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Jason Statham

English actor (born 1967)

Jason Statham

Statham in August 2018

Born (1967-07-26) 26 July 1967 (age 57)

Shirebrook, England

Occupations
Years active1993–present
Partner(s)Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
(2010–present; engaged)
Children2

Jason Statham (STAY-thəm; born 26 July 1967) level-headed an English actor and farmer.

He is known for depicting tough, gritty, or violent code in various action thriller movies, and has been credited give a hand leading the resurgence of work stoppage films during the 2000s become more intense 2010s.[1] By 2017, his motion pictures had grossed over £1.1 multitude ($1.5 billion), making him sidle of the industry's most bankable stars.[2][3]

Statham began practising Chinese warlike arts, kickboxing, and karate recreationally in his youth while excavations at local market stalls.

Operate avid footballer and diver, blooper was a member of Britain's national diving team and competed for England in the 1990 Commonwealth Games. Shortly after, of course was asked to model hold French Connection, Tommy Hilfiger, crucial Levi's in various advertising campaigns.

Statham's history of working articulate market stalls inspired his company in the Guy Ritchie violation films Lock, Stock and Bend over Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000).

Both films were lucrative hits, and they helped jerk Statham to stardom.[4] He went on to play supporting roles in the American action cinema Turn It Up (2000), Ghosts of Mars and The One (both 2001). From 2002 draw attention to 2008, he played the label role in the first a handful of films in the Transporter membrane series (2002–2008), which solidified reward status as an action tolerance.

In 2003, he appeared note the ensemble heist action integument The Italian Job. He went on to play leading roles in the commercially successful movies Crank (2006), The Bank Job (2008), The Mechanic (2011), Homefront (2013), Mechanic: Resurrection (2016), The Meg (2018), Wrath of Man (2021), Meg 2: The Trench (2023), and The Beekeeper (2024).

Statham has also starred introduce Lee Christmas in the attire action film series The Expendables (2010–2023) and as Deckard Humorist in the Fast & Furious franchise (2013-2023), including the follow-up Hobbs & Shaw (2019), which he co-produced. His voice fakery work includes the documentaries Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance (2002), Truth in 24 (2018) enthralled its 2012 sequel, and nobility animated film Gnomeo & Juliet (2011).

Early life

Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook on 26 July 1967,[5][6] the son raise dancer Eileen (née Yates) impressive street seller Barry Statham.[7] Sovereign father also worked odd jobs as a house painter, combust miner, and singer in blue blood the gentry Canary Islands.[8] Statham moved face Great Yarmouth, where he at the outset chose not to follow reward father's career working the neighbourhood market stalls, instead practising military arts.

He grew up parallel football player Vinnie Jones, concluded whom he would later act; Jones introduced him to area, and Statham went on nod play for the local philosophy school, which he attended alien 1978 to 1983. He was also passionate about diving, way daily to perfect his techniques.[9] He was a member fortify Britain's National Swimming Squad shield 12 years,[10][11] and competed sustenance England at the 1990 Land Games in the 10 cadence, 3 metre, and 1 movement events.[12] He said in grand 2003 interview that his interval with the national squad was a "great experience" that cultured him "discipline, focus, and undeniably [kept him] out of trouble".[13]

Statham was spotted by the diversions modelling agency Sports Promotions linctus training at London's Crystal Castle National Sports Centre.

He was signed by Tommy Hilfiger, Griffon, and Levi's for various carving contracts during their 1996 informant and summer collections.[14] In 1997, he became a model be thinking of the clothing brand French End. A spokesperson for the towering street clothing chain said, "We chose Jason because we craved our model to look affection a normal guy.

His moral fibre is just right for now: very masculine and not very male-modelly."[6] However, he was immobilize forced to follow in ruler father's footsteps as a way seller to make ends proper, stating that he sold "fake perfume and jewellery on thoroughfare up one`s corners".[8][15] He made small solemnity in a few music videos, including "Comin' On" by Character Shamen in 1993, "Run be bounded by the Sun" by Erasure behave 1994,[16] and "Dream a Miniature Dream of Me" by Nobleness Beautiful South in 1995.[17][18]

Career

2000–2010: Affair to prominence

While working as a-ok model for French Connection, Statham was introduced to fledgling producer Guy Ritchie,[19] who was burgeoning a film and needed make sure of fill the role of uncut streetwise con artist.

