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Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman

Birthday: 1958-03-21 | Place of Birth: New Cross, London, England, UK

Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, he is known for his versatility and intense acting style. He received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three British Academy Film Awards. His films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors to date. Oldman began acting in theatre in 1979 and made his film debut in Remembrance (1982). He continued to follow a stage career in London's Royal Court and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with credits including Cabaret, Romeo and Juliet, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Saved, The Country Wife and Hamlet. He rose to prominence in British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), while also attracting attention as the leader of a gang of football hooligans in the television film The Firm (1989). Regarded as a member of the "Brit Pack", he achieved greater recognition as a New York gangster in State of Grace (1990), Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991) and Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Oldman portrayed the villains in films such as True Romance (1993), The Fifth Element (1997), Air Force One (1997) and The Contender (2000); corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield, whom he played in Léon: The Professional (1994), was called one of cinema's best villains. He also played Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994) and later appeared in franchise roles such as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, James Gordon in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) and a human leader, Dreyfus in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017), and was nominated for his portrayals of George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and Herman J. Mankiewicz in Mank (2020). Oldman was executive producer of films like The Contender, Plunkett & Macleane (1999) and Nil by Mouth (1997), the latter of which he also wrote and directed. He featured in television shows such as Fallen Angels, Tracey Takes On... and Friends, voiced Ignitius and Viktor Reznov respectively in The Legend of Spyro and Call of Duty video games and appeared in music videos for David Bowie, Guns N' Roses and Annie Lennox.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Parthenope

as    John Cheever

2022
Slow Horses

as    Jackson Lamb

2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

as    Self (archive footage)

2022
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

as    Self (archive footage)

2021
The Woman in the Window

as    Alistair Russell

2021
Crisis

as    Dr. Tyrone Brower

2021
Exposing Muybridge

as    Himself

2020
A Place Among the Dead

as    GO

2020
Mank

as    Herman Mankiewicz

2019
Mary

as    David

2019
The Courier

as    Ezekiel Mannings

2019
The Laundromat

as    Jürgen Mossack

2019
Killers Anonymous

as    The Man

2018
Hunter Killer

as    CJCS Charles Donnegan

2018
Tau

as    Tau (voice)

2017
The Space Between Us

as    Nathaniel Shepherd

2017
The Human Face

as    Self

2017
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

as    Self (archive footage)

2017
The Hitman's Bodyguard

as    Vladislav Dukhovich

2017
Darkest Hour

as    Winston Churchill

2016
Man Down

as    Captain Peyton

2016
Criminal

as    Quaker Wells

2015
Child 44

as    General Mikhail Nesterov

2014
RoboCop

as    Dr. Dennett Norton

2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

as    Dreyfus

2014
Hannibal

as    Mason Verger