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Gary Oldman
Known for: ActingSir 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.
Filmography 79
Slow Horses
as Jackson Lamb 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Sirius Black 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Sirius Black 
The Dark Knight
as Gordon 
The Dark Knight Rises
as Commissioner Gordon 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Sirius Black 
Batman Begins
as Jim Gordon 
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Sirius Black 
Léon: The Professional
as Norman Stansfield 
Child 44
as General Mikhail Nesterov 
Kung Fu Panda 2
as Shen (voice) 
The Fifth Element
as Zorg 
Parthenope
as John Cheever 
RoboCop
as Dr. Dennett Norton 
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
as Dreyfus 
The Book of Eli
as Carnegie 
Hunter Killer
as CJCS Charles Donnegan 
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Dracula 
Red Riding Hood
as Father Soloman 
A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice) 
True Romance
as Drexl Spivey 
Darkest Hour
as Winston Churchill 
Air Force One
as Ivan Korshunov 
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as Vladislav Dukhovich 
Crisis
as Dr. Tyrone Brower 
Lost in Space
as Dr. Zachary Smith 
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as George Smiley 
Planet 51
as General Grawl (voice) 
The Laundromat
as Jürgen Mossack 
The Unborn
as Rabbi Joseph Sendak 
Mank
as Herman Mankiewicz 
Interstate 60
as O.W. Grant 
Killers Anonymous
as The Man 
The Courier
as Ezekiel Mannings 
The Space Between Us
as Nathaniel Shepherd 
JFK
as Lee Harvey Oswald 
State of Grace
as Jackie 
Lawless
as Floyd Banner 
Man Down
as Captain Peyton 
Quest for Camelot
as Ruber (voice) 
The Woman in the Window
as Alistair Russell 
Murder in the First
as Associate Milton Glenn 
Paranoia
as Nicholas Wyatt 
Jesus
as Pontius Pilate 
Criminal
as Quaker Wells 
Sid and Nancy
as Sid Vicious 
The Scarlet Letter
as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale 
Basquiat
as Albert Milo 
Immortal Beloved
as Ludwig van Beethoven 
Romeo Is Bleeding
as Jack Grimaldi 
The Contender
as Shelly Runyon 
Criminal Law
as Ben Chase 
The Backwoods
as Paul 
Guns, Girls and Gambling
as Elvis Elvis 
Jesus
as Pontius Pilate 
Mary
as David 
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as Rosencrantz 
Tiptoes
as Rolfe 
Exposing Muybridge
as Self 
The Firm
as Bex Bissell 
Tau
as Tau (voice) 
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
as Self (archive footage) 
Prick Up Your Ears
as Joe Orton 
Nil by Mouth
Director, Writer 
Hannibal
as Mason Verger 
Rain Fall
as Holtzer 
Dead Fish
as Lynch 
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage) 
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
as Self 
Meantime
as Coxy 
We Think the World of You
as Johnny 
Nobody's Baby
as Buford Dill 
Heading Home
as Ian Tyson 
A Place Among the Dead
as GO 
Countdown to Zero
as Self - Narrator (voice) 
Track 29
as Martin 
Chattahoochee
as Emmett Foley