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  Gary Oldman - Biography - Moviefone
Oldman got his first big break when he was cast as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Alex Cox's disturbing docudrama account of the punk rocker's tragic relationship with Nancy Spungen.
Oldman's first American role in a major Hollywood film was that of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in Oliver Stone's JFK (1991).
Oldman has made headlines for his private as well as professional life over the years, both for his well-publicized battles with alcohol and his marriages to actresses Lesley Manville and Uma Thurman.
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  Gary Oldman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gary Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is an English actor, born Leonard Gary Oldman in New Cross, London, England.
Oldman first appeared on screen in the film Remembrance in 1982, going on to win his first starring role in Sid and Nancy (1986), in which he played the rocker Sid Vicious.
Oldman's almost unrecognisable performance in Tony Scott's True Romance was based on a fellow actor friend named Willi One Blood - coincedentally, both of them acted together the next year in Léon.
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 Gary Oldman: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gary Oldman was born in London London quick summary:
Oldman is 1.78m in height (5 foot 10 inches).
The fifth element (1997) is a science fiction action movie starring bruce willis, gary oldman, ian holm, milla jovovich, chris tucker,...
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 GARY OLDMAN at THESPIAN NET
Gary Oldman was raised by his mother and two sisters, and at the age of 15 he dreamed of becoming a musician after he found an old record in his attic called "Liberaci Plays The Classics".
Gary Oldman applied to The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was crushed when he was told he didn't have what it takes to be an actor.
Known as an actor's actor, Gary Oldman's ability to transform himself physically and his command of accents has allowed him to play a broad range of characters such as Lee Harvey Oswald in "JFK", Beethoven in "Immortal Beloved", and an alcoholic street thug in "State Of Grace".
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 Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman is a British actor, famous for his rogue's gallery of demented film characters.
Oldman was Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, and Pontius Pilate in Jesus.
Oldman's father was a machinist and seaman with a fondness for the bottle, and his parents divorced when he was a grade-schooler.
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 Gary Oldman Information
Gary Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is an English actor, born Leonard Gary Oldman in New Cross, London, England.
Oldman first appeared on screen in the film Remembrance in 1982, going on to win his first starring role in Sid and Nancy (1986), in which he played the Sex Pistols' ill-fated bassist Sid Vicious.
Oldman's almost unrecognisable performance in Tony Scott's True Romance was based on a fellow actor friend named Willi One Blood - coincedentally, both of them acted together the next year in Léon.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Gary_Oldman   (805 words)

  
 Salon | Gary Oldman
This summer alone, the 39-year-old British actor is playing the fiendish Zorg in "The Fifth Element," a madman who hijacks the presidential plane in "Air Force One" and the sardonically evil Dr. Smith in the movie adaptation of the campy '60s sci-fi TV series "Lost in Space," currently being filmed at Shepperton Studios near London.
Oldman started his career at London's experimental Royal Court Theatre and first grabbed cinematic attention as punk rocker Sid Vicious.
Interviewed during a break in shooting "Lost in Space," Oldman, sporting a buzz-cut and sparse goatee that made him look like a brown-haired Van Gogh, was a study in restraint and dry wit.
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 MuggleNet | Gary Oldman and David Thewlis Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Gary: It's been a great experience in that respect.
Gary: It was terrible when you have lenses in and can hardly see anything and a light would be blinding to you.
Gary: I don't know, I think there's a real softness to David.
www.mugglenet.com /mediasp/2004/november/davidthewlisgaryoldman.shtml   (982 words)

  
 Gary Oldman @ Filmbug
Gary Oldman began his career in 1979 working extensively in the London theatre.
The film was invited to open the 1997 50th Cannes Film Festival in the main competition and Kathy Burke won Best Actress for her role.
Oldman's other major film credits include Sid and Nancy, Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Nic Roeg and Dennis Potter's Track 29, Criminal Law, Chattahoochee, Murder in the First State and State of Grace.
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 Gary Oldman Photos - Gary Oldman News - Gary Oldman Information
Gary's father left the family when Gary was only seven so he was raised by his mother and his two sisters.
Gary: I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it.
Gary: I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy--that is a miracle in itself.
www.tv.com /gary-oldman/person/42574/summary.html   (378 words)

