gerard butler phantom of the opera red death

He did not see his father again until he was 16, when Edward Butler called to meet him at a Glasgow restaurant. He also attended Scottish Youth Theatre while a teenager. īutler was head boy at St Mirin's & St Margaret's High School in Paisley and won a place at University of Glasgow School of Law. A year later, when his parents' marriage broke down, his mother left Quebec and returned to Scotland with Gerard, aged 18 months. His family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada when he was six months old.

He is from a Catholic family of Irish descent. 2.1 Legal career and early acting careerīutler was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker.He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed Secret Service agent Mike Banning in the action thriller series Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, Angel Has Fallen and the upcoming Night Has Fallen. He voiced Stoick the Vast in the critically and commercially successful How to Train Your Dragon franchise (2010–2019). That role earned him nominations for an Empire Award for Best Actor and a Saturn Award for Best Actor and a win for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. He then was cast as Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera, with Emmy Rossum it earned him a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor.īutler gained worldwide recognition for his portrayal of King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire with Christian Bale (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life with Angelina Jolie (2003) before playing André Marek in the adaptation of Michael Crichton's science fiction adventure Timeline (2003). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000 with Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998).

Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer.

Gerard butler phantom of the opera red death