Jim Broadbent Net Worth

Jim Broadbent's Quotes

• I love French films, and European films. They're not any bigger, but there's just a sort of definition, and a confidence, and strength to them. I'd always, given the option, go and see a French drama. Obviously, we probably get the better ones. But they're just sophisticated on many levels, and grown up, and quite profound - and we don't make films like that.
• I always think you should be totally frivolous as much as you can, and then take the work seriously when it has to be taken seriously. As long as you can keep that balance going, it's good fun. If it's only frivolous it's not fun - it would drive me potty. On Iris, I'd never worked with Judi Dench before, but it was wonderful to realize that we worked in exactly the same way. Foolish for most of the time, then focusing on the work, clicking into it very quickly and naturally. There were a lot of laughs. Otherwise it could have been torture. Two months of being grueled.
• [on declining an OBE in 2002] I didn't think I deserved it, really. And also my father died when I was 22 and he was quite an anarchic spirit, and he would have been proud of me to have turned it down. You know how it is, the usual line: 'Oh, I accepted it for my parents.' Whereas I turned it down for my parents.
• I was offered an OBE a couple of years ago, but I said, 'no', and turned it down. I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others. Besides, I like the idea of actors not being part of the Establishment. We're vagabonds and rogues, and we're not a part of the authorities and Establishment, really. If you mix the two together, things get blurry.

Interesting Facts about Jim Broadbent

1. Graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in 1972.
2. He is the son of Roy Broadbent, who was involved in converting a Methodist Church into a theater. It was later renamed the Broadbent Theater after his death in 1971.
3. Honorary President of the Lindsey Rural Players.
4. Voice of Vroomfondel in the BBC radio series version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
5. Shortly after winning his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Iris (2001), he was interviewed by Joan Rivers, who apparently didn't even know what nationality he was. On live TV, Rivers said, "Here we have Jim Broadbent, all the way from Australia. You're Australian aren't you?" But there were to be no tantrums from the star - the mild-mannered actor replied, "No, I'm British."
6. At The Orange British Academy Film Awards on Monday January 28th 2002, he was nominated for the best Performance by an Actor in a leading role Award for his role in the film Iris (2001).
7. His mother, who died in 1995, suffered from Alzheimer's Disease.
8. Nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Winnie-the-Pooh.
9. In 2001, appeared in Moulin Rouge! (2001) with Nicole Kidman, Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) with Renée Zellweger and Iris (2001) with Judi Dench. All three of these women were nominated for Best Actress for their roles.
10. Is the only Oscar-winning actor in the Superman films who has only won a single Oscar. Marlon Brando won for On the Waterfront (1954) and The Godfather (1972); Gene Hackman for The French Connection (1971) and Unforgiven (1992); and Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999). Broadbent only won for Iris (2001).
11. Was offered the part of Del Boy in BBC's Sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981), but declined the role. But he did guest-star in three episodes of the show as DCI Rory Slater.
12. He declined the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to drama in 2002.
13. Plays former President Richard Nixon in Dirty Tricks (2000). Nixon was previously played by Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995). Hopkins also appeared in Shadowlands (1993) as C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), in which Broadbent appeared.
14. He won an Oscar for playing John Bayley in Iris (2001), making him one of 17 actors to win the Award for playing a real person who was still alive at the evening of the Award ceremony (as of 2015). The other sixteen actors and their respective performances are: Spencer Tracy for playing Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938), Gary Cooper for playing Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941), Patty Duke for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), Jason Robards for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976), Robert De Niro for playing Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), Sissy Spacek for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)_, Jeremy Irons for playing Claus Von Bullow in Reversal of Fortune (1990), Susan Sarandon for playing Sister Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995), Geoffrey Rush for playing David Helfgott in Shine (1996), Julia Roberts for playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000), Helen Mirren for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Sandra Bullock for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009), Melissa Leo for playing Alice Eklund-Ward in The Fighter (2010), Christian Bale for playing Dickie Eklund in The Fighter (2010), Meryl Streep for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) and Eddie Redmayne for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014).
15. Considered for the role of Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray (2007).
16. Has played the husband of Iris Murdoch and Margaret Thatcher. Two notable figures who - as portrayed in each film - eventually succumbed to Alzheimer's disease.
17. One of two actors to star in both a Harry Potter and Superman film, along with Richard Griffiths.
18. Considered for the roles of Dr. Armstrong, Roger Derebridge, Lamson, Kelly and the Brash Guard in Lifeforce (1985).
19. Appears in The Go-Between (1971) and also the TV remake of The Go-Between (2015). In the latter he plays the lead role while in the first he has a small uncredited part.
20. As of 2016, he has appeared in four films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Crying Game (1992), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Gangs of New York (2002) and Brooklyn (2015).