The Guardian: Heart, smarts and pragmatism: why health minister Mark Butler is suddenly a contender as a future PM
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Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared…
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Born 13 November 1969 · Q169982
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The Guardian: To all the betting shops littering our high streets: people power is coming and the odds are against you | Dawn Butler
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2026· 4 entries
The Guardian: To all the betting shops littering our high streets: people power is coming and the odds are against you | Dawn Butler
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Public attention spiked: 20,465 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.9× the usual 4,140, with 0 article edits.
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The Guardian: In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Den of Thieves 2: Pantera review – Gerard Butler’s fun, flirty action bromance sequel
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Plane review – Gerard Butler’s rickety thriller never takes off
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2021· 1 entry
fact checker rated the claim “Hollwood actor Gerard Butler converted to Hinduism.” FALSE.
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Greenland review – Gerard Butler v comet in solid disaster thriller
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: Angel Has Fallen: is Gerard Butler Hollywood's weirdest action hero?
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The Guardian: Angel Has Fallen review – Gerard Butler's pyrotechnics fizzle out
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2018· 4 entries
The Guardian: Hunter Killer review – Gerard Butler's sub commander is all at sea
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The Guardian: Gerard Butler's Pentagon briefing and other grandiose film campaigns
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Butler starred as submarine captain Commander Joe Glass of the USS Arkansas, a Virginia class nuclear submarine, in the film Hunter Killer alongside Gary Oldman
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Attended a fundraiser gala organised by Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, which raised $60 million
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2011· 3 entries
As of August 2011, Butler, while filming Playing for Keeps, was writing songs and in the process of recording an album.
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Butler played in a charity match for Celtic, a football club he has supported since childhood
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In 2011, Butler played in a charity match for Celtic, a football club he has supported since childhood.
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2010· 2 entries
Starred in the action/comedy The Bounty Hunter with Jennifer Aniston, and did voice acting for the 2010 animated film How to Train Your Dragon as Stoick the Vast
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Began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise
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2009· 1 entry
Starred in the Neveldine/Taylor film Gamer with Logan Lerman, The Ugly Truth with Katherine Heigl, and Law Abiding Citizen with Jamie Foxx, which he also co-produced
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2008· 1 entry
Appeared in Nim's Island alongside Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster, and Guy Ritchie film RocknRolla as part of ensemble cast which includes Idris Elba and Tom Hardy
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2007· 1 entry
Appeared in Butterfly on a Wheel co-starring Pierce Brosnan and Maria Bello, and in the romantic film P
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2006· 1 entry
Starred as Spartan King Leonidas in the Warner Bros
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2003· 1 entry
Director Joel Schumacher was deciding on the principal casting for the film The Phantom of the Opera, a film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, and thought of Butler, whom he had seen earlier
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2000· 2 entries
Starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000
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Butler was cast in two breakthrough roles, the first being Attila the Hun in Attila
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-11-13.
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