decision (page 3)]". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 November 2007. Realising that its decision would result in the loss of many jobs, and after Pryce received much support from fellow actors (both Charlton Heston and John Malkovich threatened to leave the union if Pryce was not allowed to perform) the AEA decided to make a deal with Mackintosh, allowing Pryce to appear in the production. He won a Tony Award for his performance in 1991.{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/kleeemt/miss_saigon.htm |title=Miss Saigon: Bringing Discrimination into the Limelight |access-date=2010-10-16 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112081815/http://geocities.com/kleeemt/miss_saigon.htm |archive-date=12 November 2007 }}. Retrieved 6 November 2007.Rothstein, Mervyn (19 September 1990). "[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5DE133AF93AA2575AC0A966958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/M/Mackintosh,%20Cameron Dispute Settled, 'Miss Saigon' Is Broadway Bound]". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 November 2007. The controversy over Pryce's casting in Miss Saigon provided playwright David Henry Hwang the inspiration for his plays Face Value and Yellow Face.{{cite news |title=Bearing the 'Yellow Face': Q&A with David Henry Hwang |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/02/22/bearing-the-yellow-face-qa-with-david-henry-hwang/ |date=22 February 2014}}

Made in the same period, Pryce starred in the ITV mini-series Selling Hitler (1991) as Gerd Heidemann. Pryce returned to the London stage the following year to star for one night only at the Royal Festival Hall for an AIDS charity alongside Elaine Paige and Lilliane Montivecchi in the 1992 revival of the Federico Fellini-inspired musical Nine.{{cite web |url=http://www.regardencoulisse.com/articles/article.php?num=224 |title=De 8 et 1/2 a Nine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218040448/http://www.regardencoulisse.com/articles/article.php?num=224 |archive-date=18 December 2007 |website=RegardEnCoulisse.com |access-date=9 December 2007 |language=French}} He appeared in the film Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), an adaptation of the David Mamet play. Pryce featured, alongside Kathy Burke and Minnie Driver, in the BBC serial Mr. Wroe's Virgins (1993), directed by Danny Boyle. Pryce played Henry Kravis in the HBO produced made-for-TV movie Barbarians at the Gate (1993). He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and for a Golden Globe Award for his role.{{cite web |first=Nellie |last=Andreeva |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trio-elemental-hbos-zinc-139906 |title=Trio elemental for HBO's 'Zinc' |work=Hollywood Reporter |agency=Associated Press |date=21 June 2007}} Also during 1993, Pryce appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence, and starred alongside River Phoenix and Judy Davis in the unfinished film Dark Blood, but production had to be shut down when, 11 days short of completion, Phoenix died from a drug overdose."[http://www.river-phoenix.org/filmography/darkblood/ Dark Blood] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110182249/http://www.river-phoenix.org/filmography/darkblood/ |date=10 November 2007 }}". RiverPhoenix.org. Retrieved 6 November 2007. Director George Sluizer, who owns the rights to what has been filmed, has made available some of the raw material, which features Pryce and Phoenix on a field in Utah, on his personal website."[http://www.georgesluizer.com/00-Videos.htm Videos]". George Sluizer's official website. Retrieved 19 November 2007. Between 1993 and 1997, Pryce, on a multimillion-dollar contract became the spokesman for the Infiniti automobile marque in a series of American television commercials, in particular for the Infiniti J30 and Infiniti Q45. In one of these advertisements Pryce appeared alongside jazz singer Nancy Wilson in a Prague nightclub.Meredith, Robyn (13 June 1996). "[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE3DB1739F930A25755C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print The Media Business: Advertising;Infiniti chooses artsy ads with musings about the meaning of life to sell its luxury cars.]". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 November 2007. In 1994, Pryce portrayed Fagin in a revival of the musical Oliver!,Jones, Kenneth (10 March 2006). "[http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/98415.html Playbill.com's Brief Encounter with Jonathan Pryce] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229092049/http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/98415.html |date=29 December 2008 }}". Playbill. Retrieved 9 December 2007. and starred alongside Emma Thompson in the film Carrington (1995), which centres on a platonic relationship between gay writer Lytton Strachey and painter Dora Carrington. For his portrayal of Strachey, Pryce received the Best Actor Award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3362/year/1995.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Carrington |access-date=2 September 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} His film roles during this time included Evita (1996) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).

