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.

Filmography

• 2025Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy — Colin Jones
• 2025Jay Kelly — Peter Schneider
• 2024An A to Z of Paddington — Narrator (voice)
• My Lady Jane — Duke of Leicester
• 2024Paddington in Peru — Samuel Gruber
• 20232022 Wimbledon Official Film — Narrator
• 2023Call Me Back — George
• 2023The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — Harold Fry
• 2022Charlotte — Grosspapa (voice)
• Ten Percent — Richard Nightingale
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power — Snaggleroot (voice)
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans? — Lord Marcham
• 2021A Boy Called Christmas — King
• 2021The Duke — Kempton Bunton
• Black Narcissus — Father Roberts
• 2020Dolittle — Lord Thomas Badgley
• 2020Six Minutes to Midnight — Charlie
• Staged — Jim
• Trying — George
• Love, Death & Robots — Christopher the Poet (voice)
• 2018Black '47 — Lord Kilmichael
• 2018King Lear — Earl of Gloucester
• 2018King of Thieves — Terry Perkins
• 2018New Town Utopia — Lewis Silkin MP
• 2017Birds Like Us — Horozovich (voice)
• 2017Paddington 2 — Samuel Gruber
• 2017The Sense of an Ending — Tony Webster
• 2016Bridget Jones's Baby — Dad
• 2016Eddie the Eagle — BBC Commentator
• 2016Ethel & Ernest — Ernest Briggs (voice)
• 2016The Legend of Tarzan — Prime Minister
• War and Peace — Prince Bolkonsky
• 2015Brooklyn — Father Flood
• London Spy — Scottie
• 2015The Go-Between — Old Leo
• 2015The Lady in the Van — Underwood
• 2015The Weather Inside — Britischer Botschafter
• 2014Big Game — Herbert
• 2014Get Santa — Santa Claus
• 2014Paddington — Samuel Gruber
• 2014Postman Pat: The Movie — CEO (voice)
• 2013Chance Meeting
• 2013Closed Circuit — Attorney General
• 2013Filth — Dr Rossi
• 2013Le Week-End — Nick Burrows
• The Frame — Professor Horace Slughorn
• The Great Train Robbery — DCS Tommy Butler
• 2013The Harry Hill Movie — Cleaner
• 2013The Phone Call — Stan (voice)
• 2012Cloud Atlas — Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
• 2011Arthur Christmas — Santa (voice)
• Comedy Blaps — DCI Ponk
• Exile — Sam Ronstadt
• Game of Thrones — Archmaester Ebrose
• 2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — Horace Slughorn
• 2011The Iron Lady — Denis Thatcher
• 2010Another Year — Tom
• Any Human Heart — Logan Mountstuart (Older)
• 2010Perrier's Bounty — Jim McCrea
• 2009Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Horace Slughorn
• 2009The Damned United — Sam Longson
• 2009The Young Victoria — King William IV
• 2008Einstein and Eddington — Sir Oliver Lodge
• 2008Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — Dean Charles Stanforth
• 2008Inkheart — Fenoglio
• 2008Lost and Found — Narrator (voice)
• 2008Tales of the Riverbank — G.P. (voice)
• 2007And When Did You Last See Your Father? — Arthur Morrison
• 2007Hot Fuzz — Inspector Frank Butterman
• 2006Art School Confidential — Jimmy
• 2006Longford — Lord Longford
• The Street — Stan McDermott
• 2005Robots — Madame Gasket (voice)
• 2005The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — Prof. Digory Kirke
• 2005The Magic Roundabout — Brian (voice)
• 2005Valiant — Sergeant (voice)
• 2004Around the World in 80 Days — Lord Kelvin
• 2004Brambly Hedge: Classic Collection — Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (Voice)
• 2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason — Dad
• 2004Pride — Eddie (voice)
• 2004Tooth — The Rabbit (voice)
• 2004Vanity Fair — Mr. Osborne
• 2004Vera Drake — Judge
• 2003And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself — Harry Aitken
• 2003Anna Spud — Dad
• 2003Bright Young Things — The Drunken Major
• 2003The Young Visiters — Alfred Salteena
• 2002Gangs of New York — Boss Tweed
• 2002Nicholas Nickleby — Mr. Wackford Squeers
• 2002The Gathering Storm — Desmond Morton
• 2002The King's Beard — The Wizard (voice)
• 2001Bridget Jones's Diary — Bridget's Dad
• 2001Iris — John Bayley
• 2001Moulin Rouge! — Harold Zidler
• 1999Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death — The Shy Doctor
• 1999Topsy-Turvy — W. S. Gilbert
• 1998Little Voice — Mr. Boo
• 1998Percy The Park Keeper: After The Storm — Percy
• 1998The Avengers — Mother
• 1997Percy The Park Keeper: The Rescue Party — Percy
