What Has Gary Oldman Been Doing Since Playing Sirius Black In Harry Potter? – Looper

Gary Oldman may be best known for his pre-“Harry Potter” work, like 1986’s “Sid and Nancy,” 1992’s “Dracula,” 1994’s “Immortal Beloved,”  1997’s “Air Force One,” and 2001’s “Hannibal.” However, his post-“Potter” list of credits is still pretty impressive. For one thing, he finished off the Dark Knight series with 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” during which his Jim Gordon takes on the role of a resistance fighter. 

Oldman has also since acted in 2011’s remake of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” in which he played the main character, George Smiley, and 2014’s “Robocop” remake, in which he played the Omni chief scientist that creates the cybercop. In 2014’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” he played Dreyfus, the San Francisco leader who sacrifices himself in a failed suicide mission to take out the apes. In the “Hitman’s Bodyguard” series of two films from 2017 and 2021, he played the antagonist, eastern European dictator Vladislav Dukhovich, opposite Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson.

The busy actor’s other recent work includes 2017’s “Darkest Hour,” in which he plays Winston Churchill; “Mank” from 2020, where he plays “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz; and 2020’s “The Woman in the Window,” which sees Oldman play the father of a family Anna Fox (Amy Adams) is watching. 

About his long, storied career, Oldman told the British Film Institute, “Yeah, there’s talent, and application, and hard work, and all of that. There’s a work ethic that has helped that, certainly, but I have been luckier than most, so I’m very grateful. Who would’ve thought.”