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During the early 2000s Pryce starred and participated in a variety of movies, such as The Affair of the Necklace (2001), and Unconditional Love (2002). While the success of some of these films was variable, the 2001 London stage production of My Fair Lady and his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins was acclaimed by observers.Thomas, Rebecca (22 March 2001). "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/1231499.stm Fair Lady's luvverly show]". BBC News. Retrieved 10 November 2007. Martine McCutcheon, who portrayed Eliza Doolittle, was sick during much of the show's run. McCutcheon was replaced by her understudy Alexandra Jay, who would also fall sick hours before a performance, forcing her understudy, Kerry Ellis, to take the lead. On her first night, Pryce introduced Ellis to the audience before the show by saying "This will be your first Eliza, my second today and my third this week. Any member of the audience interested in playing Eliza can find applications at the door. Wednesday and Saturday matinee available."(10 July 2001). "[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/07/24/btpryc24.xml Life with lots of Doolittles]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 June 2008. Pryce performed with four Elizas during the course of 14 months. The show was nominated for four Laurence Olivier Awards on 2001: Best Actress in a Musical for Martine McCutcheon, Outstanding Musical Production, Best Theatre Choreographer and Best Actor in a Musical for Pryce. Pryce lost to Philip Quast, and McCutcheon won in her category.

In April 2003 Pryce returned to the non-musical stage with A Reckoning, written by American dramatist Wesley Moore. The play co-starred Flora Montgomery and after premiering at the Soho Theatre in London was described by The Daily Telegraph as "one of the most powerful and provocative new American plays to have opened since David Mamet's Oleanna."Connema, Richard. "[http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sanfran/s600.html American Premiere of Wesley Moore's A Reckoning is a Challenging Father/Daughter Confrontation]". Talkin' Broadway. Retrieved 15 June 2008. Pryce had a role in live-action Disney Studios action-adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), in which he portrayed a fictional Governor of Jamaica, Weatherby Swann, a film he has described as "one of those why-not movies." Pryce portrayed Governor Weatherby Swann the father of Elizabeth Swan portrayed by Keira Knightley. He reprised the role of Governor Weatherby Swann for the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). Both were filmed at the same time but released a year apart."[http://numberonestars.com/pirates3/production7.htm Chapter 7 – Return to The Bahamas] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509164220/http://numberonestars.com/pirates3/production7.htm |date=9 May 2012 }}". Pirates of the Caribbean, Full Production Notes. Retrieved 10 November 2007.

After Pirates, Pryce appeared in several large-scale motion pictures, such as the romantic teen comedy What a Girl Wants (2003), and De-Lovely (2004), his second musical film, a chronicle of the life of songwriter Cole Porter, for which Kevin Kline and Pryce covered a Porter song called "Blow, Gabriel, Blow". The Brothers Grimm (2005), Pryce's third completed film with Terry Gilliam, starred Matt Damon and Heath Ledger, and The New World (2005), in which he had a cameo role as King James I. In 2005, Pryce was nominated for another Olivier Award in the best actor category for his role in the 2004 London production of The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, where he played Martin, a goat-lover who has to face the recriminations of his cheated-on wife, played by his real-life wife Kate Fahy. Pryce's performance was highly praised, but he lost the Olivier to Richard Griffiths.Clover, Brian (19 April 2004). "[http://www.curtainup.com/goatlond.html The Goat or Who is Sylvia?]". Curtain Up. Retrieved 19 January 2008.Loveridge, Lizzie (4 February 2004). "[http://www.curtainup.com/goatlond.html The Goat or Who is Sylvia?]". Curtain Up. Retrieved 19 January 2008.(21 February 2005). "[http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/view/item98372/Olivier-Winners-2005/ The Olivier Awards 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220055126/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/view/item98372/Olivier-Winners-2005/ |date=20 December 2008 }}". The Society of London Theatre. Retrieved 19 January 2008.

