Gary Oldman

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 K…