10 Actors You Didn't Know Were Quitting

3. Gary Oldman

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Excelling in everything from The Dark Knight Trilogy to Harry Potter, and every other critically acclaimed hit in-between, the Academy Award-winning titan that is Gary Oldman will go down in history as one of the greatest performers of his, or any other time.

But the Commissioner Gordon and Sirius Black sensation knows that all good things come to an end, and has openly addressed recently how he's already begun thinking about what life will have in store for him once he decides to leave the performing to the next generation.

Speaking to the Sunday Times on the matter of when he feels would be the right moment to bring his acting career to a close and turn his attention to his other interests outside of the art, Oldman explained how he'd be happy to "hang it up" after his time as Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+'s Slow Horses comes to an end.

Simply put, the 64-year-old acting legend has no intention of being "active when (he's) 80". And he likely wants to bow out of the industry some time before that.

But with Oldman even going as far as to refuse to cut his hair for Christopher Nolan's incoming Oppenheimer epic due to his commitment to the part of Lamb, it's clear the passionate artist is still focused on giving his all to what could be his final-ever role.

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