Gary Oldman Biography

Birthday: 1958-03-21
Place of Birth: New Cross, London
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Wiki Biography: Gary Oldman, the son of a welder and a homemaker, was born on March 21, 1958 in London, England. For most of his career he was best-known for playing over-the-top antagonists, though he has recently reached a new audience with heroic roles in the Harry Potter and Dark Knight franchises.
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.
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: The Professional (1994), Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element (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).
In 2011, Oldman portrayed master spy George Smiley in the adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and the role scored Oldman his first Academy Award nomination.
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 is currently married to Alexandra Edenborough. IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
Mini Biography Gary Oldman, the son of a welder and a homemaker, won a scholarship to Britain's Rose Bruford Drama College, 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. His film debut was Remembrance (1982). In 1986, he played Sex Pistol Sid Vicious in the biopic Sid and Nancy (1986), picking up the Evening Standard Film Award as Best Newcomer. In 1988, he received a Best Actor nomination from the British Academy of Film and TV Arts for his portrayal of '60s playwright Joe Orton. His ability to transform himself physically and his command of accents have allowed him to play a broad range of characters and a number of historical figures, including, in addition to those mentioned above, Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK (1991)) and Ludwig van Beethoven (Immortal Beloved (1994)).
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
Lost in Space | Dr. Zachary Smith | 1965 - 1968 | Action |
Morgan's Boy | Colin | 1984 | Drama |
Dark Knight | Lt. Jim Gordon | 2001 - 2002 | Action |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy | George Smiley | 2011 | Drama |
Dracula | Dracula | 2013 | Drama |
The Contender | Shelly Runyon | 3727 | Drama |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
Meantime | Coxy | 1986 | Comedy, Drama |
Sid and Nancy | Sid Vicious | 1986 | Drama, Music |
Prick Up Your Ears | Joe Orton | 1987 | Drama |
Track 29 | Martin | 1988 | 0 |
Red Riding Hood | Solomon | 1989 | 0, 0 |
We Think the World of You | Johnny | 1989 | Comedy |
Criminal Law | Ben Chase | 1989 | |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Rosencrantz | 1990 | |
Chattahoochee | Emmett Foley | 1990 | Drama |
State of Grace | Jackie Flannery | 1990 | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
The Unborn | Rabbi Sendak | 1991 | Sport, Reality Tv |
Bram Stoker's Dracula | Count Vlad Dracul/Dracula | 1992 | |
True Romance | Drexl Spivey | 1993 | 0, Game Show, Comedy, Biography |
Léon: The Professional | Stansfield | 1994 | Game Show, Comedy |
Romeo Is Bleeding | Jack Grimaldi | 1994 | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Murder in the First | Milton Glenn | 1995 | 0, Game Show |
Immortal Beloved | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1995 | Drama, Music |
The Scarlet Letter | Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale | 1995 | Drama, Romance |
Basquiat | Albert Milo | 1996 | Drama |
The Fifth Element | Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg | 1997 | 0, Game Show, Sport |
Air Force One | Ivan Korshunov | 1997 | 0, Game Show |
Lost in Space | Dr. Zachary Smith | 1998 | 0, Sport, 0 |
Quest for Camelot | 1998 | Animation, Family, Adventure | |
A Christmas Carol | Bob Cratchit | 1999 | 0 |
Lawless | Floyd Banner | 1999 | Comedy |
The Contender | Shelly Runyon | 2000 | Drama, Thriller |
Nobody's Baby | Buford Dill | 2001 | 0 |
Hannibal | Mason Verger | 2001 | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Interstate 60 | 2002 | 0, 0, 0 | |
Tiptoes | Rolfe | 2003 | |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Sirius Black | 2004 | 0, 0 |
Sin | Charlie Strom | 2004 | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Batman Begins | Jim Gordon | 2005 | 0, Comedy, 0, Sport |
Dracula | Dracula | 2006 | Reality Tv |
Dead Fish | Lynch | 2006 | Action, Comedy, Thriller |
Bosque de sombras | Paul | 2007 | Drama, Thriller |
Disney's A Christmas Carol | Bob Cratchit | 2008 | |
The Dark Knight | Lt. Jim Gordon | 2008 | 0, Game Show |
Rain Fall | William Holtzer | 2009 | Game Show |
Planet 51 | General Grawl | 2009 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy |
The Book of Eli | Carnegie | 2010 | 0, Game Show, Sport, 0 |
Kung Fu Panda 2 | Lord Shen | 2011 | |
The Dark Knight Rises | Commissioner Gordon | 2012 | Action, Crime, Thriller |
Guns, Girls and Gambling | Elvis | 2013 | Crime, Thriller |
Paranoia | Nicholas Wyatt | 2013 | Drama, Thriller |
Flying Horse | Dennis Spencer | 2014 | Drama |
RoboCop | Dr. Dennett Norton | 2014 | Action |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Dreyfus | 2014 | Action, Drama |
Jesús | Pontius Pilate | 2016 | 0 |
Man Down | Counselor Peyton | 2016 | 0, Game Show, 0 |