Gary Oldman

At 66 years old, Gary Oldman has this physical status:

Career

Oldman was the first person in his year to work in academia; he said that this was not a result of being the most gifted actor, but rather dedication and application. He appeared in Thark, opposite Annette Kerr, at York's Theatre Royal in 1979. Cabaret, Privates on Parade, and Romeo and Juliet were among the subpoenas. In December 1979, Oldman appeared as Puss in Dick Whittington and His Cat, a production at York. He performed in Colchester and then appeared at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre, making him a hit with Glasgow audiences in the 1980s. He also toured Europe and South America with the Citizens Theatre Company.

Oldman appeared in The Massacre in Paris from 1980 to 1981 (Christopher Marlowe), Desperado Corner (Shaun Lawton), and Robert David MacDonald's Chinchilla and A Waste of Time. In 1982, he appeared in MacDonald's Summit Conference in the West End, opposite Glenda Jackson. Oldman made his film debut in Colin Gregg's Remembrance in 2006 and may have appeared in Don Boyd's Gossip if the film had not stopped. He landed a role as a skinhead in Mike Leigh's film Meantime and then travelled to Chesterfield to play the lead role in Entertaining Mr Sloane (Joe Orton). He then moved to Westcliffe to appear in Saved (Edward Bond).

Oldman's save had been a major breakthrough. In 1984, British Court Theatre artistic director Max Stafford-Clark had seen Oldman's appearance and cast him as Scopey, the leading role in Bond's The Pope's Wedding. He received two of British theatre's top awards: the Time Out Fringe Award for Best Newcomer and the Drama Theatre Award for Best Actor, the latter of which was shared with future film co-star Anthony Hopkins for his role in Pravda. The Oldman's Wedding in the Vatican resulted in his career, and he appeared in Rat (Red Brick and Abel), Women Beware Women (Thomas Middleton), Real Dreams (Trevor Griffiths), and all three Bond films The War Plays: The Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People, and Great Peace began in 1984. Oldman served with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1985 to 1986.

In the 1986 film Sid Vicious, director Alex Cox had seen the 1984 version of The Pope's Wedding, who offered Oldman the role of musician Sid Vicious. "I wasn't really interested in Sid Vicious and the punk movement," he twice turned down the role before accepting it. I'd never heard of it. It wasn't something that piqued my interest. I felt that the script was banal, "who cares," and "why bother" and all of the others. And I was a little bit with my nose in the air and sort of thinking, 'well the theatre, much more valuable,' and all of that." Based on the salary and the urging of his agent, he reconsidered. Oldman appeared in Prick Up Your Ears in 1987 as Joe Orton, earning him his third best actor award. He appeared in The Country Wife (William Wycherley) and Serious Money (Caryl Churchill) during the same year. On the set of The Fifth Element (1997), film producer Luc Besson demonstrated how Oldman could recite any scene from Hamlet (William Shakespeare), in which he had appeared a decade earlier.

Oldman's appearances in Sid and Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears opened the way for work in Hollywood, earning praise from United States film critic Roger Ebert. "There is no point of similarity between the two shows," Ebert said; like a few talented actors, [Oldman] is able to re-invent himself for every role. He is the best young British actor on record in this series, based on these two films. Despite criticizing Sid and Nancy, Vicious' former Sex Pistols bandmate John Lydon referred to Oldman as a "bloody good actor." The results will continue to be ranked No. 1 in the United States. In "The 100 Greatest Performances of All Time" and "No. 62" in Premiere magazine's "Best Shows of All Time" and No. 62. The eight players in Uncut magazine's "10 Best actors in rockin' roles" depicted Oldman's role as a "complete and bewildered manchild."

In late 1988, he appeared in We Think the World of You alongside Alan Bates, and in 1989, with Dennis Hopper and Frances McDormand in the Chattahoe. Oldman appeared as football hooligan Clive "Bex" Bissel in the British television drama The Firm's most recent, controversial British television drama The Firm, starring Tony Clive "Bex" Bissel in 1989, giving a total film ranking of his highest and a film number of "fearless" and "stunning" in 2011. Tim Roth, Bruce Payne, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Paul McGann were among the 80s' breakout Hollywood film actors of the 1980s, including Tim Roth, Bruce Payne, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul McGann, who were a teen British actor of the 1980s, of which Oldman was de facto leader.

