Jim Broadbent
- Acting
- May 24, 1949 · Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas · Self
- Jay Kelly · Peter Schneider
- Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy · Colin Jones
- Paddington in Peru · Samuel Gruber
- An A to Z of Paddington · Narrator (Voice)
- My Lady Jane · Duke of Leicester
- Call Me Back · George
- 2022 Wimbledon Official Film · Narrator
- Blackadder: A Cunning Story · Self
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry · Harold Fry
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power · Snaggleroot (Voice)
- Ten Percent · Richard Nightingale
- Charlotte · Grosspapa (Voice)
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? · Lord Marcham
- A Boy Called Christmas · King
- The Duke · Kempton Bunton
- (K)nox: The Rob Knox Story · Self
- Black Narcissus · Father Roberts
- Six Minutes to Midnight · Charlie
- Staged · Jim
- Trying · George
- Dolittle · Lord Thomas Badgley
- Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered · Self
- Love, Death & Robots · Christopher the Poet (Voice)
- Black '47 · Lord Kilmichael
- King of Thieves · Terry Perkins
- King Lear · Earl of Gloucester
- New Town Utopia · Lewis Silkin MP
- Paddington 2 · Samuel Gruber
- Birds Like Us · Horozovich (Voice)
- The Sense of an Ending · Tony Webster
- Ethel & Ernest · Ernest Briggs (Voice)
- Bridget Jones's Baby · Dad
- The Legend of Tarzan · Prime Minister
- Eddie the Eagle · BBC Commentator
- War and Peace · Prince Bolkonsky
- London Spy · Scottie
- The Lady in the Van · Underwood
- Brooklyn · Father Flood
- The Weather Inside · Britischer Botschafter
- The Go-Between · Old Leo
- Get Santa · Santa Claus
- The One and Only Mike Leigh · Self
- Paddington · Samuel Gruber
- Big Game · Herbert
- Postman Pat: The Movie · CEO (Voice)
- The Harry Hill Movie · Cleaner
- The Great Train Robbery · DCS Tommy Butler
- The Phone Call · Stan (Voice)
- Chance Meeting
- Le Week-End · Nick Burrows
- Filth · Dr Rossi
- Closed Circuit · Attorney General
- The Frame · Professor Horace Slughorn
- Cloud Atlas · Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
- Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice · Self
- The Iron Lady · Denis Thatcher
- Comedy Blaps · DCI Ponk
- Arthur Christmas · Santa (Voice)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 · Horace Slughorn
- Exile · Sam Ronstadt
- Game of Thrones · Archmaester Ebrose
- Any Human Heart · Logan Mountstuart (Older)
- Another Year · Tom
- Perrier's Bounty · Jim McCrea
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince · Horace Slughorn
- The Damned United · Sam Longson
- The Young Victoria · King William IV
- Lost and Found · Narrator (Voice)
- Inkheart · Fenoglio
- Einstein and Eddington · Sir Oliver Lodge
- Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments · Self
- Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' · Self
- Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga · Self
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull · Dean Charles Stanforth
- Tales of the Riverbank · G.P. (Voice)
- And When Did You Last See Your Father? · Arthur Morrison
- Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz · Self
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- Hot Fuzz · Inspector Frank Butterman