He is a descendant of a conservative British aristocracy. He entered Cambridge from Eton School but gave up his studies to engage in acting. He has played Byron, Nightingale's father, the youngest prime minister in British history, Robert Browning, almost all important Shakespearean characters, and the famous Sherlock Holmes. He is tall and handsome, but thin and weak, and his tongue defect makes his accent impure. However, his profound acting skills and elegant aristocratic temperament made him great as an actor. So far, he is recognized as the most authoritative player of Sherlock Holmes, but in reality, his personality is very different from that of Sherlock Holmes.

Although he is recognized as a successful actor, Jeremy Brett's true level has been underestimated until he played Holmes. People are used to his role as aristocratic—Hamlet, Browning, etc., they contact his growing up background and think that his true character is greater than his acting skills. However, his character is more like Watson, he accepted an invitation from the British Granada TV station to star in Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s, and his exquisite performance made people admire him. Under the recognition of the public and the industry, he has also become a timeless classic together with the Granada version of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

When playing Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett emphasized loyalty and precision as always. Perhaps because of this, the Granada producers strongly invited him to play, claiming to cancel the filming plan if rejected. Therefore, Holmes, who played Jeremy Brett, took off the iconic deer cap in the screen tradition and took off the hunting suit, because Jeremy Brett and the Granada team “based on research” believed that “in the Victorian era, a gentleman could not wear it in the city. This outfit walks around." The Granada version of Sherlock Holmes is a typical English gentleman, but he is definitely an unruly gentleman: Jeremy Brett perfectly combines the tension between Holmes’ inner nearly crazy neuroticism and the outwardly moderately restrained gentleman’s demeanor. Together, it looks like a hound wearing a black formal suit and holding an English cane. After the Granada version, Do The Doyle (loyal to the Tao) became a famous saying. During the filming, Jeremy Brett not only carried original novels and literary studies with him, but also maintained close communication with Doyle's daughter.

Playing Sherlock Holmes is the pinnacle of Jeremy Brett's acting career, as well as the home of his career and life. In the middle of the series, Jeremy Brett suffered a heavy blow and suffered from depression and mania. After receiving medication, Jeremy Brett became seriously ill, but still insisted on acting. Perhaps it is destined, but from the other side, this is just right for the image of the elderly Holmes. After the final episode of "The Dying Detective", Jeremy Brett passed away forever. As an actor, in the last moments of his life, Jeremy Brett and his role have truly become one. This is not a tragedy of life, but a gift from destiny. Film and reality, actors and characters, life and death, all these are intertwined. This legend has also created the unique status of the Granada version: perhaps unintentionally, or perhaps by providence, the Granada version rarely starts with the love history of Sherlock Holmes, turns in the pain of the actor's bereavement, and ends in the double death of illusion and reality. It was not Jeremy Brett that bid farewell to Holmes, it was Jeremy Brett who said goodbye to the world together with Holmes.

Thank you Jeremy Brett, you are a great actor and an immortal Sherlock Holmes.

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