Shushka
Gerard Butler adopted a dog he named Shushka while filming in Bulgaria in November 2017. “She was a stray while I was filming up a mountain in Bulgaria. Stole my heart,” Butler added. “Shushka” is what an assistant director said when calling the stray over. Butler liked the sound of it, so he named her “Shushka.” in the clip below, he reveals he eventually found out “Shushka” is not actually a name but a casual Bulgarian expression similar to saying, “Hey there.”
Lolita
Gerard Butler used to have a rescued Pug named Lolita. Sometime in the mid-2010s, Lolita was tragically killed by coyotes.
It’s weird because I never thought of it that way. I saw this little dog and fell in love with it and adopted it. And then, when I saw the first paparazzi photos she barely comes up to my ankles. And it’s like, ‘What are we doing together?’ My Lolita – she’s a little pug, she’s beautiful.
Gerard Butler, Late Night with Seth Meyers, June 2014
Gerard Butler
Birthday
November 13, 1969 (55)
Gerard Butler is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000 with Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller.
Butler gained worldwide recognition for his portrayal of King Leonidas in Zack Snyder‘s fantasy war film 300. That role earned him nominations for an Empire Award for Best Actor and a Saturn Award for Best Actor and a win for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. He voiced the role of Stoick the Vast in the critically and commercially successful How to Train Your Dragon franchise (2010–2019). Also in the 2010s, he portrayed Secret Service agent Mike Banning in the action thriller series Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, Angel Has Fallen and the upcoming Night Has Fallen. He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy of the same name, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher.
