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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
Luoši arkliai
Haris Poteris ir Ugnies taurė
Haris Poteris ir Azkabano kalinys
Tamsos riteris
Tamsos riterio sugrįžimas
Haris Poteris ir Mirties relikvijos: 2 dalis
Penktasis elementas
as Zorg
Leonas
as Norman Stansfield
Betmenas: pradžia
Haris Poteris ir Fenikso brolija
Numeris 44
as General Mikhail Nesterov
Kung Fu Panda 2
Operacija: Hunter Killer
Tamsiausia valanda
Kalėdų giesmė
Beždžionių planetos aušra
Robotas policininkas
Raudonkepuraitė
Stebuklingas kardas
Tikra romantika
as Drexl Spivey
Bremo Stokerio „Drakula“
Partenopė
as John Cheever
Elijaus knyga
as Carnegie
The Laundromat
Prezidento lėktuvas
as Ivan Korshunov
Murder in the First
as Associate Milton Glenn
Žudiko asmens sargybinis
Pasiklydę kosmose
Krizė
Bastūnas, Siuvėjas, Kareivis, Šnipas
Planeta 51
as General Grawl (voice)
Prakeiksmas
Anoniminiai žudikai
as The Man
Kurjerė
as Ezekiel Mannings
Tukstanciai myliu iki taves
60-as greitkelis
as O.W. Grant
Mank
Džonas F. Kenedis: Šūviai Dalase
State of Grace
as Jackie
Virš įstatymo
as Floyd Banner
Moteris lange
Paranoja
as Nicholas Wyatt
Jesus
as Pontius Pilate
Nusikaltėlis
Raudonoji raidė
as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Sid and Nancy
Basquiat
as Albert Milo
Nemirtinga mylimoji
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Romeo Is Bleeding
Man Down
as Captain Peyton
The Contender
as Shelly Runyon
Criminal Law
Miškas
as Paul
Guns, Girls and Gambling
as Elvis Elvis
Jesus
as Pontius Pilate
Merė: Laivo prakeiksmas
Nil by Mouth
Director, Writer
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as Rosencrantz
Tiptoes
as Rolfe
The Firm
as Bex Bissell
Tau
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
as Self (archive footage)
Prick Up Your Ears
as Joe Orton
Heading Home
as Ian Tyson
Rain Fall
as Holtzer
Hanibalas
Exposing Muybridge
as Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
as Self
Dead Fish
as Lynch
Meantime
as Coxy
We Think the World of You
as Johnny
Nobody's Baby
as Buford Dill
A Place Among the Dead
Track 29
Countdown to Zero
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Chattahoochee