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Sir Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an British-American actor and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, he is known for his versatility and intense acting style. He received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three British Academy Film Awards. His films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors to date. Oldman began acting in theatre in 1979 and made his film debut in Remembrance (1982). He continued to follow a stage career in London's Royal Court. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with credits including Cabaret, Romeo and Juliet, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Saved, The Country Wife and Hamlet. 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 attracting attention as the leader of a gang of football hooligans in the television film The Firm (1989). Regarded as a member of the "Brit Pack", he achieved greater recognition as a New York gangster in State of Grace (1990), Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991) and Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Oldman portrayed the villains in films such as True Romance (1993), The Fifth Element (1997), Air Force One (1997) and The Contender (2000); corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield, whom he played in Léon: The Professional (1994), was called one of cinema's best villains. He also played Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994). He later appeared in franchise roles such as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, James Gordon in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) and a human leader, Dreyfus in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour (2017). He was nominated for his portrayals of George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and Herman J. Mankiewicz in Mank (2020). Oldman was executive producer of films like The Contender, Plunkett & Macleane (1999) and Nil by Mouth (1997), the latter of which he also wrote and directed. He featured in television shows such as Fallen Angels, Tracey Takes On... and Friends, voiced Ignitius and Viktor Reznov, respectively, in The Legend of Spyro and Call of Duty video games and appeared in music videos for David Bowie, Guns N' Roses and Annie Lennox.
Gary Oldman
Amadeus Arkham
for Amadeus Arkham in Arkham Asylum a Serious House on Serious Earth
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One night, after one of the Joker’s absolute worst crimes yet, The Batman is racing him back to Arkham. But once he is handed off to the doctors, things go south very quickly as the power goes out. Batman is locked into the mad house, as everybody escapes. Bruce is forced to fight his entire rogues gallery, and to figure out what caused the chaos. But the culprit reveals themselves to him, as the Arkham Knight, and that they are determined to kill the Batman. Throughout the night, Bruce attempts to find out the identity of the masked figure. He eventually discovers that it is the daughter of the Asylum’s warden, Astrid Arkham. When she was a child, there was a similar breakout where she watched as a batarang killed her mother, not knowing it was used by an inmate. She grew up surrounded by psychopaths she saw as her family, and tended to the wounds that the Batman inflicted upon them, which caused her to hold a deep hatred towards the caped crusader leading to this, where she enacted her plan to kill the vigilante. After their battle, Astrid’s plan backfires on her and she sustains life threatening injuries, Bruce tries to save her but she ends her own life, refusing to be saved by the man she despises more than anything.
