Gerard Butler

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Gender: Male
Born: 13th November 1969 (currently 42 years old)
Nationality: Scotland
TV programs: The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, HypaSpace, The Jury
Movies: 300, Attila, Beowulf & Grendel, Butterfly on a Wheel, Dear Frankie, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Reign of Fire, The Game of Their Lives, The Phantom of the Opera, Timeline, Shooters, Wrath of Gods, Dracula 2000, PS, I Love You, Mrs. Brown, RocknRolla, Gamer, Nim's Island, Harrison's Flowers, The Ugly Truth, One More Kiss, How to Train Your Dragon, Jewel of the Sahara, Law Abiding Citizen, The Bounty Hunter, Fast Food, Tales of the Black Freighter, The Cherry Orchard, Movie 43, Coriolanus, Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon, Playing the Field, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Machine Gun Preacher, Mavericks, Gamer, Of Men and Mavericks, Gift of the Night Fury, Attila

Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in the American miniseries Attila (2001). He garnered critical acclaim for his work as the lead in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera. In 2007, Butler gained recognition through his portrayal of King Leonidas in the film 300. Since then, he has appeared in projects including P.S. I Love You (2007), Nim's Island (2008), RocknRolla (2008), The Ugly Truth (2009), Gamer (2009), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), The Bounty Hunter (2010), and as a voice actor in How to Train Your Dragon (2010).

Butler was born in Paisley, which is in Renfrewshire, Scotland, the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. Of Irish descent, he was brought up in a strict Roman Catholic family. Butler spent the first few years of his life in Montreal, Quebec, before the family returned to live in Scotland.

His mother Margret

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