# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-oldman
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:11.523Z

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name: "Gary Oldman"
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description: "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."
tagline: "British actor and filmmaker (born 1958)"
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birthDate: "1958-03-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.