Gerard James Butler was born on 13 November 1969 and is a Scottish actor and film producer.
35 Facts About Gerard Butler
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Gerard Butler 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.
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Gerard Butler voiced Stoick the Vast in the critically and commercially successful How to Train Your Dragon franchise.
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Gerard Butler 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.
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Gerard Butler was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Gerard Butler, a bookmaker.
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Gerard Butler is from a Catholic family of Irish descent.
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Gerard Butler's family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada when he was six months old.
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Gerard Butler did not see his father again until he was 16, when Edward Butler called to meet him at a Glasgow restaurant.
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When Gerard Butler was 22, his father was diagnosed with cancer and died.
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Gerard Butler had ear surgery as a child that left him with a mangled ear.
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Gerard Butler still suffers from tinnitus and has hearing loss in his right ear.
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Gerard Butler took him to an audition for Steven Berkoff's play of Coriolanus.
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In London, Gerard Butler had various odd jobs until being cast by actor and director Steven Berkoff in a stage production of Coriolanus.
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Gerard Butler was cast as Ewan McGregor's character Renton in the stage adaptation of Trainspotting, the same play that had inspired him to become an actor.
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In 2000, Gerard Butler was cast in two breakthrough roles, the first being Attila the Hun in the American TV miniseries Attila.
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Gerard Butler was cast as Dracula in Dracula 2000.
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Gerard Butler, who had had no musical experience other than singing in a rock band while he was studying to be a lawyer, was surprised at the interest, but immediately began taking singing lessons with a vocal coach.
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Gerard Butler then did an acting audition with Schumacher, and a singing audition with Lloyd Webber, both of whom were impressed by his performance.
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The film, and Gerard Butler's performance, received mixed reviews, though Gerard Butler was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Actor.
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Gerard Butler, who said he "wanted to look really strong" in the film, trained with a high-intensity workout for four months prior to the film's shooting.
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Gerard Butler disavowed gossip reports that Marilyn Manson and Johnny Depp had advised him on the project.
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Gerard Butler starred as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in the action thriller Olympus Has Fallen, opposite co-stars Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman.
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Gerard Butler said he broke two bones in his neck while shooting the film, but did not realise this until he had an MRI scan.
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Gerard Butler reprised his voice role as Stoick in How to Train Your Dragon 2 in 2014.
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Late in 2018 Gerard Butler starred as submarine captain Commander Joe Glass of the USS Arkansas, a Virginia class nuclear submarine, in the film Hunter Killer.
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Gerard Butler starred as Mike Banning again in the 2019 film Angel Has Fallen.
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Gerard Butler has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Actor's Branch since 2011.
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Since October 2011, Gerard Butler has divided his time between Los Angeles and Glasgow.
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Gerard Butler was stable and released from the hospital later that week.
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Gerard Butler has stated in interviews that he no longer drinks alcohol.
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Gerard Butler was concerned he had become too reliant on prescribed pain medication, which escalated after his surfing accident.
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In 2011 Gerard Butler played in a charity match for Celtic FC, a football club he has supported since childhood.
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Gerard Butler has supported the charity Mary's Meals since 2010.
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Gerard Butler visited the international development charity's programme in Liberia in 2014.
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In November 2018, Gerard Butler's home was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire in California.