Gary Oldman

Acting · 8.5 popularity

Age

Movies

115

Born: March 21, 1958
From: London, England, UK

Biography

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.

Works

115 films

The Dark Knight

20088.5

Oppenheimer

20238.0

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

20048.0

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

20057.8

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

The Dark Knight Rises

20127.8

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

Batman Begins

20057.7

The Fifth Element

19977.6

Léon: The Professional

19948.3

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

20147.3

Kung Fu Panda 2

20117.1

True Romance

19937.5

Darkest Hour

20177.4

Hunter Killer

20186.9

Bram Stoker's Dracula

19927.4

Child 44

20156.3

The Hitman's Bodyguard

20176.9

The Book of Eli

20106.8

Air Force One

19976.5

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

20116.6

RoboCop

20145.9

Planet 51

20095.9

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

20216.6

A Christmas Carol

20096.9

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

20227.3

Lawless

20127.1

Red Riding Hood

20116.0

JFK

19917.6

Lost in Space

19985.4

The Unborn

20095.2

Henry & June

19906.0

The Courier

20196.0

Criminal

20166.2

The Space Between Us

20177.0

Parthenope

20246.7

The Woman in the Window

20216.0

Quest for Camelot

19986.8

The Laundromat

20196.0

Interstate 60

20027.4

Mank

20206.7

State of Grace

19907.0

Murder in the First

19957.1

Man Down

20166.0

Sid and Nancy

19866.7

Jesus

19996.8

Romeo Is Bleeding

19936.2

Crisis

20216.2

Paranoia

20135.7

The Scarlet Letter

19956.1

Guns, Girls and Gambling

20125.4

Ending the Knight

20127.1

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Criminal Law

19895.6

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

19916.9

The Contender

20006.7

Hannibal

20016.8

Tiptoes

20023.9

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

20078.0

Mary

20195.0

Killers Anonymous

20194.6

Tau

20186.2

Immortal Beloved

19947.1

Heading Home

19916.0

I Am Steve McQueen

20146.1

Basquiat

19966.6

The Backwoods

20065.4

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.5

Rain Fall

20094.7

Sin

20034.8

Dead Fish

20055.6

Director: Alan Clarke

1991

The Firm

19896.5

Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire

20224.8

The Magic Touch of Harry Potter

20047.7

The Driver

20155.8

Track 29

19885.6

Meantime

19836.7

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

2016

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

20185.4

Exposing Muybridge

20217.0

Heath Ledger: A Tribute

20098.3

Prick Up Your Ears

19876.7

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

20227.7

Rat in the Skull

1987

A Place Among the Dead

20202.4

Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter

20126.6

Nobody's Baby

20015.2

Obscura

2018

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy

19935.8

We Think the World of You

19886.4

Remembrance

19824.5

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

20017.1

Beat the Devil

20027.1

Chattahoochee

19905.8

Lost In Space Forever

19986.8

Chutzpah, This Is?

20055.0

Alan Clarke: His Own Man

20008.0

England's Glory

19872.0

The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka

20077.7

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

19926.4

Countdown to Zero

20106.3

Criss Angel Trick'd Up

201610.0

One Night in Turin

20106.2

Honest Decent & True

19867.0

Flying Horse

2026

The Human Face

20179.0

The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald

19937.5

Morgan's Boy

1984

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

20078.0

Jack White: Unstaged

2012

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

2021

The Year of Magical Thinking

2026

La Petite Mort

20135.4

Rachel and the Roarettes

1985