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	As Desmond Morton
	Jim Broadbent began a stage career in the 1970's performing for directors including Lindsay Anderson, Max Stafford Clark, Richard Eyre and Trevor Nunn. His work with writer-director Mike Leigh also began with roles in the plays ECSTACY (1979) and GOOSEPIMPLES (1981). Broadbent began acting in films in the late 70s and for a number of years did his best by small roles; his two Terry Gilliam films, the imaginative TIME BANDITS (1981) and the haunting BRAZIL (1985), gave some worthy credits. TV work also kept the actor busy (his credits on British TV over the years range from BLACK ADDER, to SILAS MARNER) and he began an association with director Mike Newell on several BBC programs. It was Newell who gave him his largest role in features up to that time in THE GOOD FATHER (1986), a powerful drama with Broadbent as a weak father who lost his son to a broken marriage, and is egged on to a custody battle by another divorced parent (Anthony Hopkins). Broadbent continued to play both large and smaller supporting roles, and his profile kept rising, as did that of the features he made SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (1987) was an unworthy first US film but he shone as an estranged husband in Newell's ENCHANTED APRIL (1991), a friendly bartender in THE CRYING GAME (1992), and an idolized stage actor and compulsive eater in BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (1994). He also wrote and starred in Leigh's outrageous short, A SENSE OF HISTORY (1992). In 1998 he was cast as a sleazy nightclub owner in LITTLE VOICE. He went on to take the featured role as the heroine's father in BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY. He also delivered a scene-stealing turn as a Parisian cabaret owner in MOULIN ROUGE (both 2001). He's also in the highly anticipated GANGS OF NEW YORK, directed by Martin Scorsese. Next up is portraying John Bayley opposite Judi Dench's Iris Murdoch in the biopic IRIS.

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