Pryce lent his voice to the French animated film, Renaissance (2006), which he stated he wanted to do because he had never "done anything quite like it before."Milling, Robin (21 September 2006). "[http://www.artisannews.com/ans101/templates/?a=2616&z=0 Jonathan Pryce puts his voice on] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220131349/http://www.artisannews.com/ans101/templates/?a=2616&z=0 |date=20 December 2008 }}". Artisan News. Retrieved 16 November 2007. Pryce returned to the Broadway stage replacing John Lithgow, from January to July 2006, as Lawrence Jameson in the musical version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.(20 November 2005). "[http://news.ewoss.com/articles/D8E0DEGG3.aspx Jonathan Pryce Returns to Broadway Stage] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710211107/http://news.ewoss.com/articles/D8E0DEGG3.aspx |date=10 July 2011 }}". eWoss News. Retrieved 5 November 2007. During early 2007, the BBC serial Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars was first broadcast with Pryce in the lead. From September 2007 through June 2008, he returned to the theatre portraying Shelly Levene in a new West End production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross at the Apollo Theatre, London.de Jongh, Nicholas (10 October 2007). "[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/show-23374222-details/Glengarry+Glen+Ross/showReview.do?reviewId=23416690 Blackmail, greed, despair ... a tale for our times]". Evening Standard (London). Retrieved 15 June 2008. Pryce also appeared as part of an ensemble cast in the 2008 real-time strategy video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, playing the role of Marshall Robert Bingham{{Cite news |last=Good |first=Owen |date=21 September 2008 |title=Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Calls Out Starcraft |language=en-us |work=Kotaku |url=https://kotaku.com/command-conquer-red-alert-3-calls-out-starcraft-5052818 |access-date=2021-04-14}} alongside Tim Curry, J.K. Simmons, George Takei and several other veteran actors.{{Cite news |date=20 August 2008 |title=Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 |language=en |url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/command---conquer-red-alert-3-starring-such-luminaries-as-gemma-atkinson--tim-curry--jenny-mccarthy--jonathan-pryce--peter-stormare-and-george-takei |website=gamesindustry.biz |access-date=2021-04-14}} In 2009, he played a wealthy widower in the BBC series Return to Cranford.

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In 2015, Pryce played Thomas Wolsey in the BBC limited series Wolf Hall. That same year, he joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 5 as the High Sparrow.{{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/watchersotwall/status/492780241081733120 |title=Game of Thrones season five cast announced at Comic Con! | work=Watchers On The Wall | date=25 July 2014 | access-date=10 October 2014}} Pryce admitted that one of the main reasons he took on the role was because of how influential the character is plot-wise. While initially being quite sceptical about "sword and sorcery" shows, Pryce later had a change of heart after his positive experiences on the Thrones sets.{{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/WatchersOTWall/status/572844119447474178 |title=Interview Roundup: John Bradley, Jonathan Pryce, and many more! | work=Watchers On The Wall | date=3 March 2015 | access-date=3 March 2015}} In 2015, he also appeared at The Globe Theatre as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. His real life daughter Phoebe played Shylock's daughter Jessica. In 2015, he joined the cast of The Healer starring with Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Camilla Luddington, and Jorge Garcia.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camilla-luddington-jonathan-pryce-board-795358|title=Camilla Luddington, Jonathan Pryce Board Rom-Com 'The Healer'|author=Etan Vlessing|date=13 May 2015|work=The Hollywood Reporter}} In 2017, he starred as Sir Stuart Strange in the series Taboo, and co-starred with Glenn Close in the film The Wife. In 2018 he portrayed Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote starring Adam Driver.

In 2018, Pryce starred alongside Dame Eileen Atkins in Florian Zeller's play, The Height of the Storm at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End to rapturous reviews. The play was named best play of the year by The Guardian.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/dec/17/top-10-theatre-shows-2018|title=Top 10 theatre shows of 2018|last=Billington|first=Michael|date=2018-12-17|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-04-08|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} The play was transferred to Broadway stage where it ran from September to November 2019 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club with Pryce and Atkins reprising their performances. The play and the performances received a strong reception from New York critics. Marilyn Stasio of Variety praised the leading actors describing Pryce's performance as an elderly man struggling with early forms of dementia as "achingly sensitive", and like "quicksilver".{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2019/legit/reviews/the-height-of-the-storm-review-jonathan-pryce-eileen-atkins-broadway-1203347908/|title= Broadway Review: 'The Height of the Storm'|website= Variety|date= 25 September 2019|accessdate= September 21, 2023}}

