Star File

Jeremy Strong

An Emmy Award®-winning actor, Jeremy Strong is a soulful and transformational actor who disappears into every performance he gives. In a performance that has become iconic among critics and audiences alike, Strong stars as Kendall Roy on HBO’s Emmy Award® - winning series  Succession, created by Jesse Armstrong and executive produced by Adam McKay.  Strong’s lead performance has been called the “most complex and committed work on television right now,” earning him the 2020 Emmy Award® for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and the 2022 Golden Globe Award® for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama. His work on Season 3 earned him a second Emmy Award® nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. The fourth and final season of the show premiered on March 26^th. Most recently, Strong starred alongside Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins in James Gray’s film Armageddon Time, which Focus Features released. Strong’s performance was a standout among critics and the film, which premiered at the Cannes and Telluride Film Festivals, was honored among the Top Independent Films of the year by The National Board of Review. Strong has two projects deep in development: He will star in and executive produce Tobias Lindholm’s series The Best of Us, which tells the story of the first responders of 9/11 and pays tribute to those impacted, relying on heavily researched accounts. He is also expected to star in and executive produce a limited series about the controversial 737 Max planes. The untitled project is in development at Amazon Studios with Plan B executive producing. Previously, he starred in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 alongside Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Rylance, Frank Langella and Michael Keaton. The film went on to earn six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture.  Strong co-starred as Vinny Daniel in Adam McKay’s The Big Short, alongside Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell. The Big Short was nominated for five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture.” Strong played supporting roles in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis, which was nominated for twelve Academy Awards® including Best Picture, and in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, nominated for five Academy Awards® including Best Picture. Other film work includes Guy Ritchie’s The Gentleman opposite Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell; David Dobkin’s The Judge opposite Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall; Steven Knight’s thriller Serenity opposite Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway; Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut Molly’s Game opposite Jessica Chastain; Kathryn Bigelow’s drama Detroit about the 1967 Detroit race riots; and Oren Moverman’s The Messenger opposite Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson. Strong played Lee Harvey Oswald in Peter Landesman’s acclaimed drama Parkland and James Reeb in Ava Duvernay’s Selma, which was Oscar® nominated for Best Picture. Strong began his career on the stage working in numerous acclaimed Off-Broadway productions. He made his Broadway debut in 2008, starring opposite Frank Langella in A Man For All Seasons, directed by Doug Hughes.  Jeremy Strong is a recipient of the prestigious Lincoln Center Theater Annenberg Fellowship for “an artist of extraordinary talent.” He trained at Yale, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company.