Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman
Biographical information
Birth name	Leonard Gary Oldman
Born	March 21, 1958
Nationality	British
Gender	Male
Height	5'9"
Family	Lesley Manville (ex-wife) Uma Thurman (ex-wife) Donya Fiorentino (ex-wife) Alexandra Edenborough (wife)
Career
Years active	1982-present
In Harry Potter	Sirius Black
Other roles	The Dark Knight (2008) Batman Begins (2005) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) JFK (1991) Sid and Nancy (1986)

Gary Oldman is the actor who plays Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films. So far, he has appeared in Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, and Order of the Phoenix. In an interview, Daniel Radcliffe confirmed that Oldman will appear in Deathly Hallows.

Acting career

Oldman made his first significant impact upon Hollywood when he was cast as Sid Vicious, the bassist of the Sex Pistols, in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986). He gained critical acclaim for the role, as did his next significant role – playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987).

In 1990, he appeared with Tim Roth and Richard Dreyfuss in the Tom Stoppard comedy Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. He also played Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of John F. Kennedy, in Oliver Stone's 1991 drama JFK.

Throughout the 1990s, he made appearances as villains in several blockbusters including Air Force One (1997) with Harrison Ford; The Fifth Element (1997) with Bruce Willis; and Lost in Space (1998) with William Hurt.

Having become acquainted with Matt LeBlanc on the set of Lost in Space, Oldman agreed to appear in a 2001 episode of the sitcom "Friends". The memorable two-part episode "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" featured a much talked-about spitting scene between Oldman and LeBlanc, after Oldman's character claimed that "real" actors spat on each other when they enunciated. For his role, Oldman earned an Emmy Award nomination.

In 2003, he was cast as Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; he reprised the role in the following two films. And in 2005, he co-starred in Christopher Nolan's "Batman" reboot Batman Begins as James Gordon. He played Gordon a second time in the 2008 Oscar winning sequel The Dark Knight.

In 2009, Gary Oldman played the roles of Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.

Personal life

Oldman has been married four times, most famously to Oscar nominated actress Uma Thurman -- who co-starred with Ralph Fiennes in The Avengers -- from 1990 to 1992.

He has three sons from two other marriages: Alfie (b. 1988) from his marriage to Lesley Manville, and Gulliver (b. 1997) and Charlie (b. 1999) from his marriage to Donya Fiorentino.

Selected filmography

• Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom (2011)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II (2011)
• The Book of Eli (2010)
• A Christmas Carol (2009)
• The Unborn (2009)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
• The Contender (2000)
• Lost in Space (1998)
• Air Force One (1997)
• Nil by Mouth (1997) (writer/director/producer only)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• JFK (1991)
• Sid and Nancy (1986)

External links

• Gary Oldman at the Internet Movie Database
• Gary Oldman on Wikipedia