Gary Oldman
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Parthenope as John Cheever
- 2023 · Oppenheimer as Harry Truman
- 2022 · Dracula Unearthed as Count Dracula (archive footage)
- 2022 · Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Slow Horses as Jackson Lamb
- 2022 · Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts as Self
- 2021 · Exposing Muybridge as Self
- 2021 · Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard as Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Woman in the Window as Alistair Russell
- 2021 · Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank as Self
- 2021 · Crisis as Dr. Tyrone Brower
- 2020 · Mank as Herman Mankiewicz
- 2020 · A Place Among the Dead as GO
- 2019 · The Courier as Ezekiel Mannings
- 2019 · The Laundromat as Jürgen Mossack
- 2019 · Mary as David
- 2019 · Killers Anonymous as The Man
- 2019 · Savage Builds as Self
- 2018 · Obscura as Self
- 2018 · Hunter Killer as CJCS Charles Donnegan
- 2018 · Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Tau as Tau (voice)
- 2017 · Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill
- 2017 · The Hitman's Bodyguard as Vladislav Dukhovich
- 2017 · The Human Face as Self
- 2017 · Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Space Between Us as Nathaniel Shepherd
- 2016 · Criss Angel Trick'd Up as Self
- 2016 · Criminal as Quaker Wells
- 2015 · Man Down as Captain Peyton
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Driver as Cy (voice)
- 2015 · Child 44 as General Mikhail Nesterov
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as Dreyfus
- 2014 · I Am Steve McQueen as Self
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · RoboCop as Dr. Dennett Norton
- 2013 · The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · La Petite Mort as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Paranoia as Nicholas Wyatt
- 2012 · Ending the Knight as Self
- 2012 · Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter as Self
- 2012 · Guns, Girls and Gambling as Elvis
- 2012 · Lawless as Floyd Banner
- 2012 · The Dark Knight Rises as James Gordon
- 2012 · Jack White: Unstaged as Self
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as James Gordon (archive footage)
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2011 · Touch of Evil as The Menacing Dummy
- 2011 · Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as George Smiley
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Sirius Black
- 2011 · Kung Fu Panda 2 as Lord Shen (voice)
- 2011 · Red Riding Hood as Father Soloman
- 2010 · Conan as Self
- 2010 · One Night in Turin as Narrator
- 2010 · Countdown to Zero as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · The Book of Eli as Carnegie
- 2009 · Planet 51 as General Grawl (voice)
- 2009 · A Christmas Carol as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
- 2009 · Heath Ledger: A Tribute as Self
- 2009 · Rain Fall as Holtzer
- 2009 · The Unborn as Rabbi Joseph Sendak
- 2008 · The Dark Knight as James Gordon
- 2008 · Gotham Tonight as Lt. James Gordon
- 2007 · The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Sirius Black
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · The Backwoods as Paul
- 2005 · Chutzpah, This Is? as
- 2005 · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Sirius Black
- 2005 · Dead Fish as Lynch
- 2005 · Batman Begins as James Gordon
- 2004 · The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
- 2004 · Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Sirius Black
- 2003 · Tiptoes as Rolfe
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2003 · Sin as Charlie Storm
- 2002 · Beat the Devil as Devil
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 2002 · Interstate 60 as O.W. Grant
- 2002 · Greg the Bunny as
- 2001 · Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
- 2001 · The Hire as Devil
- 2001 · Hannibal as Mason Verger
- 2001 · Nobody's Baby as Buford Dill
- 2000 · The Contender as Shelly Runyon
- 2000 · Alan Clarke: His Own Man as Self
- 2000 · Jesus as Pontius Pilate
- 1999 · Jesus as Pontius Pilate
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self
- 1998 · Quest for Camelot as Ruber (voice)
- 1998 · Lost in Space as Dr. Zachary Smith
- 1998 · Lost In Space Forever as Self (also archive footage)
- 1997 · Air Force One as Ivan Korshunov
- 1997 · The Fifth Element as Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg
- 1996 · In Search of Dracula as Self
- 1996 · Basquiat as Albert Milo
- 1995 · The Scarlet Letter as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
- 1995 · Murder in the First as Glenn
- 1994 · Immortal Beloved as Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1994 · Friends as Richard Crosby
- 1994 · Léon: The Professional as Norman Stansfield
- 1993 · Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
- 1993 · Romeo Is Bleeding as Jack Grimaldi
- 1993 · True Romance as Drexl Spivey
- 1993 · Fallen Angels as Pat Kelley
- 1993 · Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
- 1992 · Bram Stoker's Dracula as Dracula
- 1992 · HBO First Look as Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1992 · Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. as Self
- 1991 · JFK as Lee Harvey Oswald
- 1991 · Director: Alan Clarke as
- 1991 · Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as Rosencrantz
- 1991 · Heading Home as Ian Tyson
- 1990 · Henry & June as Pop
- 1990 · State of Grace as Jackie
- 1990 · Chattahoochee as Emmett Foley
- 1989 · Criminal Law as Ben Chase
- 1989 · The Firm as Bex Bissell
- 1988 · We Think the World of You as Johnny
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1988 · Track 29 as Martin
- 1987 · Prick Up Your Ears as Joe Orton
- 1987 · Rat in the Skull as Police Constable Eric Naylor
- 1987 · England's Glory as Interviewee
- 1986 · Sid and Nancy as Sid Vicious
- 1986 · Honest Decent & True as Derek Bates
- 1984 · Morgan's Boy as Colin
- 1983 · Meantime as Coxy
- 1983 · Dramarama as Ben
- 1982 · Remembrance as Daniel
- 1979 · Knots Landing as Don Ross
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 2024 · Flying Horse as Eadweard Muybridge