Gerard Butler
ActingAlso Known As
Gerard James Butler
Biography
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).
Movies
(77 total)
300
as King Leonidas
How to Train Your Dragon
as Stoick (voice)
How to Train Your Dragon 2
as Stoick (voice)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
as Stoick (voice)
Olympus Has Fallen
as Mike Banning
Law Abiding Citizen
as Clyde Alexander Shelton
Greenland
as John Garrity
Geostorm
as Jake Lawson
London Has Fallen
as Mike Banning
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
as Terry Sheridan
Gods of Egypt
as Set
Angel Has Fallen
as Mike Banning
The Ugly Truth
as Mike Chadway
P.S. I Love You
as Gerry
Tomorrow Never Dies
as HMS Devonshire Leading Seaman
Den of Thieves
as 'Big Nick' O'Brien
RocknRolla
as One-Two
The Bounty Hunter
as Milo Boyd
How to Train Your Dragon
as Stoick
Plane
as Brodie Torrance
TV Shows
(29 total)
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
Jeopardy!
as Self - Clue Presenter
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Attila
as Attila the Hun
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
as Self (archive footage)
ARK: The Animated Series
as Gaius Marcellus Nerva (voice)
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
The Jay Leno Show
as Self
Live from Studio Five
as Self
Sherri
as Self - Guest
GMTV
as Self