1. James Broadbent was born on 24 May 1949 and is an English actor.
39 Facts About Jim Broadbent
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Jim Broadbent has received various accolades including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, an International Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award.
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Jim Broadbent received an Academy Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the film Iris.
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Jim Broadbent is known for his roles in franchise films such as Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series, Digory Kirke in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Samuel Gruber in the Paddington film series.
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Jim Broadbent acted in blockbuster and studio films such as The Borrowers, Robots, Hot Fuzz, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Arthur Christmas, and Cloud Atlas.
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Jim Broadbent portrayed Archmaester Ebrose in the seventh season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones in 2017.
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Jim Broadbent's parents were both amateur actors who co-founded the Holton Players acting troupe at Holton.
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Jim Broadbent was educated at Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading, and briefly attended art college before transferring to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 1972.
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Towards the end of the decade, Jim Broadbent began appearing in small roles on television and films, including a Fielder in The Shout and Mackanees in the Play for Today episode Long Distance Information.
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Jim Broadbent appeared in an edition of Not the Nine O'Clock News, playing a Union Negotiator.
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Jim Broadbent had worked with Stephen Frears in The Hit, and Terry Gilliam in Time Bandits and Brazil.
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Jim Broadbent appeared in 1983,1985 and 1991 as DCI Roy Slater, an associate character in the enormously popular sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
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Jim Broadbent had originally been offered the lead role of Del Boy in the series, but he turned it down due to other commitments.
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Jim Broadbent made occasional guest appearances in other comedy shows including Happy Families, and Victoria Wood As Seen on TV.
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Jim Broadbent later played Prince Albert in Blackadder's Christmas Carol, first broadcast in 1988.
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Jim Broadbent appeared with John Goodman in fantasy comedy The Borrowers, and with Michael Caine in the musical comedy Little Voice.
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Jim Broadbent appeared as Charlie Bennett in an episode of Inspector Morse.
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That same year Jim Broadbent had voice roles in Robots, Valiant, and The Magic Roundabout.
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Jim Broadbent joined Rowan Atkinson in his Spider-Man spoof Spider-Plant Man, as a disgruntled and evious Batman.
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Jim Broadbent played the lead role of the TV film Wide-Eyed and Legless.
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Jim Broadbent was subject to blackouts and became so debilitated that she could barely get out of her wheelchair.
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Jim Broadbent portrayed the title role in the Channel 4 drama Longford in October 2006, earning a BAFTA TV Award, a Golden Globe and a 2007 Emmy nomination for his performance as Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford, which was centred on Longford's ultimately unsuccessful campaign for the parole of Myra Hindley from her life imprisonment for the Moors Murders.
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Jim Broadbent appeared as Inspector Frank Butterman in Hot Fuzz in 2007.
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Jim Broadbent was a regular in Stephen Fry's radio comedy show Saturday Night Fry, which aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1988.
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Jim Broadbent appeared in the fourth film in the Indiana Jones series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett and Ray Winstone, directed by Steven Spielberg; and in The Young Victoria, alongside Emily Blunt as King William IV.
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Jim Broadbent starred as the older Logan Mountstuart in the TV adaptation of William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart.
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Jim Broadbent had a lead role in Exile, a BBC One drama, starring John Simm and written by Danny Brocklehurst.
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In 2010, Jim Broadbent reunited with director Mike Leigh, in Another Year In 2012, he played Denis Thatcher opposite Meryl Streep as the former Prime Minister in The Iron Lady.
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In 2015, Jim Broadbent starred alongside Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson and Julie Walters in the Oscar nominated film Brooklyn.
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Since 2016, Jim Broadbent narrates Kevin the Carrot Christmas adverts for the UK branch of Aldi.
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Jim Broadbent has appeared alongside Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw in the British comedy films, Paddington and Paddington 2.
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In 2020, Jim Broadbent starred in the limited series Black Narcissus based on the classic Powell and Pressburger film.
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Jim Broadbent starred opposite Helen Mirren in the comedy drama film The Duke.
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Jim Broadbent has been married to painter and former theatre designer Anastasia Lewis since 1987.
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Jim Broadbent has no children, but Lewis has two sons from a previous relationship.
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Jim Broadbent received his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Richard Eyre's Iris starring alongside Judi Dench.
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Jim Broadbent has received two Golden Globe Awards for his performances in Iris and Longford.
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Jim Broadbent was offered an OBE in 2002, but he declined it, stating that there were more deserving recipients than actors and that the British Empire was not something he wanted to "celebrate".
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Jim Broadbent was made an Honorary Associate of London Film School.