Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English-born actor and filmmaker who has resided in the United States since the early 1990s. He found fame in roles such as Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy and Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, which led to his most successful, and arguably best known, leading role as Count Dracula in 1992 blockbuster Dracula. Throughout his career, Oldman has frequently been cast as eccentric villains and morally corrupt charact...
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Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English-born actor and filmmaker who has resided in the United States since the early 1990s. He found fame in roles such as Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy and Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, which led to his most successful, and arguably best known, leading role as Count Dracula in 1992 blockbuster Dracula. Throughout his career, Oldman has frequently been cast as eccentric villains and morally corrupt characters, becoming well-known to audiences as the primary antagonist of such films as True Romance, Léon, Air Force One, The Fifth Element and The Contender. He is also known for his portrayals of real-life figures: as well as Vicious and Oswald, he portrayed Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears and Ludwig Van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved. In recent years he is recognisable as heroic characters such as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter film series and James Gordon in Christopher Nolan's reboot of the Batman film series.
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