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Actor. Second Unit Director or Assistant Director. Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:17. Goldfish (2023) 3 Videos. 23 Photos. Gordon was born in Highgate, London to Edward and Iris Warnecke. His father came from Germany and his mother from Guyana, South America.
- January 1, 1
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- London, England, UK
Actor. Years active. 1985–present. Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is a British actor of German and Indo-Guyanese parentage. He is known for his role as Omar in the 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette, co-starring as the lover of Johnny ( Daniel Day-Lewis ).
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.
Omar is played by Gordon Warnecke, an actor unknown to me, as a bright but passive youth who hasn't yet figured out the strategy by which he will approach the world. He is a blank slate, pleasant, agreeable, not readily showing the sorrows and angers that we figure ought to be inside there somewhere.
Sep 7, 2020 · Gordon Warnecke reflects on his roles in My Beautiful Laundrette on stage and screen. Over 30 years after starring in the Oscar-nominated My Beautiful Laundrette, actor Gordon Warnecke revisited Hanif Kureishi ’s groundbreaking story in a new stage adaptation performed at the Belgrade last year.
Gordon is best known for playing Omar in My Beautiful Laundrette, opposite Daniel Day Lewis. Venus, the feature in which Gordon plays Papaji, is currently premiering in Canada and the US and comes to London and Europe this year.
