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.

KNOWN FOR

Game of Thrones
2017
The Graham Norton Show
2022
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2024
Golden Globe Awards
2002
Play for Today
1982
Only Murders in the Building
2026
Love, Death & Robots
2025
Tales of the Unexpected
1988
Omnibus
1990
Playhouse
1980
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
201
Writing
3
2026
Only Murders in the Building
· unreleased
2025
Jay Kelly
as Peter Schneider
2025
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Colin Jones
2025
What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas
as Self - Interviewee
2025
Love, Death & Robots
as Christopher the Poet (voice)
2024
Paddington in Peru
as Samuel Gruber
2024
An A to Z of Paddington
as Narrator (voice)
2024
My Lady Jane
as Duke of Leicester
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
as Snaggleroot (voice)
2024
Trying
as George
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self - Contributor
2023
Call Me Back
as George
2023
2022 Wimbledon Official Film
as Narrator
2023
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
as Harold Fry
2022
Charlotte
as Grosspapa (voice)
2022
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2022
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
as Lord Marcham
2022
Ten Percent
as Richard Nightingale
2022
Staged
as Jim
2021
(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story
as Self
2021
A Boy Called Christmas
as King
2021
The Duke
as Kempton Bunton
2020
Six Minutes to Midnight
as Charlie
2020
Dolittle
as Lord Thomas Badgley
2020
Black Narcissus
as Father Roberts
2019
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
as Self
2018
Black '47
as Lord Kilmichael
2018
King Lear
as Earl of Gloucester
2018
New Town Utopia
as Lewis Silkin MP
2018
King of Thieves
as Terry Perkins
2017
The Sense of an Ending
as Tony Webster
2017
Paddington 2
as Samuel Gruber
2017
Birds Like Us
as Horozovich (voice)
2017
Game of Thrones
as Archmaester Ebrose
2016
Bridget Jones's Baby
as Dad
2016
Eddie the Eagle
as BBC Commentator
2016
The Legend of Tarzan
as Prime Minister
2016
Ethel & Ernest
as Ernest Briggs (voice)
2016
War and Peace
as Prince Bolkonsky
2015
Brooklyn
as Father Flood
2015
The Go-Between
as Old Leo
2015
The Lady in the Van
as Underwood
2015
The Weather Inside
as Britischer Botschafter
2015
London Spy
as Scottie
2014
Paddington
as Samuel Gruber
2014
Get Santa
as Santa Claus
2014
Postman Pat: The Movie
as CEO (voice)
2014
Big Game
as Herbert
2014
The One and Only Mike Leigh
as Self
2014
Comedy Blaps
as DCI Ponk
2013
Filth
as Dr Rossi
2013
Closed Circuit
as Attorney General
2013
Le Week-End
as Nick Burrows
2013
The Phone Call
as Stan (voice)
2013
The Harry Hill Movie
as Cleaner
2013
Chance Meeting
2013
The Great Train Robbery
as DCS Tommy Butler
2013
The Frame
as Professor Horace Slughorn
2012
Cloud Atlas
as Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
2012
Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice
as Self
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Horace Slughorn
2011
Arthur Christmas
as Santa (voice)
2011
The Iron Lady
as Denis Thatcher
2011
Exile
as Sam Ronstadt
2010
Perrier's Bounty
as Jim McCrea
2010
Another Year
as Tom
2010
Any Human Heart
as Logan Mountstuart (Older)
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Horace Slughorn
2009
The Damned United
as Sam Longson
2009
The Young Victoria
as King William IV
2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
as Dean Charles Stanforth
2008
Inkheart
as Fenoglio
2008
Lost and Found
as Narrator (voice)
2008
Einstein and Eddington
as Sir Oliver Lodge
2008
Tales of the Riverbank
as G.P. (voice)
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
as Self
2008
Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
as Self
2007
Hot Fuzz
as Inspector Frank Butterman
2007
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
as Arthur Morrison
2007
Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz
as Self
2006
Art School Confidential
as Jimmy
2006
Longford
as Lord Longford
2006
The Street
as Stan McDermott
2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as Prof. Digory Kirke
2005
Robots
as Madame Gasket (voice)
2005
Valiant
as Sergeant (voice)
2005
The Magic Roundabout
as Brian (voice)
2004
Around the World in 80 Days
as Lord Kelvin
2004
Vera Drake
as Judge
2004
Vanity Fair
as Mr. Osborne
2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
as Dad
2004
Pride
as Eddie (voice)
2004
Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection
as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
2004
Tooth
as The Rabbit (voice)
2003
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
as Harry Aitken
2003
Bright Young Things
as The Drunken Major
2003
The Young Visiters
as Alfred Salteena
2003
Anna Spud
as Dad
2002
Gangs of New York
as Boss Tweed
2002
Nicholas Nickleby
as Mr. Wackford Squeers
2002
The Gathering Storm
as Desmond Morton
2002
The King's Beard
as The Wizard (voice)
2002
The Oscars
as Self
2002
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
2001
Bridget Jones's Diary
as Bridget's Dad
2001
Moulin Rouge!
