Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman needed 200 hours in a makeup chair to become Winston Churchill. The transformation also took 14 pounds of silicone rubber. Then came US$20,000 worth of Cuban cigars, which left the actor with nicotine poisoning. Oldman, an English actor and filmmaker, will plainly pay a steep price for a role. His films have grossed over US$11 billion worldwide, yet the path behind that number was far from smooth. He has played a punk icon, a vampire count and the man who shot a president. He has also directed a film that British critics rank among the best their country has made. How did a school-leaver from south London become an actor whom famous peers call a hero? Why did he almost refuse the part that made him a star? And what did he build once he stepped behind the camera?
Gary Leonard Oldman was born in New Cross, London, on the 21st of March 1958. His father, Leonard Bertram Oldman, was a former sailor who also worked as a welder. His mother was Kathleen, born Cheriton. Oldman later said that his father was an alcoholic who left the family when the boy was seven. His older sister Maureen also became an actress, and she is better known as Laila Morse. She appeared in her brother's directorial debut Nil by Mouth before taking her most famous role, Mo Harris in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
West Greenwich School in Deptford was where Oldman studied, and he left at 16 to work in a sports shop. As a child he played piano, and music was his first ambition. Then he saw Malcolm McDowell in the 1971 film The Raging Moon. In a 1995 interview with Charlie Rose he described the effect: "Something about Malcolm just arrested me, and I connected, and I said, 'I wanna do that.'" The piano plans were set aside.
Football filled his youth too. He supported Millwall, though he also followed Manchester United because he idolised George Best. In 2011 his mother told him something he had never known. Just after the Second World War his father had played for Millwall, with a couple of first team games when he was young.
In the mid-1970s Oldman studied with the Young People's Theatre in Greenwich. He paid his way with work on assembly lines, as a porter in an operating theatre, selling shoes and beheading pigs in an abattoir. He applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was turned down. The academy welcomed another attempt the following year but advised him to find something else to do for a living. Rose later asked whether he had reminded the academy of that advice. Oldman joked that "the work speaks for itself".
A scholarship took him to Rose Bruford College in Sidcup, south-east London. He called himself a "shy" but diligent student, and he played Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. He graduated with a BA in Acting in 1979, the same year he first stepped onto a professional stage.
That first job was Thark, opposite Annette Kerr, at York Theatre Royal. Oldman was the first in his year to land professional work. He insisted this came from diligence and application, not from being the most talented actor. In December he played Puss in Dick Whittington and His Cat, also in York. Cabaret, Privates on Parade and Romeo and Juliet followed, then work in Colchester and at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. Audiences in Glasgow came to love his work ethic and intensity through the 1980s. With the Citizens company he toured Europe and South America.
Plays by Christopher Marlowe, Shaun Lawton and Robert David MacDonald filled 1980 and 1981. In 1982 he spent six months in the West End in MacDonald's Summit Conference, opposite Glenda Jackson. That year he also made his film debut in Colin Gregg's Remembrance. Don Boyd's film Gossip would have starred him, but it collapsed. In 1983 he played a skinhead in Mike Leigh's Meantime. He then led Entertaining Mr Sloane in Chesterfield and Edward Bond's Saved in Westcliffe.
Saved proved to be his breakthrough. Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, had seen Oldman's performance. In 1984 he cast him as Scopey, the lead in Bond's The Pope's Wedding. Stafford-Clark told The Times that Oldman suffered from stage fright, which he believed explained the actor's pull toward screen work. The performance won the Time Out Fringe Award for Best Newcomer. It also won the Drama Theatre Award for Best Actor, shared with Anthony Hopkins for his work in Pravda.
Royal Court roles poured in from 1984 to 1986. They included Rat in the Skull, The Desert Air, Cain and Abel, The Danton Affair, Women Beware Women and Real Dreams. He also appeared in all three of Bond's The War Plays, called Red Black and Ignorant, The Tin Can People and Great Peace. Oldman was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1985 to 1986, just as the screen began to call him back.
