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Biography: Jim Broadbent

One of England's most versatile character actors, Jim Broadbent has been giving reliably excellent performances on the stage and screen for years. Particularly known for his numerous collaborations with director Mike Leigh, Broadbent was shown to superlative effect in Leigh's Topsy-Turvy, winning the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for his portrayal of British lyricist and playwright W.S. Gilbert. Born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1949, Broadbent trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. 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 he co-founded that performed reduced histories. In addition to his theatrical work, Broadbent did steady work on television, acting for such directors as Mike Newell and Stephen Frears. Broadbent made his film debut in 1978 with a small part in Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout. He went on to work with such directors as Stephen Frears (The Hit, 1984) and Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits [1981], Brazil [1985]), but it was through his collaboration with Leigh that Broadbent first became known to an international film audience. In 1991, he starred in Leigh's Life Is Sweet, 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 and Newell's Enchanted April, and he could subsequently be seen in such diverse fare as Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Widows' Peak (1994), Richard Loncraine's highly acclaimed adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III (1996), 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 (1999), imbuing the mercurial W.S. Gilbert with emotional complexity and comic poignancy. Roles in Bridget Jones's Diary, Moulin Rogue, and Iris made 2001 quite a marquee year for Broadbent; the actor earned both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his affecting turn in Iris. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide less

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Inkheart (2009)
Cast: Helen Mirren Brendan Fraser
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Family Fantasy
Length: 106min
Author Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's novel comes to vivid life on the big screen with this family-friendly tale about a bookbinder whose storytelling skills possess the curious power to transport the characters he speaks about into the real...
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The Damned United (2009)
Tags: Period Film Drama Sports Drama
Length: 98min
The creators of such docudramas as The Queen and Frost/Nixon re-team for this period sports chronicle set in 1974. In England, the Leeds United players retain a status as the preeminent champions of their football league. Unfortunately, the manager to...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Cast: Michael Gambon
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Family Fantasy
Length: 153min
Adolescent wizard-in-training Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling and learns more about the dark past of the boy who grew up to become Lord Voldemort in this, the sixth installment of the film series that originated from the...
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Perrier's Bounty (2009)
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 88min
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The Young Victoria (2009)
Cast: Martin Scorsese Paul Bettany Miranda Richardson
Tags: Drama Docudrama Romantic Drama
Length: 100min
Director Jean-Marc Vallée takes the helm for this look at the turbulent early years of Queen Victoria (Emily Blunt), who was crowned at the age of 18, and whose ill-fated marriage to Prince Albert (Rupert Friend) would later prompt her into a life of...
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Hot Fuzz (2007)
Cast: Timothy Dalton Edward Woodward
Tags: Action Comedy Comedy Police Comedy
Length: 121min
A top London cop who is so good at his job that he makes his fellow officers look like slackers by comparison is "promoted" to serve in the sleepy village of Sandford in this contemporary action comedy from the creators of Shaun of the Dead. Police...
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Cast: Harrison Ford Steven Spielberg John Williams George Lucas John Hurt Karen Allen
Tags: Adventure Comedy Costume Adventure Action Adventure
Length: 122min
Everyone's favorite archeologist adventurer dusts off his hat and trusty whip for yet another globetrotting trek as Indiana Jones returns to the big screen nearly 20 years after racing for the Holy Grail alongside his father in Indiana Jones and the...
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Art School Confidential (2006)
Tags: Comedy Satire Black Comedy
Length: 102min
Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff and comic artist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes, who collaborated for the acclaimed 2001 comedy-drama Ghost World, team up once again for this offbeat satire. Jerome (Max Minghella) is an aspiring artist who arrives at a...
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Longford (2007)
Cast: Samantha Morton Jim Broadbent
Tags: Biopic Drama Religious Drama
Length: 88min
Academy-award-winning actor Jim Broadbent portrays controversial British campaigner Lord Longford in this iopic that details the former government minister and then-House of Lords leader's notorious encounter with infamous Moors Murderer Myra Hindley...
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When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
Cast: Juliet Stevenson
Tags: Drama Slice of Life Coming-of-Age Family Drama
Length: 93min
Adapted from poet Blake Morrison's best-selling memoir by screenwriter David Nicholls and directed for the screen by Anand Tucker, And When Did You Last See Your Father? explores -- like its source material -- the complex, manifold emotional layers of...
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