Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor and film producer. He gained worldwide recognition for his portrayal of King Leonidas in 300. He also voiced the role of Stoick the Vast in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. He is married to former model and TV presenter Toni Collette.
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Gerard James Butler is a Scottish actor and film producer. He gained worldwide recognition for his portrayal of King Leonidas in Zack Snyder’s fantasy war film 300. He voiced the role of Stoick the Vast in the critically and commercially successful How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Butler was born on 13 November 1969 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He is the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. Butler’s family moved to Montreal, Quebec, when he was six months old. He was head boy at St Mirin’s & St Margaret’s High School and won a place at University of Glasgow School of Law. He also attended Scottish Youth Theatre while a teenager. Butler became close to his father after meeting him at a Glasgow restaurant. When he was 22, his father was diagnosed with cancer and died. He still suffers from tinnitus and has hearing loss in his right ear. At the age of 25, Butler moved to London to pursue his dream of becoming famous. At that time, he met an old friend from his teenage days in the London Youth Theatre, who was now a casting director. He worked in a variety of jobs including a waiter, a telemarketer and a demonstrator of how fairs work at fairs.
He has also appeared in the films Reign of Fire with Christian Bale and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life with Angelina Jolie, before playing André Marek in the adaptation of Michael Crichton’s science fiction adventure Timeline. He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, a modernized adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name, and Sam Childers in the2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler has also starred in the action thriller series Olympus Has Fallen, London has Fallen, Angel Has Fallen and the upcoming Night Has Fallen. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two young children, who he has met through his work in the film industry. He and his wife have a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law, both of whom he has also worked with in film and television. Butler is married to his long-term girlfriend, former model and TV presenter Toni Collette. The couple have two children, a son and a daughter. They currently live in California and have a young son, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer known as aplastic anemia. They also have a daughter who was born in 2011.
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