The director Alex Cox had watched the 1984 production of The Pope's Wedding, and he offered Oldman the role of the musician Sid Vicious in the 1986 film Sid and Nancy. Oldman turned it down twice. In his own words, "I wasn't really that interested in Sid Vicious and the punk movement." He found the script banal and felt that theatre was far superior. Money and his agent's urging finally changed his mind.
In 1987 he took his third starring film role, as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears. It earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. The two films together caught the eye of the American critic Roger Ebert. He wrote, "There is no point of similarity between the two performances; like a few gifted actors, Oldman is able to re-invent himself for every role." Ebert added that on the evidence of these two movies, Oldman was the best young British actor around. Even John Lydon, who played alongside Vicious in the Sex Pistols and criticised the film, called Oldman a "bloody good actor". Premiere magazine later ranked the Vicious performance No. 62 among its 100 greatest of all time.
Late in 1988 he starred opposite Alan Bates in We Think the World of You. In 1989 came Chattahoochee, with Dennis Hopper and Frances McDormand. That year he also played the football hooligan Clive "Bex" Bissel in the BBC television film The Firm. In 2011 Total Film numbered it his best performance and called it "stunning" and "fearless".
Oldman belonged to a wave of young British actors who were becoming established in Hollywood. Tim Roth, Bruce Payne, Colin Firth, Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul McGann were among them. The press dubbed the group the "Brit Pack", and Oldman was its de facto leader.
In 1990 he and Tim Roth co-starred in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard's film version of his own play. Total Film described Oldman's character as "a blitz of brilliant comedy timing and pitch perfect line delivery." Later that year State of Grace paired him with Sean Penn and Ed Harris. Roger Ebert thought Oldman's turn was the highlight, and Janet Maslin called his work "phenomenal". He turned down the lead in Edward Scissorhands the same year. Early in the 1990s he moved to the United States, where he has lived since.
In 1991 filming began on Dylan Thomas, a biopic of the Welsh poet, with Oldman's then-wife Uma Thurman as Caitlin Thomas. Production shut down shortly afterward. Later that year he played Lee Harvey Oswald in Oliver Stone's JFK, his first US blockbuster. Oldman said the script offered very little on Oswald. Stone handed him several plane tickets and a list of contacts, then told him to do his own research. Oldman met Oswald's wife, Marina, and her two daughters. His scenes in the 1992 thriller Final Analysis were cut.
Bram Stoker's Dracula arrived in 1992. Oldman played the Count in Francis Ford Coppola's romance-horror adaptation of Stoker's 1897 novel, and it was a box office success worldwide. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films recognised his work as the best male performance of 1992. In 1993 he served on the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
Quentin Tarantino considered him for Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction, the role that went to Samuel L. Jackson. TriStar executives separately recommended him for the drug dealer Lance, played by Eric Stoltz. Neither role was realised, but a Tarantino script had already given him True Romance in 1993.
Drexl Spivey, the violent pimp of True Romance, was written by Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott. MSN Movies described him as one of cinema's most memorable villains. Oldman became known for such parts. In Murder in the First in 1995 he played a sadistic prison warden. In The Fifth Element in 1997 he was Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, a futuristic corporate tyrant. In Air Force One that year he was the Russian terrorist Egor Korshunov. In 1998 he became Dr. Zachary Smith, also called Spider Smith, in Lost in Space, which was commercially successful but panned by critics.
Norman Stansfield may be the best known of them all. In Léon: The Professional in 1994, Oldman played a corrupt officer of the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Multiple publications have since named the character among cinema's best villains and most corrupt police officers.
Not every part was a villain. In 1995 he played Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter. His reading of Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved was critically acclaimed. Accents became part of his toolkit, from the Transylvanian Count to the Russian terrorist.
At the peak of his popularity in the 1990s, Empire magazine dubbed him Hollywood's "psycho deluxe". The comedy series In Living Color spoofed him. In 1998 MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch aired a match between claymation versions of Oldman and Christopher Walken to decide the greatest cinematic villain. He was also drafted in for the first ever cover of Loaded magazine.
