Age
67
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Birthday
1958-03-21
Birth place
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. 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.
John Cheever
Harry Truman
Count Dracula (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
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Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
Alistair Russell
Self (archive footage)
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Dr. Tyrone Brower
Herman Mankiewicz
GO
Ezekiel Mannings
Jürgen Mossack
David
The Man
Self
CJCS Charles Donnegan
Self (archive footage)
Tau (voice)
Winston Churchill
Vladislav Dukhovich
Self
Self (archive footage)
Nathaniel Shepherd
Self
Quaker Wells
Captain Peyton
Cy (voice)
General Mikhail Nesterov
Dreyfus
Self
Dr. Dennett Norton
Self (archive footage)
Narrator (voice)
Nicholas Wyatt
Self
Self
Elvis
Floyd Banner
Commissioner Gordon
Self
(archive footage)
The Menacing Dummy
George Smiley
Sirius Black
Lord Shen (voice)
Father Soloman
Narrator
Narrator (voice)
Carnegie
General Grawl (voice)
Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
Self
Holtzer
Rabbi Joseph Sendak
Gordon
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Sirius Black
Paul
Sirius Black
Lynch
Jim Gordon
Self
Sirius Black
Charlie Storm
Rolfe
Devil
O.W. Grant
Self
Mason Verger
Buford Dill
Shelly Runyon
Self
Pontius Pilate
Ruber (voice)
Dr. Zachary Smith
Self (also archive footage)
Ivan Korshunov
Zorg
Self
Albert Milo
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Glenn
Ludwig van Beethoven
Norman Stansfield
Dracula
Self
Ian Tyson
Pop
Eadweard Muybridge
Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
Jack Grimaldi
Drexl Spivey
Self
Lee Harvey Oswald
Rosencrantz
Jackie
Emmett Foley
Ben Chase
Bex Bissell
Johnny
Martin
Joe Orton
Police Constable Eric Naylor
Interviewee
Sid Vicious
Derek Bates
Colin
Coxy
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