1. Raymond Andrew Winstone is an English television, stage, and film actor with a career spanning five decades.
48 Facts About Ray Winstone
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Ray Winstone rose to prominence starring as Will Scarlet in the series Robin of Sherwood from 1984 to 1986.
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Ray Winstone received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role nomination for his performance in Nil by Mouth.
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Ray Winstone was born on 19 February 1957 in Hackney Hospital, London.
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Ray Winstone first lived in Caistor Park Road, Stratford E15, and attended Portway infants and junior school.
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Ray Winstone has recounted how, as a child, he used to play with his friends on bomb sites.
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Ray Winstone joined Brimsdown Primary School and in 1968, enrolled to Edmonton County School, which had changed from a grammar school to a comprehensive upon his arrival.
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Ray Winstone did not take to school, eventually leaving with a single CSE in drama.
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Ray Winstone recounted an early encounter with a notorious gangster:.
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Ray Winstone had a new mac on, which had probably cost a few bob, and I absolutely covered it.
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Ray Winstone had an early affinity for acting; his father would take him to the cinema every Wednesday afternoon.
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At the age of 12, Ray Winstone joined the Repton Amateur Boxing Club.
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Ray Winstone was London schoolboy champion at welterweight on three occasions, and fought twice for England.
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Ray Winstone was not popular with the establishment at his secondary school, who considered him a bad influence.
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Ray Winstone was cast in the leading role of Carlin, a young offender who struggles against both his captors and his fellow cons to become the "Daddy" of the institution.
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In 1975, Ray Winstone landed his first professional role in What a Crazy World at the Theatre Royal, Stratford in London.
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Ray Winstone starred in the opening episode of the third season of Bergerac, as Will Scarlet in Robin of Sherwood.
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Ray Winstone again teamed up with Jason Connery in a film which featured Amanda Donohoe and Maria Whittaker, in Tank Malling.
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Ray Winstone added his London accent to a dance track in 1982 by Marsha Raven called "I Like Plastic".
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Ray Winstone was asked to appear in Mr Thomas, a play written by his friend and fellow Londoner Kathy Burke.
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The reviews were good, and led to Ray Winstone being cast, alongside Burke, in Gary Oldman's drama Nil By Mouth.
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Ray Winstone was widely lauded for his performance as an alcoholic wife-batterer, receiving a BAFTA nomination.
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Ray Winstone did a series of Holsten Pils advertisements where he played upon the phrase "Who's the Daddy", coined in the film Scum.
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In 2000, Ray Winstone starred alongside Jude Law in Love, Honour and Obey.
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Ray Winstone plays "Gal" Dove, a retired and happily married former thief dragged back into London's underworld by a psychopathic former associate.
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Ray Winstone followed up with Lenny Blue, the sequel to Tough Love, and the short "The Bouncer".
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Now internationally known, Ray Winstone was next chosen by Anthony Minghella to play Teague, a sinister Home Guard boss in the American Civil War drama Cold Mountain.
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Ray Winstone followed it up with Jerusalem, in which he played poet and visionary William Blake.
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Ray Winstone made his action-film debut in King Arthur, starring Clive Owen, directed by Antoine Fuqua, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
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Ray Winstone provided the voice of Soldier Sam in the screen version of The Magic Roundabout.
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Ray Winstone returned to the role in 2006 and was awarded an International Emmy.
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Ray Winstone portrayed a 19th-century English policeman trying to tame the Australian outback in The Proposition.
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Ray Winstone appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2006 film The Departed as Mr French, an enforcer to Jack Nicholson's Irish mob boss.
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Ray Winstone provided motion capture movements and voice-over work for the title character in the Robert Zemeckis' film Beowulf.
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Ray Winstone then co-starred in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which was released on 22 May 2008.
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Ray Winstone returned to television drama in The Changeling-inspired Compulsion, originally shown in May 2009.
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Since 2009, Ray Winstone has fronted the advertising for betting firm Bet365.
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Ray Winstone co-founded a sports-management business, Integral Sports Management, in 2020.
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Ray Winstone has mixed work in Hollywood productions with work in lower-budget, independent films.
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In 2010, Ray Winstone starred as Arjan van Diemen in the film Tracker with Temuera Morrison He had a role as CIA agent Darius Jedburgh in the Edge of Darkness remake, replacing Robert De Niro.
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Ray Winstone starred in British independent film The Hot Potato in 2011, and the following year in a big-screen remake of popular 1970s show The Sweeney.
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In 2006, Ray Winstone appeared as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car during series 8 of BBC's Top Gear.
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That same year, Ray Winstone featured in remake Point Break, a relative box-office success, though critically panned.
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In 2019, Ray Winstone starred in critical disaster The Queen's Corgi, and critical and box-office bomb Cats.
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Ray Winstone appeared as career criminal Bobby Glass in Guy Ritchie's eight-part series The Gentlemen, which debuted on Netflix in March 2024.
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Ray Winstone met his wife, Elaine McCausland, while filming That Summer in 1979.
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Ray Winstone is a fan of West Ham United and promoted their 2009 home kit.
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Ray Winstone was declared bankrupt on 4 October 1988, and again on 19 March 1993.