His private struggles were well known in the early 1990s. Oldman was arrested for drink-driving in 1991 and checked himself into rehabilitation in 1994. He has been sober since 1997. He credits meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, which he has publicly praised.
In 1999 he served as executive producer of Plunkett & Macleane and played Pontius Pilate in the television film Jesus. He was also considered for the role of Morpheus in The Matrix.
The Contender followed in 2000. Oldman played Sheldon Runyon, a zealous Republican congressman, opposite Jeff Bridges, and he was an executive producer. He earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Some claimed he was unhappy that DreamWorks had supposedly edited the film to reflect pro-Democratic leanings. His manager, Douglas Urbanski, called those reports "sloppy sensationalism" and said Oldman was "the least political person I know". Urbanski insisted they had "produced this film, every last cut and frame". Roger Ebert dismissed the idea of Oldman criticising DreamWorks as a "myth".
In 2001 Oldman was almost unrecognisable in Hannibal as Mason Verger, the only surviving victim of Hannibal Lecter. He spent six hours a day in the make-up room, and he went uncredited. It was his second time opposite Anthony Hopkins, who had been in the supporting cast of Bram Stoker's Dracula. That May he made two guest appearances on the NBC sitcom Friends, in the two-part episode "The One With Chandler and Monica's Wedding". He played Richard Crosby, a pedantic actor who insists that real actors spit on one another when they enunciate. The habit causes tension and then friendship with Joey Tribbiani, played by Matt LeBlanc, whom Oldman knew from Lost in Space. The role earned an Emmy nomination, though Derek Jacobi won for Frasier.
After Friends, Oldman took no major roles until 2004. It was suggested that he had been blacklisted in Hollywood after the controversy around The Contender. In 2002 he starred in the generally well-received Interstate 60 and played the Devil in the BMW short film The Hire: Beat the Devil. The Guardian's Xan Brooks later called the early 2000s Oldman's "low point", recalling "barrel-scraping roles" in the 2003 films Tiptoes and Sin. Even so, Lisa Nesselson of Variety called his portrayal of a man with dwarfism in Tiptoes "astonishingly fine". Mark Kermode later included that performance in his "Great Acting in Bad Films".
In 2004 Oldman returned to prominence as Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, in The Prisoner of Azkaban. The critic Kenneth Turan wrote, "Oldman exhibits a delicacy he hasn't always shown with the character of Sirius Black." Oldman played Sirius again in The Goblet of Fire in 2005 and The Order of the Phoenix in 2007. His last turn came in The Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 2011.
Batman Begins in 2005 gave him James "Jim" Gordon in Christopher Nolan's commercially and critically successful film. He reprised the role in The Dark Knight in 2008 and The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. Reviewing The Dark Knight, Mark Kermode pushed back on the idea that Heath Ledger's Joker was the highlight. He said the best performance in the film, "by a mile", was Oldman's, and he hoped to see Oldman nominated.
Oldman played three roles opposite Jim Carrey in the 2009 version of A Christmas Carol. David Goyer's supernatural thriller The Unborn was released that year. In 2010 he co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Book of Eli and led Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. He voiced the villain Lord Shen in Kung Fu Panda 2 and was nominated for an Annie Award.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in 2011 brought his first Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA nomination. He played the British spy George Smiley in Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of the John le Carré novel. To prepare he gained 15 pounds and watched Alec Guinness's performance in the role. He also visited le Carré himself to perfect the character's voice. Two years earlier Leigh Singer of The Guardian had called him "arguably the best actor never Oscar-nominated."
Lawless in 2012 cast him as Floyd Banner, a big-hitting mobster, alongside Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain. In 2013 he played Nicholas Wyatt, a ruthless CEO, in Paranoia with Harrison Ford and Liam Hemsworth. In 2014 he played Norton, the scientist who creates the title character, in the RoboCop remake. He also starred in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes that year.
