Cast & creator
Gary Oldman
Best known for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Late Show with David Letterman
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.
Also known as: Gary Leonard Oldman, Sir Gary Oldman , Sir Gary Leonard Oldman
122
film credits
35
television credits
149
1944–2024 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (157)
Showing 157 of 157 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Slow Horses
Jackson Lamb
2022Slow Horses
Executive Producer
2022
Conan
Self
2010Conan
Self - Guest
2010
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Friends
Richard Crosby
1994
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Knots Landing
Don Ross
1979
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
The South Bank Show
1978
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Oppenheimer
Harry Truman
2023
The Dark Knight
Gordon
2008
Screen Two
Bex
1985Screen Two
Derek Bates
1985Screen Two
Ian Tyson
1985
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Sirius Black
2004
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sirius Black
2005
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
The Dark Knight Rises
Commissioner Gordon
2012
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sirius Black
2007
Léon: The Professional
Norman Stansfield
1994
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Sirius Black
2011Film '72
Self
1971
Batman Begins
Jim Gordon
2005
The Oscars
Self
1953
V Graham Norton
Self
2002
The Fifth Element
Zorg
1997
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
2009
Kung Fu Panda 2
Shen (voice)
2011
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dreyfus
2014
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula
1992
Hunter Killer
CJCS Charles Donnegan
2018
Fallen Angels
Pat Kelley
1993
The Book of Eli
Carnegie
2010
HBO First Look
Self / Ludwig van Beethoven
1992
True Romance
Drexl Spivey
1993
Dramarama
Ben
1983
Darkest Hour
Winston Churchill
2017
The Early Show
Self
1999
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Vladislav Dukhovich
2017
A Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
2009
Child 44
General Mikhail Nesterov
2015
Red Riding Hood
Father Soloman
2011
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts
Self
2022
Air Force One
Ivan Korshunov
1997
Greg the Bunny
2002
RoboCop
Dr. Dennett Norton
2014
Lost in Space
Dr. Zachary Smith
1998
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
Vladislav Dukhovich (archive footage)
2021
The Laundromat
Jürgen Mossack
2019
The Space Between Us
Nathaniel Shepherd
2017
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Smiley
2011
JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
1991
Parthenope
John Cheever
2024
Planet 51
General Grawl (voice)
2009
The Hire
Devil
2001
Lawless
Floyd Banner
2012
The Unborn
Rabbi Joseph Sendak
2009
The Courier
Ezekiel Mannings
2019
State of Grace
Jackie
1990
Murder in the First
Associate Milton Glenn
1995
Quest for Camelot
Ruber (voice)
1998
Criminal
Quaker Wells
2016
The Scarlet Letter
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
1995
Henry & June
Pop
1990
Interstate 60
O.W. Grant
2002
The Woman in the Window
Alistair Russell
2021
Movies with Ali Plumb
Self
2016
Mank
Herman Mankiewicz
2020
Immortal Beloved
Ludwig van Beethoven
1994
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
1999
Paranoia
Nicholas Wyatt
2013
Sid and Nancy
Sid Vicious
1986
Romeo Is Bleeding
Jack Grimaldi
1993
Man Down
Captain Peyton
2016
The Contender
Shelly Runyon
2000The Contender
Executive Producer
2000
Guns, Girls and Gambling
Elvis Elvis
2012
The Backwoods
Paul
2006
Plunkett & Macleane
Executive Producer
1999
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
(archive footage)
2012
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz
1991
Tiptoes
Rolfe
2002
Killers Anonymous
The Man
2019
Morgan's Boy
Colin
1984
Tau
Tau (voice)
2018
Crisis
Dr. Tyrone Brower
2021
Criminal Law
Ben Chase
1989
Savage Builds
Self
2019
Mary
David
2019
Prick Up Your Ears
Joe Orton
1987
Gotham Tonight
Lt. James Gordon
2008
Jesus
Pontius Pilate
1999
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Self (archive footage)
2022
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
2021
Hannibal
Mason Verger
2001
Sin
Charlie Storm
2003
Ending the Knight
Self
2012
Basquiat
Albert Milo
1996
The Firm
Bex Bissell
1989
A Place Among the Dead
GO
2020
I Am Steve McQueen
Self
2014
Nil by Mouth
Writer
1997Nil by Mouth
Producer
1997Nil by Mouth
Director
1997
Obscura
Special guest
2018
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
2007
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Self
2001
In Camera: The Naïve Visual Effects of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Magic Touch of Harry Potter
Self
2004
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Self (archive footage)
2018
Track 29
Martin
1988
Beat the Devil
Devil
2002Rat in the Skull
Police Constable Eric Naylor
1987
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2016
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
Self
2000
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
Self (archive footage)
2022
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
Self
2009
Rain Fall
Holtzer
2009
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self
1993
The Magic of the Movies: Behind the Scenes of David Fincher's Mank
Self
2021
We Think the World of You
Johnny
1988
Lost in Space Forever
Self (also archive footage)
1998
Heading Home
Ian Tyson
1991
Dead Fish
Lynch
2005
Criss Angel Trick'd Up
Self
2016
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Self
1992
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter
Self
2012
Exposing Muybridge
Self
2021
Nobody's Baby
Buford Dill
2001Nobody's Baby
Producer
2001
Countdown to Zero
Self - Narrator (voice)
2010
The Costumes Are the Sets: The Design of Eiko Ishioka
Self (archive footage)
2007
Meantime
Coxy
1983
The Driver
Cy (voice)
2015
Chattahoochee
Emmett Foley
1990
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
1993
Rachel and the Roarettes
Gary
1985
One Night in Turin
Narrator
2010
Remembrance
Daniel
1982
England's Glory
Interviewee
1987Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Lee Harvey Oswald (voice)
Director: Alan Clarke
1991
Chutzpah, This Is?
2005The Year of Magical Thinking
Morgan's Boy
Colin
1984Honest Decent & True
Derek Bates
1986
La Petite Mort
Narrator (voice)
2013
Jack White: Unstaged
Self
2012Jack White: Unstaged
Director
2012
The Human Face
Self
2017