  
 CanMag- Gary Oldman News, Pics, Stills, Info
Gary Oldman is so devishly twisted in this film that you both hate and love his character.
After all of his bad-guy roles, it is nice to see Gary Oldman as a good guy in films such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [though creepy], Batman Begins, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
With these latest roles, Gary Oldman proves that he is not made to be the bad guy, and is probably one of the top character actors in the business today.
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 Gary Oldman presented in Arts section
Gary Oldman is without a doubt one of the best actors of modern times.
This all shows the versatility in the characters and the work of Gary Oldman, often referred to as the chameleon.
After moving to the U.S. that same year, Oldman appeared in Nicolas Roeg’s Track 29 (1988), and in 1990, he had one of his most memorable—to say nothing of cultish—roles as Rosencrantz opposite Tim Roth as Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard’s brilliant Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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 Gary Oldman - SCIFIPEDIA
Leonard Gary Oldman is a well known British actor who has appeared in several popular scifi films.
He was born on March 21, 1958 in New Cross, London, England to Kathleen and Len Oldman, a welder and a homemaker.
Oldman became known for his flexibility and his ability to play eccentric characters, replicating appearance and accents.
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 Gary Oldman: Hollywood Actor Biography
Oldman continued to quietly but consistently make great films and turn in impressive performances.
Until this role, Oldman had quite the reputation for picking characters that were psychotic, on the brink of psychosis, or just generally disturbed.
More than any other actor, Gary Oldman is truly able to transform himself into his characters.
www.yuddy.com /articles/actors/gary-oldman.html   (570 words)

  
 Gary Oldman News, Pictures and Interviews (Sirius Black)
After weeks of uncertainty and conflicting press reports, Gary Oldman is set to reprise his role as Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," his management company confirmed today.
Warner Bros. has just confirmed to us that Gary Oldman and David Thewlis will each be reprising their respective roles as Sirius Black and Remus Lupin in the fifth film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Both actors are expected to start filming later this summer.
According to Gary Oldman, fifteen minutes is about how long he'll actually appear as the title character Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," a recent interview in "The Book LA" reveals.
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 Gary Oldman Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbe, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Miriam Margolyes, Barry Humphries, Valeria Golino.
Starring Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Danny Aiello, Natalie Portman, Peter Appel, Michael Badalucco, Ellen Greene.
Starring Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Joan Plowright, Robert Prosky, Roy Dotrice, Diane Salinger, Amy Wright, Dana Ivey, Edward Hardwicke.
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 Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman's perceptions of life were skewed at an early age when his father, an alcoholic welder, left home one day when Oldman was only seven years old never to return again.
Oldman was going nowhere fast, supporting himself as a sales clerk in a sporting goods shop when he was accepted into the Greenwich Young People's Theatre, which led to a scholarship to study acting at the Rose Buford College of Speech and Drama.
In 1997, Oldman put his childhood memories on screen when he wrote and directed Nil by Mouth, a bleak, semi-autobiographical drama about a dysfunctional blue-collar London family that Oldman dedicated to his late father.
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 Gary Oldman Biography at Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Similarly, Oldman was impressive as Drexl Spivey, a white would-be Rastafarian pimp, in one remarkable scene in the Quentin Tarantino-scripted "True Romance" (1993).
Oldman starred in two more conventional parts as crooked law enforcement officials in "Romeo Is Bleeding" (1993) and "The Professional" (1994) before donning period garb and furrowing his brow to embody Ludwig von Beethoven in "Immortal Beloved" (1994).
Oldman lent his vocal talents to the animated feature "The Quest for Camelot" (1998) and made a rare excursion into television to portray Pontius Pilate in the 2000 CBS miniseries "Jesus".
www.hollywood.com /celebritydetail/Gary_Oldman/195567   (1928 words)

