
Jim Broadbent
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Biography
Jim Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the feature film Iris (2001), as well as winning a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe for his leading role as Lord Longford in the television film Longford (2006). Broadbent received four BAFTA Film Award nominations and won for his performance in Moulin Rouge! (2001). He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, Broadbent first came to prominence in the 1980s, chiefly appearing in television comedy including playing Roy Slater in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He appeared in the Terry Gilliam films Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's independent comedy drama Life Is Sweet (1990). His notable film roles since include The Borrowers (1997), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Gathering Storm (2002), Hot Fuzz (2007), Another Year (2010), The Iron Lady (2011), Arthur Christmas (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012) and Brooklyn (2015). He played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series, Archmaester Ebrose in the seventh season of the television series Game of Thrones and Samuel Gruber in the Paddington film series.
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Known For

The Graham Norton Show

Golden Globe Awards

Would I Lie to You?

Love, Death & Robots

Omnibus

The Oscars

Inspector Morse

Blackadder

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Game of Thrones

Victoria Wood

Performance

Trying

Staged

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Happy Families

Downton Abbey

Ten Percent

Creating the World of Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

Happy Feet

Eddie the Eagle

Time Bandits

War and Peace

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Intensive Care

Silas Marner

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Bright Young Things

Paddington in Peru

Paddington

The Crying Game

Filth

Paddington 2

Big Game

The Street

Brazil

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Enchanted April

Vanity Fair

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Inkheart

The Legend of Tarzan

Six Minutes to Midnight

Free Jimmy

Robots

A Boy Called Christmas

The Avengers

The Young Victoria

The Insurance Man

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Black Narcissus

Pride

Bird of Prey

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones's Diary

Moulin Rouge!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

My Lady Jane

Bridget Jones's Baby

Dolittle

Gangs of New York

Around the World in 80 Days

The Damned United

Arthur Christmas

Spider-Plant Man

Valiant

The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge

King Lear

The One and Only Mike Leigh

Hot Fuzz

Cloud Atlas

Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown

The Go-Between

Nona

Wide-Eyed and Legless

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

Exile

The Great Train Robbery

Ethel & Ernest

Get Santa

The Young Visiters
Production Credits
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