Jim Broadbent
Acting
1949-05-24 · Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 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.
Filmography
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025 · Movie
Jay Kelly
2025 · Movie
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025 · Movie
Paddington in Peru
2024 · Movie
An A to Z of Paddington
2024 · Movie
My Lady Jane
2024 · Series
Call Me Back
2023 · Movie
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
2023 · Movie
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023 · Movie
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023 · Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022 · Series
Ten Percent
2022 · Series
Charlotte
2022 · Movie
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2022 · Series
A Boy Called Christmas
2021 · Movie
The Duke
2021 · Movie
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
2021 · Movie
Black Narcissus
2020 · Series
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020 · Movie
Staged
2020 · Series
Trying
2020 · Series
Dolittle
2020 · Movie
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019 · Movie
Love, Death & Robots
2019 · Series
Black '47
2018 · Movie
King of Thieves
2018 · Movie
King Lear
2018 · Movie
New Town Utopia
2018 · Movie
Paddington 2
2017 · Movie
Birds Like Us
2017 · Movie
The Sense of an Ending
2017 · Movie
Ethel & Ernest
2016 · Movie
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · Movie
The Legend of Tarzan
2016 · Movie
Eddie the Eagle
2016 · Movie
War and Peace
2016 · Series
London Spy
2015 · Series
The Lady in the Van
2015 · Movie
Brooklyn
2015 · Movie
The Weather Inside
2015 · Movie
The Go-Between
2015 · Movie
Get Santa
2014 · Movie
Paddington
2014 · Movie
The One and Only Mike Leigh
2014 · Movie
Big Game
2014 · Movie
Postman Pat: The Movie
2014 · Movie
The Harry Hill Movie
2013 · Movie
The Great Train Robbery
2013 · Series
The Phone Call
2013 · Movie
Chance Meeting
2013 · Movie
Le Week-End
2013 · Movie
Filth
2013 · Movie
Closed Circuit
2013 · Movie
The Frame
2013 · Series
Cloud Atlas
2012 · Movie
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
2012 · Movie
The Iron Lady
2011 · Movie
Comedy Blaps
2011 · Series
Arthur Christmas
2011 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Movie
Exile
2011 · Series
Game of Thrones
2011 · Series
Any Human Heart
2010 · Series
Another Year
2010 · Movie
Perrier's Bounty
2010 · Movie
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 · Movie
The Damned United
2009 · Movie
The Young Victoria
2009 · Movie
Lost and Found
2008 · Movie
Inkheart
2008 · Movie
Einstein and Eddington
2008 · Movie
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008 · Movie
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008 · Movie
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 · Movie
Tales of the Riverbank
2008 · Movie
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007 · Movie
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
Longford
2006 · Movie
Art School Confidential
2006 · Movie
The Street
2006 · Series
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005 · Movie
Valiant
2005 · Movie
Robots
2005 · Movie
The Magic Roundabout
2005 · Movie
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004 · Movie
Vera Drake
2004 · Movie
Vanity Fair
2004 · Movie
Pride
2004 · Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
2004 · Movie
Tooth
2004 · Movie
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
2004 · Movie
The Young Visiters
2003 · Movie
Bright Young Things
2003 · Movie
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2003 · Movie
Anna Spud
2003 · Movie
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 · Movie
Gangs of New York
2002 · Movie
The King's Beard
2002 · Movie
The Gathering Storm
2002 · Movie
Iris
2001 · Movie
Moulin Rouge!
2001 · Movie
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
2001 · Movie
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001 · Movie
Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999 · Movie
Little Voice
1998 · Movie
The Avengers
1998 · Movie
Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm
1998 · Movie
Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party
1997 · Movie
The Borrowers
1997 · Movie
The Peter Principle
1997 · Series
Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path
1997 · Movie
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997 · Movie
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
1996 · Series
Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night
1996 · Movie
Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night
1996 · Movie
Percy the Park Keeper
1996 · Series
The Secret Agent
1996 · Movie
Richard III
1995 · Movie
Rough Magic
1995 · Movie
The Last Englishman
1995 · Movie
Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · Movie
Princess Caraboo
1994 · Movie
Widows' Peak
1994 · Movie
Prince Cinders
1993 · Movie
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993 · Movie
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
1993 · Movie
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
1993 · Movie
Gone to Seed
1992 · Series
A Sense of History
1992 · Movie
The Crying Game
1992 · Movie
Perpetual Motion
1992 · Series
Gone to the Dogs
1991 · Series
Enchanted April
1991 · Movie
Murder Most Horrid
1991 · Series
Nona
1991 · Movie
Performance
1991 · Series
Life Is Sweet
1991 · Movie
Happy Feet
1991 · Movie
Van Gogh
1990 · Movie
Victoria Wood
1989 · Series
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
1989 · Series
4 Play
1989 · Series
Screen One
1989 · Series
Erik the Viking
1989 · Movie
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
1989 · Movie
The Hangover
1989 · Movie
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988 · Movie
Vroom
1988 · Movie
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · Series
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · Movie
Running Out of Luck
1987 · Movie
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
The Insurance Man
1986 · Movie
Silas Marner
1985 · Movie
The Good Father
1985 · Movie
Happy Families
1985 · Series
Theatre Night
1985 · Series
Picture Friend
1985 · Movie
Brazil
1985 · Movie
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985 · Series
The Man Who Shot Christmas
1984 · Movie
The Hit
1984 · Movie
Dramarama
1983 · Series
Tales Out of School
1983 · Series
Birth of a Nation
1983 · Movie
Blackadder
1983 · Series
Walter and June
1983 · Movie
Dead on Time
1983 · Movie
Objects of Affection
1982 · Series
Our Winnie
1982 · Movie
Intensive Care
1982 · Movie
Walter
1982 · Movie
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982 · Movie
Uliisses
1982 · Movie
Bird of Prey
1982 · Series
Only Fools and Horses
1981 · Series
Time Bandits
1981 · Movie
The Dogs of War
1980 · Movie
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
1980 · Movie
Breaking Glass
1980 · Movie
Games Without Frontiers
1980 · Movie
Long Distance Information
1979 · Movie
Phoelix
1979 · Movie
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Series
The Passage
1979 · Movie
The Life Story of Baal
1978 · Movie
The Shout
1978 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
The Go-Between
1971 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Omnibus
1967 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Dennis
Movie
Fools
Movie