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![]() Jim Broadbent in United Artists/Sony Pictures Classics' Art School Confidential - 2006
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Jim Broadbent
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JIM BROADBENT won the Academy Award® and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his moving portrait of John Bayley, Iris Murdoch's loyal husband, in Richard Eyre's Iris, starring opposite Judi Dench. He most recently starred in Mira Nair's screen adaptation of Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon. Broadbent first played Bridget Jones's father in Bridget Jones's Diary.Among his many other films are Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits and Brazil; Mike Newell's The Good Father and Enchanted April; Neil Jordan's The Crying Game; Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway; Richard Loncraine's Richard III and The Gathering Storm (for HBO, which brought him another Golden Globe Award nomination as well as an Emmy Award nomination); Mark Herman's Little Voice; Baz Luhrmann's Academy Award®-winning Moulin Rouge!; Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York; Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things; and Frank Coraci's Around the World in 80 Days. He has collaborated several times with acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh, starring for him in Life is Sweet, the Academy Award®-winning Topsy-Turvy, the drama Vera Drake (which nabbed the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice International Film Festival) and the short feature A Sense of History (which Broadbent also wrote).
Broadbent's work in the theater includes Sam Mendes' Donmar Warehouse production of Habeas Corpus. Richard Eyre directed him in the Royal Court production of Kafka's Dick and in the National Theatre production of The Government Inspector. He was a longtime member of the National Theatre of Brent, appearing in productions of The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Complete Guide to Sex and The Messiah. Most recently, he starred in the National Theater staging of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, directed by John Crowley.
He is also a frequent presence on U.K. television, starring in a variety of projects over the years, ranging from Tales of the Unexpected to Blackadder to Inspector Morse.
4 JIM BROADBENT FILMOGRAPHY
Inkheart (2008) Fenoglio
Hot Fuzz (2007) Inspector Frank Butterman
And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2006) Arthur Morrison
Art School Confidential (2006) Jimmy
Slipp Jimmy Fri (2006) Voice of Stromowskij
Robots (2005) Voice of Madame Gasket
Valiant (2005) Voice of Sergeant
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005) Professor Digory Kirke
The Magic Roundabout (2005) Voice of Brian
The Young Visiters (2005)
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) Lord Kelvin
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) Dad
Bright Young Things (2004) Drunken Major
Tooth (2004) Voice of Rabbit
Vanity Fair (2004) Mr Osborne
Vera Drake (2004)
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
The Wedding Contract (2003)
Gangs of New York (2002) William "Boss" Tweed
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) Wackford Squeers
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Bridget's Dad
Iris (2001) John Bayley
Moulin Rouge (2001) Zidler
Topsy-Turvy (1999) William Schwenck Gilbert
Little Voice (1998) Mr Boo
The Avengers (1998) Mother
The Borrowers (1998) Pod Clock
Rough Magic (1997) Doc Ansell
Smilla's Sense Of Snow (1997) Lagermann
The Secret Agent (1996) Chief Inspector Heat
Richard III (1995) Duke of Buckingham
Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Warner Purcell
Princess Caraboo (1994) Mr Worrall
Widow's Peak (1994) Clancy
The Wedding Gift (1994)
A Sense of History (1992) 23rd Earl of Leete
The Crying Game (1992) Col
Enchanted April (1991) Frederick Arbuthnot
Life Is Sweet (1991) Andy
Erik the Viking (1989) Ernest the Viking---A Rapist
Vroom (1988) Donald
Superman IV: the Quest for Peace (1987) Jean-Pierre Dubois
The Good Father (1987) Roger Miles
Brazil (1985) Dr Jaffe
The Insurance Man (1985) Gutling
The Hit (1984) Barrister
Loving Walter (1983)
Time Bandits (1981) Compere
Breaking Glass (1980) Station Porter
The Dogs of War (1980) Film Crewman
Phoelix (1979)
The Shout (1979)
The Life Story of Baal (1978) Woodcutter
Tales of the Riverbank Voice
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