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