Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman is a highly versatile English actor and film director, best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour" and significant roles in major franchises like "The Dark Knight Trilogy" and "Harry Potter." He has received several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and three British Academy Film Awards.

Oldman began acting in theatre in 1979 and made his film debut in "Remembrance" (1982). He continued to lead a stage career, during which he performed at London's Royal Court and 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 garnering attention as the leader of a gang of football hooligans in the controversial television film "The Firm" (1989). He achieved greater international 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 went on to portray the villain in films such as "True Romance" (1993), "The Fifth Element" (1997), "Air Force One" (1997) and "The Contender" (2000); corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield, portrayed by Oldman in "Léon: The Professional" (1994), has been ranked as one of cinema's best villains. He also played Ludwig van Beethoven in "Immortal Beloved" (1994) and Dreyfus in "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (2014). He portrayed George Smiley in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and eventually won the award for his role as Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour" (2017).

Oldman has served as executive producer of various films such as "The Contender," "Plunkett & Macleane" (1999) and "Nil by Mouth" (1997), the latter of which he also wrote and directed. He has also featured in television shows such as "Fallen Angels," "Tracey Takes On..." and "Friends," as well as providing the voice of Viktor Reznov in the "Call of Duty" video games and appearing in music videos for artists such as David Bowie, Guns N' Roses and Annie Lennox.

In 2020, Oldman starred as "Citizen Kane" co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz in David Fincher's black-and-white Netflix movie "Mank," which follows Mankiewicz's tumultuous development of the script for "Citizen Kane" alongside director Orson Welles. Presently, Oldman is starring as Jackson Lamb in the Apple TV+ thriller series "Slow Horses," which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.