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Gary Oldman
Actor, Producer, Director, WriterBorn March 21, 1958 (66 years)
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. He 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). He 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 as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017). He 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.
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. He 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). He 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 as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017). He 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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| 2024 | Parthenope · as John Cheever |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer · as Harry Truman |
| 2022 | Bonnie · as Jackie |
| 2022 | Dracula Unearthed · as Count Dracula (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Slow Horses (TV Series) · as Jackson Lamb |
| 2021 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard · as Vladislav Dukhovich (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | The Woman in the Window · as Alistair Russell |
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | Mank · as Herman Mankiewicz |
| 2020 | A Place Among the Dead · as Go |
| 2019 | The Courier · as Ezekiel Mannings |
| 2019 | The Laundromat · as Jürgen Mossack |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Killers Anonymous · as The Man |
| 2018 | Tau · as Tau (voice) |
| 2018 | Hunter Killer · as Cjcs Charles Donnegan |
| 2017 | Darkest Hour · as Winston Churchill |
| 2017 | The Hitman's Bodyguard · as Vladislav Dukhovich |
| 2017 | The Space Between Us · as Nathaniel Shepherd |
| 2017 | The Hitman's Bodyguard: Alternate Scenes · as Vladislav Dukhovich |
| 2017 | The Hitman's Bodyguard: Extended Scenes · as Vladislav Dukhovich |
| 2017 | The Hitman's Bodyguard: Deleted Scenes · as Vladislav Dukhovich |
| 2016 | Criminal · as Quaker Wells |
| 2015 | Man Down · as Captain Peyton |
| 2015 | Child 44 · as General Mikhail Nesterov |
| 2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes · as Dreyfus |
| 2014 | RoboCop · as Dr. Dennett Norton |
| 2013 | Paranoia · as Nicholas Wyatt |
| 2012 | Guns, Girls and Gambling · as Elvis Elvis |
| 2012 | Lawless · as Floyd Banner |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises · as Commissioner Gordon |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers (TV Series) · as James Gordon (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen · as (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Deleted Scenes · as George Smiley |
| 2011 | Touch of Evil · as The Menacing Dummy |
| 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy · as George Smiley |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 · as Sirius Black |
| 2011 | Kung Fu Panda 2 · as Lord Shen (voice) |
| 2011 | Red Riding Hood · as Father Soloman |
| 2010 | Countdown to Zero · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | One Night in Turin · as Narrator |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli · as Carnegie |
| 2010 | Behind the Carol: The Full Motion-Capture Experience · as Bob Cratchit |
| 2009 | Planet 51 · as General Grawl (voice) |
| 2009 | A Christmas Carol · as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice) |
| 2009 | Rain Fall · as Holtzer |
| 2009 | The Unborn · as Rabbi Joseph Sendak |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight · as Gordon |
| 2008 | Gotham Tonight (TV Series) · as Lt. James Gordon |
| 2007 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix · as Sirius Black |
| 2006 | The Backwoods · as Paul |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire · as Sirius Black |
| 2005 | Dead Fish · as Lynch |
| 2005 | Batman Begins · as Jim Gordon |
| 2004 | Creating the Vision · as Sirius Black |
| 2004 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · as Sirius Black |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) |
| 2003 | Sin · as Charlie Storm |
| 2002 | Tiptoes · as Rolfe |
| 2002 | Beat the Devil · as Devil |
| 2002 | Interstate 60 · as O.w. Grant |
| 2002 | Greg the Bunny (TV Series) |
| 2001 | The Hire (TV Series) · as Devil |
| 2001 | Nobody's Baby · as Buford Dill |
| 2001 | Hannibal · as Mason Verger |
| 2000 | The Contender · as Shelly Runyon |
| 1999 | Jesus · as Pontius Pilate |
| 1999 | Jesus (TV Series) · as Pontius Pilate |
| 1998 | Guns N' Roses: Welcome to the Videos · as Devil |
| 1998 | Quest for Camelot · as Ruber (voice) |
| 1998 | Lost in Space · as Dr. Zachary Smith |
| 1997 | Air Force One · as Ivan Korshunov |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element · as Zorg |
| 1996 | Basquiat · as Albert Milo |
| 1996 | Tracey Takes On... (TV Series) · as Hairdresser |
| 1995 | The Scarlet Letter · as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale |
| 1995 | Murder in the First · as Glenn |
| 1994 | Immortal Beloved · as Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| 1994 | Friends (TV Series) · as Richard Crosby |
| 1994 | Léon: The Professional · as Norman Stansfield |
| 1993 | Romeo Is Bleeding · as Jack Grimaldi |
| 1993 | True Romance · as Drexl Spivey |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels (TV Series) · as Pat Kelley |
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula · as Dracula |
| 1991 | JFK · as Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1991 | Heading Home · as Ian Tyson |
| 1990 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead · as Rosencrantz |
| 1990 | Henry & June · as Pop |
| 1990 | State of Grace · as Jackie |
| 1989 | Chattahoochee · as Emmett Foley |
| 1989 | The Firm · as Clive 'bex' Bissell |
| 1988 | The Firm · as Bex Bissell |
| 1988 | We Think the World of You · as Johnny |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) |
| 1988 | |
| 1988 | Criminal Law · as Ben Chase |
| 1987 | Prick Up Your Ears · as Joe Orton |
| 1986 | Sid and Nancy · as Sid Vicious |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Bex |
| 1984 | Morgan's Boy (TV Series) · as Colin |
| 1983 | Meantime · as Coxy |
| 1983 | Dramarama (TV Series) · as Ben |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1982 | Remembrance · as Daniel |
| 1982 | Timewatch (TV Series) · as Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1979 | Knots Landing (TV Series) · as Don Ross |