Gordon Warnecke is a much-employed British actor who turns up across genres and formats. Another entry worth naming is 'EastEnders'. He started at 23. Most of the work has come in drama. Two decades and more of continuous work sit on the record. 'My Beautiful Laundrette' is the credit with the widest reach, built on the part of Omar Ali.
Gordon Warnecke
Actor
64 years (Aug 24, 1962)London, England
Gordon Warnecke is a much-employed British actor who turns up across genres and formats. Another entry worth naming is 'EastEnders'. He started at 23. Most of the work has come in drama. Two decades and more of continuous work sit on the record. 'My Beautiful Laundrette' is the credit with the widest reach, built on the part of Omar Ali.
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.Gordon Warnecke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.