Guy Stuart Ritchie was born on 10 September 1968 and is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.
39 Facts About Guy Ritchie
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Guy Ritchie's work includes British gangster films, and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr.
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Guy Ritchie gained recognition with his second film, Snatch, which found critical and commercial success.
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Guy Ritchie went on to direct Revolver and RocknRolla, which were less successful and received mixed reviews.
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Guy Ritchie subsequently reteamed with Jason Statham on the action films Wrath of Man and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.
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Guy Ritchie has an older sister, Tabitha, and a half-brother, Kevin, who was born to Amber Parkinson and put up for adoption.
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Between 1973 and 1980, Guy Ritchie's mother was married to Sir Michael Leighton, 11th Baronet of Loton Park.
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Guy Ritchie is dyslexic, and attended Windlesham House School in West Sussex and Stanbridge Earls School in Hampshire.
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Guy Ritchie has claimed that drug use was the reason for expulsion, although Ritchie's father said he was "cutting class and entertaining a girl in his room".
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Mick LaSalle, writing for San Francisco Chronicle, was impressed with Guy Ritchie's directing and "sequences that discharge with energy", but felt the writing could have been better.
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In 2001, Guy Ritchie directed a music video for "What It Feels Like for a Girl", a song performed by Madonna, to whom Guy Ritchie was married at the time.
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Guy Ritchie directed a short film starring Madonna and Clive Owen, titled Star for season one of The Hire, a 2001 online series to promote BMW automobiles.
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In 2002, Guy Ritchie conceived a prank show titled Swag, for Channel 5 in the United Kingdom.
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In 2008, Guy Ritchie directed RocknRolla, for which he wrote the screenplay.
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In that same year, Guy Ritchie directed a television commercial for Nike called "Take It To The Next Level", about a young Dutch footballer who signs for Arsenal, showing the progression of his career from the beginning, through to his debut for the Netherlands.
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In 2011, Guy Ritchie directed the sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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In 2012, Guy Ritchie produced a trailer for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
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In 2020, Guy Ritchie returned to crime comedy with The Gentlemen.
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Guy Ritchie next directed the action thriller Wrath of Man, a remake of the 2004 film Cash Truck, starring Jason Statham, which was released in theatres in the United States on May 7,2021.
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Guy Ritchie followed up Wrath of Man with the spy thriller Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, again starring Statham.
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In February 2021, Guy Ritchie signed on to direct and write the World War II film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, based on the book by Damien Lewis, for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount Pictures.
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Guy Ritchie began filming his next film, a war drama titled The Covenant starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Antony Starr and Emily Beecham, in February 2022 in Alicante, Spain.
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Guy Ritchie has cited Quentin Tarantino and Sergio Leone as influences on his work.
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Guy Ritchie has complimented several films including The Long Good Friday, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Seven Samurai and Once Upon a Time in the West.
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Guy Ritchie has used fast-cutting and slow motion to build momentum in the story, and to create a high-impact viewing experience, respectively.
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Guy Ritchie is known to use interweaving stories and a non-linear narrative such as a circular plot in his films; this is found in the case of Snatch, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Sherlock Holmes.
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Guy Ritchie has worked multiple times with Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Alan Ford, Geoff Bell, Mark Strong, Jude Law, Eddie Marsan, Jared Harris, Charlie Hunnam, Josh Hartnett, and Hugh Grant.
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Guy Ritchie started training in Shotokan karate at the age of seven at the Budokwai in London, where he later achieved a black belt in both Shotokan and Judo.
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Guy Ritchie has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Renzo Gracie.
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On 18 May 2000, Guy Ritchie was arrested by police for allegedly assaulting a 20-year-old man outside the Kensington home he shared with American singer-songwriter Madonna.
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On 22 December 2000, Guy Ritchie married Madonna at Skibo Castle in Scotland.
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Madonna and Guy Ritchie entered a custody agreement for their children.
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In 2010, Guy Ritchie met model Jacqui Ainsley and they married on 30 July 2015.
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In July 2020, Guy Ritchie was given a six-month driving ban after he was caught by CyclingMikey using a mobile device while operating a motor vehicle.
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Guy Ritchie owns a pub, The Lore of the Land, in London, and co-owns another, The Walmer Castle with David Beckham.
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Guy Ritchie owns a small brewing company, Gritchie Brewing Company which brews beer on his Ashcombe Estate in Wiltshire.
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Guy Ritchie owns The Wild Kitchen, a firm producing outdoor cooking equipment and tents, which launched at Chelsea Flower Show in 2021.
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In October 2022 it was announced that Compton Abbas Airfield was being sold by the owners, the Hughes family, to Guy Ritchie, who owns the neighbouring Ashcombe Estate.
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Guy Ritchie will take over running of the airfield on 1 February 2023.