Parthenope
2024 · Movie
as John Cheever
Gary Oldman
1958-03-21
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London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Oppenheimer
2023 · Movie
as Harry Truman
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022 · Movie
as Self
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Slow Horses
2022 · TV Show
as Jackson Lamb
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021 · Movie
as Self
The Woman in the Window
2021 · Movie
as Alistair Russell
Crisis
2021 · Movie
as Dr. Tyrone Brower
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021 · Movie
as Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
Exposing Muybridge
2021 · Movie
as Self
Mank
2020 · Movie
as Herman Mankiewicz
A Place Among the Dead
2020 · Movie
as GO
Mary
2019 · Movie
as David
The Laundromat
2019 · Movie
as Jürgen Mossack
Killers Anonymous
2019 · Movie
as The Man
The Courier
2019 · Movie
as Ezekiel Mannings
Savage Builds
2019 · TV Show
as Self
Hunter Killer
2018 · Movie
as CJCS Charles Donnegan
Tau
2018 · Movie
as Tau (voice)
Obscura
2018 · Movie
as Special guest
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Space Between Us
2017 · Movie
as Nathaniel Shepherd
The Hitman's Bodyguard
2017 · Movie
as Vladislav Dukhovich
Darkest Hour
2017 · Movie
as Winston Churchill
The Human Face
2017 · Movie
as Self
Criminal
2016 · Movie
as Quaker Wells
Man Down
2016 · Movie
as Captain Peyton
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
2016 · Movie
as Self
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016 · Movie
as Self
Movies with Ali Plumb
2016 · TV Show
as Self
Child 44
2015 · Movie
as General Mikhail Nesterov
The Driver
2015 · Movie
as Cy (voice)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · TV Show
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV Show
as Self
RoboCop
2014 · Movie
as Dr. Dennett Norton
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 · Movie
as Dreyfus
I Am Steve McQueen
2014 · Movie
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · TV Show
as Self
Paranoia
2013 · Movie
as Nicholas Wyatt
La Petite Mort
2013 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Movie
as Commissioner Gordon
Lawless
2012 · Movie
as Floyd Banner
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Guns, Girls and Gambling
2012 · Movie
as Elvis Elvis
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
2012 · Movie
as Self
Jack White: Unstaged
2012 · Movie
as Self
Ending the Knight
2012 · Movie
as Self
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Movie
as Sirius Black
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011 · Movie
as Lord Shen (voice)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · Movie
as George Smiley
Red Riding Hood
2011 · Movie
as Father Soloman
The Book of Eli
2010 · Movie
as Carnegie
One Night in Turin
2010 · Movie
as Narrator
Countdown to Zero
2010 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Conan
2010 · TV Show
as Self, Self - Guest
Rain Fall
2009 · Movie
as Holtzer
The Unborn
2009 · Movie
as Rabbi Joseph Sendak
Planet 51
2009 · Movie
as General Grawl (voice)
A Christmas Carol
2009 · Movie
as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009 · Movie
as Self
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Dark Knight
2008 · Movie
as Gordon
Gotham Tonight
2008 · TV Show
as Lt. James Gordon
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 · Movie
as Sirius Black
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV Show
as Self
The Backwoods
2006 · Movie
as Paul
Batman Begins
2005 · Movie
as Jim Gordon
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 · Movie
as Sirius Black
Dead Fish
2005 · Movie
as Lynch
Chutzpah, This Is?
2005 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 · Movie
as Sirius Black
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004 · Movie
as Self
Sin
2003 · Movie
as Charlie Storm
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
as Self
Interstate 60
2002 · Movie
as O.W. Grant
Tiptoes
2002 · Movie
as Rolfe
Beat the Devil
2002 · Movie
as Devil
Greg the Bunny
2002 · TV Show
V Graham Norton
2002 · TV Show
as Self
Hannibal
2001 · Movie
as Mason Verger
Nobody's Baby
2001 · Movie
as Buford Dill
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001 · Movie
as Self
The Hire
2001 · TV Show
as Devil
The Contender
2000 · Movie
as Shelly Runyon
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000 · Movie
as Self
Jesus
1999 · Movie
as Pontius Pilate
The Early Show
1999 · TV Show
as Self
Jesus
1999 · TV Show
as Pontius Pilate
Lost in Space
1998 · Movie
as Dr. Zachary Smith
Quest for Camelot
1998 · Movie
as Ruber (voice)
Lost In Space Forever
1998 · Movie
as Self (also archive footage)
The Fifth Element
1997 · Movie
as Zorg
Air Force One
1997 · Movie
as Ivan Korshunov
Basquiat
1996 · Movie
as Albert Milo
The Scarlet Letter
1995 · Movie
as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Murder in the First
1995 · Movie
as Associate Milton Glenn
Léon: The Professional
1994 · Movie
as Norman Stansfield
Immortal Beloved
1994 · Movie
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Friends
1994 · TV Show
as Richard Crosby
True Romance
1993 · Movie
as Drexl Spivey
Romeo Is Bleeding
1993 · Movie
as Jack Grimaldi
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993 · Movie
as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993 · Movie
as Self
Fallen Angels
1993 · TV Show
as Pat Kelley
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992 · Movie
as Self
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992 · Movie
as Dracula
HBO First Look
1992 · TV Show
as Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
JFK
1991 · Movie
as Lee Harvey Oswald
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · Movie
as Rosencrantz
Heading Home
1991 · Movie
as Ian Tyson
Director: Alan Clarke
1991 · Movie
State of Grace
1990 · Movie
as Jackie
Chattahoochee
1990 · Movie
as Emmett Foley
Henry & June
1990 · Movie
as Pop
Criminal Law
1989 · Movie
as Ben Chase
The Firm
1989 · Movie
as Bex Bissell
Track 29
1988 · Movie
as Martin
We Think the World of You
1988 · Movie
as Johnny
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · TV Show
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Movie
as Joe Orton
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Rat in the Skull
1987 · Movie
as Police Constable Eric Naylor
England's Glory
1987 · Movie
as Interviewee
Sid and Nancy
1986 · Movie
as Sid Vicious
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Honest Decent & True
1986 · Movie
as Derek Bates
Rachel and the Roarettes
1985 · Movie
as Gary
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
as Bex, Derek Bates, Ian Tyson
Morgan's Boy
1984 · Movie
as Colin
Morgan's Boy
1984 · TV Show
as Colin
Meantime
1983 · Movie
as Coxy
Dramarama
1983 · TV Show
as Ben
Remembrance
1982 · Movie
as Daniel
Knots Landing
1979 · TV Show
as Don Ross
No image
Film '72
1971 · TV Show
as Self
The Oscars
1953 · TV Show
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · TV Show
as Self - Nominee
No image
Flying Horse
· Movie
as Eadweard Muybridge
No image
The Year of Magical Thinking
· Movie
Crew Credits
Slow Horses
2022 · TV Show
Executive Producer
Jack White: Unstaged
2012 · Movie
Director
Donut
2006 · Movie
Director
Nobody's Baby
2001 · Movie
Producer
The Contender
2000 · Movie
Executive Producer
Plunkett & Macleane
1999 · Movie
Executive Producer
Nil by Mouth
1997 · Movie
Director, Writer, Producer
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Flying Horse
· Movie
Director, Writer
