Acting credits
187
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Jim Broadbent
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.5
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Movies: 143Series: 44Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 388
IMDb ID: nm0000980
Known for: Acting
Born: May 24, 1949
Age: 77
Place of birth: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2025
Years active: 82
Average TMDB rating: 6.67
Wikidata: Q185079
Also known as
James Broadbent
Other jobs
Writer (3)
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
Movies
Movie credits linked with Jim Broadbent.
as Self - Interviewee
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
2025 • Movie
as Peter Schneider
Jay Kelly
2025 • Movie
as Colin Jones
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025 • Movie
as Samuel Gruber
Paddington in Peru
2024 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
An A to Z of Paddington
2024 • Movie
as George
Call Me Back
2023 • Movie
as Narrator
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
2023 • Movie
as Self - Contributor
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023 • Movie
as Harold Fry
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023 • Movie
as Grosspapa (voice)
Charlotte
2022 • Movie
as King
A Boy Called Christmas
2021 • Movie
as Kempton Bunton
The Duke
2021 • Movie
as Self
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
2021 • Movie
as Charlie
Six Minutes to Midnight
2020 • Movie
as Lord Thomas Badgley
Dolittle
2020 • Movie
as Self
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019 • Movie
as Lord Kilmichael
Black '47
2018 • Movie
as Terry Perkins
King of Thieves
2018 • Movie
as Earl of Gloucester
King Lear
2018 • Movie
as Lewis Silkin MP
New Town Utopia
2018 • Movie
as Samuel Gruber
Paddington 2
2017 • Movie
as Horozovich (voice)
Birds Like Us
2017 • Movie
as Tony Webster
The Sense of an Ending
2017 • Movie
as Ernest Briggs (voice)
Ethel & Ernest
2016 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jim Broadbent.
as Duke of Leicester • 2 eps
My Lady Jane
2024 • Series
as Snaggleroot (voice) • 1 eps
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2022 • Series
as Richard Nightingale • 1 eps
Ten Percent
2022 • Series
as Lord Marcham • 1 eps
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
2022 • Series
as Father Roberts • 3 eps
Black Narcissus
2020 • Series
as Jim • 2 eps
Staged
2020 • Series
as George • 1 eps
Trying
2020 • Series
as Christopher the Poet (voice) • 1 eps
Love, Death & Robots
2019 • Series
as Prince Bolkonsky • 6 eps
War and Peace
2016 • Series
as Scottie • 5 eps
London Spy
2015 • Series
as DCS Tommy Butler • 2 eps
The Great Train Robbery
2013 • Series
as Professor Horace Slughorn • 1 eps
The Frame
2013 • Series
as Sam Ronstadt • 3 eps
Exile
2011 • Series
as Archmaester Ebrose • 4 eps
Game of Thrones
2011 • Series
as Logan Mountstuart (Older) • 4 eps
Any Human Heart
2010 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
2007 • Series
as Stan McDermott • 6 eps
The Street
2006 • Series
as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice) • 8 eps
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
1996 • Series
as Percy (voice) • 17 eps
Percy the Park Keeper
1996 • Series
as Monty Plant • 6 eps
Gone to Seed
1992 • Series
as Self - Narrator • 6 eps
Perpetual Motion
1992 • Series
as Jim Morley • 6 eps
Gone to the Dogs
1991 • Series
as Selwyn Proops • 1 eps
Murder Most Horrid
1991 • Series
as Carmello • 1 eps
Performance
1991 • Series