Was involved in the third Paddington Bear film alongside Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Carla Tous, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman and Emily Mortimer in Paddington in Peru (2024)
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Jim Broadbent
James Broadbent is an English actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, he came to prominence as a character actor for his many roles in film and television. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, an International Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and one Volpi Cup as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awar…
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Born 24 May 1949 · Q185079
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2024· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
Broadbent starred in the limited series Black Narcissus based on the classic Powell and Pressburger film
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2018· 3 entries
Vulture: Jim Broadbent
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Broadbent's first graphic novel Dull Margaret was published by Fantagraphics Books
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Played Hans Christian Andersen in the premiere of Martin McDonagh's play A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre in London
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2017· 2 entries
Yahoo: Jim Broadbent Joins Robert Downey Jr. in Universal’s ‘Voyage of Doctor Dolittle’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Starred alongside Charlotte Rampling, Michelle Dockery, and Emily Mortimer in the ensemble thriller The Sense of an Ending
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2016· 1 entry
Was cast in the seventh season of the HBO series Game of Thrones
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2015· 2 entries
Broadbent along with Daniel Rigby, Antonia Thomas, Fearne Cotton and Jane Horrocks are revealed to be the new cast with Broadbent as a Voice Trumpet in the reboot of classic British children's television series Teletubbi
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Broadbent starred alongside Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson and Julie Walters in the Oscar nominated film Brooklyn
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2014· 1 entry
Starred alongside Lindsay Duncan in the Roger Mitchell directed film, Le Week-End
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2010· 2 entries
Provided the voice for the character Major Mouse in a series of radio advertisements and one produced for television for an energy company, E
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Broadbent reunited with director Mike Leigh, in Another Year In 2012, he played Denis Thatcher opposite Meryl Streep as the former Prime Minister in The Iron Lady
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2009· 1 entry
Portrayed Sam Longson, chairman of Derby County football club in the 1960s and 1970s, in the film The Damned United; the starring character in the film was football manager Brian Clough, played by Michael Sheen
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2008· 1 entry
Starred as pro-Newtonian physicist Sir Oliver Lodge in the fact-based single drama Einstein and Eddington for the BBC
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2007· 1 entry
Received a British Academy Television Award for his work in Tom Hooper's television film, Longford (2007)
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2005· 1 entry
Broadbent appeared in the film adaptation of C
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Iris (2002).
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But he declined it, stating that there were more deserving recipients than actors and that the British Empire was not something he wanted to "celebrate"
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Appeared in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, and in the film adaptation of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby
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2001· 1 entry
Broadbent starred in three of the year's most successful films: Richard Curtis' Bridget Jones's Diary, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge
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1999· 2 entries
“Massive Landmarks of the Twentieth Century”
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Made a notable appearance as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the Doctor Who spoof Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
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1988· 1 entry
Directed by the play's author Athol Fugard
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1983· 2 entries
1985 and 1991 as DCI Roy Slater, a minor character in the prominent sitcom Only Fools and Horses
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Portrayed Don Speekingleesh in The Queen of Spain's Beard in the first series of The Black Adder
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1978· 1 entry
Had two roles, first as Vroomfondel (who may, or may not be, a philosopher) and then as Shooty (a gratuitously violent policeman, who writes novel in crayon) in the Primary Phase of the groundbreaking radio series The
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1972· 1 entry
Came to prominence as a character actor for his many roles in film and television
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1970· 1 entry
By Holton Players, who converted it into a 100-seat theatre, named Broadbent Theatre in memory of Roy Broadbent, who designed the conversion
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-05-24.
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