A promotional interview in the July/August 2014 issue of Playboy turned into a public crisis. Oldman complained of excessive political correctness in American media. He downplayed offensive remarks by Alec Baldwin and Mel Gibson, putting them down to anger and drunkenness. He also said things about Hollywood and Jewish people that drew heavy criticism, though he stressed that he was not "a fascist or a racist". He issued multiple apologies, including on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on the 25th of June. There he called the remarks "offensive, insensitive, pernicious and ill-informed".
The Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomed his contrition. The Wiesenthal Center invited him to its Museum of Tolerance to screen a film that was still years away, Darkest Hour. The director David Fincher told Playboy, "Gary's not cruel. He's an incredibly thoughtful guy."
In 2015 Oldman played the head of police who investigates Tom Hardy's character in Child 44. He also took a supporting role in the thriller Man Down, opposite Shia LaBeouf and Kate Mara. In 2016 he played a Central Intelligence Agency chief in Criminal, alongside Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones and Ryan Reynolds.
Three films arrived in 2017. In The Space Between Us he was a billionaire entrepreneur, and in The Hitman's Bodyguard an Eastern European dictator. The third was Joe Wright's war drama Darkest Hour, in which he played the British prime minister Winston Churchill. The portrayal was critically acclaimed.
Before that role, Oldman carried the label of the greatest actor never to win an Oscar. In 2018 he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 90th ceremony. He also won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, the Critics' Choice Movie Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The Golden Globe came although he had once criticised that award. He said he was "amazed, flattered and very proud" to be nominated.
His first post-Oscar roles were small and strange. He voiced an evil artificial intelligence in Netflix's independent film Tau and starred beside Gerard Butler in Hunter Killer. In 2019 he starred in the horror-thriller Mary and in The Courier, opposite Olga Kurylenko. He also appeared as Jürgen Mossack in Steven Soderbergh's The Laundromat, with Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas.
In 2020 Oldman played Herman J. Mankiewicz, the Citizen Kane co-writer, in David Fincher's black-and-white Netflix film Mank. The story follows Mankiewicz's tumultuous work on the script alongside the director Orson Welles. Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins and Charles Dance co-star. Mank had a limited theatrical release on the 13th of November and began streaming on the 4th of December. It earned 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and brought Oldman a nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards. In 2021 he starred opposite Armie Hammer in Crisis and with Amy Adams in The Woman in the Window.
In 2022 Oldman played Jackson Lamb, a cantankerous manager of intelligence agents, in the Apple TV+ spy drama Slow Horses. The series is based on a book of the same name. It was the first time he led a television series, and it brought a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. On the 20th of November 2022 he said the series would likely be his last role, because he intended to retire from acting once it ended.
The following year Oldman joined the HBO Max special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. He reunited with Christopher Nolan for a minor role as the US president Harry S. Truman in Oppenheimer. That film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus and was a critical and financial success. In Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope, described as a "love letter to the city of Naples", Oldman plays the writer John Cheever. The film competed for the Palme d'Or and premiered at Cannes on the 21st of May 2024. It earned a nine-and-a-half-minute standing ovation, though overall reviews were negative.
In the 2025 Birthday Honours, King Charles III made Oldman a Knight Bachelor "for services to drama". On the 22nd of August 2025 he left his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
In 1997 Oldman wrote, directed and produced Nil by Mouth, a film partly based on his memories of a child he knew at school. It won the BAFTA Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, shared with Douglas Urbanski and Luc Besson. It also took the BAFTA for Best Screenplay, the Channel 4 Director's Award and an Empire Award. In 1999 the British Film Institute named it one of the hundred best British films of the 20th century. Time Out placed it at number twenty-one on its own list of the top 100.
Oldman and Urbanski formed the SE8 GROUP to make Nil by Mouth. He completed a screenplay called Chang & Eng, co-written with Darin Strauss and based on Strauss's book of the same name. In September 2006 Nokia Nseries Studio released Donut, a short film Oldman directed with music by Tor Hyams. It was shot on an N93 phone to promote the device, and Juliet Landau made a 25-minute documentary about its making. In 2011 he directed a music video for then-wife Alex Eden's first single, "Kiss Me Like the Woman You Loved". He was also slated to direct a biopic of Eadweard Muybridge called Flying Horse.
