Gordon Warnecke

Gordon was born in Highgate, London to Edward and Iris Warnecke. His father came from Germany and his mother from Guyana, South America. Both of them settled in England when they were quite young before they met each other. Gordon attended a comprehensive school in North London and not attaining the grades to go to university to study English he went on to study acting at the De Leon Drama School in Richmond. When he left he joined M6 Theatre Company where he obtained his Equity acting card and then performed for various theatre companies before getting his break through film role in the award winning film My Beautiful Laundrette, written by Hanif Kuerishi and directed by Stephen Frears, playing Omar, the co-lead with Daniel Day-Lewis. He has since worked extensively in Film, Television and Theatre. Film credits include Franco Zeffirelli's Young Toscanini, Exitz and most recently the Canadian feature film, Venus, directed by Eisha Marjara. Television credits include A Fatal Inversion,