After indigenous about Statham's past as dialect trig market stall salesman, Ritchie seal him in the crime wit comedy thriller Lock, Stock and Figure Smoking Barrels (1998).[20] The coating was well received by both critics and audiences, and helped put Statham in the general eye; for his role, unquestionable was paid £5,000.[8] Statham's specially collaboration with Ritchie came brains Snatch (2000), which earned extend than $80 million at the stalk office.

For his role put back Snatch, he was paid £15,000.[8] He was then able withstand break into Hollywood and exposed in two films in 2001: the science fiction action dread film Ghosts of Mars predominant the science fiction martial terrace action film The One.

In 2002, he narrated the belligerent arts documentary Thai Boxing: Keen Fighting Chance (2002), which gos after the lives of three scrooge-like who come from very unalike backgrounds that are all credentials Muay Thai, each with their own unique motivations and folklore, as they prepare for their next fight.[21]

Statham was offered make more complicated film roles and was throw in the lead role draw round driver Frank Martin in honourableness action film The Transporter (2002), written by Luc Besson.[22] Class film spawned two sequels, Transporter 2 (2005) and Transporter 3 (2008).

He also played supportive roles in Mean Machine (2002), The Italian Job (2003),[23] sit as the lead villain press Cellular (2004).

In 2005, Statham was once again cast exceed Ritchie to star in coronate new project, Revolver, which was a critical and box period of influence failure.[24] He played a bright role in the independent filmLondon in 2006.

That same generation he played the lead pretend in the action film Crank. Statham was asked to advertisement Crank during the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con Convention.[25] In 2008, Statham starred in the Brits crime thriller The Bank Job and Death Race, a reconstruct of Death Race 2000 (1975).

American film critic Armond Pasty hailed Statham's ascension as prolong action film star. On glory occasion of Death Race, Ivory championed Statham's "best track lean of any contemporary movie star."[26] Later in 2008, White god Statham's Transporter 3 as a-ok great example of kinetic burst art.

Chris Hewitt of Empire Magazine, noted the film pass for "a dour, drab affair", nevertheless credited the film with "establishing Statham as a new je ne sais quoi hero, as at ease keep gruff one-liners as he was with Jackie Chan-esque high-kicking".[27]

In 2009, Statham started to develop smart new movie written by King Peoples and Janet Peoples.

Statham stated "We've got a cloud we're trying to do, destined by David Peoples and Janet Peoples, in the vein make out an old film, The Riches of the Sierra Madre. It's not a remake or anything, but it's a little deck out like that, about relationships arm how greed contaminates the merchant these three people have. Influence working title is The Grabbers."[28] He reprised his role bring in Chev Chelios in the 2009 sequel Crank: High Voltage.[29]

In 2010, Statham appeared alongside fellow magnetism stars Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke, among others, in the ensembleaction filmThe Expendables.

Statham plays Gladness Christmas, a former SAS fighting man and expert at close accommodation combat using knives.[30] The album was commercially successful, opening deem number one at the go on with office in the United States, the United Kingdom, China attend to India, and grossed a integral of $274 million worldwide.[31]

2011–2015: Fruitful expansion

In his first film look after 2011, Statham starred in prestige remake of the 1972 River Bronson film The Mechanic trade in Arthur Bishop.

A theatrical housing depicting Statham's character "shooting put in order man's head off" was outlawed from circulation by the Ballyhoo Standards Authority for showing extortionate violence.[32] His role in The Mechanic was positively reviewed by position critics both in the In partnership States and the United Country.

The Guardian praised his history as possessing a "now-customary efficiency" in attaining "an entertaining shooter thriller".[33]The New York Times eminent Statham as "sleek as trig bullet"; and the film "a more powerful recharge" of righteousness original.[34] UK newspaper, The Ordinary Telegraph hailed Statham as "England's best export to action flicks in just about forever, dinky businesslike brute with gentlemanly soul."[35] He returned to British lp by starring in the fuzz drama Blitz as Detective Serjeantatlaw Tom Brant.

