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JIM BROADBENT (Sarge) is one of Britain's most versatile and talented character actors, equally at home in comedy and serious drama. His film roles include "Bullets Over Broadway,” "Richard III,” "Secret Agent,” "Smilla's Sense of Snow,” "The Borrowers,” "Little Voice,” "Topsy-Turvy” (winner of the Best Actor Award from the UK Evening Standard and at the Venice Film Festival), "Bridget Jones's Diary,” "Moulin Rouge” (for which he won the BAFTA Best Supporting Actor award) and "Gangs of New York.”

In 2002, Broadbent won an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe® for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as John Bayley in "Iris.” His most recent feature film credits include "Nicholas Nickleby,” "Bright Young Things,” "Vanity Fair,” "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” "Vera Drake,” "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and "Art School Confidential.” On television, he has appeared in "The Gathering Storm” with Albert Finney and HBO Films' "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself.”

Other television credits include "Wide-eyed and Legless,” the award-winning "A Sense of History” which he also wrote and "Walter” directed by Stephen Frears. In the theatre, his stage performances include "Kafka's Dick” and "The Government Inspector,” both directed by Richard Eyre; "Goosepimples,” "Ecstasy,” and "A Place With Pigs” directed by Athol Fugard at the Royal National Theatre; and Sam Mendes' acclaimed production of "Habeas Corpus” presented at the Donmar.

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