Jaime Winstone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jaime Margaret Winstone
Born May 6, 1985 (1985-05-06) (age 23)
London, England
Occupation Actor

Jaime Margaret Winstone[1] (born 1985) is a British actress best known for playing Becky in the gritty film Kidulthood, and playing Lauren in the Channel 4 drama series Goldplated.

Contents

[edit] Background

Winstone was born in Camden. She is the daughter of actor Ray Winstone and his wife Elaine Mccausland. She has two sisters, Lois (born 1982), the eldest, who is a singer and sometime actress, and a younger sister, Ellie (born 2002). She grew up in Enfield, North London, where she attended Enfield County School,[2] a local state school. Her family later relocated to Roydon, Essex. She studied briefly at drama school, before dropping out to pursue her acting career. She dated actor Leo Gregory[3], but is now in a relationship with Alfie Owen-Allen.

[edit] Career

Winstone has appeared in the films Bullet Boy (2004) and Kidulthood (2006), the television series M.I.T.:Murder Investigation Team, Vincent (alongside her father), Totally Frank and Goldplated, and a short film called Love Letters.

Winstone will feature in the horror film Daddy's Girl - a Welsh horror, Donkey Punch - a British thriller, and Boogie Woogie. She stars in BBC3's Phoo Action, which was broadcast in early 2008 and will be broadcast as a TV series in 2009.

Winstone sings backing vocals for her sister Lois' band. She appears in the music video for The Streets' single When You Wasn't Famous, The Twang's single Two Lovers and Hercules and Love Affair's single Blind.

She made her modelling debut in 2008, for Vivienne Westwood.

[edit] References

  1. ^ GRO Birth Registration Index. Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved on 2006-11-21.
  2. ^ Evening Standard (London) February 27, 2006 The rise of Ray's tough little cookie by Nick Curtis
  3. ^ Hello

[edit] External links