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