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
