Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman

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Birthday: 
21 March 1958, New Cross, London, England, UK
Birth Name: 
Gary Leonard Oldman
Height: 
174 cm
Gary Oldman is a talented British born movie actor who played Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy, Drexl in True Romance, and George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He starred in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the remake of RoboCop. He is also an English filmmaker, musician and author. Renowned for his "big" acting style, Oldman is on... Show more »
Gary Oldman is a talented British born movie actor who played Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy, Drexl in True Romance, and George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He starred in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the remake of RoboCop. He is also an English filmmaker, musician and author. Renowned for his "big" acting style, Oldman is one of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television.Gary Oldman was born on March 21, 1958 in New Cross, London, England, the son of Kathleen (Cheriton), a homemaker, and Leonard Bertram Oldman, a welder.For most of his career he was best-known for playing over-the-top antagonists such as the role of Russian terrorist Egor Korshunov in the 1997 blockbuster Air Force One, though he has recently reached a new audience with heroic roles in the Harry Potter and Dark Knight franchises. In amazing trivia, he was in Batman Begins and The Fifth Element.Oldman won a scholarship to Britain's Rose Bruford Drama College, in Sidcup, Kent, where he received a B.A. in theatre arts in 1979. He subsequently studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of plays throughout the early '80s, including "The Pope's Wedding," for which he received Time Out's Fringe Award for Best Newcomer of 1985-1986 and the British Theatre Association's Drama Magazine Award as Best Actor for 1985. Before fame, he was employed as a worker in assembly lines, and as a porter in an operating theater. He also got jobs selling shoes and beheading pigs while supporting his early acting career. He was also in the movie The Dark Knight with Heath Ledger.His film debut was Remembrance (1982), though his most-memorable early role came when he played Sex Pistol Sid Vicious in the biopic Sid and Nancy (1986) picking up the Evening Standard Film Award as Best Newcomer. He then received a Best Actor nomination from BAFTA for his portrayal of '60s playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987).In the 1990s, Oldman brought to life a series of iconic real-world and fictional villains including Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991), the title character in Dracula (1992), Drexl Spivey in True Romance (1993), Stansfield in Léon (1994), Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in Le cinquième élément (1997) and Ivan Korshunov in Air Force One (1997). That decade also saw Oldman portraying Ludwig van Beethoven in biopic Immortal Beloved (1994).Oldman scored the coveted role of Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), giving him a key part in one of the highest-grossing franchises ever. He reprised that role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). Oldman also took on the iconic role of Detective James Gordon in writer-director Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (2005), a role he played again in The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Prominent film critic Mark Kermode, in reviewing The Dark Knight, wrote, "the best performance in the film, by a mile, is Gary Oldman's ... it would be lovely to see him get a[n Academy Award] nomination because actually, he's the guy who gets kind of overlooked in all of this."Oldman co-starred with Jim Carrey in the 2009 version of A Christmas Carol in which Oldman played three roles. He had a starring role in David Goyer's supernatural thriller The Unborn, released in 2009. In 2010, Oldman co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli. He also played a lead role in Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. Oldman voiced the role of villain Lord Shen and was nominated for an Annie Award for his performance in Kung Fu Panda 2.In 2011, Oldman portrayed master spy George Smiley in the adaptation of John le CarrĂ©'s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and the role scored Oldman his first Academy Award nomination. In 2014, he played one of the lead humans in the science fiction action film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Also in 2014, Oldman starred alongside Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson in the remake of RoboCop (2014), as Norton, the scientist who creates RoboCop. Also that year, Oldman starred in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as one of the leads alongside Jason Clarke and Keri Russell.Aside from acting, Oldman tried his hand at writing and directing for Nil by Mouth (1997). The movie opened the Cannes Film Festival in 1997, and won Kathy Burke a Best Actress prize at the festival.Oldman has three children - one with first wife Lesley Manville, and two with third wife Donya Fiorentino. He married Alexandra Edenborough on December 31, 2008 until they divorced in January 2015. He was married to actress Uma Thurman from 1990 to 1992. He married his fourth wife Alexandra Edenborough in 2008 but the couple divorced in 2015. He has three sons named Alfie, Gulliver and Charlie. Show less «

Gary Oldman's FILMOGRAPHY

Football Focus - Season 23

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The 81st Golden Globe Awards 2024

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The 7PM Project - Season 16

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Match of the Day - Season 52

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 31

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Oppenheimer (2023)

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Slow Horses - Season 3

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 11

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Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 11

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Frontline - Season 41

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 30

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Slow Horses - Season 2

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Slow Horses - Season 1

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Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 10

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Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 10

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The Graham Norton Show - Season 29

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Conan - Season 11

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Exposing Muybridge

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Crisis

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Hitmans Wifes Bodyguard

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The Woman in the Window

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The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2021

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Gary Oldman'S roles

Woodsman
Woodsman
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
George Smiley
George Smiley
General Grawl
General Grawl
Dr. Zachary Smith
Dr. Zachary Smith
Lord Shen
Lord Shen
Nicholas Wyatt
Nicholas Wyatt
Jackie Flannery
Jackie Flannery
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
James Gordon
James Gordon
Carnegie
Carnegie
Dracula
Dracula
Dreyfus
Dreyfus
Ivan Korshunov
Ivan Korshunov
Rabbi Sendak
Rabbi Sendak
Stansfield
Stansfield
Joe Orton
Joe Orton
Sirius Black
Sirius Black
Jack Grimaldi
Jack Grimaldi
Arthur Dimmesdale
Arthur Dimmesdale
General Mikhail Nesterov
General Mikhail Nesterov
Floyd Banner
Floyd Banner
Drexl Spivey
Drexl Spivey
Milton Glenn
Milton Glenn
Shelly Runyon
Shelly Runyon
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
Mason Verger
Mason Verger
Bob Cratchit
Bob Cratchit
Rosencrantz
Rosencrantz
Vladislav Dukhovich
Vladislav Dukhovich
O.W. Grant
O.W. Grant
Counselor Peyton
Counselor Peyton
Richard Crosby
Richard Crosby
Ruber
Ruber
Himself
Himself
Himself - Guest
Himself - Guest
Tau
Tau
Himself - Guest
Himself - Guest
CJCS Charles Donnegan
CJCS Charles Donnegan