
Gary Oldman
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.
144 acting credits · 4 directing credits
Acting · 144

Friends
1994

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Late Show with David Letterman
1993

Conan
2010

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Knots Landing
1979

The Dark Knight
2008

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

Slow Horses
2022

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014

Oppenheimer
2023

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005

The Dark Knight Rises
2012

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007

Léon: The Professional
1994

Screen Two
1985

The Oscars
1953

The Fifth Element
1997

Batman Begins
2005

V Graham Norton
2002

Fallen Angels
1993

Kung Fu Panda 2
2011

True Romance
1993

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014

Hunter Killer
2018

HBO First Look
1992

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009

Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992

The Hitman's Bodyguard
2017

The Book of Eli
2010

Dramarama
1983

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022

RoboCop
2014

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021

JFK
1991

Greg the Bunny
2002

Criminal
2016

Air Force One
1997

The Hire
2001

Parthenope
2024

Darkest Hour
2017

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011

Interstate 60
2002

Lawless
2012

A Christmas Carol
2009

Red Riding Hood
2011

Lost in Space
1998

Planet 51
2009

Child 44
2015

The Space Between Us
2017

Mank
2020

The Unborn
2009

Henry & June
1990

The Laundromat
2019

The Woman in the Window
2021

Murder in the First
1995

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012

Quest for Camelot
1998

The Early Show
1999

The Courier
2019

The Scarlet Letter
1995

Sid and Nancy
1986

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018

Romeo Is Bleeding
1993

Crisis
2021

Paranoia
2013

Basquiat
1996

State of Grace
1990

Jesus
1999

Immortal Beloved
1994

Tiptoes
2002

Ending the Knight
2012

Gotham Tonight
2008

Tau
2018

Mary
2019

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001

Jesus
1999

Rain Fall
2009

The Contender
2000

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993

Guns, Girls and Gambling
2012

Meantime
1983

Hannibal
2001

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991

Morgan's Boy
1984

Man Down
2016

Criminal Law
1989

The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007

Savage Builds
2019

Track 29
1988

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004

Sin
2003

Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022

Dead Fish
2005

Prick Up Your Ears
1987

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021

In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993

I Am Steve McQueen
2014

The Firm
1989

Killers Anonymous
2019

The Backwoods
2006

Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
2012

Chattahoochee
1990

Nobody's Baby
2001

Vem Var Dracula
1996

A Place Among the Dead
2020

The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007

Director: Alan Clarke
1991

Remembrance
1982

Beat the Devil
2002

Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
Rat in the Skull
1987

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016

Heading Home
1991

One Night in Turin
2010
Honest Decent & True
1986

Lost In Space Forever
1998

We Think the World of You
1988

Criss Angel Trick'd Up
2016

Countdown to Zero
2010

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022

The Driver
2015

Morgan's Boy
1984

England's Glory
1987

La Petite Mort
2013

The Human Face
2017
Flying Horse
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Jack White: Unstaged
2012

Exposing Muybridge
2021

Obscura
2018

Rachel and the Roarettes
1985

Chutzpah, This Is?
2005

