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Jim Broadbent
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the feature film Iris (2001), as…
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Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the feature film Iris (2001), as well as winning a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe for his leading role as Lord Longford in the television film Longford (2006). Broadbent received four BAFTA Film Award nominations and won for his performance in Moulin Rouge! (2001). He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, Broadbent first came to prominence in the 1980s, chiefly appearing in television comedy including playing Roy Slater in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He appeared in the Terry Gilliam films Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's independent comedy drama Life Is Sweet (1990). His notable film roles since include The Borrowers (1997), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Gathering Storm (2002), Hot Fuzz (2007), Another Year (2010), The Iron Lady (2011), Arthur Christmas (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012) and Brooklyn (2015). He played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series, Archmaester Ebrose in the seventh season of the television series Game of Thrones and Samuel Gruber in the Paddington film series.
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2025
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2025
Jay Kelly
Movie Peter Schneider
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2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Movie Colin Jones
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2024
Paddington in Peru
Movie Samuel Gruber
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2024
An A to Z of Paddington
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2024
My Lady Jane
TV show Duke of Leicester
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2023
Call Me Back
Movie George
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2023
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
Movie Narrator
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2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Movie Self - Contributor
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2023
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Movie Harold Fry
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2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
TV show Snaggleroot (voice)
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2022
Ten Percent
TV show Richard Nightingale
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2022
Charlotte
Movie Grosspapa (voice)
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2022
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
TV show Lord Marcham
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2021
A Boy Called Christmas
Movie King
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2021
The Duke
Movie Kempton Bunton
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2021
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
Movie Self
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2020
Black Narcissus
TV show Father Roberts
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2020
Six Minutes to Midnight
Movie Charlie
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2020
Staged
TV show Jim
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2020
Trying
TV show George
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2020
Dolittle
Movie Lord Thomas Badgley
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2019
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
Movie Self
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2019
Love, Death & Robots
TV show Christopher the Poet (voice)
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2018
Black '47
Movie Lord Kilmichael
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2018
King of Thieves
Movie Terry Perkins
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2018
King Lear
Movie Earl of Gloucester
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2018
New Town Utopia
Movie Lewis Silkin MP
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2017
Paddington 2
Movie Samuel Gruber
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2017
Birds Like Us
Movie Horozovich (voice)
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2017
The Sense of an Ending
Movie Tony Webster
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2016
Ethel & Ernest
Movie Ernest Briggs (voice)
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2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
Movie Dad
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2016
The Legend of Tarzan
Movie Prime Minister
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2016
Eddie the Eagle
Movie BBC Commentator
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2016
War and Peace
TV show Prince Bolkonsky
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2015
London Spy
TV show Scottie
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2015
The Lady in the Van
Movie Underwood
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2015
Brooklyn
Movie Father Flood
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2015
The Weather Inside
Movie Britischer Botschafter
