# Gary Oldman

> He's the actor other actors study — the one who's been Sid Vicious, Dracula, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirius Black, and Winston Churchill without ever quite looking like himself. Oldman doesn't inhabit roles; he erases the seams.

*British actor and filmmaker (born 1958)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/gary-oldman

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1958-03-21
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Oldman started in London theatre in 1979, cutting his teeth with the Royal Shakespeare Company before his film debut in Remembrance (1982). He broke through playing punks and playwrights — Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) — then crossed into American films as a gangster in State of Grace (1990) and Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991). The 1990s made him a go-to for villains: Dracula, a crooked DEA agent in Léon, a hijacker in Air Force One. He spent the 2000s in franchise work — Sirius Black across the Harry Potter films, Commissioner Gordon in the Dark Knight trilogy — before winning the Academy Award for Best Actor as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017). He wrote and directed Nil by Mouth in 1997, earned Emmy nominations for a drunk guest spot on Friends and, since 2022, for playing the slovenly spymaster Jackson Lamb in Slow Horses. King Charles knighted him in 2025.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 70.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 37.8 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000198/ (@nm0000198)

## Topics
#Actors, #Actor, #Movies, #Film Directing, #Voice Acting, #Screenwriting, #Television, #Theatre

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