Gordon Warnecke
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Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is an English actor of Indo-Guyanese and German descent.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Omar in the 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette, costarring as the lover of Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). Other film credits include Franco Zeffirelli's Young Toscanini and Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me.
Television credits include: Boon, Doctor Who (in the serial Mindwarp), Only Fools and Horses, Virtual Murder, Birds of a Feather, EastEnders and The Bill.
An experienced theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, and most recently returned to the stage with a national tour of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People for Tara Arts, and two new contemporary adaptations of Christmas productions at Trinity Theatre in Kent. He is currently filming the Welsh TV series The Cockle Farmer.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.011 |
Birthday | 1962-08-24 |
Place of Birth | London, England |
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1985
My Beautiful Laundrette
6.7/261
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a...
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1988
Young Toscanini
5.9/8
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.
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Young Toscanini
2023
Goldfish
0/0
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Goldfish
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A Fatal Inversion
5.4/5
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A Fatal Inversion
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A Nice Arrangement
6/1
Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as pos...
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A Nice Arrangement
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Scoop
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Pink
0/0
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The Hospice
0/0
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Venus
6.3/12
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2018
London Unplugged
5.2/4
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The Pleasure Principle
2/1
Part relationship drama and part sex comedy follows a middle-aged man who loves women and sex and can't stop cheating. He gets a divorce from his angr...
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The Pleasure Principle
1986
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
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2020
My Beautiful Laundrette
0/0
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