Born Leonard Gary Oldham in New Cross, south London, in 1958. The sudden departure of his father, a welder, when Oldman was 7 was the start of an unhappy childhood – he left his brutal boys’ school to become a sales clerk, performing at the Greenwich Young People’s Theatre in his spare time.
He won a scholarship to the Rose Buford College of Speech and Drama and got his film break starring alongside Phil Daniels and Tim Roth in Mike Leigh’s Meantime. Since then he has played everyone from Sid Vicious to Ludwig van Beethoven, has dated Isabella Rossellini and divorced Uma Thurman.
In 1997 he unexpectedly established himself as an accomplished director with the harrowing Nil By Mouth, winner of the 1998 BAFTA award for Best Screenplay.
In hard hitting drama The Firm, Bex is an estate agent who leads a double life as the leader of a gang of extremely violent football...
In action thriller Hunter Killer an untested American submarine captain teams with U.S. Navy Seals to rescue the Russian president, who has been kidnapped by a...
‘I very much believe that when you’re dealing with literature, even a minor classic such as Dracula, it is your job to make the book, and...
Sensing the outbreak of World War I, the Mondoshawan, ancient architects of Earth, return to repossess four mystical stones representing the four elements and a casket...
In Darkest Hour a true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill...
Director Oliver Stone has never shied away from exploring the emotional carnage of people’s lives, particularly in the context of bigger events that are meaningful to...
Gary Oldman stars in Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s classic Cold War spy novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy about a British intelligence officer who...
Joe Orton, playwright and icon of the swinging sixties, developed from a shy, inarticulate man to become a life-licking queen, whose reign was extinguished by lover...
Musical comedy drama Rachel and the Roarettes was an early starring role for Josie Lawrence, the production was highly surreal and Lawrence starred as motorbike riding...