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Gary Oldman
Sir Gary Leonard Oldman is an English actor and filmmaker. Known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three British Academy Film Awards and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards. His films have grossed over US$11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
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Born 21 March 1958 · Q83492
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstroke
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2025· 12 entries
The Guardian: Tilda Swinton and Gary Oldman return to stage for Royal Court’s 70th anniversary
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New York Post: Prince William’s savage remark to Gary Oldman as he received his knighthood is revealed
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The Guardian: Slow Horses season five review – not even Gary Oldman can salvage this TV mess
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UPI: Gary Oldman honored with hand, footprint ceremony
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New York Post: Gary Oldman believes he’d be ‘dead or institutionalized’ if he didn’t give up booze 28 years ago
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AOL: Gary Oldman Says He'd ‘Either Be Dead or Institutionalized’ If He Hadn't Gotten Sober 28 Years Ago
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collider: The Movie That Gave Us Gary Oldman's Best Villain Role Surges on Streaming
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2025).
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The Guardian: Gary Oldman and Roger Daltrey knighted in king’s birthday honours
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The Guardian: ‘An intuitive genius’: Gary Oldman steps back on to stage as a national treasure
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The Guardian: Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory
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The Guardian: Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre
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2024· 7 entries
The Guardian: Gary Oldman to read CBeebies bedtime story for Children in Need
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The Guardian: Gary Oldman announces his long-awaited return to the stage in Beckett classic
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The Hollywood Reporter: Gary Oldman to Make Theater Return After 37 Years in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’
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Deadline.com: Breaking Baz: Gary Oldman, ‘Slow Horses’ Star & Oscar Winner, Will Return To British Stage After 4-Decade Absence In 2025
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The Guardian: Slow Horses season four review – Gary Oldman roars like a bear dipped in chip fat
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The Guardian: The star who was left out in the cold: will Gary Oldman ever play Smiley again?
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The Guardian: Saskia Reeves: ‘Where else could you find yourself in a taxi between Jonathan Pryce and Gary Oldman?’
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2023· 1 entry
Participated in the HBO Max special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
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2022· 1 entry
Oldman starred as a cantankerous manager of intelligence agents in the Apple TV+ spy drama television series Slow Horses, based on the book of the same name
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2021· 1 entry
Oldman starred opposite Armie Hammer in Crisis and in Joe Wright's The Woman in the Window, alongside Amy Adams
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2020· 1 entry
Oldman starred as the Citizen Kane co-writer Herman J
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2019· 1 entry
Oldman starred in horror-thriller Mary, directed by Michael Goi, and the thriller The Courier, opposite Olga Kurylenko, and appeared in Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat as Jürgen Mossack, opposite Meryl Streep and Anto
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2018· 10 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Darkest Hour (2018).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Darkest Hour (2018).
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Awarded Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor for Darkest Hour (2018).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Darkest Hour (2018).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (2018).
