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Ray Winstone’s Milestones
| Attended drama school; was asked to leave because of an incident involving his sabotaging of the headmistress' car | |
| Starred as Will Scarlett in the British TV series "Robin of Sherwood" | |
| 1970 - 1978 | Was a championship boxer, losing only eight of 88 bouts |
| 1977 | Discovered by director Alan Clarke and hired to play reform school terror Carlin in the BBC telefilm "Scum" (shelved by censors for content) |
| 1979 | Portrayed rocker Kevin in "Quadrophenia," a Mods vs Rockers tale inspired by The Who's album of the same name |
| 1979 | Reprised his role for Clarke's feature remake of "Scum" |
| 1980 | Had title role in the British TV series "Fox" |
| 1982 | Appeared in "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains," starring Diane Lane as a teenage punk star |
| 1984 | Played recurring role of a gangster in the British series "A Fairly Secret Army" |
| 1989 | Starred in "Tank Malling" as titular investigative reporter |
| 1990 | Initial collaboration with Kathy Burke, starring in the stage play "Mr. Thomas," written and directed by Burke |
| 1992 | Starred in the BBC sitcom "Get Real" |
| 1994 | Appeared in Ken Loach's "Ladybird, Ladybird" |
| 1994 | Returned to the stage in the Royal Court production of "Some Voice" |
| 1995 | Starred in Patrick Marber's play "Dealer's Choice"; transferred to the West End |
| 1997 | Acted in "Woundings," a futuristic war drama co-starring Guy Pearce, Johnathon Schaech and Noah Taylor |
| 1997 | Made a a triumphant return to form with a starring role as the raging Raymond in Gary Oldman's "Nil By Mouth" |
| 1997 | Portrayed a working-class father who, along with his wife, must cope with the accidental death of their young son in the British telefilm "Our Boy" (screened at Toronto International Film Festival) |
| 1997 | Starred alongside Robert Carlyle as a career criminal who betrays his cohorts in "Face," helmed by Antonia Bird |
| 1998 | Appeared in the romantic comedy "Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence" (released in the USA as "The Very Thought of You" in 1999); film starred Monica Potter, Joseph Fiennes, Rufus Sewall and Tom Hollander |
| 1999 | Acted in "My Father, The Liar," a Bob Hoskins-directed segment of the omnibus film "Tube Tales" |
| 1999 | Featured as a loan shark in Anjelica Huston's 1967 Dublin-set drama "Agnes Browne" |
| 1999 | Had first real romantic lead opposite Kerry Fox in "Fanny and Elvis" |
| 1999 | Played leading role as a family patriarch in "The War Zone," an incest themed drama marking Tim Roth's directorial debut; screened at both the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals |
| 1999 | Starred in "Births, Marriages and Deaths," a four-part BBC TV series |
| 2000 | Appeared in the Donmar Warehouse production of "To the Green Fields and Beyond," directed by Sam Mendes |
| 2000 | Starred in "Sexy Beast"; screened at Sundance in 2001 |
| 2001 | Was in the ensemble of the drama "Last Orders" |
| 2002 | Starred in Jez Butterworth's stage play "The Night Heron" at London's Royal Court Theatre |
| 2003 | Played Teague in the drama "Cold Mountain" |
| 2004 | Appeared in "King Arthur" with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley |
| 2005 | Voiced Mr. Beaver in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," based on the children's novel by C.S. Lewis |
| 2006 | Cast in Anthony Minghella's ensemble "Breaking and Entering" |
| 2006 | Cast in Martin Scorsese's mob drama, "The Departed" |
| 2006 | Starred in "The Proposition," an Australian western written by musician Nick Cave |
| 2007 | Portrayed the title character in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of "Beowulf" |
| 2008 | Cast in the fourth Indiana Jones film series, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" |
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