This block contains the information about Ray Winstone and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Actor Andrew Winstone was born in 1957, London in Hackney district. Twelve years old kid started boxing. Over the next ten years, Winstone became three times champion of London school, and has won 80 different awards and medals. At eighteen years studied acting at Crown school. He appears on the screen debuting in the movie of Alan Clarke's "Scum", the drama is about prison life for teenagers. The brutality shocked BBC and there was a decision to ban the series, the film and only two years later the picture went to the cinemas. Unfortunately, over the next fifteen years, Ray was filmed primarily in numerous television productions and passing movies. He was noticed for the role in "Nothing by mouth", by Gary Oldman, where he played Raymond - brutal, drinking inhabitant of South London, battering his wife. For this role, he was nominated for the award of the British Academy of Film and Television Best Actor in a leading role. A similar brutality played by him in many different characters - gangster Dave from the criminal band "Authority" by Antonia Bird (1997), the father in the family drama of Tim Roth's "War Zone", a retired London gangster Gary in the crime thriller "Sexy beast “.

Here you can learn about the movies Ray Winstone acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 'Mac' George Michale	$185M	2008	$127M	$317M
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Mr. Beaver (voice)	$180M	2005	$65.6M	$292M
Beowulf - Beowulf/Golden Man/Dragon	$150M	2007	$27.5M	$82.2M
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - Ares (uncredited)	$95M	2010	$38.7M	$88.8M
King Arthur - Bors	$90M	2004	$15.2M	$51.9M
The Departed - Mr. French	$90M	2006	$26.9M	$132M
Cold Mountain - Teague, Soundtrack (performer: "I Wish My Baby was Born")	$83M	2003	$14.6M	$95.6M
Fool's Gold - Moe Fitch	$70M	2008	$21.6M	$70.2M
Edge of Darkness - Jedburgh	$60M	2010	$17.2M	$43.3M
Ripley's Game - Reeves	$30M	2002
Sprung! The Magic Roundabout - Soldier Sam (voice: English version)	$20M	2005	$108K	$7.42M
Last Orders - Vince	$12M	2001	$99.5K	$2.33M
The Devil's Tomb - Blakeley	$10M	2009
Nil by Mouth - Ray	$9M	1997
Tracker - Arjan	$6.5M	2010
The War Zone - Dad		1999	$18.3K	$237K
Five Seconds to Spare - Vince		1999
Final Cut - Ray		1998
Woundings - The Colonel		1998
Darkness Falls - John Barrett		1999