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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 21, 1958
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Gary Leonard Oldman
- Sir Gary Oldman
- Sir Gary Leonard Oldman
Gary Oldman
7.1 Popularity
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
6.7
John Cheever
Parthenope
2024
8.0
Harry Truman
Oppenheimer
2023
7.7
Self (archive footage)
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
8.0
Jackson Lamb
Slow Horses
2022
4.8
Self (archive footage)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
7.3
Self
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
7.0
Self
Exposing Muybridge
2021
6.7
Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
6.0
Alistair Russell
The Woman in the Window
2021
4.5
Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Credits
Parthenope
as John Cheever
2024
6.7
Oppenheimer
as Harry Truman
2023
8.0
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.7
Slow Horses
as Jackson Lamb
2022
8.0
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
2022
4.8
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Self
2022
7.3
Exposing Muybridge
as Self
2021
7.0
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
as Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
2021
6.7
The Woman in the Window
as Alistair Russell
2021
6.0
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
2021
4.5
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
as Self
2021
0.0
Crisis
as Dr. Tyrone Brower
2021
6.3
Mank
as Herman Mankiewicz
2020
6.7
A Place Among the Dead
as GO
2020
2.5
The Courier
as Ezekiel Mannings
2019
6.0
The Laundromat
as Jürgen Mossack
2019
6.0
Mary
as David
2019
5.0
Killers Anonymous
as The Man
2019
4.6
Savage Builds
as Self
2019
7.2
Obscura
as Special guest
2018
0.0
Hunter Killer
as CJCS Charles Donnegan
2018
6.9
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
5.4
Tau
as Tau (voice)
2018
6.2
Darkest Hour
as Winston Churchill
2017
7.4
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as Vladislav Dukhovich
2017
6.9
The Human Face
as Self
2017
9.0
The Space Between Us
as Nathaniel Shepherd
2017
7.1
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
as Self
2016
10.0
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
2016
0.0
Criminal
as Quaker Wells
2016
6.2
Man Down
as Captain Peyton
2015
6.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
The Driver
as Cy (voice)
2015
5.8
Child 44
as General Mikhail Nesterov
2015
6.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
as Dreyfus
2014
7.3
I Am Steve McQueen
as Self
2014
6.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
RoboCop
as Dr. Dennett Norton
2014
5.9
La Petite Mort
as Narrator (voice)
2013
5.2
Paranoia
as Nicholas Wyatt
2013
5.7
Ending the Knight
as Self
2012
7.2
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
as Self
2012
6.6
Guns, Girls and Gambling
as Elvis Elvis
2012
5.4
Lawless
as Floyd Banner
2012
7.1
The Dark Knight Rises
as Commissioner Gordon
2012
7.8
Jack White: Unstaged
as Self
2012
0.0
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as George Smiley
2011
6.6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Sirius Black
2011
8.1
Kung Fu Panda 2
as Lord Shen (voice)
2011
7.1
Red Riding Hood
as Father Soloman
2011
6.0
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
One Night in Turin
as Narrator
2010
6.2
Countdown to Zero
as Narrator (voice)
2010
6.4
The Book of Eli
as Carnegie
2010
6.8
Planet 51
as General Grawl (voice)
2009
5.9
A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
2009
6.9
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
as Self
2009
10.0
Rain Fall
as Holtzer
2009
4.7
The Unborn
as Rabbi Joseph Sendak
2009
5.2
The Dark Knight
as Gordon
2008
8.5
Gotham Tonight
as Lt. James Gordon
2008
7.3
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
2007
8.0
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
as Self (archive footage)
2007
7.7
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
2007
8.0
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Sirius Black
2007
7.7
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Backwoods
as Paul
2006
5.4
Chutzpah, This Is?
2005
5.0
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Sirius Black
2005
7.8
Dead Fish
as Lynch
2005
5.4
Batman Begins
as Jim Gordon
2005
7.7
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
2004
7.7
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Sirius Black
2004
8.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
5.5
Sin
as Charlie Storm
2003
4.8
Tiptoes
as Rolfe
2002
3.8
Beat the Devil
as Devil
2002
7.0
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
Interstate 60
as O.W. Grant
2002
7.4
Greg the Bunny
2002
6.0
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
as Self
2001
6.7
The Hire
as Devil
2001
7.6
Hannibal
as Mason Verger
2001
6.8
Nobody's Baby
as Buford Dill
2001
5.1
The Contender
as Shelly Runyon
2000
6.7
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
as Self
2000
6.0
Jesus
as Pontius Pilate
2000
8.6
Jesus
as Pontius Pilate
1999
6.7
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Quest for Camelot
as Ruber (voice)
1998
6.8
Lost in Space
as Dr. Zachary Smith
1998
5.4
Lost In Space Forever
as Self (also archive footage)
1998
6.8
Air Force One
as Ivan Korshunov
1997
6.5
The Fifth Element
as Zorg
1997
7.6
Vem Var Dracula
as Self
1996
0.0
Basquiat
as Albert Milo
1996
6.6
The Scarlet Letter
as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
1995
6.1
Murder in the First
as Glenn
1995
7.1
Immortal Beloved
as Ludwig van Beethoven
1994
7.1
Friends
as Richard Crosby
1994
8.4
Léon: The Professional
as Norman Stansfield
1994
8.3
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
1993
7.5
Romeo Is Bleeding
as Jack Grimaldi
1993
6.3
True Romance
as Drexl Spivey
1993
7.5
Fallen Angels
as Pat Kelley
1993
5.9
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self
1993
5.6
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Dracula
1992
7.4
HBO First Look
as Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
1992
4.9
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
as Self
1992
6.2
JFK
as Lee Harvey Oswald
1991
7.6
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
0.0
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as Rosencrantz
1991
6.9
Heading Home
as Ian Tyson
1991
5.5
Henry & June
as Pop
1990
6.0
State of Grace
as Jackie
1990
6.9
Chattahoochee
as Emmett Foley
1990
5.6
Criminal Law
as Ben Chase
1989
5.5
The Firm
as Bex Bissell
1989
6.6
We Think the World of You
as Johnny
1988
6.3
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.4
Track 29
as Martin
1988
5.4
Prick Up Your Ears
as Joe Orton
1987
6.6
🎬
Rat in the Skull
as Police Constable Eric Naylor
1987
0.0
England's Glory
as Interviewee
1987
2.0
Sid and Nancy
as Sid Vicious
1986
6.7
🎬
Honest Decent & True
as Derek Bates
1986
0.0
Rachel and the Roarettes
as Gary
1985
0.0
Morgan's Boy
as Colin
1984
0.0
Meantime
as Coxy
1983
6.6
Dramarama
as Ben
1983
6.7
Remembrance
as Daniel
1982
3.5
Knots Landing
as Don Ross
1979
6.7
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
Flying Horse
as Eadweard Muybridge
N/A
0.0