Gary Oldman 1958 67
Gary Oldman 1958 67
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.
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2025 Flying Horse as Eadweard Muybridge Director, Writer
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
2018 Obscura as Special guest
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 Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
2016 Criminal as Quaker Wells
2015 Man Down as Captain Peyton
2015 The Driver as Cy (voice)
2015 Child 44 as General Mikhail Nesterov
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as Dreyfus
2014 I Am Steve McQueen 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 Elvis
2012 Lawless as Floyd Banner
2012 The Dark Knight Rises as Commissioner Gordon
2012 Jack White: Unstaged as Self Director
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 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 Gordon
2007 The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
2007 In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects 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 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as Sirius Black
2006 The Backwoods as Paul
2006 Donut Director
2005 Chutzpah, This Is?
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Sirius Black
2005 Dead Fish as Lynch
2005 Batman Begins as Jim Gordon
2004 The Magic Touch of Harry Potter as Self
2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as Sirius Black
2003 Sin as Charlie Storm
2002 Tiptoes as Rolfe
2002 Beat the Devil as Devil
2002 Interstate 60 as O.W. Grant
2001 Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
2001 Hannibal as Mason Verger
2001 Nobody's Baby as Buford Dill Producer
2000 The Contender as Shelly Runyon Executive Producer
2000 Alan Clarke: His Own Man as Self
1999 Jesus as Pontius Pilate
1999 Plunkett & MacLeane Executive Producer
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 Nil by Mouth Director, Writer, Producer
1997 Air Force One as Ivan Korshunov
1997 The Fifth Element as Zorg
1996 Vem Var 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 Léon: The Professional as Norman Stansfield
1993 The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
1993 Romeo Is Bleeding as Jack Grimaldi
1993 True Romance as Drexl Spivey
1993 Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy as Self
1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula as Dracula
1992 Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. as Self
1991 JFK as Lee Harvey Oswald
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 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
1982 Remembrance as Daniel
Genres
7.29 Fantasy 9
7.26 History 5
6.98 TV Movie 6
6.75 Adventure 14
6.74 Documentary 27
6.66 Action 21
6.64 Animation 4
6.64 Family 4
6.63 Drama 46
6.58 Western 2
6.48 Science Fiction 9
6.46 Crime 26
6.44 Romance 13
6.36 Comedy 14
6.18 Thriller 29
6.01 War 1
5.74 Horror 9
5.57 Mystery 7
4.54 Music 2