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What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025
Jim Broadbent
Acting
Born May 24, 1949Lincoln, 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.
Movies
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6.1
Jay Kelly
2025
6.3
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025
6.8
Paddington in Peru
2024
0.0
An A to Z of Paddington
2024
0.0
Call Me Back
2023
0.0
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
2023
7.7
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
6.6
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023
6.5
Charlotte
2022
7.3
A Boy Called Christmas
2021
6.9
The Duke
2021
6.0
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
2021
6.2
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020
6.6
Dolittle
2020
9.0
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019
6.6
Black '47
2018
5.6
King of Thieves
2018
6.0
King Lear
2018
9.0
New Town Utopia
2018
7.5
Paddington 2
2017
4.1
Birds Like Us
2017
6.3
The Sense of an Ending
2017
7.5
Ethel & Ernest
2016
6.4
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
5.9
The Legend of Tarzan
2016
7.2
Eddie the Eagle
2016
6.4
The Lady in the Van
2015
7.3
Brooklyn
2015
4.3
The Weather Inside
2015
6.8
The Go-Between
2015
6.1
Get Santa
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh
9.0
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014
7.1
Paddington
2014
5.5
Big Game
2014
5.1
Postman Pat: The Movie
2014
4.7
The Harry Hill Movie
2013
7.3
The Phone Call
2013
0.0
Chance Meeting
2013
6.2
Le Week-End
2013
6.8
Filth
2013
5.9
Closed Circuit
2013
6.9
Cloud Atlas
2012
7.5
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012
6.3
The Iron Lady
2011
6.8
Arthur Christmas
2011
8.1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
7.0
Another Year
2010
5.8
Perrier's Bounty
2010
7.7
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
7.2
The Damned United
2009
7.2
The Young Victoria
2009
7.8
Lost and Found
2008
6.3
Inkheart
2008
6.8
Einstein and Eddington
2008
4.5
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
0.0
Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
2008
7.8
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008
6.0
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008
4.6
Tales of the Riverbank
2008
6.5
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007
0.0
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007
7.6
Hot Fuzz
2007
6.5
Longford
2006
6.1
Art School Confidential
2006
7.1
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
5.7
Valiant
2005
6.5
Robots
2005
5.4
The Magic Roundabout
2005
6.2
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
7.2
Vera Drake
2004
5.8
Vanity Fair
2004
6.1
Pride
2004
6.0
Around the World in 80 Days
2004
4.1
Tooth
2004
10.0
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
2004
5.3
The Young Visiters
2003
6.3
Bright Young Things
2003
6.7
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003
0.0
Anna Spud
2003
6.8
Nicholas Nickleby
2002
7.3
Gangs of New York
2002
6.3
The King's Beard
2002
6.7
The Gathering Storm
2002
6.4
Iris
2001
7.5
Moulin Rouge!
2001
6.6
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001
6.7
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
6.6
Topsy-Turvy
1999
7.5
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
6.5
Little Voice
1998
4.4
The Avengers
1998
0.0
Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm
1998
0.0
Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party
1997
6.1
The Borrowers
1997
0.0
Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path
1997
6.4
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
0.0
Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night
1996
0.0
Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night
1996
5.6
The Secret Agent
1996
6.8
Richard III
1995
5.7
Rough Magic
1995
The Last Englishman
0.0
The Last Englishman
1995
7.1
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
5.5
Princess Caraboo
1994
6.4
Widows' Peak
1994
9.0
Prince Cinders
1993
6.5
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
0.0
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
1993
5.3
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993
7.3
A Sense of History
1992
6.8
The Crying Game
1992
6.7
Enchanted April
1991
Nona
8.0
Nona
1991
7.0
Life Is Sweet
1991
0.0
Happy Feet
1991
1.0
Van Gogh
1990
5.9
Erik the Viking
1989
0.0
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989
0.0
The Hangover
1989
7.4
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
6.5
Vroom
1988
4.6
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
5.6
Running Out of Luck
1987
5.9
The Insurance Man
1986
5.9
Silas Marner
1985
5.6
The Good Father
1985
0.0
Picture Friend
1985
7.7
Brazil
1985
The Man Who Shot Christmas
10.0
The Man Who Shot Christmas
1984
6.5
The Hit
1984
7.8
Birth of a Nation
1983
6.7
Walter and June
1983
6.6
Dead on Time
1983
0.0
Our Winnie
1982
9.0
Intensive Care
1982
5.9
Walter
1982
8.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
4.3
Uliisses
1982
6.6
Time Bandits
1981
5.8
The Dogs of War
1980
8.0
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
1980
6.9
Breaking Glass
1980
0.0
Games Without Frontiers
1980
10.0
Long Distance Information
1979
8.0
Phoelix
1979
6.0
The Passage
1979
10.0
The Life Story of Baal
1978
6.0
The Shout
1978
6.8
The Go-Between
1971
Fools
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Fools
Dennis
0.0
Dennis
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Bride's Chamber
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Bride's Chamber
TV Shows
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7.5
My Lady Jane
7.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
5.6
Ten Percent
6.6
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
6.6
Black Narcissus
7.9
Staged
7.6
Trying
8.2
Love, Death & Robots
7.5
War and Peace
7.0
London Spy
6.7
The Great Train Robbery
10.0
The Frame
Comedy Blaps
0.0
Comedy Blaps
7.2
Exile
8.5
Game of Thrones
6.4
Any Human Heart
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
7.6
The Street
The Peter Principle
8.0
The Peter Principle
7.0
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
5.0
Percy the Park Keeper
3.3
Gone to Seed
0.0
Perpetual Motion
6.3
Gone to the Dogs
6.9
Murder Most Horrid
6.3
Performance
6.5
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
8.0
Victoria Wood
4 Play
7.0
4 Play
7.2
Screen One
6.0
Comic Relief
8.0
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
7.9
Inspector Morse
7.2
Happy Families
0.0
Theatre Night
Summer Season
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Summer Season
7.9
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
7.2
Dramarama
10.0
Tales Out of School
8.0
Blackadder
8.0
Objects of Affection
7.2
Bird of Prey
8.1
Only Fools and Horses
6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
7.0
Playhouse
6.6
Play for Today
6.6
Play for Today
7.2
Omnibus
7.1
The Oscars
7.0