Acting · London, England, UK · Born March 21, 1958
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.
MovieParthenope
2024
as John Cheever
MovieOppenheimer
2023
as Harry Truman
MovieWinona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
as Self (archive footage)
TVSlow Horses
2022
as Jackson Lamb
MovieNosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHarry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022
as Self
MovieExposing Muybridge
2021
as Self
MovieHitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
as Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
MovieThe Woman in the Window
2021
as Alistair Russell
MovieHannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021
as Self
MovieCrisis
2021
as Dr. Tyrone Brower
MovieMank
2020
as Herman Mankiewicz
MovieA Place Among the Dead
2020
as GO
MovieThe Courier
2019
as Ezekiel Mannings
MovieThe Laundromat
2019
as Jürgen Mossack
MovieMary
2019
as David
MovieKillers Anonymous
2019
as The Man
TVSavage Builds
2019
as Self
MovieObscura
2018
as Special guest
MovieHunter Killer
2018
as CJCS Charles Donnegan
MovieBeyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieTau
2018
as Tau (voice)
MovieDarkest Hour
2017
as Winston Churchill
MovieThe Hitman's Bodyguard
2017
as Vladislav Dukhovich
MovieThe Human Face
2017
as Self
MovieThe Space Between Us
2017
as Nathaniel Shepherd
MovieMan Down
2016
as Captain Peyton
MovieCriss Angel Trick'd Up
2016
as Self
MovieAlan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
TVMovies with Ali Plumb
2016
as Self
MovieCriminal
2016
as Quaker Wells
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
TVClose Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
as Self
MovieThe Driver
2015
as Cy (voice)
MovieChild 44
2015
as General Mikhail Nesterov
TVVariety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
MovieDawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014
as Dreyfus
MovieI Am Steve McQueen
2014
as Self
TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
MovieRoboCop
2014
as Dr. Dennett Norton
MovieLa Petite Mort
2013
as Narrator (voice)
MovieParanoia
2013
as Nicholas Wyatt
MovieEnding the Knight
2012
as Self
MovieDaniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
2012
as Self
MovieGuns, Girls and Gambling
2012
as Elvis Elvis
MovieLawless
2012
as Floyd Banner
MovieThe Dark Knight Rises
2012
as Commissioner Gordon
MovieJack White: Unstaged
2012
as Self
MovieFinal Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
as (archive footage)
MovieTinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
as George Smiley
MovieHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Sirius Black
MovieKung Fu Panda 2
2011
as Lord Shen (voice)
MovieRed Riding Hood
2011
as Father Soloman
TVConan
2010
as Self
MovieOne Night in Turin
2010
as Narrator
MovieCountdown to Zero
2010
as Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Book of Eli
2010
as Carnegie
MoviePlanet 51
2009
as General Grawl (voice)
MovieA Christmas Carol
2009
as Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
MovieHeath Ledger: A Tribute
2009
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009
as Self - Guest
MovieRain Fall
2009
as Holtzer
MovieThe Unborn
2009
as Rabbi Joseph Sendak
MovieThe Dark Knight
2008
as Gordon
TVGotham Tonight
2008
as Lt. James Gordon
MovieThe Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieIn Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
as Sirius Black
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieThe Backwoods
2006
as Paul
MovieChutzpah, This Is?
2005
MovieHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005
as Sirius Black
MovieDead Fish
2005
as Lynch
MovieBatman Begins
2005
as Jim Gordon
MovieThe Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004
as Self
MovieHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
as Sirius Black
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self
MovieSin
2003
as Charlie Storm
MovieTiptoes
2002
as Rolfe
MovieBeat the Devil
2002
as Devil
TVV Graham Norton
2002
as Self
MovieInterstate 60
2002
as O.W. Grant
TVGreg the Bunny
2002
MovieBreaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
as Self
TVThe Hire
2001
as Devil
MovieHannibal
2001
as Mason Verger
MovieNobody's Baby
2001
as Buford Dill
MovieThe Contender
2000
as Shelly Runyon
MovieAlan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
as Self
MovieJesus
1999
as Pontius Pilate
TVJesus
1999
as Pontius Pilate
TVThe Early Show
1999
as Self
MovieQuest for Camelot
1998
as Ruber (voice)
MovieLost in Space
1998
as Dr. Zachary Smith
MovieLost In Space Forever
1998
as Self (also archive footage)
MovieAir Force One
1997
as Ivan Korshunov
MovieThe Fifth Element
1997
as Zorg
MovieVem Var Dracula
1996
as Self
MovieBasquiat
1996
as Albert Milo
MovieThe Scarlet Letter
1995
as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
MovieMurder in the First
1995
as Associate Milton Glenn
MovieImmortal Beloved
1994
as Ludwig van Beethoven
TVFriends
1994
as Richard Crosby
MovieLéon: The Professional
1994
as Norman Stansfield
MovieThe Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
as Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
MovieRomeo Is Bleeding
1993
as Jack Grimaldi
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
MovieTrue Romance
1993
as Drexl Spivey
TVLate Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
TVFallen Angels
1993
as Pat Kelley
MovieBeyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
as Self
MovieBlood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992
as Self
MovieBram Stoker's Dracula
1992
as Dracula
TVHBO First Look
1992
as Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
MovieJFK
1991
as Lee Harvey Oswald
MovieDirector: Alan Clarke
1991
MovieRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
as Rosencrantz
MovieHeading Home
1991
as Ian Tyson
MovieHenry & June
1990
as Pop
MovieState of Grace
1990
as Jackie
MovieChattahoochee
1990
as Emmett Foley
MovieCriminal Law
1989
as Ben Chase
MovieThe Firm
1989
as Bex Bissell
MovieWe Think the World of You
1988
as Johnny
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
MovieTrack 29
1988
as Martin
MoviePrick Up Your Ears
1987
as Joe Orton
Rat in the Skull
1987
as Police Constable Eric Naylor
MovieEngland's Glory
1987
as Interviewee
MovieSid and Nancy
1986
as Sid Vicious
Honest Decent & True
1986
as Derek Bates
MovieRachel and the Roarettes
1985
as Gary
TVScreen Two
1985
as Bex
TVMorgan's Boy
1984
as Colin
MovieMorgan's Boy
1984
as Colin
MovieMeantime
1983
as Coxy
TVDramarama
1983
as Ben
MovieRemembrance
1982
as Daniel
TVKnots Landing
1979
as Don Ross
Film '72
1971
as Self
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Flying Horse
as Eadweard Muybridge
The Year of Magical Thinking
