Gerard Butler Biography Filmography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Butler is a diverse actor who is removed in different genres, from a criminal action movie to a tearful melodrama or musical, however, his best roles include images of brutal warriors, impudent bandits or brave athletes. The boy’s father worked in a bookmaker. Gerard Butler in childhood when Gerard turned 6 months old, his family moved to the Canadian metropolis Montreal.

A year later, the marriage of the batler broke up, and Gerard's mother returned with her children to Scotland. Soon Margaret got married again. The stepfather, Alex Coll, showed himself from the best side and tried to replace his father Gerard, but still the bitterness of the loss of loss undermined the mental of the boy. The family of Gerard Batler: stepfather, brother, mother, Gerard himself and his sister with his father, the boy did not see until the age of 16 until he called his son and appointed him a meeting in a restaurant in Glasgow.

After the meeting, Batler Jr. sobbed for several hours. Pain and sorrows that you do not know about until the case is presented, ”the actor later shared. The school photo of Gerard Butler about the career of actor Batler began to think when, as a teenager, he began to show success at the Scottish Youth Theater, but the won grant to study at the Legal School of the University of Glasgo forced Gerard to change life plans.

In his student years, Gerard was the president of the University of Legal Society - according to Batler, this position "in a sense pierced his way up." Also, the guy at that time sang in the rock band "Speed". The death of his father from cancer was a great emotional blow for the summer batler. I went from the summer, who could not be saturated with life, to the summer, who did not care if he died in a dream.

Before the last year of study at the Faculty of Law, Batler took an academic vacation for a year and spent it in California. In the States, Gerard worked at different works, often traveled and, according to him, drank heavily - so that he was once arrested for violating public order. Gerard Batler’s growth-cm after graduating from the university, Batler got a job as a lawyer in the Law Firm Morton Frazer in Edinburgh.

It seemed that great opportunities were opened before him: a stable work in the office, a growing salary ... But Gerard saw the situation from the other side and was sad from the prospects to spend their lives on the sencing of pants in the office from 9 a.m. to 5 pm five days a week. And having seen the performance “On the Needle”, the theatrical adaptation of the cult film Danny Boyle, he finally became convinced that he made a mistake.

Gerard Butler in his youth pain from the loss of his father overlap on the awareness of the incorrectness of the chosen path, and the young man absolutely lost his taste for life. For some time he tried to return it, pumping liters of alcohol. To get the long -awaited oblivion, there was more and more drinking. He began to get involved in fights, wake up in the morning and look at bruises and abrasions in the mirror, not remembering where they came from.

There were problems at work, he often walked, so a week before the end of the internship and assignment of the status of a lawyer, the leadership of Morton Frazer decided to dismiss Gerard. The acting career Gerard was 25 when he was left without work. He lost the opportunity to become a licensed lawyer, but seemed to be glad of this. Butler decided to move to London to fulfill the childhood dream and become famous.

At the beginning of my career, I did not think about those things. I was obsessed with a thirst for glory. In the capital, Gerard at first could not get a single role, so he worked as a waiter or the seller at the fairs. Everything changed the case. He accidentally met his old girlfriend at the Scottish Youth Theater, who worked as a casting director at the Mermeid Theater.

Gerard Butler, in his youth, started a novel between them, and the girl made Gerard her assistant. Moreover, she achieved an audience for Gerard with her boss, the artistic director of the theater, Sitwain Bercoff. He was just starting work on the production of Shakespeare's "tragedy of Coriolan." The director impressed the energy and enthusiasm of Batler. Against his background, the rest of the actors seemed faded and lethargic.

Stephen, without hesitation, took the actor-novice into the troupe. Jerard Butler was a great success on the stage for him was the main role of Heroin addict Mark Renton, who was played in the film by Yuen McGregor in the theatrical adaptation of the famous novel by Irwin Welsh, “On the Needle”, which was represented at the Edinburgh festival.

The first role of Gerard Butler in the cinema during the filming, the young actor received a letter for courage from the Scottish authorities. On the set, Gerard heard screams for help, ran at them and went to the banks of the Tay River, where a drowning boy floundered from his last strength. Without hesitation, Batler rushed into the water and pulled out the child, worrying only that he would not have time to save him.

He himself does not consider himself a hero, but in an interview he said that he acted on pure adrenaline, and having pulled out the boy, he lost all his strength at once and with difficulty informed the victim to the house.Gerard Butler in the film “Lara Croft-2” about the role in Lara Croft, Gerard spoke with pleasure: “This guy is a finished bastard, but he has a good soul.

I think I have a lot in common with him. ” His character Terry Sheridan really turned out to be an ambiguous person, but it was this work that glorified Batler in Hollywood. In addition, the media began to vynly trumpet about the novel between Gerard and Angelina Jolie, although the actor himself denied this, saying that they were just friends with a shooting partner. The actor was attributed to an affair with Angelina Jolie in the year the famous director of the blockbuster, Joel Schumacher, offered Batler the role of a mysterious ghost in the film adaptation of the famous musical Andrew Lloyd Webber "The Phantom of the Opera".

