Gary Oldman
Sir 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.
Born: 21 March 1958
Played In
Parthenope
John Cheever
Oppenheimer
Harry Truman
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Self (archive footage)
Slow Horses
Jackson Lamb
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
Exposing Muybridge
Self
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
The Woman in the Window
Alistair Russell
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Self
Crisis
Dr. Tyrone Brower
Mank
Herman Mankiewicz
A Place Among the Dead
GO
The Courier
Ezekiel Mannings
The Laundromat
Jürgen Mossack
Mary
David
Killers Anonymous
The Man
Savage Builds
Self
Obscura
Special guest
Hunter Killer
CJCS Charles Donnegan
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
Tau
Tau (voice)
Darkest Hour
Winston Churchill
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Vladislav Dukhovich
The Human Face
Self
The Space Between Us
Nathaniel Shepherd
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
Criminal
Quaker Wells
Man Down
Captain Peyton
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
The Driver
Cy (voice)
Child 44
General Mikhail Nesterov
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dreyfus
I Am Steve McQueen
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
RoboCop
Dr. Dennett Norton
La Petite Mort
Narrator (voice)
Paranoia
Nicholas Wyatt
Ending the Knight
Self
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Self
Guns, Girls and Gambling
Elvis Elvis
Lawless
Floyd Banner
The Dark Knight Rises
Commissioner Gordon
Jack White: Unstaged
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Smiley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Sirius Black
Kung Fu Panda 2
Lord Shen (voice)
Red Riding Hood
Father Soloman
Conan
Self
One Night in Turin
Narrator
Countdown to Zero
Narrator (voice)
The Book of Eli
Carnegie
Planet 51
General Grawl (voice)
A Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
Self
Rain Fall
Holtzer
The Unborn
Rabbi Joseph Sendak
The Dark Knight
Gordon
Gotham Tonight
Lt. James Gordon
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
Self (archive footage)
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sirius Black
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Backwoods
Paul
Chutzpah, This Is?
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sirius Black
Dead Fish
Lynch
Batman Begins
Jim Gordon
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sirius Black
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Sin
Charlie Storm
Tiptoes
Rolfe
Beat the Devil
Devil
V Graham Norton
Self
Interstate 60
O.W. Grant
Greg the Bunny
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Self
The Hire
Devil
Hannibal
Mason Verger
Nobody's Baby
Buford Dill
The Contender
Shelly Runyon
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Self
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
The Early Show
Self
Quest for Camelot
Ruber (voice)
Lost in Space
Dr. Zachary Smith
Lost In Space Forever
Self (also archive footage)
Air Force One
Ivan Korshunov
The Fifth Element
Zorg
Vem Var Dracula
Self
Basquiat
Albert Milo
The Scarlet Letter
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Murder in the First
Associate Milton Glenn
Immortal Beloved
Ludwig van Beethoven
Friends
Richard Crosby
Léon: The Professional
Norman Stansfield
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
Romeo Is Bleeding
Jack Grimaldi
True Romance
Drexl Spivey
Fallen Angels
Pat Kelley
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula
HBO First Look
Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Self
JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
Director: Alan Clarke
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz
Heading Home
Ian Tyson
Henry & June
Pop
State of Grace
Jackie
Chattahoochee
Emmett Foley
Criminal Law
Ben Chase
The Firm
Bex Bissell
We Think the World of You
Johnny
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Track 29
Martin
Prick Up Your Ears
Joe Orton
Rat in the Skull
Police Constable Eric Naylor
England's Glory
Interviewee
Sid and Nancy
Sid Vicious
Honest Decent & True
Derek Bates
Rachel and the Roarettes
Gary
Screen Two
Bex
Morgan's Boy
Colin
Meantime
Coxy
Dramarama
Ben
Remembrance
Daniel
Knots Landing
Don Ross
The Oscars
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Flying Horse
Eadweard Muybridge
The Year of Magical Thinking