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Welsh native Jonathan Pryce switched from art studies to acting after winning
a RADA scholarship. After a few seasons with the Liverpool Everyman Theatre,
Pryce scored a London success in Comedians, winning a Tony award when the play
moved to Broadway in 1976. He has since starred in the Broadway musicals Miss
Saigon and Oliver! In many of his 25 films, Pryce has been seen as Machiavellian
heavies; a notable exception was his luckless clerk in Terry Gilliam's
futuristic fable Brazil (1985). Much of his American fan following is derived
from his TV commercial appearances as the Infiniti spokesman. In 1995, Jonathan
Pryce won a Cannes Film Festival best actor award for his portrayal of writer
Lytton Strachey in Carrington.
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