
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 minor 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. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera.
Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).
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Saturday Night Live

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Graham Norton Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

GMTV

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

Movie 43

Tomorrow Never Dies

The Authority

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Reign of Fire

How to Train Your Dragon

ARK: The Animated Series

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming

How to Train Your Dragon 2

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Timeline

Gods of Egypt

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon

P.S. I Love You

How to Train Your Dragon

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury

Law Abiding Citizen

Coriolanus

Tales of the Black Freighter

Greenland: Migration

The Bounty Hunter

London Has Fallen

The Phantom of the Opera

Olympus Has Fallen

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

Angel Has Fallen

Last Seen Alive

Geostorm

RocknRolla

300

Den of Thieves

Kandahar

Gamer

Beowulf & Grendel

Greenland

Attila

Night Has Fallen

Copshop

Hunter Killer

Plane

Attila
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