Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).
Filmography (46)
Greenland 2: Migration
In the Hand of Dante
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
How to Train Your Dragon
Plane
Kandahar
The Bricklayer
Last Seen Alive
Copshop
Greenland
Angel Has Fallen
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The Vanishing
Den of Thieves
Hunter Killer
Geostorm
Gods of Egypt
London Has Fallen
A Family Man
Septembers of Shiraz
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Movie 43
Olympus Has Fallen
Playing for Keeps
Chasing Mavericks
Machine Gun Preacher
Coriolanus
How to Train Your Dragon
The Bounty Hunter
Gamer
Law Abiding Citizen
The Ugly Truth
RocknRolla
Nim's Island
300
P.S. I Love You
Butterfly on a Wheel
The Game of Their Lives
Beowulf & Grendel
The Phantom of the Opera
Dear Frankie
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Timeline
Reign of Fire
Dracula 2000