Late that same year, Pryce portrayed Pope Francis, opposite Anthony Hopkins playing Pope Benedict XVI, in the acclaimed Netflix film The Two Popes, directed by Fernando Meirelles, which was released that winter on Netflix. Meirelles cast him for his striking resemblance to the real Pope Francis. The film and their performances received critical acclaim, with Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter praising their chemistry, writing in particular of Pryce, "[He] goes head-to-head against Hopkins and matches him in subtlety as well as charismatic force."{{cite web|url= https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/two-popes-review-1235993/|title= 'The Two Popes': Film Review Telluride 2019|website= The Hollywood Reporter|date= September 2019|accessdate= September 21, 2023}} He received his first ever Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for the film.{{Cite news|last=Brooks|first=Xan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/21/jonathan-pryce-theres-a-definite-shortage-of-72-year-old-welsh-men|title=Jonathan Pryce: 'There's a definite shortage of 72-year-old Welsh men'|date=2020-01-21|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-02-25|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} In August 2020, it was announced that Pryce would portray Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the final two seasons of Netflix's The Crown.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/08/jonathan-pryce-cast-as-prince-philip-the-crown-1203011673/|title=Oscar-Nominated 'Game Of Thrones' Star Jonathan Pryce Cast As Prince Philip In 'The Crown'|author=Jake Kanter|date=12 August 2020|work=Deadline Hollywood}} His performance in the fifth season earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series – Comedy/Musical or Drama.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2022/awards/awards/golden-globes-nominations-list-nominees-2-1235455667/|title=Golden Globes 2023: Nominations List|magazine=Variety|date=December 12, 2022|accessdate=December 22, 2022}} From 2022 to 2024, he starred as a retired senior MI5 officer in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses.

Pryce is married. While working at the Everyman Theatre in 1972, Pryce met actress Kate Fahy; after a decades-long relationship, they married in 2015. They live in London and have three children.{{Cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |date=2018-09-16 |title=Jonathan Pryce: 'I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/sep/16/jonathan-pryce-the-wife-qanda-interview |access-date=2024-10-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} Pryce was raised in the Presbyterian Church of Wales but is no longer religious.{{cite web|url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/jonathan-pryce-blessed-popes-filming-found-overwhelming-emotionally-68649015|title=Jonathan Pryce on being blessed during 'Two Popes' filming: 'I found it overwhelming emotionally'|last=Williams|first=Angela|date=January 31, 2020|access-date=November 3, 2021|work=Good Morning America}}

In 2006, Pryce was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Liverpool.{{Cite web|url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/commsec/calendar/Honorary%20Graduates%20of%20the%20University%202011-12.pdf|title=Honorary Graduates of the University|publisher=University of Liverpool}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He is a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama{{Cite web|url=http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/about_us/honorary_fellows.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328051106/http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/about_us/honorary_fellows.aspx|url-status=dead|title=Honorary Fellows of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama|archive-date=28 March 2012}} and a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).{{Cite web|url=http://www.lipa.ac.uk/content/AboutUs/testingcompanionspatrons.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418033613/http://www.lipa.ac.uk/content/AboutUs/testingcompanionspatrons.aspx|url-status=dead|title=LIPA Companions|archive-date=18 April 2012|publisher=Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts}} He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=59090 |date=13 June 2009 |page=8 |supp=y}}

Pryce was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.{{London Gazette|issue=63377|supp=y|page=B2|date=12 June 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/queens-birthday-honours-sterling-and-henderson-among-footballers-recognised-in-queens-honours-12330193|title=Queen's Birthday Honours: Sterling and Henderson join celebrities recognised in Queen's Honours list|publisher=Sky News}}

:Note: The source for Pryce's filmography is taken from the British Film Institute.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160507192107/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1a3f2e9 "Jonathan Pryce"], British Film Institute, accessed 16 February 2020.

:Note: The source for Pryce's television appearances comes from the British Film Institute.

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