• 1997Percy The Park Keeper: The Secret Path — Jim
• 1997Smilla's Sense of Snow — Dr. Lagermann
• 1997The Borrowers — Pod Clock
• The Peter Principle — Peter Duffley
• 1996Brambly Hedge: Autumn Story: Primrose's Stormy Night — Basil
• 1996Percy The Park Keeper: One Snowy Night — Percy
• Percy the Park Keeper — Percy (voice)
• The Enchanted World of Brambly Hedge — Basil / Ernest Vole / Purslane Saltapple (voice)
• 1996The Secret Agent — Chief Inspector Heat
• 1995Richard III — The Duke of Buckingham
• 1995Rough Magic — Doc Ansell
• 1995The Last Englishman — Col. Alfred D. Wintle
• 1994Bullets Over Broadway — Warner Purcell
• 1994Princess Caraboo — Mr. Worrall
• 1994Widows' Peak — Con Clancy
• 1993Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown — George
• 1993Prince Cinders — Ugly Brother / Policeman (voice)
• 1993Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright — The Earl of Leete, Writer
• 1993Wide-Eyed and Legless — Deric Longden
• 1992A Sense of History — 23rd Earl of Leete, Writer
• Gone to Seed — Monty Plant
• 1992The Crying Game — Col
• 1991Enchanted April — Frederick Arbuthnot
• Gone to the Dogs — Jim Morley
• 1991Happy Feet — Grocer
• 1991Life Is Sweet — Andy
• Murder Most Horrid — Selwyn Proops
• 1991Nona — Carmelo
• Performance — Carmello
• 1990Van Gogh — Roulin
• 4 Play — Steven Parrish
• 19897 Deadly Sins: Stage Acting — Standford Hartley, Writer
• 1989Erik the Viking — Ernest the Viking (a Rapist)
• Screen One — Deric Longden
• 1989The Hangover — (voice)
• The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
• Victoria Wood — Alan Hammond
• 1988Blackadder's Christmas Carol — Prince Albert
• The Modern World: Ten Great Writers — Ossipon
• 1988Vroom — Donald
• Inspector Morse — Charlie Bennett
• 1987Running Out of Luck — Jimmy
• 1987Superman IV: The Quest for Peace — Jean Pierre Dubois
• 1986The Insurance Man — Gutling
• 1985Brazil — Dr. Jaffe
• Happy Families — Dalcroix
• 1985Picture Friend — Tes Goodwin
• 1985Silas Marner — Jem Rodney
• 1985The Good Father — Roger Miles
• Theatre Night — Maitre Jacques
• Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
• 1984The Hit — Barrister
• 1984The Man Who Shot Christmas — Nick/Father Christmas
• 1983Birth of a Nation — Geoff Figg
• Blackadder — Don Speekingleesh, an Interpreter
• 1983Dead on Time — Vicar
• Dramarama — Uncle Keith
• Tales Out of School — Geoff Figg
• 1983Walter and June — Orderly
• Bird of Prey — DI Stanley Richardson
• 1982Intensive Care — Mr Horsfall
• Objects of Affection — Second Attendant
• 1982Our Winnie — Second Attendant
• 1982Uliisses
• 1982Walter — Joseph - Orderly
• Only Fools and Horses — Roy Slater
• 1981Time Bandits — Compere
• 1980Breaking Glass — Station Porter
• 1980Games Without Frontiers — Stewart
• 1980The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice — Mr. Champing
• 1980The Dogs of War — Film Crew
• 1979Long Distance Information — Mackaness
• 1979Phoelix
• Tales of the Unexpected — Mr Lovejoy
• 1979The Passage — German Soldier (uncredited)
• 1978The Life Story of Baal — Woodcutter
• 1978The Shout — Fielder in Cowpat
• Playhouse — Stewart
• 1971The Go-Between — Spectator at Cricket Match (uncredited)
• Play for Today — Mr. Horsfall, Mr. Champing
• Omnibus — Roulin
• Dennis
• Fools — Cardinal Pole

Appearances as themselves (16)

• 2025What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas — Self - Interviewee
• 2023Blackadder: A Cunning Story — Self - Contributor
• 2021(K)nox: The Rob Knox Story — Self
• 2019Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered — Self
• 2014The One and Only Mike Leigh — Self
• 2012Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice — Self
• 2008Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga — Self
• 2008Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments — Self
• 2008Production Diary: Making of 'The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' — Self
• 2007Conclusive: We Made Hot Fuzz — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2001The Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of 'Moulin Rouge' — Self
• Perpetual Motion — Self - Narrator
• 1982Mike Leigh: Making Plays — Self (archive footage)
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee