Gary Oldman has secretly tied the knot for the fifth time. The “Darkest Hour” star has married writer and art curator Gisele Schmidt, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Oldman — who plays British World War II Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in his new movie — wed Schmidt at the LA home of his manager and “Darkest Hour” producer Doug Urbanski just before they headed to the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.
Oldman, who wore a fat suit and was completely unrecognizable as Churchill, is already a front-runner for the Best Actor Oscar come awards season, with critics writing that he delivers “one of the great performances of his career.”
The movie, which also stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James and is directed by Joe Wright, is also getting big buzz as a Best Picture contender. It will be released in theaters in the United States on Nov. 22.
Oldman is an avid photographer, and it has been reported that Schmidt introduced the actor-director to artist and photographer Ian Ruhter, who creates large-scale works, starting a collaboration between the pair.
Schmidt then wrote about Oldman and Ruhter’s work together in Build, the magazine from the Laboratory Arts Collective, an LA-based organization for artists, actors and musicians.
British actor Oldman, 59, and Schmidt walked the red carpet together at the Toronto premiere of “Darkest Hour” on Sept. 12, still nobody twigged that they were married.
Embarrassingly, Oldman was apparently asked at a Vegas charity event last year if Schmidt was his mother Kathleen’s “nursemaid” when the trio arrived together. Oldman responded, “Oh, her? She’s my girlfriend.”
Oldman and Schmidt began dating while he was separated from his fourth wife, Alex Edenborough, whom he divorced in 2015. His first marriage was to British actress Lesley Manville, until 1989. He was married to Uma Thurman between 1990 and 1992, and then photographer Donya Fiorentino from 1997 to 2001. Reps for Oldman and Urbanski didn’t get back to us.