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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).
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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).
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
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
GMTV
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Jeopardy!
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
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
The Authority
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Shooters
Reign of Fire
How to Train Your Dragon 2
How to Train Your Dragon
Gods of Egypt
How to Train Your Dragon 2
ARK: The Animated Series
Timeline
Law Abiding Citizen
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Coriolanus
P.S. I Love You
London Has Fallen
Attila
Copshop
Olympus Has Fallen
Angel Has Fallen
Greenland
Beowulf & Grendel
300
RocknRolla
The Bounty Hunter
Den of Thieves
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Greenland 2: Migration
Night Has Fallen
Gamer
The Phantom of the Opera
Attila
Hunter Killer
Plane
Kandahar
Tales of the Black Freighter
Geostorm
Last Seen Alive
Production Credits
Hunter Killer
Olympus Has Fallen
Greenland 2: Migration
Plane
Law Abiding Citizen
Greenland
ARK: The Animated Series
Kandahar
Angel Has Fallen
Den of Thieves
Night Has Fallen
Copshop
Last Seen Alive
London Has Fallen
Paris Has Fallen
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
The Bricklayer
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