Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman was born on March 21, 1958 in London, England as Leonard Gary Oldman to a welder and a homemaker. When he was older, he won a scholarship to Britain's Rose Bruford Drama College, where he received a BA in Theatre Arts in 1979. He later studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of plays throughout the early 80s, including "The Pope's Wedding", for which he received Time Out's Fringe Award for Best Newcomer of 1985-1986 and The British Theatre Association's Drama Magazine Award as Best Actor of 1985. He first appeared on the screen in the film Remembrance in 1982, going on the win his first starring role in the film Sid and Nancy in 1986 in which he played the rocker Sid Vicious. His very next film, Prick Up Your Ears demonstrated his talent for diversity for which he is so expertly known. He has played a variety of characters including Dracula, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald and Pontius Pilate. In 1997 he directed, produced, and wrote Nil by Mouth, partially based on his life, which went on to win the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, a BAFTA Award, the Channel 4 Director's Award, and the Empire Award, and was declared by the British Film Academy as one of the 100 best films of all time.

Films:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban .... Sirius Black

Tiptoes

The Hire: Beat the Devil .... Satan, the Devil

Interstate 60 .... O.W. Grant

Hannibal .... Mason Verger

Nobody's Baby .... Buford Dill

The Contender .... Rep. Sheldon 'Shelly' Runyon

Jesus .... Pontius Pilate

Quest for Camelot (voice) .... Baron Ruber

Lost in Space .... Base Physician Zachary Smith, MD

Air Force One .... Ivan Korshunov

The Fifth Element .... Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

Basquiat .... Albert Milo

The Scarlet Letter .... Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

Murder in the First .... Milton Glenn

Immortal Beloved .... Ludwig van Beethoven

Léon .... Agent Norman Stansfield

Romeo Is Bleeding .... Jack Grimaldi

True Romance .... Drexl Spivey

Bram Stoker's Dracula .... Dracula

JFK .... Lee Harvey Oswald

Henry & June .... Pop

State of Grace .... Jackie Flannery

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead .... Rosencrantz

Chattahoochee .... Emmett Foley

We Think the World of You .... Johnny

Criminal Law .... Ben Chase

Track 29 .... Martin

Prick Up Your Ears .... Joe Orton

Sid and Nancy .... Sid Vicious

Remembrance .... Daniel