Gary Oldman
Acting • Born 1958-03-21
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.
Filmography
141 credits
The Fifth Element
Movie • 1997
Zorg
Léon: The Professional
Movie • 1994
Norman Stansfield
The Dark Knight
Movie • 2008
Gordon
Batman Begins
Movie • 2005
Jim Gordon
True Romance
Movie • 1993
Drexl Spivey
Basquiat
Movie • 1996
Albert Milo
Romeo Is Bleeding
Movie • 1993
Jack Grimaldi
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Movie • 2004
Sirius Black
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Movie • 2005
Sirius Black
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Movie • 2007
Sirius Black
Lost in Space
Movie • 1998
Dr. Zachary Smith
State of Grace
Movie • 1990
Jackie
JFK
Movie • 1991
Lee Harvey Oswald
The Scarlet Letter
Movie • 1995
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Jesus
Movie • 1999
Pontius Pilate
Interstate 60
Movie • 2002
O.W. Grant
The Book of Eli
Movie • 2010
Carnegie
The Contender
Movie • 2000
Shelly Runyon
Murder in the First
Movie • 1995
Associate Milton Glenn
Tiptoes
Movie • 2002
Rolfe
Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Mason Verger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie • 2011
Sirius Black
Air Force One
Movie • 1997
Ivan Korshunov
The Backwoods
Movie • 2006
Paul
Prick Up Your Ears
Movie • 1987
Joe Orton
Rain Fall
Movie • 2009
Holtzer
Immortal Beloved
Movie • 1994
Ludwig van Beethoven
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Movie • 2022
Self
The Unborn
Movie • 2009
Rabbi Joseph Sendak
Criminal Law
Movie • 1989
Ben Chase
Track 29
Movie • 1988
Martin
Sid and Nancy
Movie • 1986
Sid Vicious
Sin
Movie • 2003
Charlie Storm
One Night in Turin
Movie • 2010
Narrator
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Planet 51
Movie • 2009
General Grawl (voice)
The Dark Knight Rises
Movie • 2012
Commissioner Gordon
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 2009
Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
The Firm
Movie • 1989
Bex Bissell
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
Movie • 2009
Self
Nobody's Baby
Movie • 2001
Buford Dill
Kung Fu Panda 2
Movie • 2011
Lord Shen (voice)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Movie • 2011
George Smiley
Red Riding Hood
Movie • 2011
Father Soloman
Quest for Camelot
Movie • 1998
Ruber (voice)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Movie • 1991
Rosencrantz
Dead Fish
Movie • 2005
Lynch
Beat the Devil
Movie • 2002
Devil
Lawless
Movie • 2012
Floyd Banner
Meantime
Movie • 1983
Coxy
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Chattahoochee
Movie • 1990
Emmett Foley
Lost In Space Forever
Movie • 1998
Self (also archive footage)
RoboCop
Movie • 2014
Dr. Dennett Norton
We Think the World of You
Movie • 1988
Johnny
Paranoia
Movie • 2013
Nicholas Wyatt
Guns, Girls and Gambling
Movie • 2012
Elvis Elvis
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Movie • 2014
Dreyfus
Child 44
Movie • 2015
General Mikhail Nesterov
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Movie • 2012
Self
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Movie • 2004
Self
Parthenope
Movie • 2024
John Cheever
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Henry & June
Movie • 1990
Pop
Flying Horse
Movie
Eadweard Muybridge
Vem Var Dracula
Movie • 1996
Self
Criminal
Movie • 2016
Quaker Wells
Oppenheimer
Movie • 2023
Harry Truman
Morgan's Boy
Movie • 1984
Colin
Honest Decent & True
Movie • 1986
Derek Bates
Man Down
Movie • 2015
Captain Peyton
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Movie • 2021
Self
The Space Between Us
Movie • 2017
Nathaniel Shepherd
Remembrance
Movie • 1982
Daniel
Heading Home
Movie • 1991
Ian Tyson
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Movie • 1992
Self
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Movie • 2017
Vladislav Dukhovich
Darkest Hour
Movie • 2017
Winston Churchill
Hunter Killer
Movie • 2018
CJCS Charles Donnegan
Jack White: Unstaged
Movie • 2012
Self
Countdown to Zero
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Rat in the Skull
Movie • 1987
Police Constable Eric Naylor
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Movie • 2000
Self
England's Glory
Movie • 1987
Interviewee
Mary
Movie • 2019
David
Chutzpah, This Is?
Movie • 2005
Director: Alan Clarke
Movie • 1991
The Human Face
Movie • 2017
Self
The Laundromat
Movie • 2019
Jürgen Mossack
La Petite Mort
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Tau
Movie • 2018
Tau (voice)
Killers Anonymous
Movie • 2019
The Man
The Woman in the Window
Movie • 2021
Alistair Russell
Obscura
Movie • 2018
Special guest
Crisis
Movie • 2021
Dr. Tyrone Brower
Mank
Movie • 2020
Herman Mankiewicz
The Courier
Movie • 2019
Ezekiel Mannings
The Driver
Movie • 2015
Cy (voice)
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
Movie • 2016
Self
I Am Steve McQueen
Movie • 2014
Self
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Movie • 1992
Dracula
Ending the Knight
Movie • 2012
Self
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Movie • 1993
Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Movie • 1993
Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Self
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Movie • 2021
Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
Exposing Muybridge
Movie • 2021
Self
A Place Among the Dead
Movie • 2020
GO
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Movie • 2016
Self
Rachel and the Roarettes
Movie • 1985
Gary
The Year of Magical Thinking
Movie
Greg the Bunny
TV • 2002
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Friends
TV • 1994
Richard Crosby
Dramarama
TV • 1983
Ben
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Don Ross
Fallen Angels
TV • 1993
Pat Kelley
V Graham Norton
TV • 2002
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
The Hire
TV • 2001
Devil
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Savage Builds
TV • 2019
Self
Slow Horses
TV • 2022
Jackson Lamb
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Gotham Tonight
TV • 2008
Lt. James Gordon
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
Conan
TV • 2010
Self
Jesus
TV • 2000
Pontius Pilate
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Bex
Morgan's Boy
TV • 1984
Colin