1. Jason Iain Flemyng was born on 25 September 1966 and is an English actor.
22 Facts About Jason Flemyng
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Jason Flemyng is known for his work with British filmmakers Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn appearing in the Ritchie films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and appearing in Vaughn's films Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, and X-Men: First Class.
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Jason Flemyng has appeared in Hollywood productions such as Rob Roy, the Alan Moore comic book adaptations From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Transporter 2, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
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Jason Flemyng has appeared in prominent roles in both theatre and television in the UK.
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Jason Flemyng won the Best Actor Award at the Geneva Film Festival for his role in 1996's Alive and Kicking.
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Jason Flemyng was born on 25 September 1966 in Putney, London, the son of Scottish director Gordon Jason Flemyng.
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Jason Flemyng decided he wanted to become an actor after appearing in theatrical productions at his school, Christ's Hospital in Sussex.
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Jason Flemyng became involved with Militant, an entryist group active within the Labour Party, and in 1987 was expelled from Labour for selling the Militant newspaper.
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Jason Flemyng has subsequently claimed that both his theatrical and political activities at this time were simply a way of meeting girls.
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Jason Flemyng was then a regular in the ITV drama series Doctor Finlay from 1993 to 1996.
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Jason Flemyng later claimed to have lost so much money while playing poker with the film's backers in between takes on set that he had to work on the four days of re-shoots the film required for no fee.
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Jason Flemyng went on to appear in films such as The Red Violin and Deep Rising, Snatch, George A Romero's Bruiser and Rock Star.
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Jason Flemyng starred in the short film Feeling Good, written by Dexter Fletcher, whom he met while working on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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In parallel with his film career, Jason Flemyng has continued to take various television roles.
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In 2009, Jason Flemyng joined the cast of the ITV science fiction cult drama series Primeval during its third series, as maverick ex-policeman Danny Quinn.
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Jason Flemyng received top billing as the series' new star, taking over from Douglas Henshall.
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In 2011, Jason Flemyng reprised his character of Danny Quinn in the last episode of Primevals fourth series, it is said that he would return as Danny Quinn one last time before the finale of the shows fifth series.
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The film was written especially for him and took two years to complete, it was filmed in Greece and London and is directed by Lance Nielsen In January 2015, Jason Flemyng signed with UK-based Evolution Pictures to direct the vampire film Eat Locals.
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Jason Flemyng appears as himself in the 2018 short film To Trend on Twitter in aid of young people with cancer charity CLIC Sargent with comedians Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Helen Lederer and David Baddiel.
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In 2021, Audible released Jason Flemyng's recording of William Gibson's acclaimed sci-fi novel Neuromancer.
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Jason Flemyng married Elly Fairman in the summer of 2008, in Tuscany, Italy.
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In 2020, Jason Flemyng said they had all suffered from COVID-19.