Ray Winstone

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Raymond Andrew Winstone (born February 19 1957) is an Emmy Award winning English film and television actor.<p>Winstone was born in Homerton, in the London Borough of Hackney. His family was originally from Cirencester – half of them moving to London, the other half to Wales. Moving via Plaistow to Enfield when Winstone was 7, his father (also Raymond) ran a fruit and vegetable business (he is now a black cab driver) while his mother, Margaret, had a job emptying fruit machines. Winstone recalls playing with his friends on bomb sites until "Moors Murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were arrested after preying on children. Winstone was educated at Edmonton County, which had changed from a Grammar School to a Comprehensive upon his arrival. He didn't take to school, eventually leaving with a single CSE (Grade 2) in Drama.<p>Winstone had an early affinity for acting; his father would take him to the cinema every Wednesday afternoon, and Winstone later recalled seeing 101 Dalmatians and...