| Gary
Oldman was born 21 March 1958 in New
Cross London, England. He plays the
role of Harry Potter's Godfather, and
the prisoner of Azkaban, Sirius Black.
Gary Oldman, the son of a welder and
a homemaker, won a scholarship to Britain's
Rose Bruford Drama College, where he
received a BA in Theatre Arts in 1979.
He subsequently studied with the Greenwich
Young People's Theatre and went on to
appear in a number of plays throughout
the early 80s, including "The Pope's
Wedding", for which he received
Time Out's Fringe Award for Best Newcomer
of 1985-1986 and The British Theatre
Association's Drama Magazine Award as
Best Actor 1985. His film debut was
in the 1986 biopic Sid and Nancy (1986),
where he played Sex Pistol Sid Vicious,
picking up the Evening Standard Film
Award as Best Newcomer. In 1988, he
received a Best Actor nomination from
the British Academy of Film and TV Arts
for his portrayal of 60s play-wright
'Joe Orton' . His ability to transform
himself physically and his command of
accents has allowed him to play a broad
range of characters and a number of
historical figures, including, in addition
to those above, 'Lee Harvey Oswald'
(JFK (1991)) and 'Ludwig Van Beethoven'
(Immortal Beloved (1994)). (source:
IMdb) |
