Award-winning
British actor, born June 1, 1947 in
Wales. Pryce studied at the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in
London and acted with the
Royal Shakespeare Company. He started acting on
British TV in the mid-1970s.
His breakthrough movie role was as
Sam Lowry, the main character in
Terry Gilliam's
Brazil. Many Americans may remember him as the
TV spokesman for
Infiniti's
car advertisements in the mid-1990s.
Among many notable film performances, he played Mr. Dark in the 1983 movie version
of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes; appeared in Gilliam's The
Adventures of Baron Munchausen; had a small role in the screen version of
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross; played Juan Peron in the movie version
of Evita; and played a James Bond villain in Tomorrow Never Dies. He won
Best Actor
at Cannes for his role as Lytton Strachey in Carrington (1995).
He's done respected theatrical work as well, winning Tony Awards for his work
in Comedians (1977) and in the original Broadway cast of Miss Saigon (1990).