Gerard Butler / Gerard Butler /

Gerard Butler was born November 13, 1969 in Glasgow, becoming the youngest of three children in the family of Margaret and Edward Butler. When he was 6 months, the family moved to Montreal, where his father worked as an accountant, and in another year and a half, his parents divorced.
Even as a child carried away by Gerard theater - in the 12 years he has participated in theatrical productions in one of the major theaters of Glasgow. He enrolled to study at the Scottish Youth Theater, however, despite the fact that there he was considered one of the most talented students, Butler decided that the acting career too unrealistic and entered the University of Glasgow Faculty of Law.

After school, Butler went to Los Angeles. Unable to get there any interesting role, he returned to Scotland, where for two years, he held the practice of one of the largest law firms. As a lawyer soon dokanala Butler - he once visited the theatrical production 'Trainspotting' and realized that he chose the wrong profession. Similar sentiments are apparently not gone unnoticed by his employers, and Butler was fired just a week before the end of his legal training. Now Butler has nothing held back and he went to London, where he began to look for an opportunity to get back into the world of theater. Soon luck smiled at him - he first won a role in the play 'Coriolanus', but after some time has played a leading role in the production of 'Trainspotting' / Trainspotting /, which he had admired from the auditorium.

In 1997, took the first major film debut Butler - he played in the film 'Mrs. Brown 'c Judi Dench and Billy Connolly. Around the same time, he played a small role in the negative Bond 'Tomorrow Never Dies', not suspending with her theatrical career. In 2000, the screens come with a few tapes Butler - gangster film 'shooters' / Shooters /, a military drama 'Harrison's Flowers', and 'Dracula' Wes Craven, where the actor went to the main role. The next year was for Butler, not very successfully, mainly, he worked on the TV project, and only in 2002, won a role in the film 'Reign of Fire', where he played an associate of Christian Bale in the difficult task of extermination of dragons.

In 2003 the company was an actor Angelina Jolie in the sequel 'Lara Croft', which undoubtedly underpinned its continued recognition of the broad masses of audience. In the same year he published another tape with Butler - 'Timeline' / Timeline /, film adaptation of best-selling novel by Michael Crichton, received a rather cool reviews from critics and proved themselves to be rather poorly at the box office

. Gerard Butler auditioned for the adaptation of 'Phantom of the Opera "among hundreds of other actors, . but it is hard, . little rock 'n' Roll voice liked the author of the musical by Andrew Lloyd-Webber, . who took him to a major role, even despite the relatively unknown actor,
. Filming easily achieved Butler is not easy - he had to spend 4-6 hours daily, until it left a make-up, singing in which it was much harder to normal. But the final product certainly lived up to put into force and it may be rightfully considered one of the best screen musicals of recent times.