Jeremy Irons, Long Time Actor, Invaluable Yet Forgotten.

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Why is it that we'll give Helen Mirren applause for the rest of her life, and we'll sit back and let Jeremy Irons fade back into the background? He won a Best Supporting Actor SAG award for his work in the HBO miniseries, "Elizabeth", working arm in arm with Mirren. Yet for all that, the poor man's being forgotten again. I have seen him in dozens of roles, each one different from the last, and always he gives the movie or play as a whole as sense of worth and class. Irons gets hired on to support other actors who might not have supported themselves alone - and gets no recognition for it. He was cast in "Man In The Iron Mask" and performed admirably. He has taken on questionable plays such as "Lolita", and turns them topsy-turvy, creating masterpieces. So what is it about the American public that prefers to forget Jeremy Irons? Is he too English? Too tall, too classy? I relish everything that he does, even the way he dresses. Class is not something that you can buy, it's something that you either have or don't have. So tell us world, what's up? Do you like Jeremy Irons as an actor or despise him? Why?