Acting credits
188
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Jim Broadbent
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
4.2
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Movies: 146Series: 42Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 388
IMDb ID: nm0000980
Known for: Acting
Born: May 24, 1949
Age: 76
Place of birth: Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2025
Years active: 82
Average TMDB rating: 6.66
Wikidata: Q185079
Also known as
James "Jim" 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.
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
as Self - Interviewee
2025 Movie
6.1
Jay Kelly
as Peter Schneider
2025 Movie
6.4
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Colin Jones
2025 Movie
6.8
Paddington in Peru
as Samuel Gruber
2024 Movie
An A to Z of Paddington
as Narrator (voice)
2024 Movie
Call Me Back
as George
2023 Movie
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
as Narrator
2023 Movie
7.5
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self - Contributor
2023 Movie
6.6
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
as Harold Fry
2023 Movie
6.3
Charlotte
as Grosspapa (voice)
2022 Movie
7.3
A Boy Called Christmas
as King
2021 Movie
7.0
The Duke
as Kempton Bunton
2021 Movie
6.5
Rhythm of Life
as Self
2021 Movie
6.0
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
as Self
2021 Movie
6.1
Six Minutes to Midnight
as Charlie
2020 Movie
6.6
Dolittle
as Lord Thomas Badgley
2020 Movie
9.0
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
as Self
2019 Movie
6.6
Black '47
as Lord Kilmichael
2018 Movie
5.5
King of Thieves
as Terry Perkins
2018 Movie
6.1
King Lear
as Earl of Gloucester
2018 Movie
9.0
New Town Utopia
as Lewis Silkin MP
2018 Movie
7.5
Paddington 2
as Samuel Gruber
2017 Movie
4.1
Birds Like Us
as Horozovich (voice)
2017 Movie
6.4
The Sense of an Ending
as Tony Webster
2017 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Jim Broadbent.
7.5
My Lady Jane
as Duke of Leicester • 2 eps
2024 Series
7.2
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Snaggleroot (voice) • 1 eps
2022 Series
5.5
Ten Percent
as Richard Nightingale • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.6
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Lord Marcham • 1 eps
2022 Series
6.6
Black Narcissus
as Father Roberts • 3 eps
2020 Series
7.9
Staged
as Jim • 2 eps
2020 Series
7.6
Trying
as George • 1 eps
2020 Series
8.2
Love, Death & Robots
as Christopher the Poet (voice) • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.6
War and Peace
as Prince Bolkonsky • 6 eps
2016 Series
6.9
London Spy
as Scottie • 5 eps
2015 Series
6.6
The Great Train Robbery
as DCS Tommy Butler • 2 eps
2013 Series
10.0
The Frame
as Professor Horace Slughorn • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.2
Exile
as Sam Ronstadt • 3 eps
2011 Series
8.5
Game of Thrones
as Archmaester Ebrose • 4 eps
2011 Series
6.0
Any Human Heart
as Logan Mountstuart • 4 eps
2010 Series
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 1 eps
2007 Series
7.7
The Street
as Stan McDermott • 6 eps
2006 Series
7.0
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice) • 8 eps
1996 Series
5.0
Percy the Park Keeper
as Percy (voice) • 17 eps
1996 Series
2.6
Gone to Seed
as Monty Plant • 6 eps
1992 Series
Perpetual Motion
as Self - Narrator • 6 eps
1992 Series
6.0
Gone to the Dogs
as Jim Morley • 6 eps
1991 Series
6.8
Murder Most Horrid
as Selwyn Proops • 1 eps
1991 Series
6.0
Performance
as Carmello • 1 eps
1991 Series