<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > adolescence</h1>
Gary Oldman was born in London on 21 March 1958. His father was a sailor who later became a welder. However, old Oldman was an alcoholic, and gary as a child lived in a storm until he was seven years old, when his father abandoned him and his mother.
To support her family, Gary Oldman's mother runs a boarding inn in south London that specializes in footballers, including Championship side Millwall Football Club. Because of this experience, Oldman also became a huge fan of this team (but when he grew up, he switched to supporting Manchester United).
Later, in order to supplement the family, Oldman dropped out of school at the age of 16 and began working in a sporting goods store. Although Oldman did not read much, he loved music since he was a child, not only playing the piano well, but also working as a singer.
Music did not become Oldman's lifelong career, though, as his passion for acting sparked after seeing Malcolm McDowell's brilliant performance in the film The Indomitable Blues in 1971. Since then, he has embarked on the path of an actor with one mind.
However, Oldman worked so hard, but when he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), he was still turned away. This failure almost completely destroyed his determination to act. At that time, the RADA examiner told him that he could take the exam again, but suggested that he should find another career. Later, when Oldman became a first-line actor, a reporter also asked him "it is not a big deal to see the hilarity", did he go back to "humiliate" RADA? Oldman just laughed and said, "This shows that there are too many uncontrollable factors in acting." ”
In the end, Oldman was admitted to Rose Bruver College to study acting. In the mid-1970s, Oldman studied acting and worked to support himself, working a lot of jobs, such as assembly line workers, nurses in operating rooms, shoe salesmen, etc., and he even worked as a butcher in a slaughterhouse. At that time, Oldman, in his own words, was "shy but hardworking", but with scholarships and part-time money, Oldman successfully obtained a bachelor's degree in 1979.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > career</h1>
After graduating, Oldman was the first in his class to find a job and became a professional actor at the Theatre Royal in York. The modest Oldman said in a later interview that he was not able to get a job first not because of how talented he was, but because of hard work to get a job so quickly.
As soon as he entered the theater, Oldman was given the opportunity to perform "important roles" on stage, and his stage debut was Dick Whittington and His Cat. The play is based on a British folk tale about a poor man who becomes the mayor of London and makes his fortune by selling his cats. And Oldman played this cat.
After five years of obscurity, in 1984 he finally had the first small climax of his career, playing Scoby in the play The Pope's Wedding. For his outstanding performance, he was named "Best Actor" and "Best Theatre Newcomer" by the British Theatre Society's magazine.
After being affirmed, Oldman also began to have film invitations, but he was reluctant at first when he received film invitations, which made him almost miss the first representative work of the film career, "Sid and Nancy". Fortunately, director Alex Cox persevered, and Sangu Maolu finally said that Oldman was moved. "Sid and Nancy" became one of the highest-grossing films in the UK that year, and Gary Oldman was also well known to the audience.
The following year, throughout the 90s, was the first spring of Oldman's acting career. He received many invitations to later adult classic films, such as Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, the Wachowski Brothers' "The Matrix" series, etc., of course, he regrettably passed by.
Because at that time, hollywood movies almost had a bit of an evil temperament of the villain, the directors first thought of Gary Oldman, so he kept making "The Fifth Element", "Assassination of Kennedy", "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", "Vampire Zombie Thrilling Four Hundred Years", "Air Force One" and so on, these films are still so evocative when they look at it now.
Here we need to add that Oldman, who rarely shoots TV dramas, rarely made two cameos in the classic American drama "Friends", for which the Emmy Awards also sent him the trophy for the best cameo. At this time, he no longer has the blind preference for drama as he did when he was young, and movies and TV series can also become the stage for his performance.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > usher in the second spring</h1>
In 2000, because of family relations, his career fell into a low ebb. He "spares" his children at home and does not work for a long time. Just then, a character is handed to him to play Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He took on the role without much thought because "he needed the job too much." It was Sirius that revived Oldman and brought him back into the public eye.
Next, Oldman seems to fall in love with fantasy genres, becoming Sheriff Gordon in the Batman Dark Trilogy, Sandak, the exorcist in Baby Cry, Father Solomon, the priest of Little Red Riding Hood, and even voices many games and animated films.
What really brought Oldman's career to a climax was the 17-year historical biographical film "Darkest Hour". In order to truly restore British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Oldman not only needed to gain weight, but also had to spend 4 hours of special effects makeup every day. And when he dressed up, there was no longer a little bit of Oldman's shadow, and with his performance, it could almost reach the point of being fake.
This movie finally made him win the Oscar for best actor Xiao Jinren, which is also the biggest affirmation of his half-life actor career.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > personal life</h1>
Oldman, who shared his father's problem with alcoholism, had struggled with alcohol cessation in the early 1990s and admitted to having attended an alcohol abstinence center in 1995. He is committed to the lifestyle of alcoholics and supports anonymous organizations for alcoholics.
In addition, Oldman was married a total of five times. In 1989, he became his most hated man — his father, who left their mother and son three months after their first wife, Leslie Manville, gave birth to their son. However, the two later reconciled and became friends.
In 1990, Oldman had a brief marriage to actress Uma Thurman, and he met and fell in love with Uma on set, but divorced two years later.
In 1997, Gary Oldman and Donya Fiorentino married, and they had two sons. But in 2001, oldman was reported beating Fiorentino in front of a child. However, Oldman has been firmly denied in later interviews, and after the divorce, the custody of the two sons also belongs to Oldman.
And when Oldman was nominated for an Oscar for Darkest Hour, the old accusation reappeared in tabloids, this time, when Oldman and Fiorentino's eldest son stepped forward to justify his father's name, and Oldman had never beaten Fiorentino that year.
In 17 years, Oldman married giselle Schmidt, an outsider. I hope that Oldman, who is over the age of flower armor, can reach the end with his beloved wife this time.