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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. After studying law, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as ''Mrs. Brown'' (1997), the James Bond film ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' (1997), and ''Tale of the Mummy'' (1998). In 2000, he starred as Dracula in the horror film ''Dracula 2000'' with Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller. The following year, he played Attila the Hun in the miniseries ''Attila'' (2001). In the 2000s, Butler co-starred in the films ''Reign of Fire'' with Christian Bale (2002), and ''Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'' with Angelina Jolie (2003), before playing André Marek in the adaptation of Michael Crichton's science fiction adventure ''Timeline'' (2003). He then was cast as the role of Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical ''The Phantom of the Opera'' alongside Emmy Rossum. That role earned him a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2007, Butler gained recognition for his portrayal of King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film ''300''. That role earned him nominations for an Empire Award for Best Actor and a Saturn Award for Best Actor and a win for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. That same year, he starred in the romantic drama film ''P.S. I Love You'' with Hilary Swank. He was then cast in the 2008 films ''Nim's Island'' with Jodie Foster and ''RocknRolla'' with Idris Elba. In 2009, he starred in several films including the romantic comedy ''The Ugly Truth'' with Katherine Heigl and the thriller ''Law Abiding Citizen'' with Jamie Foxx. In the 2010s, he voiced the role of Stoick the Vast in the animated action-fantasy film ''How to Train Your Dragon'', a role he later reprised in ''Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon'' (2010), ''Gift of the Night Fury'' (2011) and ''How to Train Your Dragon 2'' (2014). He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film ''Coriolanus'', the modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. He also played Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic ''Machine Gun Preacher''. In 2012, he co-starred in the biographical drama surf film ''Chasing Mavericks'' with Jonny Weston, and the romantic comedy film ''Playing for Keeps'' with Jessica Biel. A year later, he starred as Mike Banning in the action thriller film ''Olympus Has Fallen'' opposite Morgan Freeman. He had a small part in the 2014 film ''300: Rise of an Empire'' where he reprised his role as King Leonidas in flashback. Butler's television work includes playing Marty Claymore in ''The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star'' (1998), Gus in ''Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married'' (1999) and Johnnie Donne in ''The Jury'' (2002). ==Early life and education== Butler was born in Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland, the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gerard Butler in Wrath Of Gods )〕 Butler is from a Catholic family of Irish descent. Butler's family moved to Montreal, Quebec, when he was six months old.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gerard Butler )〕〔Daily News. "(Gerard Butler breaks the mold )"〕 His mother returned to Scotland with him, from Quebec, when her marriage broke down, when Gerard was 18 months old. Butler was head boy at St Mirin's & St Margaret's High School in Paisley and achieved respectable grades—good enough to win a place to study law at the University of Glasgow. He also attended Scottish Youth Theatre while a teenager. Butler did not see his father again until he was 16 years old, when Edward Butler called to meet him at a Glasgow restaurant. After this meeting, Butler cried for hours, and recalled of it later: "That emotion showed me how much pain can sit in this body of yours; pain and sorrow that you don’t know you have until it is unleashed."〔 Butler became close to his father after this reunion. Around the same time, he also accepted Glasgow University's offer to study law. During his time as a student, he became the President of the university law society, a position Butler later said he "kind of blagged my way into".〔 He also sang in a rock band called Speed. While Butler was a 22-year-old student, his father was diagnosed with cancer and died. He would say of this period in his life: "I had gone from a 16-year-old who couldn't wait to grasp life to a 22-year-old who didn't care if he died in his sleep." Before his final year of law school, Butler took a year off to live in California. 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.〔 Butler later described this year as, "I was out of control, and justifying it with this idea that 'I'm young, this is life. This is me just being boisterous." After his time off in America, he returned to Scotland to finish his final year at law school.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerard Butler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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