Trivia

Has had Type 1 Diabetes since the age of six.

Was offered the lead role of Peeta Mellark in the film The Hunger Games (2012), prior to the casting of Debra Zane based on the same titled, best-selling novel by Suzanne Collins. He turned down the role.

Almost gave up acting for good to be a factory welder just before he got his big break in War Horse (2011).

Was offered the lead role of Tobias 'Four' Eaton in the film Divergent (2014), based on the novel by Veronica Roth. He turned down the role.

Has a keen interest in military history and collects WW1 and WW2 weaponry.

Jeremy contracted trench foot while filming the movie War Horse.

Had never been on, or worked with, a horse before he began working on the film War Horse.

He took his stage surname, "Irvine", after the first name of his paternal grandfather, Irvine Battinson Smith.

Graduated from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Grew up in the rural village of Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire, England.

Dad Chris is an engineer and his mum Bridget is a local government politician.

Has two younger brothers.

His idols are Christian Bale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Shannon and Ryan Gosling.

One of his paternal great-grandfathers was Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, a noted philologist and university administrator (Sir Ralph was the father of Jeremy's grandmother, Kathleen).

Two of Jeremy's paternal great-great-grandparents were Scottish, one from Annan, Dumfriesshire, and one from Elie, Fife.