Gary Oldman
Roles in “Harry Potter” and “Batman” saved him
Gary Oldman has fallen on hard times.
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Gary Oldman remembers difficult times. Two film roles would have “saved” the actor back then.
“I thank God for Harry Potter”, said the Briton on Drew Barrymore’s show (48) and recalled his then messy divorce and custody battle with his ex-wife Donya Fiorentino, with whom he has two sons. The two separated in 2001 after four years of marriage. At the age of 42, he “woke up divorced and had custody of my boys.”
Gary Oldman had his children to take care of
That alone was difficult, Oldman said. Then there was also “a change” in the film industry; many productions were filmed in Hungary, Budapest, Prague and Australia. That’s why he had to turn down a lot of work.
He is all the more grateful for his roles in “Harry Potter” and “Batman”. In 2004, Oldman first appeared as Sirius Black in “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” In 2005, he played Police Chief James Gordon for the first time in Batman Begins. The film roles that he also held in the sequels “saved” him because he could have stayed at home with his children and he did little work for “the most money”.
He married five times
Gary Oldman has been married to the author and curator Gisele Schmidt for the fifth time since 2017. He married “The Crown” actress Lesley Manville (67) for the first time in the late 1980s; the two have a son together. From 1990 to 1992 he was married to Uma Thurman (53) and then to Donya Fiorentino. With the latter he had two more sons. In 2008, Oldman married singer Alexandra Edenborough and divorced in 2015.