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Gary Oldman
Bekend van: ActerenSir 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.
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Harry Potter en de Vuurbeker
Harry Potter en de Gevangene van Azkaban
The Fifth Element
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Hunter Killer
Harry Potter en de Relieken van de Dood - Deel 2
Batman Begins
Harry Potter en de Orde van de Feniks
Léon: The Professional
Child 44
Kung Fu Panda 2
Parthenope
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
RoboCop
A Christmas Carol
Red Riding Hood
The Book of Eli
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Laundromat
True Romance
Darkest Hour
Air Force One
Murder in the First
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Crisis
Lost in Space
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Planet 51
als General Grawl (voice)
The Unborn
Mank
Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road
als O.W. Grant
Killers Anonymous
als The Man
The Courier
The Space Between Us
JFK
State of Grace
als Jackie
Lawless
Man Down
Het Magische Zwaard: Op Zoek naar Camelot
The Woman in the Window
Paranoia
als Nicholas Wyatt
Jesus
als Pontius Pilate
Criminal
Sid and Nancy
The Scarlet Letter
als Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Basquiat
als Albert Milo
Immortal Beloved
Romeo Is Bleeding
The Contender
als Shelly Runyon
Criminal Law
The Backwoods
als Paul
Guns, Girls and Gambling
als Elvis Elvis
Jesus
als Pontius Pilate
Mary
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
als Rosencrantz
Tiptoes
als Rolfe
Exposing Muybridge
als Self
The Firm
als Bex Bissell
Tau
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
als Self (archive footage)
Prick Up Your Ears
als Joe Orton
Nil by Mouth
Regie, Schrijver
Hannibal
Rain Fall
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
als Self (archive footage)
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
als Self
Dead Fish
als Lynch
Meantime
als Coxy
We Think the World of You
als Johnny
Nobody's Baby
als Buford Dill
Heading Home
als Ian Tyson
A Place Among the Dead
Countdown to Zero
als Self - Narrator (voice)
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Chattahoochee