Jim Broadbent
Biography
Jim Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the feature film Iris (2001), as well as winning a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe for his leading role as Lord Longford in the television film Longford (2006). Broadbent received four BAFTA Film Award nominations and won for his performance in Moulin Rouge! (2001). He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, Broadbent first came to prominence in the 1980s, chiefly appearing in television comedy including playing Roy Slater in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. He appeared in the Terry Gilliam films Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's independent comedy drama Life Is Sweet (1990). His notable film roles since include The Borrowers (1997), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), The Gathering Storm (2002), Hot Fuzz (2007), Another Year (2010), The Iron Lady (2011), Arthur Christmas (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012) and Brooklyn (2015). He played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter film series, Archmaester Ebrose in the seventh season of the television series Game of Thrones and Samuel Gruber in the Paddington film series.
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Movies (39)
Jay Kelly
as Peter Schneider
2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Colin Jones
2025
Paddington in Peru
as Samuel Gruber
2024
An A to Z of Paddington
as Narrator (voice)
2024
Call Me Back
as George
2023
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
as Narrator
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self – Contributor
2023
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
as Harold Fry
2023
Birds Like Us
as Horozovich (voice)
2022
Charlotte
as Grosspapa (voice)
2022
A Boy Called Christmas
as King
2021
The Duke
as Kempton Bunton
2021
Rhythm of Life
as Self
2021
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
as Self
2021
Six Minutes to Midnight
as Charlie
2020
Dolittle
as Lord Thomas Badgley
2020
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
as Self
2019
Black '47
as Lord Kilmichael
2018
King of Thieves
as Terry Perkins
2018
King Lear
as Earl of Gloucester
2018
New Town Utopia
as Lewis Silkin MP
2018
Paddington 2
as Samuel Gruber
2017
The Sense of an Ending
as Tony Webster
2017
Ethel & Ernest
as Ernest Briggs (voice)
2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Dad
2016
The Legend of Tarzan
as Prime Minister
2016
Eddie the Eagle
as BBC Commentator
2016
The Lady in the Van
as Underwood
2015
Brooklyn
as Father Flood
2015
The Weather Inside
as Britischer Botschafter
2015
The Go-Between
as Old Leo
2015
Big Game
as Herbert
2015
Get Santa
as Santa Claus
2014
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
as Julius Caesar (voice UK Dub)
2014
Paddington
as Samuel Gruber
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self
2014
Postman Pat: The Movie
as CEO (voice)
2014
The Harry Hill Movie
as Cleaner
2013
The Phone Call
as Stan (voice)
2013
TV Shows (11)
My Lady Jane
as Duke of Leicester
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Snaggleroot (voice)
2022
Ten Percent
as Richard Nightingale
2022
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Lord Marcham
2022
Black Narcissus
as Father Roberts
2020
Staged
as Jim
2020
Trying
as George
2020
Love, Death & Robots
as Christopher the Poet (voice)
2019
War and Peace
as Prince Bolkonsky
2016
London Spy
as Scottie
2015
The Great Train Robbery
as DCS Tommy Butler
2013