Gary Oldman
Known for Acting · 145 credits
- Born
- 1958-03-21 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Gary Leonard Oldman · Sir Gary Oldman · Sir Gary Leonard 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
TV Shows (29)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
Friends
1994
as Richard Crosby
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
Conan
2010
as Self / Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
Knots Landing
1979
as Don Ross
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Slow Horses
2022
as Jackson Lamb
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
Screen Two
1985
as Bex / Derek Bates / Ian Tyson
The Oscars
1953
as Self
V Graham Norton
2002
as Self
Fallen Angels
1993
as Pat Kelley
HBO First Look
1992
as Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
as Self - Guest
Dramarama
1983
as Ben
Greg the Bunny
2002
The Hire
2001
as Devil
The Early Show
1999
as Self
Gotham Tonight
2008
as Lt. James Gordon
Movies with Ali Plumb
2016
as Self
Morgan's Boy
1984
as Colin
Jesus
1999
as Pontius Pilate
Savage Builds
2019
as Self
Movies (116)
The Dark Knight
2008
as Gordon
Oppenheimer
2023
as Harry Truman
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Sirius Black
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Sirius Black
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Sirius Black
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
as Commissioner Gordon
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Sirius Black
Léon: The Professional
1994
as Norman Stansfield
Batman Begins
2005
as Jim Gordon
The Fifth Element
1997
as Zorg
Hunter Killer
2018
as CJCS Charles Donnegan
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011
as Lord Shen (voice)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014
as Dreyfus
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
as Dracula
True Romance
1993
as Drexl Spivey
The Book of Eli
2010
as Carnegie
The Hitman's Bodyguard
2017
as Vladislav Dukhovich
RoboCop
2014
as Dr. Dennett Norton
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self
Darkest Hour
2017
as Winston Churchill
Air Force One
1997
as Ivan Korshunov
Lawless
2012
as Floyd Banner
Parthenope
2024
as John Cheever
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
as Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
as George Smiley
Criminal
2016
as Quaker Wells
A Christmas Carol
2009
as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
Planet 51
2009
as General Grawl (voice)
Lost in Space
1998
as Dr. Zachary Smith
JFK
1991
as Lee Harvey Oswald
Red Riding Hood
2011
as Father Soloman
Interstate 60
2002
as O.W. Grant
The Unborn
2009
as Rabbi Joseph Sendak
Mank
2020
as Herman Mankiewicz
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
The Space Between Us
2017
as Nathaniel Shepherd
The Woman in the Window
2021
as Alistair Russell
Child 44
2015
as General Mikhail Nesterov
Henry & June
1990
as Pop
Tau
2018
as Tau (voice)
Jesus
1999
as Pontius Pilate
State of Grace
1990
as Jackie
The Scarlet Letter
1995
as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Man Down
2016
as Captain Peyton
Paranoia
2013
as Nicholas Wyatt
Murder in the First
1995
as Associate Milton Glenn
The Courier
2019
as Ezekiel Mannings
Crisis
2021
as Dr. Tyrone Brower
The Laundromat
2019
as Jürgen Mossack
Quest for Camelot
1998
as Ruber (voice)
Mary
2019
as David
Romeo Is Bleeding
1993
as Jack Grimaldi
Basquiat
1996
as Albert Milo
Sid and Nancy
1986
as Sid Vicious
The Contender
2000
as Shelly Runyon
Ending the Knight
2012
as Self
Track 29
1988
as Martin
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
as Rosencrantz
Hannibal
2001
as Mason Verger
Immortal Beloved
1994
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Meantime
1983
as Coxy
Guns, Girls and Gambling
2012
as Elvis Elvis
Killers Anonymous
2019
as The Man
Tiptoes
2002
as Rolfe
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Sin
2003
as Charlie Storm
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
as Self
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
as Self
Chattahoochee
1990
as Emmett Foley
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992
as Self
Rain Fall
2009
as Holtzer
The Backwoods
2006
as Paul
Criminal Law
1989
as Ben Chase
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009
as Self
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Joe Orton
The Firm
1989
as Bex Bissell
Nobody's Baby
2001
as Buford Dill
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021
as Self
Dead Fish
2005
as Lynch
A Place Among the Dead
2020
as GO
I Am Steve McQueen
2014
as Self
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Driver
2015
as Cy (voice)
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
2012
as Self
We Think the World of You
1988
as Johnny
Remembrance
1982
as Daniel
Rat in the Skull
1987
as Police Constable Eric Naylor
England's Glory
1987
as Interviewee
Heading Home
1991
as Ian Tyson
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
Vem Var Dracula
1996
as Self
Lost In Space Forever
1998
as Self (also archive footage)
Beat the Devil
2002
as Devil
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Obscura
2018
as Special guest
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
2016
as Self
Countdown to Zero
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
as Self
Flying Horse
as Eadweard Muybridge
Rachel and the Roarettes
1985
as Gary
One Night in Turin
2010
as Narrator
Exposing Muybridge
2021
as Self
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Honest Decent & True
1986
as Derek Bates
Morgan's Boy
1984
as Colin
La Petite Mort
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Jack White: Unstaged
2012
as Self
Chutzpah, This Is?
2005
The Human Face
2017
as Self
The Year of Magical Thinking
About 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… With 145 credits spanning from 1944 to 2024, Gary Oldman has appeared in 116 films and 29 TV shows.
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- The Dark Knight (2008) — as Gordon
- Oppenheimer (2023) — as Harry Truman
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) — as Sirius Black
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) — as Sirius Black
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Sirius Black
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