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Oldman at the 2011 Venice International Film Festival. English actor and filmmaker Gary Oldman made his film debut in the 1982 British ensemble drama Remembrance.He rose to prominence in British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), while also gaining attention as ...
Oldman's portrayal of Vicious was ranked #62 in Premiere magazine's "100 Greatest Performances of All Time". [19] Uncut magazine ranked Gary Oldman as #8 in its "10 Best actors in rockin' roles" list, describing his portrayal as a "hugely sympathetic reading of the punk figurehead as a lost and bewildered manchild."
Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades , including an Academy Award , a Golden Globe Award , three British Academy Film Awards , and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards .
Veteran actor Gary Oldman says 'Slow Horses' just 'fell from the sky,' and slovenly sleuth Jackson Lamb is among his favorite characters yet. ... Sid Vicious and Lee Harvey Oswald.
As part of Variety’s “Making a Scene,” presented by HBO, the “Slow Horses” cast and crew, including Gary Oldman, Christopher Chung, director Saul Metzstein, and writer and executive ...
It was a sprawling script, and from it Tarantino had carved the story that became the 1993 movie True Romance, starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette and Gary Oldman and Val Kilmer.
It stars Gary Oldman as Vicious and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. Oldman's performance was praised by Uncut as a "hugely sympathetic reading of the punk figurehead as a lost and bewildered manchild" though Oldman himself detested the film and punk music in general. [96] In 1993, Ade Edmondson played Vicious in The Comic Strip Presents: Demonella.
In 1986, the film Sid and Nancy, directed by Alex Cox, was released, portraying the life of Vicious, played by Gary Oldman, and his relationship with Spungen, played by Chloe Webb. Critics praised Webb's performance as Spungen. [31] [32] In the film, Cox also put forth the theory that Spungen and Vicious had a suicide pact.