Gary Oldman - Celebrity - Milestones
Milestones
- 2004: Starred as escaped prisoner Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
- 2001: Had starring role in the Sundance-screened "Nobody's Baby", playing a drifter who threatens his buddy's newfound happiness
- 2001: Co-starred with Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore in "Hannibal"; took no screen credit for role of Mason Verger; film directed by Ridley Scott
- 2001: Made guest appearance on season finale of "Friends" (NBC), playing an alcoholic actor; received Emmy nomination
- 2000: Made rare television appearance as Pontius Pilate in the CBS biblical miniseries "Jesus"
- 2000: Executive produced and co-starred as a conservative US Senator challenging the appointment of a woman to the office of vice president in "The Contender", written and directed by Rod Lurie
- 1998: Played Dr. Smith in the screen version of "Lost in Space"
- 1998: Served as executive producer of "Plunkett and Macleane", directed by Jake Scott
- 1998: Provided the voice for Ruber in the animated "The Quest for Camelot"
- 1997: Continued in the evil vein as the leader of a terrorist band that hijacks the presidential plane in "Air Force One"
- 1997: Offered a scenery-chewing romp as the villain in "The Fifth Element", directed by Besson
- 1997: Feature film directorial debut, "Nil by Mouth"; also scripted and served as one of the producers along with partner Douglas Urbanski and Luc Besson
- 1996: Cast as art representative Albert Milo in "Basquiat"
- 1995: Reunited with Kevin Bacon in "Murder in the First"; played the sadistic warden to Bacon's prison in this based-on-fact drama about a former inmate of Alcatraz whose lawyer argued his imprisonment there made him go insane
- 1994: After completing the filming of "The Scarlett Letter" (1995), checked into a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of alcoholism
- 1994: Cast as Ludwig von Beethoven in the romance "Immortal Beloved", which purports to identify the composer's great love
- 1994: Initial teaming with Luc Besson, portraying a murderous DEA agent hunting down a missing 12-year-old, in "The Professional/Leon"
- 1994: Cast as a crooked cop in "Romeo Is Bleeding"
- 1993: Delivered a mesmerizing and remarkable turn as a dreadlocked drug dealer in "True Romance", Tony Scott's film version of the Quentin Tarantino script
- 1992: Gave a memorable interpretation of the titular bloodsucker in "Bram Stoker's Dracula", directed by Francis Ford Coppola
- 1992: First US TV appearance in "Heading Home", a 1991 British TV-movie rebroadcast on A&E
- 1991: Teamed with Tim Roth as the title characters in the film version of Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"
- 1991: Offered an eerie portrayal of the alleged presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in "JFK", the controversial Oliver Stone-directed film about the events of November 22, 1963
- 1990: Portrayed a Southern man erroneously incarcerated in a mental institution in "Chattahoochee"
- 1989: American film debut portraying a slick attorney matching wits with a psychopath (Kevin Bacon) in "Criminal Law"
- 1988: Reteamed 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)
- 1987: Offered a fine turn as playwright Joe Orton in the biopic "Prick Up Your Ears"
- 1986: First feature starring role as punk rock singer Sid Vicious in "Sid and Nancy"
- 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"
- 1983: Had a brief part as a skinhead in the BBC drama "Meantime", directed by Mike Leigh
- 1981: Film acting debut, "Remembrance", directed by Colin Gregg
- 1980: Joined Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland and appeared in "Massacre at Paris", "Chinchilla," "Desperado Corner", "A Waste of Time"; also toured Europe and South America with company
- 1974: Left school at age 16 and worked as a clerk in a sporting goods store
- ---: Will play the sadistic warden who orders a jailed ex-pro quarterback (Adam Sandler) to assemble a team of inmates to play against a team of guards in the remake of the 1974 film "The Longest Yard" (lensed 2004)
- ---: Will play Lieutenant James Gordon, a detective on the Gotham police force in "Batman Begins," directed by Christopher Nolan (lensed 2004)
- Acted in productions at the Theatre Royal in York, England