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Jonathan Pryce as Governer Weatherby Swann
JONATHAN PRYCE reprises his role from “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” as Governor Weatherby Swann. Pryce has excelled in equal measure on both stage and screen, and in the process has demonstrated himself to be one of Britain's most versatile talents. For his work on stage he has received Olivier Awards for Best Actor as “Hamlet” and for Outstanding Performance in a Musical for “Miss Saigon,” in which he originated the role of The Engineer.
When Pryce opened on Broadway in“Miss Saigon,” he garnered the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Tony awards. He has also received Olivier nominations for “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Royal Shakespeare Company,and for the role of Fagin in the 1995 West End revival of the musical“Oliver!”directed by Sam Mendes.
Pryce also starred as Henry Higgins in the recent hit West End revival of “My Fair Lady” (Olivier nomination) and recently completed a long run starring in the smash hit Broadway musical “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.” For his Broadway debut in “Comedians” in 1976 directed by Mike  Nichols he received his first Tony award and he has most recently starred in Albee's “The Goat or Who is Sylvia” in London's West End.
On screen, Pryce's roles have been equally wide-ranging, most notably in Terry Gilliam's “Brazil” and “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” and `The Brothers Grimm”, Martin Scorsese's “The Age of Innocence,” David Mamet's “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Christopher Hampton's “Carrington” (for which he received the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival), Alan Parker's “Evita” (in which he acted and sang the role of Juan Peron), the James Bond thriller “Tomorrow Never Dies” and John Frankenheimer's “Ronin.” Terrence Malick's “The New World” and John Irvin's “The Moon and the Stars.” Later this year  he will be seen in George Clooney's film “Leatherheads” alongside Clooney and Rene Zellweger.
For television, Pryce was honored with Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for HBO's “Barbarians at the Gate,” and has appeared in numerous productions including “Thicker Than Water,” “Great Moments in Aviation,” “Mr. Wroe's Virgins” and “Selling Hitler.”  Most recently, he portrayed Sherlock Holmes in “The Baker Street Irregulars”.
In the fall Jonathan returns to the London stage in a major revival of “Glengarry Glen  Ross” playing Shelley Levine.
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