Gary Oldman
- Born: 21 Mar, 1958
Almost from the start of his career, Gary Oldman displayed an edgy intensity that has brought verve to his portrayals of ambiguous and obsessive personalities. Equally at home as the hero or the villain (although there are far more of the latter on his resume), the lean, wiry, intense actor from South London dropped out of school at 16 and following a stint as a store clerk found his metier on stage after winning a scholarship to drama school. Within a year of graduating, Oldman was working regularly on stage in Glasgow and finding roles in television dramas. An early example of the latter is his electrifying but brief appearance as an explosive skinhead in Mike Leigh's BBC telefilm "Meantime" (1983). The performer consolidated his on screen persona with two very different doomed...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father : left when Oldman was around seven years old; died of alcoholism c. 1984
- mother Kathleen Oldman:
- sister Laila Morse: born c. 1947; co-starred in Oldman's directorial debut "Nil by Mouth"; uses stage name which Oldman came up with as an anagram of "mia sorella", Italian for "my sister"
- : has another sister; also older
- son Alfred Oldman: born in 1988; mother, Lesley Manville
- step-daughter Phelix Imogen Fincher: born in April 1994; mother, Donya Fiorentino; father, David Fincher
- son Gulliver Flynn Oldman: born in August 1997 in L.A.; mother, Donya Fiorentino
- son Charlie John Oldman: born c. 1999; mother, Donya Fiorentino
- wife Lesley Manville: divorced; mother of Oldman's son Alfie
- wife Uma Thurman: married in October 1990; divorced in 1992
- Isabella Rossellini: reportedly became engaged to be married in July 1994; separated in 1996
- wife Donya Fiorentino: born c. 1966; married on February 16, 1997; formerly married to director David Fincher with whom she has a daughter; she filed for divorce on April 13, 2001
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