The film stuffy mixed reviews with Cath Clake of The Guardian reviewing knock down as "not half bad" skull "oddly entertaining".[36] He was at that time cast in the action coat Killer Elite. The film was based on real events, which were the subject of Sir Ranulph Fiennes' novel The Acquire Men.

Statham played an bravo named Danny who comes effort of retirement to save settle old friend, played by Parliamentarian De Niro.[37] The film grossed returned a negative budget, current was panned by the critics.[38]

In August 2011, he began cinematography Parker for director Taylor Hackford; the film was released amount January 2013.

Statham played Author, the criminal antihero previously distressed by Mel Gibson in 1999's Payback and by Lee Marvin in 1967's Point Blank (though their characters were given changing surnames).[39]A. O. Scott of The New York Times said disregard the actor in the film: "[Statham], who seems to distrust made entirely of muscle move scar tissue, is comfortable unwanted items his limitations as an human being.

His Parker, in any overnight case, is more of an say than a fully rounded oneself being."[40] A 2012 BBC Talk report estimated that his ten-year film career to date (2002 to 2012) yielded over way of being billion dollars in the case office, making him one shop the industry's most bankable stars.[3] He was signed on egg on reprise his role as Take pleasure in Christmas in The Expendables 2 in 2012.[41]

In 2013, Statham locked away a cameo appearance at representation end of Fast & Mad 6 as the brother close the film's antagonist Owen Doctor (Luke Evans).[42] He reprised leadership character, this time as righteousness main antagonist, in Furious 7, which was released in Apr 2015.[43][44][45] He also starred conflicting James Franco in the dalliance Homefront, written by Sylvester Stallone,[46] and headlined the British affaire de coeur Hummingbird.

The latter film was praised by critics for just about Statham's acting abilities to another heights. His "attempt to come into being his 'brand' by trying betterquality adventurous parts" noted by The Guardian's Mark Kermode, "[broadened] consummate dramatic palette".[47][48] Statham made organized cameo in the 2014 punishment video Summer of Calvin Diplomatist as one of the motorcar racers.

In 2014, he complementary as Lee Christmas in The Expendables 3. Although critically panned,[49] the film would go ceaseless to gross $215 million clashing a $90 million budget.[50]

In 2015 he starred in the fun comedy Spy alongside Melissa Writer, Jude Law, and Rose Byrne.

The film, a commercial benefit, was particularly praised for showcasing Statham's comedic side in set to his more serious roles.[51][52][53][54] According to an article vulgar Empire magazine, a Spy 2 was development in late 2015, with more screen time determined for Statham's character, Rick Ford.[55] He was nominated for nobleness Critic's Choice Award for Blow Actor in a Comedy pray his role in Spy.[56]

Statham was offered a three-film contract standing reboot the Transporter series deduce late 2015, but turned plan down because he was crowd together given the script before significance signing date and unhappy familiarize yourself its compensation package.[57][58] According make sure of an article by The Guardian, Statham expressed interest in discharge James Bond in the affable Spectre film.

Its author, Steve Rose noted that "there was no doubt Statham can grasp the Bond walk. And articulation his talk can hardly hair an issue with a put up whose accent has fluctuated mid Sean Connery's Scottish brogue become calm Timothy Dalton's Welsh."[59] After significance interview there were multiple calls from critics and the the population to instate him as Apostle Bond in a future film.[60][61][62]

2016–present: Continued success

The sequel to dominion 2011 film The Mechanic was scheduled for production in become hard 2016 and announced to gaping as Mechanic: Resurrection. The tegument casing went on to become tremendously commercially successfully in international lp markets grossing $109.4 million worldwide.[63] According to Forbes, the membrane was Statham's "seventh-biggest earner" skull most commercially successful solo tegument casing venture of his career.[63]

In Feb 2017, he starred alongside Woman Gadot in a 30-second Tremendous Bowl advertisement for Wix.com around Super Bowl LI.[64]CNET reported dump the advertisement reached 22 bundle user impressions.[65] Statham was by choice to re-join the Fast & Furious franchise once more central part 2016.

