Jim Broadbent

ACTOR, WRITER, SOUNDTRACK

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One of England's most versatile character actors, Jim Broadbent was born on May 24, 1949, in Lincolnshire, the youngest son of furniture maker Roy Laverick Broadbent and sculptress Doreen "Dee" (Findlay) Broadbent. Jim attended a Quaker boarding school in Reading before successfully applying for a place at an art school. His heart was in acting, though, and he would later transfer to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Following his 1972 graduation, he began his professional career on the stage, performing with the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and as part of the National Theatre of Brent, a two-man troupe which he co-founded. In addition to his theatrical work, Broadbent did steady work on television, working for such directors as Mike Newell and Stephen Frears. Broadbent made his film debut in 1978 with a small part in Jerzy Skolimowski's Der Todesschrei (1978). He went on to work with Frears again in Die Profi-Killer (1984) and with Terry Gilliam in Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985), but it was through his collaboration with Mike Leigh that Broadbent first became known to an international film audience. In 1990 he starred in Leigh's Das Leben ist süß (1990), a domestic comedy that cast him as a good-natured cook who dreams of running his own business. Broadbent gained further visibility the following year with substantial roles in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game (1992) and Mike Newell's Verzauberter April (1991), and he could subsequently be seen in such diverse fare as Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Die Witwen von Widows Peak (1994), Richard Loncraine's highly acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III (1995) and Little Voice (1998), the last of which cast him as a seedy nightclub owner. Appearing primarily as a character actor in these films, Broadbent took center stage for Leigh's Topsy-Turvy - Auf den Kopf gestellt (1999), imbuing the mercurial W.S. Gilbert with emotional complexity and comic poignancy. Jim's breakthrough year was 2001, as he starred in three critically and commercially successful films. Many would consider him the definitive supporting actor of that year. First he starred as Bridget's dad (Colin Jones) in Bridget Jones - Schokolade zum Frühstück (2001), which propelled Renée Zellweger to an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Next came the multiple Oscar-nominated film (including Best Picture) Moulin Rouge! (2001), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA award for his scene-stealing performance as Harold Zidler. Lastly, came the small biopic Iris (2001), for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as devoted husband John Bayley to Judi Dench's Iris Murdoch, the British novelist who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. The film hit home with Jim, since his own mother had passed away from Alzheimer's in 1995. - IMDb Mini Biography By: TrendEkiD@aol.com

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Jim Broadbent’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Jim Broadbent on average has worked on 3 movies per year from 1979 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Jim Broadbent movies released per year from 2010 till 2021.

Top Genres

Jim Broadbent works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 30% of Jim Broadbent movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Jim Broadbent worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Jim Broadbent has worked on is 6.9.

6.9 / 10

Jim Broadbent's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

8.1/1024 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Animation,Drama,History
Ethel & Ernest (2016)

The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist, Raymond Briggs.

7.7/1094 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

7.6/10125 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Drama,Musical,Romance
Moulin Rouge! (2001)

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.

7.6/10127 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Drama,Romance
Brooklyn (2015)

An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

7.5/10117 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Biography,Crime,Drama
Longford (2006)

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

7.5/1093 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.

7.5/10167 min

Available in 13 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
London Spy (2015)

A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them is found murdered.

7.4/1060 min

Available in 4 platform(s).