Gordon Warnecke
Actor
- Born
- August 24, 1962 (age 64) · London, England
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Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is an English actor of Indo-Guyanese and German descent.
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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
My Beautiful Laundrette
November 16, 1985
Scoop
March 27, 2024
London Kills Me
December 13, 1991
Venus
October 9, 2017
Young Toscanini
October 7, 1988
A Fatal Inversion
May 10, 1992
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
October 25, 1986
London Unplugged
October 5, 2018
Goldfish
October 7, 2022
The Pleasure Principle
January 31, 1992
A Nice Arrangement
June 11, 1994
The Hospice
January 1, 1987
Acting16
- 2025Egg Timer as Uncle Graham
- 2024Scoop as Man in Toilet
- 2022Goldfish as Bobby Persaud
- 2020My Beautiful Laundrette as Papa / Zaki
- 2018London Unplugged as Da'nish's Dad
- 2017Venus as Papaji
- 1994A Nice Arrangement as Trendy Youth
- 1992A Fatal Inversion as Shiva
- 1992The Pleasure Principle as Policeman
- 1991London Kills Me