Gordon Warnecke

Gordon Warnecke

Actor

London, England
August 24, 1962

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Warnecke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Representative Works

Scoop
Scoop
6.4
/ English
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PINK
No Rating Yet
/ English
Venus
Venus
6.1
/ English
The Hospice
The Hospice
7.0
/ English
Young Toscanini
Young Toscanini
6.7
/ Italian
London Kills Me
London Kills Me
5.9
/ English
London Unplugged
London Unplugged
4.4
/ English
A Fatal Inversion
A Fatal Inversion
5.0
/ English
Rest Your Head
Rest Your Head
10.0
/ English
A Nice Arrangement
A Nice Arrangement
6.5
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Scoop
2024Nominee

Best Performance

Scoop

My Beautiful Laundrette
1985Nominee

Best Performance

My Beautiful Laundrette

PINK
Nominee

Best Performance

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Career Highlights

Venus
2017Highlight

Best Performance

Venus

The Hospice
1987Highlight

Best Performance

The Hospice

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