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Gerard Butler
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gerard Butler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gerard Butler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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
Gods of Egypt
Timeline
How to Train Your Dragon 2
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Law Abiding Citizen
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
How to Train Your Dragon
Coriolanus
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
P.S. I Love You
Den of Thieves
London Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen
Beowulf & Grendel
Attila
300
Geostorm
The Phantom of the Opera
Last Seen Alive
Night Has Fallen
Plane
Kandahar
Greenland
Copshop
The Bounty Hunter
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
RocknRolla
Angel Has Fallen
Tales of the Black Freighter
Gamer
Attila
Hunter Killer
Greenland 2: Migration
Production Credits
Hunter Killer
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Paris Has Fallen
Copshop
Angel Has Fallen
The Bricklayer
Greenland
Last Seen Alive
Den of Thieves
Olympus Has Fallen
Law Abiding Citizen
Plane
Kandahar
Night Has Fallen
Greenland 2: Migration
London Has Fallen
ARK: The Animated Series
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