Almost from the start of his career, Gary Oldman displayed an edgy intensity that brought verve to his... (Learn more)
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Gary Oldman’s Milestones
| Acted in productions at the Theatre Royal in York, England | |
| 1974 | Left school at age 16 and worked as a clerk in a sporting goods store |
| 1980 | Joined Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland; also toured Europe and South America with company |
| 1981 | Film acting debut, Colin Gregg's "Remembrance" |
| 1983 | Had a brief part as a skinhead in Mike Leigh's "Meantime" (BBC) |
| 1985 | Came to prominence under the guidance of Max Stafford-Clark (artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre); made London stage debut in Edward Bond's "The Pope's Wedding" |
| 1986 - 0 | First starring role in a feature, playing Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's "Sid and Nancy" |
| 1987 | Offered a fine turn as playwright Joe Orton in the biopic "Prick Up Your Ears" |
| 1988 | Re-teamed with director Colin Gregg on "We Think the World of You"; played a young married man who is the object of a crush of an older gay man (Alan Bates) |
| 1989 | American film debut portraying a slick attorney matching wits with a psychopath (Kevin Bacon) in "Criminal Law" |
| 1990 | Portrayed a Southern man erroneously incarcerated in a mental institution in "Chattahoochee" |
| 1991 | Offered an eerie portrayal of the alleged presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the Oliver Stone-directed "JFK" |
| 1991 | With Tim Roth played the title characters in the film version of Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| 1992 | First US TV appearance in the A&E rebroadcast of the British TV-movie "Heading Home" |
| 1992 | Gave a memorable interpretation of the titular bloodsucker in Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" |
| 1993 | Delivered a mesmerizing turn as a dreadlocked drug dealer in Tony Scott's "True Romance"; scripted by Quentin Tarantino |
| 1994 | Cast as Ludwig von Beethoven in the biopic "Immortal Beloved" |
| 1994 | Cast as a crooked cop in "Romeo Is Bleeding" |
| 1994 | Portrayed a murderous DEA agent in "Léon/The Professional"; first collaboration with director Luc Besson |
| 1995 | Re-teamed with Kevin Bacon for "Murder in the First"; played the sadistic prison warden opposite Bacon's portrayal of an Alcatraz inmate |
| 1996 | Cast as art representative Albert Milo in "Basquiat" |
| 1997 | Continued in the evil vein as the leader of a terrorist band that hijacks the presidential plane in "Air Force One" |
| 1997 | Feature directorial debut, "Nil by Mouth"; also scripted and served as one of the producers along with Luc Besson |
| 1997 | Offered a scenery-chewing romp as the villain in Besson's "The Fifth Element" |
| 1998 | Played Dr. Smith in the screen version of "Lost in Space" |
| 2000 | Cast as a conservative US Senator challenging the appointment of a woman to the office of Vice President in "The Contender"; also executive produced |
| 2000 | Made rare television appearance as Pontius Pilate in the CBS biblical miniseries "Jesus" |
| 2001 | Received an Emmy nomination for two guest appearances in NBC's "Friends" appearing as Richard Crosby, a pedantic actor who insists that "real" actors spit on one another when they enunciate |
| 2001 | Starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in "Hannibal," as Mason Verger, the only surviving victim of Hannibal Lecter |
| 2004 | Landed a major role in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" playing Potter's godfather Sirius Black |
| 2005 | Cast as Lieutenant Gordon, a detective on the Gotham police force in Christopher Nolan's commercially and critically acclaimed "Batman Begins" |
| 2005 | Reprised role of Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," adapted from the fourth book in the series |
| 2007 | Reprised role of Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," adapted from the fifth book in the series |
| 2008 | Reprised role of Lieutenant Gordon in the second installment of the revived "Batman" series, "The Dark Knight" |
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