Gary Oldman
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-03-21
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Parthenope
Oppenheimer
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Slow Horses
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Exposing Muybridge
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
The Woman in the Window
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Crisis
Mank
A Place Among the Dead
The Courier
The Laundromat
Mary
Killers Anonymous
Savage Builds
Obscura
Hunter Killer
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Tau
Darkest Hour
The Hitman's Bodyguard
The Human Face
The Space Between Us
Man Down
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Movies with Ali Plumb
Criminal
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Driver
Child 44
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
I Am Steve McQueen
Late Night with Seth Meyers
RoboCop
La Petite Mort
Paranoia
Ending the Knight
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Guns, Girls and Gambling
Lawless
The Dark Knight Rises
Jack White: Unstaged
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Kung Fu Panda 2
Red Riding Hood
Conan
One Night in Turin
Countdown to Zero
The Book of Eli
Planet 51
A Christmas Carol
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Rain Fall
The Unborn
The Dark Knight
Gotham Tonight
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Graham Norton Show
The Backwoods
Chutzpah, This Is?
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Dead Fish
Batman Begins
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Sin
Tiptoes
Beat the Devil
V Graham Norton
Interstate 60
Greg the Bunny
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
The Hire
Hannibal
Nobody's Baby
The Contender
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Jesus
Jesus
The Early Show
Quest for Camelot
Lost in Space
Lost in Space Forever
Air Force One
The Fifth Element
Basquiat
Tracey Takes On...
The Scarlet Letter
Murder in the First
Immortal Beloved
Friends
Léon: The Professional
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Romeo Is Bleeding
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
True Romance
Late Show with David Letterman
Fallen Angels
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Bram Stoker's Dracula
HBO First Look
JFK
Director: Alan Clarke
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Heading Home
Henry & June
State of Grace
Chattahoochee
Criminal Law
The Firm
We Think the World of You
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Track 29
Prick Up Your Ears
Rat in the Skull
England's Glory
Sid and Nancy
Honest Decent & True
Rachel and the Roarettes
Summer Season
Screen Two
Morgan's Boy
Meantime
Dramarama
Frontline
Remembrance
Timewatch
Knots Landing
The South Bank Show
Film '72
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
The Year of Magical Thinking
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?