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.
114 movies · 30 shows
Parthenope
2024·6.7
Oppenheimer
2023·8.0
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022·7.7
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022·4.8
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
2022·7.3
Exposing Muybridge
2021·7.0
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021·6.6
The Woman in the Window
2021·6.0
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021·4.5
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
2021·0.0
Crisis
2021·6.2
Mank
2020·6.7
A Place Among the Dead
2020·2.4
The Courier
2019·6.0
The Laundromat
2019·6.0
Mary
2019·5.0
Killers Anonymous
2019·4.6
Obscura
2018·0.0
Hunter Killer
2018·6.9
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018·5.4
Tau
2018·6.2
Darkest Hour
2017·7.4
The Hitman's Bodyguard
2017·6.9
The Human Face
2017·9.0
The Space Between Us
2017·7.0
Man Down
2016·6.0
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
2016·10.0
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016·0.0
Criminal
2016·6.2
The Driver
2015·5.8
Child 44
2015·6.3
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014·7.3
I Am Steve McQueen
2014·6.1
RoboCop
2014·5.9
La Petite Mort
2013·5.4
Paranoia
2013·5.7
Ending the Knight
2012·7.1
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
2012·6.6
Guns, Girls and Gambling
2012·5.4
Lawless
2012·7.1
The Dark Knight Rises
2012·7.8
Jack White: Unstaged
2012·0.0
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012·7.6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011·6.6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011·8.1
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011·7.1
Red Riding Hood
2011·6.0
One Night in Turin
2010·6.2
Countdown to Zero
2010·6.3
The Book of Eli
2010·6.8
Planet 51
2009·5.9
A Christmas Carol
2009·6.9
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009·8.3
Rain Fall
2009·4.7
The Unborn
2009·5.2
The Dark Knight
2008·8.5
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007·8.0
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
2007·7.7
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007·8.0
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007·7.7
The Backwoods
2006·5.4
Chutzpah, This Is?
2005·5.0
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005·7.8
Dead Fish
2005·5.6
Batman Begins
2005·7.7
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
2004·7.7
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004·8.0
Sin
2003·4.8
Tiptoes
2002·3.9
Beat the Devil
2002·7.1
Interstate 60
2002·7.4
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001·7.1
Hannibal
2001·6.8
Nobody's Baby
2001·5.2
The Contender
2000·6.7
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000·8.0
Jesus
1999·6.8
Quest for Camelot
1998·6.8
Lost in Space
1998·5.4
Lost In Space Forever
1998·6.8
Air Force One
1997·6.5
The Fifth Element
1997·7.6
Vem Var Dracula
1996·0.0
Basquiat
1996·6.6
The Scarlet Letter
1995·6.1
Murder in the First
1995·7.1
Immortal Beloved
1994·7.1
Léon: The Professional
1994·8.3
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993·7.5
Romeo Is Bleeding
1993·6.3
True Romance
1993·7.5
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993·5.8
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992·6.4
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992·7.5
JFK
1991·7.6
Director: Alan Clarke
1991·0.0
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991·6.9
Heading Home
1991·6.0
Henry & June
1990·6.0
State of Grace
1990·7.0
Chattahoochee
1990·5.8
Criminal Law
1989·5.6
The Firm
1989·6.5
We Think the World of You
1988·6.4
Track 29
1988·5.6
Prick Up Your Ears
1987·6.7
Rat in the Skull
1987·0.0
England's Glory
1987·2.0
Sid and Nancy
1986·6.7
Honest Decent & True
1986·7.0
Rachel and the Roarettes
1985·0.0
Morgan's Boy
1984·0.0
Meantime
1983·6.7
Remembrance
1982·4.5