Gerard, who had no musical experience, except for participating in the rock band, began to take vocal lessons. Gerard Butler in the musical “The Ghost of the Opera” did not force himself to wait - Schumacher was impressed by listening and approved Batler for the role. Although the “The Ghost of the Opera” turned out to be far from the best film on the musical, however, for Batler it was a successful “PERA test” in a new role for himself.

Up to a year, Batler had already established himself in Hollywood in the year, which had already established himself in Hollywood, the Scot appeared in the passing paintings “The Game of their Life” and “Beowulf and Grandel”. The frame from the film “Beowulf and Grandel” “Golden” for Batler became a year after the role of the Spartan king Leonid in the historical blockbuster of Zach Snyder “Spartans” about the legendary feat of Sparta warriors in the Greek-Persian war.

Gerard Batler in the film “Spartans” with a successful continuation of his career in the same year was the participation of the batler in the “ransom” thriller with Pierce Brosnan and Maria Bello and the melodrama “P. I love you ”with Hilary Suonk, who was well accepted by romantically tuned spectators. Butler at the “ransom” thriller with another happy ticket for Butler was the main role in the black criminal comedy of Guy Richi “Rock-Ranger”, which can now be called one of the brightest in his career.

The passage of Gerard never limited himself to one approach to roles, tried on different images. So, in the year he looked equally organically in the fantastic thriller “Gamer” and the stupid romantic comedy “Naked Pravda”. The frame from the film "Naked Pravda" Spectators especially appreciated his role as the Avenger for the death of relatives in the action drama "Law-abiding citizen", published in the year.

Despite the plot blunders, the confrontation of his unprincipled hero with the prosecutor Jamie Fox did not let the audience attention to the final. In the year, Batler starred in the comedy militant “Hunter Hunters” with his ex -girlfriend Jennifer Aniston, who, by irony, in the film played his ex -wife. Gerard Butler in the film “Law -abiding Citizen” during the filming of the film Gabriel Muchchino “The Man of the Exception”, Batler announced the recording of his musical album, which, however, was not released.

Perhaps the start of a musical career was prevented by the followed injuries of Batler. Gerard Butler in the film “The Man of the Narrow” in December of the same year during the filming of the film “Wave Waves” was hospitalized - he could not cope with a powerful wave. Some time later, on the set of the militant “Olympus Fall” with Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman, Batler broke two vertebrae in the neck, but did not know about it until he made an MRI.

Gerard Butler in the film “Wave Was Was” in February, Batler treated dependence on painkillers in the rehabilitation center. After the incident on the set of “Wave Was”, the actor began to accept the prescribed anesthetics too often and could not cope with the side effects they caused. Jerard Batler in the film “Wave Was” two years later, Batler starred in the Sixwell “The Fall of Olympus” - the action -packed militant “The Fall of London”, and also portrayed the god of the red desert of the set in the fantastic blockbuster “The Gods of Egypt” with Jeffrey Rash.

Also in the year the actor appeared in the drama "Hunter with Wall Street", and soon played the main role in the Katastrof film Dean Devlin "Geoshtorm", which became the leader of the rental in Russia and the CIS countries, but received a lot of negative reviews. The frame from the film "Geoshtorm" in January of the year was released by the militant "Hunting for thieves", in which Butler played the head of the elite police unit of Los Angeles.

Gerard Butler in the film “Hunting for Thieves” The personal life of Gerard Butler Gerard Butler is famous not only with bright roles, but also with his love adventures - his novels are difficult to count even by avid lovers of tabloids. Most often, his companions were the same media persons as he - models, including the Russian supermodel Ales Ryabenkova and TV presenters.

And sometimes actresses - for example, in the year Butler met Jennifer Aniston, and B was noticed with the scandalist Lindsay Lohan. The couple parted several times, but each time the quarrels ended with happy reconciliations. In the year, news appeared about their final break.Gerard Butler and Morgan Brown in the year Gerard and Morgan saw together at dinner, which served as a reason for the thoughts of reuniting the couple, especially since there were no other ladies of the heart around the actor after parting with Morgan.

The relationship of this couple was extremely confused later by the actor, the source told the press that Gerard still loves Morgan and really made an attempt to establish relations, for which they together went on vacation to Mexico. But, according to his words, this did not help. In the year, as part of a charity program, the actor went to Liberia.

Gerard was involved in the continuation of “Hunting for Thieves”, a film with his participation “Hunter Killer” was released, where Gary Oldman also starred. Butler and now remain at the peak of his creative career, the shooting of the “fall of the angel” ended in which the story of the former chief of the presidential guard and the cool ranger Mike Benning will continue.

Batler also announced the hero of the animated film “How to Tame Dragons 3” Stoik, the Leader of the Viking tribe, again. Gerard Butler voiced the cartoon “How to Tame the Dragon-3” and this is not all future projects with the participation of the actor: for example, it is already known that Batler will play Nikolai Trusevich, a former Dynamo goalkeeper in a sports drama.

Also interesting is the drama of Brian Cut Palma “Untouchable: the Formation of Capone”, in which Gerard Butler will play the role of the legendary gangster. The project has been announced, but the shooting has not yet begun. In Gerard, Batler turned 50 Gerard Butler: the latest news and articles.