Gerard Butler

Known for ActingBorn 1969-11-13 (age 56)Paisley, Scotland, UK

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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Frame

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming

How to Train Your Dragon

ARK: The Animated Series

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Jewel of the Sahara

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Law Abiding Citizen

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury

Greenland

Attila

The Phantom of the Opera

The Graham Norton Show

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

300

Has Fallen

Soaring to Life: The Making of How to Train Your Dragon

P.S. I Love You

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon

Dear Frankie

Plane

Chasing Mavericks

Hunter Killer

Den of Thieves

RocknRolla

The Jury

Kandahar

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

A Family Man

Machine Gun Preacher

Angel Has Fallen

Mrs Brown

Jeopardy!

Tales of the Black Freighter

Saturday Night Live

Greenland 2: Migration

The Ugly Truth

Last Seen Alive

Olympus Has Fallen

Harrison's Flowers

Butterfly on a Wheel

Copshop

Tomorrow Never Dies