In 2015 Oldman and Urbanski signed a deal with Emily Bestler Books, a label of the Simon & Schuster/Atria Publishing Group. The project was Blood Riders, a vampire book series.
Music runs deepest of all. Oldman is a proficient pianist, and in 1995 he told Charlie Rose that he would rather be a musician than an actor. He sang several tracks on the Sid and Nancy soundtrack, alongside the original Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock. In the 1988 film Track 29 he sang and played live piano. For Immortal Beloved he traced over Beethoven compositions, and he later tutored Daniel Radcliffe on bass guitar. He sang a duet with David Bowie on "You've Been Around", from Reeves Gabrels's album The Sacred Squall of Now. He also produced a live performance by Jack White with Vevo and YouTube.
Music videos pulled him in front of the camera as well. In 1993 he appeared in Annie Lennox's "Love Song for a Vampire", written for the Bram Stoker's Dracula soundtrack. He had a cameo as the Devil in the Guns N' Roses video for "Since I Don't Have You". In Bowie's 2013 video for "The Next Day" he played a sleazy priest. At the 2016 Brit Awards in London, Oldman paid tribute to Bowie and accepted the Brits Icon Award on behalf of the singer and his family.
Video games gave him a voice-only career. He voiced Ignitus, the Fire Guardian, in The Legend of Spyro games from Sierra Entertainment. In the Call of Duty games he voices Sergeant Viktor Reznov and the scientist Daniel Clarke. He narrates Sergeant Jack Barnes in the Spearhead expansion for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. In 2015 he voiced Lord Vortech, the villain of Lego Dimensions. He is also due to play Admiral Ernst Bishop in the single-player campaign of Squadron 42, the crowdfunded game designed by Chris Roberts.
At drama school Oldman studied the teachings of Konstantin Stanislavski and Stella Adler. He then went "off-book", drawing much of his inspiration from American cinema. Early on he was almost typecast as an anti-social personality. Playing villains meant expressing them physically, and that fed a "big" style built on his stage projection skills. He also wanted to set himself apart from his "stuffy" and "often interchangeable" British peers.
Oldman admits that overacting plays a part. "I do go for it a bit as an actor, I must admit," he has said. Stuart Heritage of The Guardian called him "a long-term devotee of the art of ham". Yet he enjoys the opposite pole too, playing characters "where the silence is loud", such as George Smiley. In his words, "If it's coming from a sincere place, then I think the screen can hold the epic and it can hold the very, very small."
He is known for deep research and total devotion. For Sid and Nancy he lost so much weight that he was hospitalised. At another point his children were being raised American, and he nearly picked up an "American twang". He had to hire a dialect coach to relearn his English accent. On the set of The Fifth Element, Luc Besson saw him recite any scene from Hamlet on demand.
In a 2017 interview Oldman separated immersion from impression. An impressionist studies one source and must paint with a broad stroke. An actor, he said, tries to surround himself with the assignment, "like being in a big cloud and then some of it rains through". For Churchill that meant studying his walk and mannerisms and voice, and also his psychology.
The admirers form a long list. Tom Hardy called him his "absolute complete and utter hero". Christian Bale said Oldman was "the reason I'm acting". Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe and Ryan Gosling have named him a favourite. Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Keanu Reeves and Ray Winstone have used the word "genius". Alec Baldwin called him "preternaturally gifted". Roger Ebert wrote that Oldman was "one of the great actors, able to play high, low, crass, noble". In 2018 Stuart McGurk of GQ called him "the master of being brilliant in bad movies".
Christopher Eccleston saw the Darkest Hour win as "massive" for people from working-class backgrounds. He said, "Oldman is as fine an actor as Daniel Day-Lewis, but Gary is not double-barrelled."
Honours stretch across decades. In 1998 the Camerimage Film Festival made him the first recipient of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award for Acting. In 2011 readers of Empire voted him the Empire Icon Award, presented by Colin Firth. In 2012 Sir Peter Blake included him in a new version of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.
