Max Irons – Here Are All He Was And Is Up To

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Max Irons

Max Irons is an English actor who has gone on to do what many of his nationals do – star in Hollywood projects. Here are all the things you need to know about him, from his famous artistic ancestry in both Ireland and England to his credit, down to the smallest facts.

Max Irons – How old is he?

Max Irons was born Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons on October 17, 1985, in a place called Camden in London (it is usually always London for these actors – at least a large chunk of the Brits on our database). He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2008. Before this, he had attended Dragon School in Oxford and Bryanston School in Dorset with rumors saying he was expelled from the latter school.

Max Irons is 34 years old.

His parents and family

Max Irons is from a famous family. His father is the actor Jeremy Irons who has made exploits on London stages, in British movies and TV and in Hollywood. He is most known for his role in the American action-fantasy movie “Eragon” in 2006 or if you are of the classics “Kafka” in 1981 which earned him the Oscar.

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Mr. Irons was first married to Julie Hallam in 1969, a woman he divorced the same year. Nine years later, he got married to the Irish actress Sinéad Cusack. She is mostly known for her stage acts and is a legend of Royal Shakespeare Company. She and her husband are blessed with two sons, Samuel and Max Irons. Samuel is an actor and also a photographer. Before her marriage to Irons, Ms. Cusack mothered a child called Richard Boyd Barrett with Vincent Dowling the theater director whom they gave out for adoption. Barrett was to grow up to become a politician.

Through his mother, he has famous aunties, uncle, and grandparents of the famous Irish acting Cusack family.

Max Irons – what movies has he been in?

Max Irons is most known for his role in the American romantic and horror film “Red Riding Hood”. The movie is produced by a certain Leonardo DiCaprio and starring Amanda Seyfried. The film met with widespread negative reviews but managed to make 89 million dollars off a budget of 42 million dollars. Max Irons played the role of Henry Lazar son of a wealthy man who was arranged to marry the title character.

In 2013, he was in “The Host” the romantic science-fiction thriller movie adapted from Stephanie Meyer’s novel of the same title in which the earth was taken over by small parasitic aliens called “Souls”. They get into your body, suppress your consciousness and wipe out your memory. Irons played the character of Jared the boyfriend of the lead character Melanie played by Saoirse Ronan the beautiful and blond Irish and American actress.

In the aspect of TV, he was the first Yorkist King Edwards IV in “The White Queen” the 2013 British historical miniseries set in the fifteen century on BBC in the UK and Starz in the United States. He was in “Tutankhamun” the miniseries on the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter. He was also in “Candor” on Audience Network and “The Little Drummer Boy” on BBC.

Max Irons is also a model. He has modeled for many companies one of which is Burberry. So much that in 2015, he was named one of GQs 50 best-dressed British men.

Max Irons – relationship

Max Irons is not married. In fact, as of the time of writing this, as far as we know, he is unattached. But this has not always been the situation. He was with Emily Berrington the English actress who was in Fox’s “24: Live Another Day”. She and Max met on the set of “The White Queen” in 2013 and struck a friendship that turned into a romantic affair. The relationship was short-lived and there is no information to show that it even went past the year 2013.

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Irons has also been romantically linked with the English-Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson who is most known for her role in “Drowning Ghost” and whom he met on the set of “The White Queen” as well. Another woman that he was said to have dated is the Irish-American multiple awards-winning actress Saoirse Ronan who was the heroine of the film “The Host” side by side Max.

Height and net worth

Max Irons is a tall chap. According to IMDb, he stands at 6 feet 2½ inches (or just under 1.90 meters). In the aspect of his wealth, looking at the standard in Hollywood, we cannot just say that he is a rich man even though we would like to but many who might not even be worth 1% of that might raise an eyebrows and go on, if you let them (we won’t) point at other actors who earn far more than Max does and then pass their judgment on the quicksand foundation of hastiness, cant, and vainglory.

Max Irons net worth is put at three million dollars.

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