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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.
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for Jim Gordon in Christopher Nolan's Nightwing
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When professor Hugo Strange starts creating meta-humans including Killer Croc, Solomon Grundy, and Silver Banshee John "Robin" Blake aka Nightwing starts looking into it and eventually starts to find that Hugo Strange has been dead for decades and someone else has been using his name. Throughout the movie John looks into these meta-humans while a man named Victor Fries starts getting involved with criminals to pay for his sick wife's treatment eventually leading him to meet his untimely end in a vat of chemicals while being chased by Commissioner Barbara Gordon II into Ace Chemicals. Lucky for Victor his employer who has been using the alias Hugo Strange brings him back as Mr. Freeze. John eventually gets into a confrontation with Victor where Victor accidentally kills himself with his ice gun. John tracks down Hugo only to discover that Hugo is actually Amanda Waller the warden of Belle Reve prison. The movie ends with Amanda going to prison and John at Alfred Pennyworth's grave vowing to stop these meta-humans as a man steps out of his car and goes to speak with John. He tells John that he knows he is Nightwing and wants to help. John asks who he is and the man tells him his name is Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne sent him.
