Gary Oldman

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.

Known For

Birth Location New Cross, London, England, UK
Born 1958-03-21

Movies

Oppenheimer as Harry Truman
2023
Dracula Unearthed as Count Dracula (Archive Footage)
2022
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as Self (archive footage)
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire as Self (archive footage)
2022
Exposing Muybridge as Himself
2021
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard as Vladislav Dukhovic (archive footage)
2021
The Woman in the Window as Alistair Russell
2021
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
2021
Crisis as Dr. Tyrone Brower
2021
Mank as Herman Mankiewicz
2020
The Courier as Ezekiel Mannings
2019
The Laundromat as Jürgen Mossack
2019
Mary as David
2019
Killers Anonymous as The Man
2019
Obscura as Himself
2018
Hunter Killer as CJCS Charles Donnegan
2018
2018
Tau as Tau (voice)
2018
Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill
2017
The Hitman's Bodyguard as Vladislav Dukhovich
2017
The Human Face as Self
2017
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Space Between Us as Nathaniel Shepherd
2017
2016
Criminal as Quaker Wells
2016
Man Down as Captain Peyton
2015
The Driver as Cy (voice)
2015
Child 44 as General Mikhail Nesterov
2015
2014
RoboCop as Dr. Dennett Norton
2014
La Petite Mort as Narrator (voice)
2013
Paranoia as Nicholas Wyatt
2013
2012
2012
Lawless as Floyd Banner
2012
The Dark Knight Rises as James Gordon
2012
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2012
Touch of Evil as The Menacing Dummy
2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley
2011
Kung Fu Panda 2 as Lord Shen (voice)
2011
Red Riding Hood as Father Soloman
2011
One Night in Turin as Narrator
2010
The Book of Eli as Carnegie
2010
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
2009
The Dark Knight as James Gordon
2008
The Backwoods as Paul
2006
Dead Fish as Lynch
2005
Batman Begins as James Gordon
2005
Tiptoes as Rolfe
2003
Sin as Charlie Storm
2003
Beat the Devil as Devil
2002
Interstate 60 as O.W. Grant
2002
Hannibal as Mason Verger
2001
Nobody's Baby as Buford Dill
2001
The Contender as Shelly Runyon
2000
2000
Jesus as Pontius Pilate
1999
Quest for Camelot as Ruber (voice)
1998
Lost in Space as Dr. Zachary Smith
1998
Lost In Space Forever as Himself (also archive footage)
1998
Air Force One as Ivan Korshunov
1997
The Fifth Element as Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg
1997
1996
Basquiat as Albert Milo
1996
The Scarlet Letter as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
1995
1995
Immortal Beloved as Ludwig van Beethoven
1994
Léon: The Professional as Norman Stansfield
1994
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
1993
Romeo Is Bleeding as Jack Grimaldi
1993
True Romance as Drexl Spivey
1993
1992
JFK as Lee Harvey Oswald
1991
Heading Home as Ian Tyson
1991
Henry & June as Pop
1990
State of Grace as Jackie
1990
Chattahoochee as Emmett Foley
1990
Criminal Law as Ben Chase
1989
The Firm as Bex Bissell
1989
1988
Track 29 as Martin
1988
Prick Up Your Ears as Joe Orton
1987
Rat in the Skull as Police Constable Eric Naylor
1987
England's Glory as Interviewee
1987
Sid and Nancy as Sid Vicious
1986
Honest Decent & True as Derek Bates
1986
Morgan's Boy as Colin
1984
Meantime as Coxy
1983
Remembrance as Daniel
1982
Flying Horse as Eadweard Muybridge
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Movies

2012
Donut Director
2006
Nobody's Baby Producer
2001
The Contender Executive Producer
2000
Nil by Mouth Writer
1997
Nil by Mouth Producer
1997
Nil by Mouth Director
1997
Flying Horse Writer
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Flying Horse Director
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