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Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, and Lucy Boynton in Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)

Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, and Harriet Walter in The Young Victoria (2009)

Jim Broadbent in The Young Victoria (2009)

Jim Broadbent and Emily Blunt in The Young Victoria (2009)

Jim Broadbent and Harriet Walter in The Young Victoria (2009)

Jim Broadbent, Jamie Foreman, and Steve Speirs in Inkheart (2008)

Jim Broadbent, Sienna Guillory, and Eliza Bennett in Inkheart (2008)

Jim Broadbent and Paul Bettany in Inkheart (2008)

Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Paul Whitehouse, and Ray Winstone in King of Thieves (2018)

Jim Broadbent, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, and Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Jim Broadbent, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Robbie Gee, Ben Miller, Jessica Hynes, Shola Adewusi, and Marie-France Alvarez in Paddington 2 (2017)

Jim Broadbent and John Bradley in Game of Thrones (2011)

Jim Broadbent, Julian Firth, Frank Hvam, and Philip O'Sullivan in Game of Thrones (2011)

John Cusack, Jim Broadbent, and Tracey Ullman in Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Jim Broadbent in The Sense of an Ending (2017)

Jim Broadbent, Michelle Dockery, Joyia Fitch, and Beth Cleveley-Hutchinson in The Sense of an Ending (2017)

Jim Broadbent and Ritesh Batra in The Sense of an Ending (2017)

Jim Broadbent and Harriet Walter in The Sense of an Ending (2017)

Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling in The Sense of an Ending (2017)

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jim Broadbent in Gangs of New York (2002)

Jim Broadbent and Charlie Hunnam in Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Jim Broadbent in Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Renée Zellweger and Jim Broadbent in Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

Jim Broadbent in The Young Visiters (2003)

Jim Broadbent and Sally Hawkins in The Young Visiters (2003)

One of England's most versatile character actors, Jim Broadbent was born on May 24, 1949, in Lincolnshire, the youngest son of furniture maker Roy Laverick Broadbent and sculptress Doreen "Dee" (Findlay) Broadbent. Jim attended a Quaker boarding school in Reading before successfully applying for a place at an art school. His heart was in acting, though, and he would later transfer to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). 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 which he co-founded. In addition to his theatrical work, Broadbent did steady work on television, working 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 (1978). He went on to work with Frears again in The Hit (1984) and with Terry Gilliam in Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985), but it was through his collaboration with Mike Leigh that Broadbent first became known to an international film audience. In 1990 he starred in Leigh's Life Is Sweet (1990), 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 (1992) and Mike Newell's Enchanted April (1991), 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 (1995) 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. Jim's breakthrough year was 2001, as he starred in three critically and commercially successful films. Many would consider him the definitive supporting actor of that year. First he starred as Bridget's dad (Colin Jones) in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), which propelled Renée Zellweger to an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Next came the multiple Oscar-nominated film (including Best Picture) Moulin Rouge! (2001), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA award for his scene-stealing performance as Harold Zidler. Lastly, came the small biopic Iris (2001), for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as devoted husband John Bayley to Judi Dench's Iris Murdoch, the British novelist who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. The film hit home with Jim, since his own mother had passed away from Alzheimer's in 1995.

Jim Broadbent at an event for Empire (2002)

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