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In 2003, director Joel Schumacher was deciding on the principal casting for the film The Phantom of the Opera, a film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, and thought of Butler, whom he had seen earlier in the film Dracula 2000, to play the title character. In the role of Andre Marek in the big-screen adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel Timeline (2003), Butler played an archaeologist who was sent back in time with a team of students to rescue a colleague. He then appeared in Reign of Fire (2002) as Creedy and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) as Terry Sheridan, alongside Angelina Jolie. He was cast as Dracula in Dracula 2000 (2000). The film's producers wanted a known actor to play the part but kept coming back to Butler's screen tests and decided he was their man. In 2000, Butler was cast in two breakthrough roles, the first being Attila the Hun in USA film Attila (2001/I) (TV).

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His film career continued with small roles, first in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and then Russell Mulcahy's Tale of the Mummy (1998). His film debut was as Billy Connolly's younger brother in Mrs. He was cast as Ewan McGregor's character Renton in the stage adaptation of Trainspotting, the same play that had inspired him to become an actor.

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In London, Butler held a series of odd jobs until being cast by actor and director Steven Berkoff (who later appeared alongside him in Attila (2001/I) (TV)) in a stage production of Coriolanus. He moved to London the next day, to try to begin an acting career.

A week before being fired, in 1995, Butler had been inspired to try acting, after seeing a stage production of Trainspotting at the Edinburgh Festival his firing gave him the impetus to plunge fully into the acting world. After graduating, Butler got a job as a trainee lawyer, but was fired soon thereafter, which Butler later said made him 'quite infamous in Scottish legal circles', due to the rarity of trainee lawyers being fired. After his time off in America, he returned to Scotland to finish his final year at university.

Butler later described this year as, 'I was out of control, and justifying it with this idea that I'm young, this is life. He mostly lived in Venice Beach, working at different jobs, travelling often, and, according to him, drinking heavily, at one point being arrested for alcohol-related disorderly conduct. Before his final year of law school, Butler took a year off to live in California. He studied law at the University of Glasgow, and became the president of the Law Society, a position Butler later said he 'kind of blagged my way into'. Butler spent the first few years of his life in Montreal, Canada, before the family returned to live in Scotland.

He was brought up in a strict Roman Catholic family. He was recently in Belgrade filming Coriolanus.īutler was born in Paisley, Scotland the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookie. Since then, he has appeared in projects including P.S. In 2007, Butler gained worldwide recognition through his portrayal of King Leonidas in the film 300. He garnered critical acclaim for his breakthrough work as the lead in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera. 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). Gerard James Butler born in 13 November 1969 is a Scottish actor, who has appeared on film, stage, and television.