Jim Broadbent has successfully built a body of outstanding Film, TV and Theatre credits to become one of Britain’s leading and most recognisable actors.

Jim gained huge critical acclaim for his role in Iris (2001) winning the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.

In the same year Jim Broadbent won the Bafta for Best Supporting Actor in his role opposite Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrman’s Moulin Rouge (2001)

Further major film credits include Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake (2004), Bridget Jones : Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones Diary (2001),  Martin Scorcese’s Gangs of New York (2002) and Leigh’s highly praised Topsy Turvy (1999) for which Broadbent won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. His most recent credits include Art School Confidential (2006) and The Chonicles of Narnia (2005).

In Television Jim Broadbent won a Bafta TV Nomination for The Young Visitors (2003) as well as Golden Globe and Emmy Nominations for the HBO classic The Gathering Storm (2002).  Most recently Broadbent appeared in The Street (2006) for BBC and Longford (2006) for HBO/Channel 4.

Having begun his career as an assistant Stage manager at the Regent Park Open Air Threatre, his leading theatre credits include Richard Eyre’s The Government Inspector, The Pillowman and most recently Theatre of Blood, all for the Royal National Theatre. Other leading theatre credits include Sam Mendes Habeas Corpus for the Donmar Warehouse and  Max Stafford Clarke’s The Recruiting Officer for the Royal Court Theatre.