Vinnie Jones Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer
British nationality
Birth January 5, 1965 (Watford, Hertfordshire – Great Britain)

BIOGRAPHY
From 1986 to 1999, Vinnie Jones had a football career with a few English clubs : Wimbledon Football Club, Sheffield United, Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers. In 1992, he was a match commentator for the direct-to-video documentary Soccer’s Hard Men .

Noted by director Guy Ritchie for his imposing physique, he played the role of the killer Big Chris in the gangster film Scams, Crimes and Botany (1998) – a performance which earned him the Best Young Actor Award from the Variety Club of Great Britain and of Empire magazine – then that of Bullet Tooth Tony in Snatch in 2000. Very quickly, he saw himself confined to the roles of henchmen, real thick brutes, for action films like 60 seconds flat (2000) and Operation Swordfish (2001), both directed by Dominic Sena . We also see him flirting with his first love, football , for the needs of Red Card – Mean Machine (2002) and the teenage movie She’s the Man (2006).

Another claim to fame to his credit: that of having played the colossal superhero Juggernaut in the third part X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Despite this, Vinnie Jones gets lost in numerous direct-to-Dvds such as Slipstream (2005), The Condemned (2007) and Hell Ride (2008). We have to wait for a serial killer film that is, to say the least, sordid, Midnight Meat Train (2009), or a prehistoric comedy, Year 1: Difficult Beginnings (id.), to find him again on the big screen.