
Gerard Butler
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Biography
Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000 with Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller.
He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire with Christian Bale (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life with Angelina Jolie (2003) before playing André Marek in the adaptation of Michael Crichton's science fiction adventure Timeline (2003). He then was cast as Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera, with Emmy Rossum; it earned him a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor.
Butler gained worldwide recognition for his portrayal of King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300. That role earned him nominations for an Empire Award for Best Actor and a Saturn Award for Best Actor and a win for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. He voiced Stoick the Vast in the critically and commercially successful How to Train Your Dragon franchise (2010–2019). Also in the 2010s, he portrayed Secret Service agent Mike Banning in the action thriller series Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, Angel Has Fallen and the upcoming Night Has Fallen. He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Graham Norton Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Jay Leno Show

DreamWorks Dragons

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

300: Rise of an Empire

Tomorrow Never Dies

Movie 43

The Authority

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming

How to Train Your Dragon 2

ARK: The Animated Series

How to Train Your Dragon

Timeline

Gods of Egypt

Law Abiding Citizen

Coriolanus

P.S. I Love You

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

How to Train Your Dragon

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon

Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury

The Phantom of the Opera

Copshop

300

Olympus Has Fallen

Tales of the Black Freighter

Night Has Fallen

Greenland

Beowulf & Grendel

Geostorm

Den of Thieves

Greenland: Migration

RocknRolla

Plane

London Has Fallen

Attila

Attila

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

Hunter Killer

Kandahar

Gamer

Last Seen Alive

Angel Has Fallen

The Bounty Hunter
Production Credits
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