Oldman avoids the Hollywood celebrity scene and is often called an "actor's actor". He employs no publicist and does not go to parties. In 2007 he told an interviewer that he has "dinner at home every night with my kids". He has been married five times. He wed Lesley Manville in 1987, and their son Alfie was born the next year. Manville said in 2018 that they are friends. He married Uma Thurman in 1990, and in 1997 he wed Donya Fiorentino, with whom he has two sons, Gulliver and Charlie. His marriage to Alexandra Edenborough began on the 31st of December 2008 and ended in a divorce finalised in September 2015. In August 2017 he married the writer and art curator Gisele Schmidt in a private ceremony at the home of Douglas Urbanski. As of 2021 the couple live in Palm Springs, California.
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Who is Gary Oldman?
Gary Oldman is an English actor and filmmaker, born in New Cross, London, on the 21st of March 1958. He is known for his versatility and intense acting style, and his films have grossed over US$11 billion worldwide.
What Oscar did Gary Oldman win?
Gary Oldman won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018 for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. He was also nominated for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Mank.
What was Gary Oldman's breakthrough film role?
Gary Oldman rose to prominence as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy in 1986, a role offered by director Alex Cox. Oldman turned the part down twice before accepting it.
Did Gary Oldman direct a film?
Gary Oldman wrote, directed and produced Nil by Mouth in 1997. It won the BAFTA Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film and the BAFTA for Best Screenplay.
What is Gary Oldman's role in Slow Horses?
Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, a cantankerous manager of intelligence agents, in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses. It is his first lead role in a television series and earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination.
Was Gary Oldman knighted?
King Charles III made Gary Oldman a Knight Bachelor in the 2025 Birthday Honours, "for services to drama". On the 22nd of August 2025 he also received a handprint and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Which Harry Potter and Batman roles has Gary Oldman played?
Gary Oldman played Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series from 2004 to 2011. He played James Gordon in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy from 2005 to 2012.
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- 102Academy Award winner Gary Oldman teases the end of his movie career: 'I don't want to be active when I'm 80'Nicolas Vega — CNC — 22 November 2022
- 105'Oppenheimer' doesn't show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasureJustin Chang — 11 August 2023
- 107The Screenings Guide of the 77th Festival de Cannes8 May 2024
- 109MagazineGary Oldman and Paolo Sorrentino Embrace as 'Parthenope' Gets 9.5-Minute Standing Ovation at Cannes Film FestivalNick Vivarelli et al. — 21 May 2024
- 110Parthenope
- 113NewsThe 100 Best British Films Ever22 June 2015
- 114Nokia NseriesNseries.com
- 115MagazineThe Story of Daniel Radcliffe | 'Harry Potter' CentralJeff Jensen — 1 July 2011
- 116Sacred Squall of Now – Reeves Gabrels – CDBuy.com — 29 August 1995
- 117MagazineBackbeat: Behind the Scenes at Jack White's 'American Express: Unstaged' With Gary Oldman1 December 2015
- 118NewsBrit Awards 2016: Adele dominates with four awards25 February 2016
- 121'Blood Riders' Book Deal: Gary Oldman & Douglas Urbanski Pen Vampire SagaMike Fleming Jr — 28 October 2015
- 122How Gary Oldman Avoided Typecasting as a Weirdo, VillainTimothy Sexton — December 6, 2011
- 123Popcorn With Peter Travers. Season 5. Episode 15. 9 December 2011. "People who know you ... we remember the big Gary Oldman."
- 124Gary Oldman interview by Terry Gross. Fresh Air. National Public Radio. 12 February 1998.
- 125Conversations... with Gary OldmanSAG-AFTRA Foundation — 12 January 2018
- 126Hammy baddies on film: the joys of overactingStuart Heritage — 1 May 2014
- 127The One Show. BBC One. 14 September 2011. "You're known for the in-depth research you do before going into any role."
