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Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman’s screen credits include Gordon in The Dark Knight, Norman Stansfield in Léon: The Professional, and Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

Born March 21, 1958 London, England, UK16 movies on MoviHero

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The Dark Knight

2008 · 2h 32m · Action · Thriller

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Léon: The Professional

1994 · 1h 51m · Action · Crime

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2004 · 2h 21m · Adventure · Fantasy

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About 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). …

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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.

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The Adventures of Alexandra and Martin in Time
Man at the resort 3 (archive footage)
2024
Parthenope
John Cheever
2023
Oppenheimer
Harry Truman
2022
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Self (archive footage)
2022
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
2022
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
2021
Exposing Muybridge
Self
2021
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
2021
The Woman in the Window
Alistair Russell
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Self
2021
Crisis
Dr. Tyrone Brower
2020
Mank
Herman Mankiewicz
2020
A Place Among the Dead
GO
2019
The Courier
Ezekiel Mannings
2019
The Laundromat
Jürgen Mossack
2019
Mary
David
2019
Killers Anonymous
The Man
2018
Obscura
Special guest
2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
2018
Tau
Tau (voice)
2017
The Human Face
Self
2017
The Space Between Us
Nathaniel Shepherd
2016
Man Down
Captain Peyton
2016
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
Self
2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2016
Criminal
Quaker Wells
2015
The Driver
Cy (voice)
2014
I Am Steve McQueen
Self
2014
RoboCop
Dr. Dennett Norton
2013
La Petite Mort
Narrator (voice)
2013
Paranoia
Nicholas Wyatt
2012
Ending the Knight
Self
2012
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Self
2012
Guns, Girls and Gambling
Elvis Elvis
2012
Lawless
Floyd Banner
2012
Jack White: Unstaged
Director · Self
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2011
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Smiley
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Sirius Black
2011
Red Riding Hood
Father Soloman
2010
One Night in Turin
Narrator
2010
Countdown to Zero
Self - Narrator (voice)
2009
Planet 51
General Grawl (voice)
2009
A Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
2009
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
Self
2009
Rain Fall
Holtzer
2009
The Unborn
Rabbi Joseph Sendak
2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
2007
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Backwoods
Paul
2005
Chutzpah, This Is?
Actor
2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sirius Black
2005
Dead Fish
Lynch
2004
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
2003
Sin
Charlie Storm
2002
Tiptoes
Rolfe
2002
Beat the Devil
Devil
2002
Interstate 60
O.W. Grant
2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Self
2001
Hannibal
Mason Verger
2001
Nobody's Baby
Producer · Buford Dill
2000
The Contender
Producer · Shelly Runyon
2000
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Self
1999
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
1999
Plunkett & Macleane
Producer
1998
Quest for Camelot
Ruber (voice)
1998
Lost in Space
Dr. Zachary Smith
1998
Lost in Space Forever
Self (also archive footage)
1997
Nil by Mouth
Writer · Producer · Director
1996
Basquiat
Albert Milo
1995
The Scarlet Letter
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
1995
Murder in the First
Associate Milton Glenn
1994
Immortal Beloved
Ludwig van Beethoven
1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
1993
Romeo Is Bleeding
Jack Grimaldi
1993
True Romance
Drexl Spivey
1993
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self
1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Self
1991
JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
1991
Director: Alan Clarke
Actor
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz
1991
Heading Home
Ian Tyson

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