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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-08-24 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England

Gordon Warnecke

Biography:

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

2024

Scoop as Man in Toilet

2023

Goldfish as Bobby Persaud

2020

2018

London Unplugged as Da'nish's Dad

2017

Venus as Papaji

1994

1992

1989

1988

1987

The Hospice as Vincent

1986

1985

EastEnders as Jabber Ahmed

1984

1963

Doctor Who as Tuza

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