as Harold Zidler
2001
Iris
as John Bayley
2001
The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge'
as Self
1999
Topsy-Turvy
as W. S. Gilbert
1999
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
as The Shy Doctor
1998
Little Voice
as Mr. Boo
1998
The Avengers
as Mother
1998
Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm
as Percy
1997
The Borrowers
as Pod Clock
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Dr. Lagermann
1997
Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path
as Jim
1997
Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party
as Percy
1997
The Peter Principle
as Peter Duffley
1996
The Secret Agent
as Chief Inspector Heat
1996
Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night
as Basil
1996
Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night
as Percy
1996
Percy the Park Keeper
as Percy (voice)
1996
The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge
as Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
1995
Richard III
as The Duke of Buckingham
1995
Rough Magic
as Doc Ansell
1995
The Last Englishman
as Col. Alfred D. Wintle
1994
Widows' Peak
as Con Clancy
1994
Princess Caraboo
as Mr. Worrall
1994
Bullets Over Broadway
as Warner Purcell
1994
Perpetual Motion
as Self - Narrator
1993
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
as The Earl of Leete
1993
Wide-Eyed and Legless
as Deric Longden
1993
Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
as George
1993
Prince Cinders
as Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
1993
Screen One
as Deric Longden
1992
The Crying Game
as Col
1992
A Sense of History
as 23rd Earl of Leete
1992
Inspector Morse
as Charlie Bennett
1992
Gone to Seed
as Monty Plant
1991
Enchanted April
as Frederick Arbuthnot
1991
Life Is Sweet
as Andy
1991
Nona
as Carmelo
1991
Happy Feet
as Grocer
1991
Gone to the Dogs
as Jim Morley
1991
Performance
as Carmello
1991
Murder Most Horrid
as Selwyn Proops
1991
4 Play
as Steven Parrish
1990
Van Gogh
as Roulin
1990
Omnibus
as Roulin
1989
Erik the Viking
as Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
1989
The Hangover
as (voice)
1989
7 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting
as Standford Hartley
1989
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
1989
Victoria Wood
as Alan Hammond
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Prince Albert
1988
Vroom
as Donald
1988
Dramarama
as Uncle Keith
1988
Tales of the Unexpected
as Mr Lovejoy
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Ossipon
1988
Theatre Night
as Maitre Jacques
1987
Running Out of Luck
as Jimmy
1987
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Jean Pierre Dubois
1986
The Insurance Man
as Gutling
1985
Brazil
as Dr. Jaffe
1985
The Good Father
as Roger Miles
1985
Silas Marner
as Jem Rodney
1985
Picture Friend
as Tes Goodwin
1985
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985
Happy Families
as Dalcroix
1984
The Hit
as Barrister
1984
The Man Who Shot Christmas
as Nick/Father Christmas
1983
Walter and June
as Orderly
1983
Birth of a Nation
as Geoff Figg
1983
Dead on Time
as Vicar
1983
Blackadder
as Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
1983
Tales Out of School
as Geoff Figg
1983
Only Fools and Horses
as Roy Slater
1982
Walter
as Joseph - Orderly
1982
Intensive Care
as Mr Horsfall
1982
Uliisses
1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
1982
Our Winnie
as Second Attendant
1982
Play for Today
as Mr. Horsfall
1982
Objects of Affection
as Second Attendant
1982
Bird of Prey
as DI Stanley Richardson
1981
Time Bandits
as Compere
1980
Games Without Frontiers
as Stewart
1980
Breaking Glass
as Station Porter
1980
The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice
as Mr. Champing
1980
The Dogs of War
as Film Crew
1980
Play for Today
as Mr. Champing
1980
Playhouse
as Stewart
1979
Phoelix
1979
Long Distance Information
as Mackaness
1979
The Passage
as German Soldier (uncredited)
1978
The Shout
as Fielder in Cowpat
1978
The Life Story of Baal
as Woodcutter
1971
The Go-Between
as Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
Fools
as Cardinal Pole
Dennis