JIM BROADBENT (Captain Molyneux, Vyvyan Ayrs, Timothy Cavendish, Korean Musician, Prescient 2) won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his performance in Richard Eyre's 2001 biopic "Iris," opposite Judi Dench. Broadbent's portrayal of Iris Murdoch's devoted husband, John Bayley, also brought him a National Board of Review Award, as well as Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In addition, he won a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for his work in both "Iris" and Baz Luhrmann's groundbreaking musical "Moulin Rouge!," also winning a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for the latter.

Broadbent earlier won a London Film Critics Circle Award and the Best Actor Award at the 1999 Venice Film Festival for his portrayal of W.S. Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan, in Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy." Leigh has also directed Broadbent in the acclaimed films "Life is Sweet," "Vera Drake" and most recently in the 2010 drama "Another Year." In 2012, Broadbent's performance alongside Meryl Streep in the critically acclaimed drama "The Iron Lady" earned a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Broadbent's additional film credits include "Animals United," "Perrier's Bounty, the worldwide blockbusters "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part II" and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"; Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"; the fantasy adventure "Inkheart," the historical drama "The Young Victoria," the British independent film "The Damned United"; "Hot Fuzz"; "Art School Confidential"; "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"; "Bridget Jones's Diary" and the sequel, "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason"; Mira Nair's "Vanity Fair"; "Bright Young Things," for director Stephen Fry; "Gangs of New York," under the direction of Martin Scorsese; Richard Loncraine's "Richard III"; Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway"; "Enchanted April," directed by Mike Newell; and Neil Jordan's "The Crying Game," to name only a portion. He was also heard in the animated features "Valiant" "Robots" and more recently, "Arthur Christmas."

Honored for his work on television, Broadbent recently won the UK's Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for "Any Human Heart," which also received a BAFTA TV Award nomination. Previously, he won Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards and garnered an Emmy nomination for Best Actor for the titular role in the telefilm "Longford." He had earlier received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his performance in the historical HBO movie "The Gathering Storm." He was also in the HBO movie "Einstein and Eddington" and has appeared in more than 40 other television and cable projects, including miniseries, movies and series.

Broadbent studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and has performed extensively on the stage, most notably with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.