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