- 128Actors' dramatic weight loss for rolesClaudine Zap — August 31, 2012
- 129Gary Oldman: I had to hire voice coach to relearn English accent7 February 2014
- 130Gary Oldman on His 'The Darkest Hour' Performance and His Acting HeroesChris McKittrick — 28 November 2017
- 131Gary Oldman SpotlightUGO — 21 March 1958
- 133Bram Stoker's Wanda
- 134Nick Returns
- 136MagazineGuns N' Roses' Videos, Ranked Worst to BestGavin Edwards — 4 January 2016
- 139NewsDavid Bowie's new religious-themed video causing controversyLesley Savage — 9 May 2013
- 140Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest StarsMoviesandlife.net — 8 December 2007
- 142News'Darkest Hour' is a soaring portrayal of Winston Churchill on the eve of DunkirkAnn Hornaday — 5 December 2017
- 143NewsOverlooked: possibly the greatest actor of them allLynn Crosbie — 28 February 2012
- 144NewsGary Oldman is the face of versatility22 June 2015
- 145NewsMorning Mix: Paris's Interview – Not So 'Hot' – Celebritology28 June 2007
- 146MagazineMeet Tom HardyAndrew Dickens
- 147Brad Pitt on OscarsMTV — 23 January 2009
- 148Daniel Radcliffe interview atIndielondon.co.uk
- 149NewsRyan Gosling: The children's championNorman, Neil — 22 April 2007
- 150'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' Tom Hardy: "Gary Oldman is my hero"7 October 2015
- 151JournalJennifer Lawrence and Jessica Chastain Reveal Their 'Cinematic Crush'Kirsten Chuba — 16 November 2017
- 152NewsTalking Shop: Joseph Gordon-Levitt22 August 2009
- 153Magazine'The Avengers' star Tom Hiddleston on being Loki and meeting unexpected fansAdam Markovitz — 5 August 2013
- 154News'Star Trek's' Chris Pine boldly goes in search of challenging roles20 June 2009
- 155Acceptance speech for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. 17th Screen Actors Guild Awards. 30 January 2011. "There's so many different performan
- 156Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Zendaya, Suranne Jones, Gary Oldman, Leading Ladies31 December 2017
- 157Gary Oldman praises Dawn of the Planet of the Apes co-starRachel MacGregor — Yahoo! — 16 July 2014
- 158Gary Oldman interviewJane Graham — 3 February 2014
- 159Shia LaBeoufRobinson, Tasha — 11 April 2007
- 160Ben Mendelsohn on 'Darkest Hour' and Gary Oldman's Amazing TransformationSteve Frosty Weintraub — Complex Media, Inc. — 8 December 2017
- 161The Harry Potter villain on his new miniseries, The State WithinEric Goldman — j2 Global — 15 February 2007
- 162Christian Bale Says He's Almost Done With Physical TransformationsSuresh Mathew — 26 November 2018
- 163The South Bank Show: Gary Oldman. Season 21, Episode 15. ITV. 15 March 1998.
- 164NewsRalph Fiennes on which movie he can't wait to see nextOliver Gettell — 22 November 2011
- 165Keanu Reeves on 'John Wick,' 'Bill & Ted 3,' and That 'Point Break' RemakeDrew Taylor — 21 October 2014
- 166NewsGary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British greatXan Brooks — 9 February 2012
- 167Gary Oldman presented with Empire Icon Award28 March 2011
- 168Colin Firth18 January 2012
- 169Alec Baldwin's Top 10The Criterion Collection
- 170JournalKristin Scott Thomas on 'Darkest Hour' and Rediscovering Her Love of FilmBrent Lang — 13 September 2017
- 171MagazineChristopher Eccleston on accent, class and difficult days on Doctor WhoMichael Hodges — 24–30 March 2018
- 172NewsDark Knight Review: Nolan Talks Sequel InflationAnne Thompson — 6 July 2008
- 173David Cronenberg Hates On Superhero MoviesBrooke Tarnoff — 15 August 2012
