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Gerard Butler

Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).

Filmography

2026
Greenland 2: Migration

as John Garrity

Movie
2025
How to Train Your Dragon

as Stoick

Movie
2025
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera

as Nicholas 'Big Nick' O'Brien

Movie
2023
Kandahar

as Tom Harris

Movie
2023
Plane

as Brodie Torrance

Movie
2020
Greenland

as John Garrity

Movie
2019
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming

as Stoick (voice)

Movie
2019
Angel Has Fallen

as Mike Banning

Movie
2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

as Stoick (voice)

Movie
2018
Den of Thieves

as 'Big Nick' O'Brien

Movie
2017
Geostorm

as Jake Lawson

Movie
2016
London Has Fallen

as Mike Banning

Movie
2016
Gods of Egypt

as Set

Movie
2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2

as Stoick (voice)

Movie
2013
Olympus Has Fallen

as Mike Banning

Movie
2010
Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon

as Stoick (voice)

Movie
2010
How to Train Your Dragon

as Stoick (voice)

Movie
2009
Law Abiding Citizen

as Clyde Alexander Shelton

Movie
2009
Gamer

as Kable

Movie
2007
300

as King Leonidas

Movie
2004
The Phantom of the Opera

as The Phantom

Movie
2003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

as Terry Sheridan

Movie
1997
Tomorrow Never Dies

as HMS Devonshire Leading Seaman

Movie