Ray Winstone
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
02/18/1957
Hackney, London |
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| Represented England twice as a welterweight. |
| During an audition for the first Star Wars prequel, asked an unimpressed George Lucas if he needed a nap (Winstone did not get the part). |
| Three-time London Schoolboy Champion. |
| Joined the Repton Amateur Boxing Club in London at age 12 and won 80 out of 88 fights over 10 years. |
| Starred as a boxer named Kenny Fox in the 1980 British series Fox. |
| Enrolled at the Corona Stage Academy in 1974, but was expelled for puncturing the headmistress's tires (his revenge for being excluded from the Christmas party). |
| First big role came when he accompanied a friend to an audition---and then was cast by the director---for 1977's British TV-movie Scum, which was so violent that it was |
| Went to the movies monthly with his father; often they would sit through the films twice. |
