Gerard Butler
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1969-11-13
Place of Birth
Paisley, Scotland, UK
Gerard Butler
Biography
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.
Also Known For
300
Mar 07, 2007
How to Train Your Dragon
Mar 18, 2010
Dracula 2000
Dec 22, 2000
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Jul 21, 2003
Nim's Island
Apr 03, 2008
The Ugly Truth
Jul 24, 2009
Beowulf & Grendel
Sep 14, 2005
Law Abiding Citizen
Oct 15, 2009
P.S. I Love You
Nov 15, 2007
Reign of Fire
Jul 09, 2002
Dear Frankie
May 18, 2004
Timeline
Nov 26, 2003
Butterfly on a Wheel
Jul 27, 2007
The Bounty Hunter
Mar 16, 2010
The Phantom of the Opera
Dec 08, 2004
RocknRolla
Sep 04, 2008
The Game of Their Lives
Apr 22, 2005
Tales of the Black Freighter
Mar 24, 2009
Machine Gun Preacher
Sep 23, 2011
Fast Food
Oct 09, 1998
Little White Lies
Jun 17, 1998
Hair of the Dog
Mrs Brown
Jul 18, 1997
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon
Oct 14, 2010
Gamer
Sep 03, 2009
Guilty Hearts
Jul 30, 2007
Chasing Mavericks
Oct 25, 2012
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Jun 05, 2014
One More Kiss
Sep 18, 1999
Just Watch Me
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
Nov 15, 2011
Wrath of Gods
May 06, 2007
Playing for Keeps
Nov 29, 2012
Coriolanus
Feb 14, 2011
Movie 43
Jan 24, 2013
Shooters
Jan 25, 2002
Olympus Has Fallen
Mar 20, 2013
Last Seen Alive
May 12, 2022
Gods of Egypt
Feb 25, 2016
Please!
May 04, 2001
In the Hand of Dante
London Has Fallen
Mar 02, 2016
Geostorm
Oct 12, 2017
Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
Jun 15, 2005
How to Train Your Dragon
Jun 06, 2025
Tomorrow Never Dies
Dec 11, 1997
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Feb 04, 2012
A Family Man
Sep 13, 2016
Empire State
Hunter Killer
Oct 19, 2018
The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland
Nov 15, 2024
Harrison's Flowers
Sep 23, 2000
Angel Has Fallen
Aug 21, 2019
The Vanishing
Jan 04, 2019
Den of Thieves
Jan 18, 2018
Jewel of the Sahara
Jun 28, 2001
All-Star Weekend
The Cherry Orchard
Jan 01, 1999
Greenland
Jul 29, 2020
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Jan 03, 2019
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Jan 08, 2025
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming
Dec 03, 2019
Plane
Jan 12, 2023
Remote Control
Discovering Mavericks
Nov 01, 2013
Kandahar
May 25, 2023
Copshop
Sep 09, 2021
Night Has Fallen
Tale of the Mummy
Aug 03, 1998
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Greenland: Migration
Attila
Jan 01, 2001
Love Reaches Everywhere
May 30, 2020
Den of Thieves 3
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
Mar 13, 2011
Soaring to Life: The Making of How To Train Your Dragon
Jun 06, 2025
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Jun 10, 2027
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
HypaSpace
May 13, 2002
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star
Nov 10, 1998
The Jay Leno Show
Sep 14, 2009
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
ARK: The Animated Series
Mar 21, 2024
The Jury
Feb 17, 2002
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Jan 03, 2005
Attila
Jan 30, 2001
GMTV
Jan 01, 1993
Live from Studio Five
Sep 14, 2009
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Nov 08, 1999
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Oct 24, 1997
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
La semaine des 4 Julie
Jan 06, 2020
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Leute heute
Jul 23, 1997
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
The Frame
Apr 09, 2013
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Feb 03, 1984
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
Oct 28, 2018
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
Sherri
Sep 12, 2022