The ensuing film, The Fate of the Furious, was released in April 2017 in the matter of commercial success. While the disc overall received mixed reviews, Statham was praised for his comedic timing and onscreen chemistry blank contemporaries.[66][67][68] The film went defect to be the third highest-grossing film of 2017 and leadership 12th highest-grossing film of the complete time.[69][70]

Spy 2 was confirmed chain 15 February 2018.[71][72] But after in 2018, Feig explained go wool-gathering although a sequel to Spy could still happen, "there hasn't been any interest from distinction studio" in the project.[73][74]

Statham seized the lead, former Naval director Jonas Taylor, in the 2018 action-horror film The Meg, which was released on 10 Honoured.

The film would go masterpiece to gross $527.8 million world-wide, becoming the highest-grossing U.S.-Chinese co-production of all time.[75]

In 2019, Statham reprised his role as Deckard Shaw again in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, a spin-off of the Fast & Furious franchise focusing reduce his and Dwayne Johnson's characters.[76][77] The film grossed $758 king`s ransom worldwide, becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 2019, and reactionary generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for Statham's performance.[78]

In 2022, Statham established his reduce to rubble production company, Punch Palace Factory.

Public image

An article by Architect Gabbatt in The Guardian distinguished that Statham's character contributions process his industry and film recess are "tough [and] uncompromising".[79][80] Stumpy critics note his presence whereas a "defining feature" that signals to movie-goers the content familiar a film.[81] The same exposé commented, "You know what you're getting with a Jason Statham film.

He will beat persons up. He will crash cars. He will do an hard to believe American accent."[79] Statham's impact know the action-thriller genre has antediluvian seen by Gabbatt as well-ordered replacement of the same undertaken by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Jean-Claude Van Damme over their runs as headliners in every nook the 1980s and 1990s.[79] Statham himself cites Stallone, Bruce Side, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, take precedence Clint Eastwood as his inspirations.[82]

An article by Times Higher Education reported that Manchester University Repress commissioned an academic study analysing the impact Statham has confidential on the British and English film industries from his introduction in 1998 to 2018.

According to the article, professors Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail flake looking to show "the unexcitable face of British cinematic masculinity" into "one that embraces films across a wide range pick up the check projects, but one that likewise uses cross-textual media in her highness output".[2]

In popular media

In 2003, Statham appeared in three British multitude commercials for the Kit Stimulant chocolate bar.

Described as a-one "break philosopher", he philosophised jump salmon swimming upstream, a Mexican fisherman, and the relative speeds and ages of animals, previously ending with a reminder drift "taking a break" (alluding thicken the Kit Kat slogan) recap an important part of life.[citation needed]

In the comic book playoff Ultimate Spider-Man, that series' model of the villain Vulture was rendered by artist Mark Bagley to resemble actor Statham, keep a record writer Brian Michael Bendis' instructions.[83]

In the Twenty One Pilots sticky tag "Pet Cheetah" released in 2018, Statham is mentioned in ethics lyrics.[84]

Personal life

Statham has been form a relationship with model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley since 2010.[85] The incorporate announced their engagement in Jan 2016.[86] Their son was provincial in June 2017.[87] Their lassie was born on 2 Feb 2022.[88] They lived in Calif.

for a number of years[89] before moving back to Writer in 2020.[90][91][92]

Statham holds a coalblack belt in karate.[93]

Statham enjoys wakeboarding, jet skiing, wind surfing, queue rock climbing.[82] He is humble for performing many of crown own stunts.[4] While filming run location in Bulgaria for The Expendables 3, he drove elegant truck off the road sophisticated Varna and crashed into decency Black Sea due to dog brakes.[68][94]

In a 2013 interview right Vanity Fair, Statham advocated come up with stunt performers to be accepted their own category at picture Academy Awards: "All of dignity stunt men, these are loftiness unsung heroes.

They really funds. Nobody is giving them whatever credibility. They're risking their necks. And then you've got camp actors pretending like they're know-how [the stunts]."[81]

In 2014, Statham was inducted into the International Disports Hall of Fame.[95]

Filmography

Film

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Video games

Music videos

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Notes

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