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May 04, 2012

Gerard Butler and Gabriel Aubry Hit Hollywood Hotelier's Birthday Bash

Apr 27, 2012

Gerard Butler Has Night Out with Mystery Brunette

Apr 17, 2012

Gerard Butler Paints a Sexy Mural at Coachella Party

Mar 26, 2012

Lindsay Lohan Giggles with Gerard Butler at Chateau Marmont

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Gerard Butler: Snapshot

Name: Gerard Butler
Date of Birth: November 13, 1969
Birth Place: Glasgow, Scotland

Scotland's sexiest import since Sean Connery, Gerard Butler has romanced the likes of Angelina Jolie and Katherine Heigl – and that's just on screen!

The lawyer-turned-actor seduced Jolie in 2003's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and serenaded Emmy Rossum from behind the mask in 2005's The Phantom of the Opera. But it was his turn as loin-clothed Spartan King Leonidas in the $210 million hit 300 that catapulted the chiseled hunk to fame.

Butler followed up his bloody role with a slew of films, with hit rom-coms P.S. I Love You and The Ugly Truth, before returning to his machismo roots with Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla and the action hit Law Abiding Citizen.

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Gerard Butler: Five Fun Facts

When he first read the script for Phantom of the Opera, Gerard Butler cried. "I was wiping the tears off," he told reporters in 2003. "It really touched me in an incredible way."
For 300, Gerard Butler was completely clean-shaven for his tiny loincloth. "I only did that because I was told to! Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy," he told PEOPLE.
Gerard Butler's best move on women is the pickup line, "Have you seen 300?"
When Gerard Butler was featured in PEOPLE's 2004 Sexiest Man Alive issue, he said of the honor: "When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, PEOPLE magazine thought I was sexy!'"
Gerard Butler regrets wearing "really wide-flared pants" and "trousers that zip up the side" in his youth. "I've made some gross misjudgments," he told In Style of his fashion don'ts.

Gerard Butler: Biography

1990s: Gerard Ditches Law
After graduating from Glasgow University, Butler works as a lawyer at a Edinburgh firm, where he's fired for being late and coming to work hung-over. Of his firing, Butler tells USA Today, "It was the worst day of my life, yet it was the best thing that ever happened to me." With a new passion for acting, the Scot moves to London, where he lands the lead in the 1996 stage adaptation of Trainspotting, followed by small roles in Mrs. Brown and the James Bond flick Tomorrow Never Dies.
2000: December 22
Playing Dracula
Butler lands his first lead film role in Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000. Although the flick is a huge flop, director Joel Schumacher is impressed by Butler's leading turn as the Count–and will later cast him in the legendary film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, The Phantom of the Opera.
2003: July 25
Lara Croft's Leading Man
Butler costars with Angelina Jolie in the Tomb Raider sequel, The Cradle of Life. Although director Jan de Bont says, "You'll feel a sexual tension; there is a chemistry" between Jolie's Croft and Butler's Terry Sheridan (Croft's sidekick ex), the film fails to deliver at the box office, taking in only $21.8 million over opening weekend.