#Gerard butler 300 character movie

In 2000 Butler was cast in his breakthrough roles, the first being Attila the Hun in the USA film Attila.

#Gerard butler 300 character movie

His film career continued with small roles in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy (1998). He felt he only did what anyone in the situation would have done.

He received a 'Certificate of Bravery' from the Royal Humane Society. Butler jumped in and saved the young boy from drowning. While filming the movie in Scotland he was enjoying a picnic with his mother, near the River Tay, when they heard the shouts of a young boy who had been swimming with a friend who was in some trouble. His film debut was as Billy Connolly's younger brother in Mrs. He was later cast as Ewan McGregor's character Renton in the stage adaptation of Trainspotting (1996). His acting career began when he was approached in a London coffee shop by actor Steven Berkoff (who later appeared alongside Gerard Butler in Attila, who gave him a role in the play 'Coriolanus', and Butler decided to give up law school for acting. He was president of the school's law society thanks to his outgoing personality and great social skills. Gerard Butler went on to attend Glasgow University, where he studied to be a lawyer/solicitor. His father passed away when Gerard was in his early 20s. He had no contact with his father until he was 16 years old, after which time they became close. His parents divorced when he was a child and he and his siblings were raised primarily by their mother, who later remarried. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Margaret and Edward Butler, Gerard Butler was raised (along with his older brother and sister) in his mother's hometown of Paisley, Scotland (he also spent some of his early youth in Canada). Scottish actor Gerard Butler sang for his supper as the ill-fated Phantom of the Opera and not to be outdone, takes on the mythical King Leonidas in the much anticipated 300, a stylized retelling of the Spartan attempt to do battle against the mammoth Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy.īUTLER TAKES ON THE 300 AND SURVIVESby Paul Fischer in Los Angeles.

Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army.