Full Name: Leonard Gary Oldman
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer
Birthdate: March 21, 1958
Birthplace: London, New Cross, Britain
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'11
Family: Kathleen Oldman - mother, Leonard Oldman - father, 2 sisters, divorced from Donya Fiorentino (2001), Uma Thurman (1992), Lesley Manville (late 1980's), separeted in 1995 from Isabella Rossellini, three children (Alfie born 1989, Gulliver Flynn born 1997 and Charlie John born 1999
Quote:
"I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list." "We're given a code to live our lives by: we don't always follow it but it's still there."

Biographie
Born in New Cross/London on 21 march 1958, Gary Oldman, the son of a welder and a homemaker, won a scholarship to Britain's Rose Bruford Drama College, where he received a BA in Theatre Arts in 1979. He subsequently studied with the Greenwich Young People's Theatre and went on to appear in a number of plays throughout the early 80s, including "The Pope's Wedding", for which he received Time Out's Fringe Award for Best Newcomer of 1985-1986 and The British Theatre Association's Drama Magazine Award as Best Actor 1985. His film debut was in the 1986 biopic Sid and Nancy (1986), where he played Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, picking up the Evening Standard Film Award as Best Newcomer. In 1988, he received a Best Actor nomination from the British Academy of Film and TV Arts for his portrayal of 60s play-wright 'Joe Orton' . His ability to transform himself physically and his command of accents has allowed him to play a broad range of characters and a number of historical figures, including, in addition to those above, 'Lee Harvey Oswald' (JFK (1991)) and 'Ludwig Van Beethoven' (Immortal Beloved (1994)).
Spouse: Donya Fiorentino (16 February 1997 - 13 April 2001) (filed for divorce) 2 children, Gulliver Flynn and Charlie John
Uma Thurman (1990 - 1992) (divorced)
Lesley Manville (late 80s) 1 child Alfie
His library includes essays on Bertold Brecht, poetry by Roger McGough, a biography of Montgomery Clift, The Elizabethan World Picture, all things Shakespeare, and Jane Austen.

Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Sid Vicious. Lee Harvey Oswald. Dracula. There's no one this young British actor can't play convincingly. After making a shattering impression on the British stage, he galvanized film audiences as doomed, frantic punk rocker Sid Vicious in 1986's Sid and Nancy It was a performance so harrowingly good that it didn't seem to be a performance at all, but reality itself. (His earlier credits include Mike Leigh's 1983 telefilm Meantime) The auburn-haired, pockmarked Oldman then transformed himself into the far more articulate but equally tormented gay British playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987). After an enigmatic turn in Nicolas Roeg's inaccessible Track 29 (1988), Oldman played an American lawyer in 1989's Criminal Law (losing his British accent completely), an institutionalized Korean War vet in the little-seen Chattahoochee and the easily addled Rosencrantz in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (both 1990). After an intense performance in the crime drama State of Grace and an appearance in Heading Home (both also 1990), Oldman went on to play Lee Harvey Oswald in the mosaic of flashbacks in Oliver Stone's controversial JFK (1991), which was likely seen by more American moviegoers than all his other films combined! How do you follow a part like that? By assuming the title role in Francis Ford Coppola's highly eroticized version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), of course, decked out in elaborate period costumes, smothered in heavy makeup, and sporting a thick, almost impenetrable accent. Since then he's appeared in True Romance (1993, with a mane of dreadlocks, as a Chicago drug dealer), Romeo Is Bleeding, The Professional, Immortal Beloved (all 1994, in the last named as Beethoven), Murder in the First and The Scarlet Letter (both 1995, in the Letter as Arthur Dimmesdale). He was married to actress Uma Thurman.