- 174NewsThe ContenderRoger Ebert — 13 October 2000
- 175Week of 10 May 1997: The Fifth Element review
- 176State of Grace review
- 177MagazineTinker Tailor Soldier Spy reviewPeter Travers — 8 December 2011
- 178NewsGary Oldman: My career has been good but my kids are my biggest accomplishmentRick Fulton — Media Scotland — 18 March 2011
- 182Gary Oldman: 'The secret of playing George Smiley was in finding the silhouette of a spy'Tim Lewis — 11 September 2011
- 183Gary Oldman on playing 'the anti-Bond'Cath Clarke — 2011
- 184Oscar-winning Gary Oldman is the master of being brilliant in bad moviesStuart McGurk — 5 February 2018
- 186Gotham Awards Career Tributes To Charlize Theron, David Cronenberg, Gary OldmanMike Jr. Fleming — 22 September 2011
- 189Gary Oldman – Box Office Data Movie StarThe-numbers.com
- 190NewsThe new faces that made the cut for Sgt Peppers 2012Brian Boyd — 6 April 2012
- 191London Critics' Circle Film Awards: Gary Oldman on role of criticsBBC — 3 February 2015
- 192JournalGary Oldman to Receive Variety Award at British Independent Film AwardsLeo Barraclough — 26 October 2017
- 193JournalGary Oldman to Receive Maltin Modern Master Award at Santa Barbara FestErin Nyren — 15 November 2017
- 194Gary Oldman To Be Honored For Career Achievement At Hollywood Film AwardsDenise Petski — Penske Business Media — 31 October 2017
- 195Gary Oldman Set For Career Honor From Make-Up Artists And Hair Stylists GuildErik Pedersen — Penske Business Media — 28 November 2017
- 196Gary Oldman and Strictly hosts join Beckham in honoursGrace Dean et al. — June 13, 2025
- 197Oscar winner Gary Oldman adds a new honor to his resume with handprints at TCL Chinese TheatreGeorge Pennacchio — ABC 7 Los Angeles — 22 August 2025
- 199Legendary Actor Gary Oldman Outs Himself as a 'Libertarian'; Also Upset That He Can't Call Nancy Pelosi the C-Word – Hit & RunNick Gillespie — 24 June 2014
- 200NewsIn Search of Gary Oldman : The Actor's Onscreen Intensity Belies His Lighter SideLaurie Werner — 28 January 1995
- 201Charlie Rosecharlierose.com
- 202NewsGary Oldman knows Mank and those drinking issues: 'I used to sweat vodka'Glenn Whipp — 2 March 2021
- 203Gary Oldman Sells What He Can't Have19 July 2000
- 204At 28, Lesley Manville Was Acting, Picketing, & Singing Kate Bush SongsOlivia-Anne Cleary — 18 July 2022
- 206NewsDaniel Day-Lewis really wanted us to be absolutely comfortable together... many gins were hadEleanor Steafel — 27 January 2018
- 207News'Jennifer 8' role brings Thurman down to earthTom Green — 7 November 1992
- 208MagazineRegrets OnlyMay 1997
- 209Gary Oldman's Wife Wants DivorceABC News — 19 April 2001
- 210Gary Oldman's Oscar Win Clouded By Ex-Wife Abuse ClaimsTufayel Ahmed — 5 March 2018
- 211Gary Oldman's son: Alleged assault against ex-wife 'didn't happen'Jayme Deerwester — 7 March 2018
- 212Brutally Honest Oscar BallotScott Feinberg — 27 February 2018
- 213Oldman wins custody of sons29 July 2003
- 214JournalFather Knows BestBill Picture — 30 July 2003
- 215Gary Oldman's Son Pens Open Letter Defending Father From Domestic Abuse ClaimsKatie Kilkenny et al. — 6 March 2018
- 217Gary Oldman marries fourth wife Alexandra Edenborough5 January 2009
- 218MagazineGary Oldman and Alexandra Edenborough to DivorceAmanda Michelle Steiner — 12 January 2015
- 219NewsJudge finalizes actor Gary Oldman's divorce from 4th wife1 October 2015
- 220NewsGary Oldman marries for fifth timeRyan Pearson — 10 November 2017
- 221"Mank" Star Gary Oldman Calls Palm Springs Home for GoodDerrik J. Lang — 1 March 2021