Ray

THE RAY WINSTONE APPRECIATION SOCIETY
HE'S THE MAN!
Ray Winstone was born in HACKNEY Hospital, London. He is a legend. He started boxing at the age of twelve at the famous Repton Amateur Boxing Club, was three times London Schoolboy Champion and fought twice for England, UK. Ray studied acting at the Corona School before being cast by director Alan Clarke as 'Carlin' in the BBC Play production of 'Scum'.
He has appeared in numerous tv series over the past 20 years including 'Robin of Sherwood', 'Palmer', 'Birds of a Feather', 'Between The Lines', 'The Ghostbusters of East Finchley', and most recently 'Births, Marriages and Deaths'.
His film career has burgeoned since his award-winning role in Gary Oldman's 'Nil By Mouth' (1997), and he recently starred in 'Fanny and Elvis', 'The Mammy' and 'The War Zone' (directed by Tim Roth).
Winstone met his wife, Elaine in 1979. They have three daughters and his two eldest Lois and Jamie are both actors. Winstone was bankrupted by the Inland Revenue before his marriage, and again soon afterwards, but his near-religious refusal to worry saw him through, as it would his occasional run-ins with the police. While returning from filming an episode of Bergerac on Jersey, he was stopped on suspicion of gun-running. And, a couple of years after that, he spent 72 hours in a Leeds jail cell, having been "identified" by a member of the public who'd seen an identikit picture of a criminal on Crimewatch UK.
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