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Jim Broadbent
24 May 1949
Jim Broadbent played in 38 movies in the Horror, Drama, Music, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, History, Romance, Crime, Thriller, Adventure, Action, Family, Music, Musical, Biography, Documentary, Short, Animation, Western, War, Mystery genres.
Jim Broadbent got succeed with average imdb rating 6.6.
Graduated from the London Academy of Music and Vivid Arts in 1972.
He is the son of Roy Broadbent, who was knotty in converting a Methodist Church into a theater. It was later renamed the Broadbent Theater after his death in 1971.
Honorary President of the Lindsey Exurban Players
Voice of Vroomfondel in the BBC receiver series version of "The Hitchhiker's Inspiration to the Galaxy"
Shortly after winning his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Iris (2001/I), he was interviewed near Joan Rivers, who ostensibly didn't even differentiate what citizenship he was. On live TV, Rivers said, "Here we eat Jim Broadbent, all the crumple from Australia. You're Australian aren't you?" But there were to be no tantrums from the celebrity - the placid-stilted actor replied, "No, I'm British."
... At The Orange British Academy Film Awards on Monday January 28th 2002, he was nominated for the treatment of the most excellently Show by way of an Actor in a pre-eminent part Award for the duration of his role in the take Iris.
His mother, who died in 1995, suffered from Alzheimer's Disorder.
Nominated for a 2004 Grammy Prize on Best Vocal Word Album for Children for Winnie-the-Pooh.
In 2001, appeared in Moulin Rouge! (2001) with Nicole Kidman, Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) with Renée Zellweger and Iris (2001/I) with Judi Dench. All three of these women were nominated in behalf of Best Actress championing their roles.
Is the merely Oscar-winning actor in the Superman films who has no greater than won a singular Oscar. Marlon Brando won because On the Waterfront and The Godfather; Gene Hackman to The French Link and Unforgiven; and Kevin Spacey throughout The Unremarkable Suspects and American Beauty. Broadbent only won for Iris.
Was offered the put asunder give up of Del Boy in BBC's Sitcom "On the other hand Fools and Horses", but declined the role. But he did guest-heavenly body in three episodes of the corroborate.
He allegedly declined the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to drama in 2002.
Plays former President Richard Nixon in Windy Tricks (2000) (TV). Nixon was previously played through Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995). Hopkins also appeared in Shadowlands (1993) as C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Medusa and the Stock of clothing (2005), in which Broadbent appeared.
He won an Oscar in the course of playing John Bayley in Iris (2001/I), making him one of eleven actors to win the Award into playing a legitimate person who was flat alive at the evening of the Prize pro formas (as of 2007). The other ten actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Papa Edward Flanagan in Boys Community (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Breadwinner (1962), Jason Robards for playing Benjamin Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000) and most recently Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006).
Considered recompense the role of Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray (2007).
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