Gary Oldman
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
139
Gender
Male
Birthday
1958-03-21 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Gary Oldman
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
Friends
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Conan
Slow Horses
The Graham Norton Show
The Dark Knight
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Oppenheimer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Golden Globe Awards
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Knots Landing
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
A Christmas Carol
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Begins
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Léon: The Professional
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Kung Fu Panda 2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Fifth Element
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Oscars
The Book of Eli
Rain Fall
HBO First Look
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Hunter Killer
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
A Place Among the Dead
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Lawless
Planet 51
Red Riding Hood
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Fallen Angels
Interstate 60
The Firm
V Graham Norton
The Courier
RoboCop
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Henry & June
Parthenope
Killers Anonymous
Sin
Air Force One
The Unborn
True Romance
Remembrance
Tau
Mank
Track 29
JFK
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Quest for Camelot
Darkest Hour
Immortal Beloved
Paranoia
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Criminal
Heading Home
Jesus
Basquiat
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Laundromat
Greg the Bunny
Criminal Law
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Murder in the First
Meantime
Crisis
Dramarama
Dead Fish
Child 44
Sid and Nancy
Lost in Space
The Woman in the Window
Romeo Is Bleeding
Ending the Knight
The Space Between Us
State of Grace
Chattahoochee
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Hire
The Scarlet Letter
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Guns, Girls and Gambling
Hannibal
Nobody's Baby
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
I Am Steve McQueen
Tiptoes
The Early Show
Rachel and the Roarettes
The Backwoods
Prick Up Your Ears
Lost In Space Forever
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Honest Decent & True
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
We Think the World of You
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Flying Horse
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
Beat the Devil
Man Down
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Mary
Countdown to Zero
Gotham Tonight
Vem Var Dracula
Jesus
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
The Contender
Savage Builds
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
Director: Alan Clarke
La Petite Mort
Rat in the Skull
One Night in Turin
Chutzpah, This Is?
Jack White: Unstaged
Exposing Muybridge
The Human Face
England's Glory
Morgan's Boy
Obscura
The Driver
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
