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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, Ent…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Gary Oldman's Filmography
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Parthenope
as John Cheever
Oppenheimer
as Harry Truman
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
as Self (archive footage)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
as Self (archive footage)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
as Self
Exposing Muybridge
as Self
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
as Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
The Woman in the Window
as Alistair Russell
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
as Self
Crisis
as Dr. Tyrone Brower
Mank
as Herman Mankiewicz
A Place Among the Dead
as GO
The Courier
as Ezekiel Mannings
The Laundromat
as Jürgen Mossack
Mary
as David
Killers Anonymous
as The Man
Obscura
as Special guest
Hunter Killer
as CJCS Charles Donnegan
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
Tau
as Tau (voice)
Darkest Hour
as Winston Churchill
The Hitman's Bodyguard
as Vladislav Dukhovich
The Human Face
as Self
The Space Between Us
as Nathaniel Shepherd
Man Down
as Captain Peyton
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
as Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
Criminal
as Quaker Wells
The Driver
as Cy (voice)
Child 44
as General Mikhail Nesterov
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
as Dreyfus
I Am Steve McQueen
as Self
RoboCop
as Dr. Dennett Norton
La Petite Mort
as Narrator (voice)
Paranoia
as Nicholas Wyatt
Ending the Knight
as Self
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
as Self
Guns, Girls and Gambling
as Elvis Elvis
Lawless
as Floyd Banner
The Dark Knight Rises
as Commissioner Gordon
Jack White: Unstaged
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as George Smiley
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Sirius Black
Kung Fu Panda 2
as Shen (voice)
Red Riding Hood
as Father Soloman
One Night in Turin
as Narrator
Countdown to Zero
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Book of Eli
as Carnegie
Planet 51
as General Grawl (voice)
A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
as Self
Rain Fall
as Holtzer
The Unborn
as Rabbi Joseph Sendak
The Dark Knight
as Gordon
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
as Self (archive footage)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Sirius Black
The Backwoods
as Paul
Chutzpah, This Is?
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Sirius Black
Dead Fish
as Lynch
Batman Begins
as Jim Gordon
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
as Self
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Sirius Black
Sin
as Charlie Storm
Tiptoes
as Rolfe
Beat the Devil
as Devil
Interstate 60
as O.W. Grant
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
as Self
Hannibal
as Mason Verger
Nobody's Baby
as Buford Dill
The Contender
as Shelly Runyon
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
as Self
Jesus
as Pontius Pilate
Quest for Camelot
as Ruber (voice)
Lost in Space
as Dr. Zachary Smith
Lost in Space Forever
as Self (also archive footage)
Air Force One
as Ivan Korshunov
The Fifth Element
as Zorg
Basquiat
as Albert Milo
The Scarlet Letter
as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Murder in the First
as Associate Milton Glenn
Immortal Beloved
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Léon: The Professional
as Norman Stansfield
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
Romeo Is Bleeding
as Jack Grimaldi
True Romance
as Drexl Spivey
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Dracula
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
as Self
JFK
as Lee Harvey Oswald
Director: Alan Clarke
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as Rosencrantz
Heading Home
as Ian Tyson
Henry & June
as Pop
State of Grace
as Jackie
Chattahoochee
as Emmett Foley
Criminal Law
as Ben Chase
The Firm
as Bex Bissell
We Think the World of You
as Johnny
Track 29
as Martin
Prick Up Your Ears
as Joe Orton
No Poster
Rat in the Skull
as Police Constable Eric Naylor
England's Glory
as Interviewee
Sid and Nancy
as Sid Vicious
No Poster
Honest Decent & True
as Derek Bates
Rachel and the Roarettes
as Gary
Morgan's Boy
as Colin
Meantime
as Coxy
Remembrance
as Daniel
No Poster
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
No Poster