Gary Oldman Famous Actor and Director

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Gary Oldman is an Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA Award-winning English film actor, writer and director. He has a sister name was Laila Morse and also an actor.

Author: Lexi
Date: Apr 02, 2007

Gary Oldman was born 21 March, 1958 in New Cross England. He won a scholarship to the Rose Bruford College, where he received a BA in Drama in 1979. He later studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of stage plays 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.

Gary Oldman appeared on screen in the film Remembrance in 1982 and first starring role in Sid and Nancy in 1986. He played the Sex Pistols' ill-fated bassist Sid Vicious. He has become known for playing eccentrics and for his mastery of accents. He has played a variety of famous characters including Dracula, Ludwig van Beethoven, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Gordon, Dr. Zachary Smith, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz, Sirius Black, Pontius Pilate, and the Devil. He has played many villains, including a vampire, a pimp, a disfigured paedophile, a futuristic megacorp tyrant, a corrupt DEA officer in Leon, a sadistic prison warden in Murder in the First, the Russian terrorist leader Ivan Korshunov in Air Force One, a president-murderer in JFK, and a violent football hooligan in The Firm.

He directed, produced, and wrote Nil by Mouth in 1997 partially based on his life, which went on to win the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, a BAFTA Award and also the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the Channel 4 Director's Award, and the Empire Award, and was declared by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts as one of the one hundred best films of all time. Recently Nil by Mouth was listed by Time Out as number two of the top fifty best British films ever.

Oldman has been married three times: to Lesley Manville in 1988 - 1990, Uma Thurman in 1990 - 1992 and Donya Fiorentino in 1997 - 2001. He also has three sons, Alfred by Manville, and Gulliver Flynn and Charlie John by Fiorentino. He was granted sole legal and physical custody of his sons with Fiorentino.

Oldman and producing partner Douglas Urbanski formed the SE8 GROUP to produce Nil by Mouth. The company also produced The Contender, which also starred Oldman. Gary Oldman has currently finished his latest screenplay, Chang & Eng, based on the novel by Darin Strauss, which SE8 Group will produce.

In September 2006 Nokia Nseries Studio released the Oldman directed short "Donut" with music by Tor Hyams. The film was shot with an N93 in order to promote the phone.