Oldman costarred with Tim Roth in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard's film adaptation of his own play of the same name in 1990. The film was lauded by Total Film, who called Oldman's role "a blitz of brilliant comedy timing and pitch perfect line delivery." In State of Grace (1990), he appeared opposite Sean Penn and Ed Harris; Roger Ebert called Oldman's appearance as the highlight, and Janet Maslin described his role as "phenomenal." He was given the lead role in Edward Scissorhands' that year, but he turned down. In the early 1990s, the old man immigrated to the United States, where he has lived since.

Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet who died in 1991, was shot by his then-wife Uma Thurman as Caitlin Thomas; production was suspended shortly after filming started. Oldman appeared in his first blockbuster in the United States, playing Lee Harvey Oswald in Oliver Stone's JFK. In the script, very little was said about Oswald. Stone gave him several plane tickets, a rundown of contacts, and told him to do his own research. Marina Oswald's wife, Marina, and her two children to prepare for the role. Scenes for the 1992 neo-noir drama Final Analysis were cut from his film.

In Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula's romance-horror Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, he starred as Count Dracula. It was a commercially lucrative film based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel that was a box office hit around the world. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films awarded Oldman the Best Actor award of 1992 for his contribution. At the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, he appeared as a member of the Jury. Oldman became a popular portrayer of villains in the film "One of Cinema's Most Valuable Criminals" (1995), directed by Tony Scott; a tragic prison warden in Murder; and futuristic corporate tyrant Jean-Baptiste Zorg in the commercially successful but critically panned Lost in Space (1998). He was considered for two roles in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), but neither were realized. Tarantino considered Oldman as gangster Jules Winnfield (played by Samuel L. Jackson), but TriStar executives suggested him for drug dealer Lance (as played by Eric Stoltz).

Norman Stansfield, a corrupt DEA agent who has since been named as one of the top criminals and most corrupt cops in film, appeared in 1994's Léon: The Professional. In the 1997 blockbuster Air Force One, the old man also performed various accents; alongside Transylvanian Count Dracula, he performed German-born Viennese composer Ludwig van Beethoven and performed Russian terrorist Egor Korshunov. In 1998, MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch aired a match between claymation interpretations of Oldman and Christopher Walken to determine the best cinematic villain. Oldman starred in the television film Jesus as the executive producer of Plunkett & Macleane and depicted another historical figure, Pontius Pilate. He had also been considered for the role of Morpheus in The Matrix.

In The Contender (2000), an oldman appeared opposite Jeff Bridges as zealous Republican congressman Sheldon Runyon, who was also executive producer. Oldman received a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work, but some said he was dissatisfied with DreamWorks' ostensibly edited of the film to reflect pro-Democratic leanings. These reports were published by Douglas Urbanski, his son, who said that Oldman was "the least political person I know." He continued that neither he nor Oldman had made the allegations, that they had "produced this film, every last cut and frame," and that DreamWorks "did not influence the final cut or have anything to do with it." According to Urbanski, Oldman received "creepy phone calls advising him that he was destroying his chances of receiving an Oscar nomination." Critics Roger Ebert dismissed the suggestion of an Oldman criticizing DreamWorks as a "myth."

He appeared in Hannibal as Mason Verger, the only remaining survivor of Hannibal Lecter. He spent six hours per day in the make-up room to get the character's disgusting disfigured appearance, but was uncredited in the film. It was the second time Oldman had appeared opposite Hopkins, who was part of Bram Stoker's Dracula's supporting cast. Richard Crosby, a pedantic actor who claims that "real" actors spit on one another as they enunciate, leading to a lot of tension and then friendship with Joey Tribbianc). Oldman appeared on Lost in Space with LeBlanc.

Following his appearance in the film version of The Contender, Oldman did not appear in any major roles until 2004; it was reported that he was blacklisted in Hollywood during this period. He appeared in the well-received Interstate 60 in 2002 and appeared in The Hire: Beat the Devil, a BMW short film. Xan Brooks, a Guardian writer, characterized the early 2000s as "old man's "low point," referring to "barl-scraping appearances" in the 2003 films Tiptoes and Sin. Despite the film's inability to captivate reviewers, Oldman's portrayal of a man with dwarfism in Tiptoes earned him some respect: Lisa Nesselson in Variety described his work as "astonishly fine," and Mark Kermode's "Great Acting in Bad Films" later described him.

