1958-03-21 New Cross, London, England, UK
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 and 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) and 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 for his role as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017), and 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.
Oppenheimer | Harry Truman | 2023-07-19 | |
Winona Ryder – Die Geister, die sie rief | Self (archive footage) | 2022-04-09 | |
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts | Self | 2022-01-01 | |
Dracula Unearthed | Count Dracula (Archive Footage) | 2022-10-31 | |
Nosferatu – Ein Film wie ein Vampir | Self (archive footage) | 2022-03-09 | |
Exposing Muybridge | Himself | 2021-10-01 | |
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony | Self (archive footage) | 2021-03-26 | |
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank | Self | 2021-02-27 | |
Crisis | Dr. Tyrone Brower | 2021-02-26 | |
The Woman in the Window | Alistair Russell | 2021-05-13 | |
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | Vladislav Dukhovic (archive footage) | 2021-06-14 | |
Mank | Herman Mankiewicz | 2020-11-13 | |
A Place Among the Dead | GO | 2020-11-09 | |
The Courier | Ezekiel Mannings | 2019-11-22 | |
Killers Anonymous | The Man | 2019-06-27 | |
The Laundromat | Jürgen Mossack | 2019-09-27 | |
Mary | David | 2019-09-19 | |
Hunter Killer | CJCS Charles Donnegan | 2018-10-19 | |
Tau | Tau (voice) | 2018-06-29 | |
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 | |
Obscura | Himself | 2018-10-24 | |
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Self (archive footage) | 2017-05-05 | |
The Space Between Us | Nathaniel Shepherd | 2017-01-26 | |
The Hitman's Bodyguard | Vladislav Dukhovich | 2017-08-16 | |
The Human Face | Self | 2017-08-01 | |
Darkest Hour | Winston Churchill | 2017-11-22 | |
Criss Angel Trick'd Up | Himself | 2016-10-12 | |
Criminal | Quaker Wells | 2016-04-07 | |
The Driver | Cy (voice) | 2015-06-03 | |
Child 44 | General Mikhail Nesterov | 2015-03-15 | |
Man Down | Captain Peyton | 2015-09-12 | |
RoboCop | Dr. Dennett Norton | 2014-01-30 | |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Dreyfus | 2014-07-08 | |
I Am Steve McQueen | Self | 2014-06-24 | |
La Petite Mort | Narrator (voice) | 2013-08-15 | |
Paranoia | Nicholas Wyatt | 2013-08-14 | |
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-24 | |
The Dark Knight Rises | James Gordon | 2012-07-17 | |
Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 | |
Lawless | Floyd Banner | 2012-08-29 | |
Jack White: Unstaged | Himself | 2012-04-27 | |
Guns, Girls and Gambling | Elvis | 2012-09-05 | |
Ending the Knight | Self | 2012-12-04 | |
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter | Self | 2012-10-10 | |
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | George Smiley | 2011-09-16 | |
Red Riding Hood | Father Soloman | 2011-03-10 | |
Touch of Evil | The Menacing Dummy | 2011-12-06 | |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Sirius Black | 2011-07-12 | |
Kung Fu Panda 2 | Lord Shen (voice) | 2011-05-25 | |
The Book of Eli | Carnegie | 2010-01-14 | |
One Night in Turin | Narrator | 2010-05-11 | |
Rain Fall | Holtzer | 2009-04-24 | |
Heath Ledger: A Tribute | Self | 2009-06-01 | |
A Christmas Carol | Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice) | 2009-11-04 | |
The Unborn | Rabbi Joseph Sendak | 2009-01-09 | |
Planet 51 | General Grawl (voice) | 2009-11-19 | |
The Dark Knight | James Gordon | 2008-07-16 | |
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka | Self (archive footage) | 2007-10-02 | |
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' | Self (archive footage) | 2007-10-02 | |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Sirius Black | 2007-07-08 | |
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' | Self (archive footage) | 2007-10-08 | |
Bosque de sombras | Paul | 2006-09-24 | |
Dead Fish | Lynch | 2005-10-11 | |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Sirius Black | 2005-11-16 | |
Chutzpah, This Is? | 2005-11-22 | ||
Batman Begins | James Gordon | 2005-06-10 | |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Sirius Black | 2004-05-31 | |
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter | Self | 2004-06-11 | |
Tiptoes | Rolfe | 2003-09-08 | |
Sin | Charlie Storm | 2003-01-01 | |
Interstate 60 | O.W. Grant | 2002-04-13 | |
Beat the Devil | Devil | 2002-11-22 | |
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal | Self | 2001-08-21 | |
Hannibal | Mason Verger | 2001-02-08 | |
Nobody's Baby | Buford Dill | 2001-01-01 | |
The Contender | Shelly Runyon | 2000-10-13 | |
Alan Clarke: His Own Man | Himself | 2000-09-18 | |
Jesus | Pontius Pilate | 1999-12-05 | |
Lost In Space Forever | Himself (also archive footage) | 1998-01-01 | |
Lost in Space | Dr. Zachary Smith | 1998-04-03 | |
Quest for Camelot | Ruber (voice) | 1998-05-15 | |
The Fifth Element | Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg | 1997-05-02 | |
Air Force One | Ivan Korshunov | 1997-07-25 | |
In Search of Dracula | Self | 1996-10-02 | |
Basquiat | Albert Milo | 1996-08-09 | |
Murder in the First | Glenn | 1995-01-20 | |
The Scarlet Letter | Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale | 1995-10-13 | |
Léon: The Professional | Norman Stansfield | 1994-09-14 | |
Immortal Beloved | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1994-12-16 | |
True Romance | Drexl Spivey | 1993-09-09 | |
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? | Lee Harvey Oswald (voice) | 1993-11-09 | |
Romeo Is Bleeding | Jack Grimaldi | 1993-09-13 | |
Making 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' | Self | 1992-12-31 | |
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. | Self | 1992-01-01 | |
Bram Stoker's Dracula | Dracula | 1992-11-13 | |
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy | Self | 1992-01-01 | |
JFK | Lee Harvey Oswald | 1991-12-20 | |
Heading Home | Ian Tyson | 1991-01-13 | |
Director: Alan Clarke | 1991-07-12 | ||
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Rosencrantz | 1991-02-08 | |
Chattahoochee | Emmett Foley | 1990-04-20 | |
Henry & June | Pop | 1990-09-28 | |
State of Grace | Jackie | 1990-09-14 | |
The Firm | Bex Bissell | 1989-02-26 | |
Criminal Law | Ben Chase | 1989-04-28 | |
Track 29 | Martin | 1988-05-15 | |
We Think the World of You | Johnny | 1988-12-22 | |
Prick Up Your Ears | Joe Orton | 1987-04-17 | |
Rat in the Skull | Police Constable Eric Naylor | 1987-01-01 | |
England's Glory | Interviewee | 1987-01-01 | |
Honest Decent & True | Derek Bates | 1986-02-09 | |
Sid and Nancy | Sid Vicious | 1986-09-12 | |
Morgan's Boy | Colin | 1984-10-10 | |
Meantime | Coxy | 1983-10-16 | |
Remembrance | Daniel | 1982-10-01 | |
Flying Horse | Eadweard Muybridge | ||
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