  
 Gary Oldman , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
Gary Oldman began his career in 1979 working extensively in the London theatre.
Oldman's other major film credits include Sid and Nancy, Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Nic Roeg and Dennis Potter's Track 29, Criminal Law, Chattahoochee, Murder in the First State and State of Grace.
And in 1999 Oldman executive produced and starred in the SE8 Group/Douglas Urbanski film The Contender which received three Academy Award nominations.
www.starglimpse.com /celebs/pages/gary_oldman/gary_oldman.shtml   (711 words)

  
 New Oldman - interview with actor Gary Oldman - Interview Interview - Find Articles
Gary Oldman's directorial debut, Nil by Mouth, is a slice of South London life that makes the heart thump with anxiety
GARY OLDMAN: I wanted to tell this specific story more than I wanted to throw a camera around.
In my own journey [with alcoholism], having been an insider and having witnessed people destroy their lives, I, as Gary, find it very hard to laugh at that stuff.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n2_v28/ai_20363522   (953 words)

  
 RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Gary Oldman for Longest Yard remake?
British actor Gary Oldman is in talks to join the cast of a remake of 'The Longest Yard'.
Reynolds starred in the 1974 original comedy drama; this time round, Sandler will take the role of the imprisoned former pro quarterback who is asked by a warden to put a team of cons together to play the guards.
Oldman plays the role of Sirius Black in 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' which opens in Ireland next Monday, 31 May.
www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0528/oldmang.html   (180 words)

  
 Gary Oldman - MovieActors.com
Usually Gary Oldman plays characters that are borderline psychotics, he is also known for playing a wide variety of roles that often requires a variety of different accents.
Gary Oldman and HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN'S co-star Timothy Spall have both played the character of Rosencrantz; Spall in Kenneth Branagh's HAMLET in 1996, Oldman in ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD in 1990.
Gary Oldman was married to actress Uma Thurman for about two years.
www.movieactors.com /actors/garyoldman.htm   (420 words)

  
 IGN: Video Feature: Interview with Gary Oldman
And Oldman knows something about first impressions, which is one reason he can relate to Sirius Black – Azkaban escapee and the man who many characters in the series believe led Lord Voldemort to Harry's parents.
In this video interview, Oldman discusses the other characters' assumptions about Sirius Black, working with Radcliffe, and the development of The Look of his Sirius Black.
Gary Oldman is in talks to star in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
movies.ign.com /articles/521/521186p1.html   (361 words)

  
 channel4.com/film - Gary Oldman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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.
www.channel4.tv /film/reviews/person.jsp?id=15053   (148 words)

  
 Gary Oldman, The Actor
Award-winning actor and filmwriter, Gary Oldman is one of films most talented performers.
Oldman not only spent months with the singer's mother to learn all he could of his life, but he lost thirty pounds for the portrayal.
In the award -winning "Nil By Mouth", a drama depicting decline of a working class London family overcome by addictions, he not only directed, but was the writer and producer.
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 Gary Oldman pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Leonard Gary Oldman (born March 21, 1958) is a British actor.
Gary Oldman & Natalie Portman - The Professional
He and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) co-star Timothy Spall have both played the character of Rosencrantz; Spall in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), Oldman in _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)_.
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 Gary Oldman Website
Gary Oldman is an English actor, He has become known for playing eccentrics and for his mastery of accents.
Welcome to Gary Oldman website, and its dedicated to the one who displayed an edgy intensity that has brought verve to his portrayals of ambiguous and obsessive personalities.
Just Enjoy surfing Gary Oldman website, and don't forget to come back to check new things often.
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 Gary Oldman Pictures, Biography, Filmography, News, Videos,
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