Oldman, the Harry Potter film series, returned to fame in 2004, portraying Harry Potter's godfather Sirius Black. In Christopher Nolan's commercially and critically lucrative Batman Begins, he appeared as James Gordon in the even more successful sequel The Dark Knight (2008) and then again in the sequel, The Dark Knight Rises (2012). "The best performance in the film, by a mile, is [by] Gary Oldman [by] The guy who gets kind of ignored in all of this," film critic Mark Kermode said in analyzing The Dark Knight. In the 2009 version of A Christmas Carol in which Oldman appeared in three roles, he co-starred with Jim Cary. He appeared in David Goyer's supernatural thriller The Unborn, which was released in 2009.

Oldman appeared in Denzel Washington's The Book of Eli in 2010. He was also a lead role in Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. Lord Shen, the evil one, was nominated for an Annie Award for his role in Kung Fu Panda 2.

In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), an adaptation of the John le Carré novel directed by Tomas Alfredson, the young man received rave reviews and was nominated for his first Academy Award and a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of British spy George Smiley. Oldman spent 15 pounds on George Smiley's role, watched Alec Guinness' appearance in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and spent a visit to Smiley's creator John le Carré to fine tune the character's voice. Oldman, a big-hitting mobster in John Hillcoat's Lawless in 2012, appeared alongside Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, and Jessica Chastain. Nicholas Wyatt, a ruthless CEO, was portrayed by him in Robert Luketic's Paranoia, alongside Harrison Ford and Liam Hemsworth. In 2014, Oldman appeared alongside Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton, and Samuel L. Jackson in RoboCop's reimagining as Norton, the scientist who creates the title character.

Oldman appeared in Dawn of the Apes as one of the leading actors alongside Jason Clarke and Keri Russell in the same year. Oldman slammed excessive political correctness in American media, accused discrimination by entertainers who hide "behind comedy and satire to say stuff we can't normally say," and played down the charges behind offensive slurs attributed to indignation and inebriation, respectively, in a promotional interview published in the July/August issue of Playboy magazine. Gibson, who had been barred for antisemitic remarks, had "bitten the hand that [feeds], having lived in "a town run by Jews" (not Hollywood). The old man argued that he is not "a fascist or a racial," but that he was nonetheless chastised for his remarks. He issued numerous apology, including on the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, in which he referred to the remarks as "offensive, sensitive, perceptive, and ill-informed." Both the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center applauded Oldman's contrition (the former inviting him to its Museum of Tolerance in 2017's Darkest Hour). "I know him very well... Gary's not cruel," director David Fincher told Playboy, "I know him very well... Gary's not cruel." "He's a brilliant guy."

Oldman, along Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman, appeared in Child 44, a post-apocalyptic American thriller starring Shia LaBeouf and Kate Mara, and appeared alongside Tom Hardy's character in Child 44. Oldman starred Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve, and Gal Gadot in Criminal, directed by Ariel Vromen, and starred Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve, and Gal Gadot.

Oldman appeared in three films in 2017: a billionaire entrepreneur in The Space Between Us, a military president in The Hitman's Bodyguard, and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's war drama Darkest Hour—his portrayal of Churchill earned critical praise. The old man's transformation into the wartime Prime Minister took 200 hours in the makeup chair, 14 pounds of silicone rubber, and $20,000 worth of Cuban cigarettes, which gave him nicotine poisoning. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor, Best Actor, and the Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2018. Despite Oldman's once-innocent as a critic of the award, he said he was "amazed, flattered, and very proud" to be nominated.

Oldman played an evil artificial intelligence in Netflix's independent film Tau in 2018 and starred in Hunter Killer alongside Gerard Butler. Oldman appeared in horror-thriller Mary, directed by Michael Goi, and the film The Courier, opposite Olga Kurylenko, and appeared in Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat as Jürgen Mossack, opposite Meryl Sterburn and Antonio Banderas.

Oldman appeared in David Fincher's biographical drama black-and-white film Mank, which follows Mankiewicz's tumultuous creation of the script for Citizen Kane with director Orson Welles. Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, and Charles Dance co-stars on the film. On November 13, Mank had a limited theatrical release and Netflix began streaming on December 4th. It received rave reviews, earning 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critic's consensus being, "Sharply written and brilliantly executed, Mank peers behind the scenes of Citizen Kane to tell an old Hollywood tale that might be a masterpiece in its own right." Oldman appeared alongside Armie Hammer in Crisis and Joe Wright's The Woman in the Window in 2021.

In The Bayou, he will appear as a hitman alongside Dylan O'Brien. An Oldman is also planned to produce Flying Horse, a biopic of Eadweard Muybridge.

Oldman appeared in the Apple TV+ spy drama series Slow Horses in 2022 as a cantankerous boss of intelligence agents based on the book of the same name. Older Horses was the first time he appeared in a television series.

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