
Gary Oldman
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Biography
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.
Known For

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Oscars

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Graham Norton Show

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Honest Trailers

The Early Show

Friends

HBO First Look

Knots Landing

Fallen Angels

Savage Builds

Creating the World of Harry Potter

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Oppenheimer

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Dark Knight

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Lost in Space

Planet 51

True Romance

Batman Begins

Kung Fu Panda 2

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Jesus

JFK

Hannibal

Criminal

The Hitman's Bodyguard

Léon: The Professional

The Fifth Element

Lawless

Child 44

Rain Fall

The Book of Eli

The Laundromat

A Christmas Carol

The Woman in the Window

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank

Red Riding Hood

The Dark Knight Rises

Hunter Killer

Air Force One

RoboCop

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Darkest Hour

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Slow Horses

Sin

Mary

Immortal Beloved

Mank
Production Credits
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