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Stuart McGurk of GQ described Oldman as "the master of being brilliant in bad movies"
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Won the Academy Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor, Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a
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In his first post-Oscar role, Oldman voiced an evil artificial intelligence in Netflix's independent film Tau and starred in Hunter Killer alongside Gerard Butler
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That she and Oldman are on good terms, saying, "He's got a new wife, and we all get on
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Oldman received the Variety Award at the British Independent Film Awards, which recognises a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact and helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK Vari
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2017· 1 entry
Oldman played three film roles: a billionaire entrepreneur in The Space Between Us, an Eastern European dictator in The Hitman's Bodyguard, and the British prime minister Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's war drama Darke
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2016· 1 entry
Oldman played a Central Intelligence Agency chief in Criminal, directed by Ariel Vromen, and starring Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve and Gal Gadot
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2015· 3 entries
Oldman played the head of police that investigates Tom Hardy's character in Child 44, alongside Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman, and had a supporting role in the post-apocalyptic American thriller Man Down, directed by Di
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Voiced Lord Vortech, the evil mastermind who seeks to control the LEGO Multiverse, in the Lego Dimensions video game
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Oldman and his manager Douglas Urbanski signed a deal with the Simon & Schuster/Atria Publishing Group label Emily Bestler Books for Blood Riders, a vampire book series
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2014· 2 entries
Oldman starred alongside Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton and Samuel L
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Received the Dilys Powell Award For Excellence in Film by the London Film Critics
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2012· 4 entries
The Globe and Mail journalist Lynn Crosbie wrote, "Critics never fail to single Oldman out
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The Hollywood Reporter named Oldman the highest-grossing actor in history, based on lead and supporting roles
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Oldman was among the British cultural icons selected by the artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt
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Oldman played Floyd Banner, a big-hitting mobster, in John Hillcoat's Lawless, alongside Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain
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2011· 4 entries
Learned from his mother that his father had played for Millwall just after the Second World War: "Just after the war, [my mother] ran a boarding house for football players—Millwall players
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Directed a music video for then-wife Alex Eden's first single, "Kiss Me Like the Woman You Loved"
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Readers of Empire voted him the recipient of the Empire Icon Award, which was presented by Colin Firth
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Oldman received a Tribute Award from the Gotham Awards
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2010· 1 entry
Oldman co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli
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2009· 1 entry
Leigh Singer of The Guardian called him "arguably the best actor never Oscar-nominated
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2007· 1 entry
That he has "dinner at home every night with my kids
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2004· 1 entry
Oldman returned to prominence when he landed a starring role in the Harry Potter film series, playing Harry Potter's godfather Sirius Black
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2002· 1 entry
Starred in the generally well-received Interstate 60, and played the Devil in the BMW short film The Hire: Beat the Devil
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2001· 1 entry
Appeared opposite Anthony Hopkins in Hannibal as Mason Verger, the only surviving victim of Hannibal Lecter
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1999· 1 entry
It was adjudged by the British Film Institute as one of the hundred best British films of the 20th century
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1998· 2 entries
Oldman was honoured at the Camerimage Film Festival, where he was awarded the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award for Acting, the first recipient of the award
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MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch aired a match between claymation representations of Oldman and Christopher Walken to determine the greatest cinematic villain
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1997· 5 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for Nil by Mouth (1997).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best British Film for Nil by Mouth (1997).
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Oldman married the American model Donya Fiorentino (sister of the actress Linda Fiorentino), with whom he had two sons: Gulliver (b
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Oldman directed, produced and wrote the award-winning Nil by Mouth, a film partially based on his recollections of a child he knew in school
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Called him "one of the top five actors in the world", while Scott labelled him a "genius"
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Immortal Beloved”.
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1993· 1 entry
Appeared in the music video for Annie Lennox's international hit "Love Song for a Vampire", written for the soundtrack to Bram Stoker's Dracula, and had a cameo role as the Devil in the video for Guns N' Roses single
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1992· 1 entry
Starred as Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's romance-horror Bram Stoker's Dracula
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1991· 3 entries
And checked himself into rehabilitation in 1994
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Oldman starred in his first US blockbuster, playing Lee Harvey Oswald in Oliver Stone's JFK
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Began filming Dylan Thomas, a biopic on the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, with his then-wife Uma Thurman as Caitlin Thomas; production shut down shortly after filming began
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1990· 1 entry
Oldman co-starred with Tim Roth in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard's film adaptation of his own play of the same name
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1989· 3 entries
Oldman also starred as the football hooligan Clive "Bex" Bissel in the controversial British television drama The Firm, giving a performance that Total Film numbered as his best and called "stunning" and "fearless" in 20
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Alongside Dennis Hopper and Frances McDormand in the Chattahoochee
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Three months after Alfie's birth, and divorced a year later
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1987· 2 entries
Oldman gained his third starring film role as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor
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And their son, Alfie, was born the following year
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1979· 2 entries
Starred in Thark, opposite Annette Kerr, at York Theatre Royal
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And made his film debut in Remembrance (1982)
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-03-21.
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