![]() ![]() Then aged 27, Butler had his first professional acting job. The director said of Butler's audition, "When he read, he had such vigour and enthusiasm-so much that it made the other actors seem limp-that I decided to cast him in the ensemble." She took him to an audition for Steven Berkoff's play of Coriolanus. At that time, he was her boyfriend and her assistant. ![]() In London, he met an old friend from his teenage days in the Scottish Youth Theatre, who was now a London casting director. Initially unable to win any acting roles, he worked in a variety of jobs including as a waiter, a telemarketer and a toy demonstrator at fairs. He admitted, "When I started out, I'm not sure I was actually in it for the right reasons. At the age of 25, and an unqualified lawyer, he moved to London to pursue his dream of becoming famous. One week before he qualified as a lawyer, he was fired. However, he continued to stay out late drinking and frequently missed work. Upon graduation, he took a position as a trainee lawyer at an Edinburgh law firm. Career Legal career and early acting career He still suffers from tinnitus and has hearing loss in his right ear. He had ear surgery as a child that left him with a mangled ear. This is me just being boisterous.' " After his time off in America, he returned to Scotland to finish his final year at law school. Describing his behaviour during that year, he recalled: "I was out of control, and justifying it with this idea that 'I'm young, this is life. He said of this period in his life: "I had gone from a 16-year-old who couldn't wait to grasp life to a 22-year-old who didn't care if he died in his sleep." īefore his final year of law school, Butler took a year off to live in California-mostly in Venice Beach, where he held different jobs, traveled often, and, he says, drank heavily at one point he was arrested for alcohol-related disorderly conduct. When Butler was 22, his father was diagnosed with cancer and died. After the meeting, Butler cried for hours, and recalled later: "That emotion showed me how much pain can sit in this body of yours pain and sorrow that you don't know you have until it is unleashed." Īs a student, he was the president of the university law society, a position he later said he "kind of blagged my way into". He did not see his father again until he was 16, when Edward Butler called to meet him at a Glasgow restaurant. He also attended Scottish Youth Theatre while a teenager. īutler was head boy at St Mirin's & St Margaret's High School in Paisley and won a place at University of Glasgow School of Law. A year later, when his parents' marriage broke down, his mother left Montreal and returned to Scotland with Gerard, aged 18 months. His family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada when he was six months old. He is from a Catholic family of Irish descent. He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher.īutler was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. ![]() ![]() Also in the 2010s, he portrayed Secret Service agent Mike Banning in the action thriller series Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, Angel Has Fallen and the upcoming Night Has Fallen. He voiced Stoick the Vast in the critically and commercially successful How to Train Your Dragon franchise (2010–2019). That role earned him nominations for an Empire Award for Best Actor and a Saturn Award for Best Actor and a win for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. He then was cast as Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera, with Emmy Rossum it earned him a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor.īutler gained worldwide recognition for his portrayal of King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire with Christian Bale (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life with Angelina Jolie (2003) before playing André Marek in the adaptation of Michael Crichton's science fiction adventure Timeline (2003). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000 with Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. ![]()
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