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Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor, presenter, and former professional footballer.

Vinnie Jones
Jones in July 2007
Born	Vincent Peter Jones (1965-01-05) 5 January 1965 (age 57) Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation	Actor presenter footballer
Spouse	Tanya Terry ​ ​ (m. 1994; died 2019)​
Children	2
Association football career Position(s) Midfielder Youth career 1975–1977 Bedmond Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1984–1986 Wealdstone 38 (2) 1986 → IFK Holmsund (loan) 22 (1) 1986–1989 Wimbledon 77 (9) 1989–1990 Leeds United 46 (5) 1990–1991 Sheffield United 35 (2) 1991–1992 Chelsea 42 (4) 1992–1998 Wimbledon 177 (12) 1998–1999 Queens Park Rangers 9 (1) Total 446 (36) National team 1994–1997 Wales 9 (0) *Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder from 1984 to 1999, notably for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea, and Queens Park Rangers. He also played for and captained the Welsh national team, having qualified through a Welsh grandparent. Best remembered for his time at Wimbledon as a pivotal member of the famous "Crazy Gang", he won the 1988 FA Cup with the London side, a club for which he played over 200 games during two spells between 1986 and 1998. He played 184 games in the Premier League, in which he scored 13 goals.[1] Throughout his career, Jones gained a reputation for a highly aggressive and physically uncompromising style of play, earning him a "hard man" image on and off the field.

Since retiring from football in 1998, Jones capitalised on his tough image and is now well known as an actor; he is often typecast as violent criminals and thugs. His film career began with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and continued with roles in films such as Snatch (2000), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Mean Machine (2001), and Juggernaut in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). He has also appeared on television, namely as Sebastian Moran in Elementary and Brick in Arrow.

Early life

This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (May 2018)

Vincent Peter Jones was born on 5 January 1965 in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of Glenda (née Harris) and gamekeeper Peter Jones. He attended schools in nearby Bedmond and Abbots Langley, and captained his school's football team. He is of partial Welsh and Irish descent.

Football career

Club career

Wealdstone

Having begun playing as a teenager in local amateur football, a 19-year-old Jones was signed on semi-professional terms by Wealdstone of the Alliance Premier League in 1984.[2] A young addition to the experienced Wealdstone team which was soon to become the first ever club to achieve the non-league "double" in the 1984–85 season, he was a non-playing squad member in the club's victory at Wembley Stadium in the 1985 FA Trophy final. He combined playing football with working as a hod carrier on construction sites.[3]

Loan to IFK Holmsund

He played one season on loan with Swedish club IFK Holmsund in 1986, helping to lead the team to the Division 3 Mellersta Norrland title.[4][5]

Wimbledon

In the autumn of 1986, a 21-year-old Jones became a full-time professional footballer when he was signed by Wimbledon of the First Division, who paid Wealdstone £10,000 for him. He scored in only his second appearance for Wimbledon on 29 November 1986, in a 1–0 win over Manchester United. He was a member of the Wimbledon team which won the FA Cup in 1988, beating league champions Liverpool 1–0 in the final. Wimbledon cemented their status as a formidable First Division side during this time, with Jones making his name as an enthusiastic and uncompromisingly tough midfielder and a leading member of Wimbledon's famed Crazy Gang.

Leeds United

Jones was transferred from Wimbledon to Leeds United for a fee of £650,000 in June 1989, and played in all but one league games as Leeds finished as champions of the Second Division, winning promotion to the First Division in 1990. Jones proved he could thrive, and under the stewardship of Howard Wilkinson he received only three yellow cards during the entire season.[6]

Sheffield United

Jones left Leeds United early in the 1990–91 season after losing his regular first-team place to youngsters David Batty and Gary Speed. His former Wimbledon manager Dave Bassett signed him for Sheffield United in September 1990 for a transfer fee of £700,000. He played a total of 35 matches for The Blades in the First Division, scoring two goals.

Chelsea

Jones was then sold to Chelsea a year later on 30 August 1991, for a fee of £575,000. Jones made his Chelsea debut one day after his signing in the 4–1 win against Luton. On 18 September 1991, Jones scored his first goal for the club in the 2–0 win against Aston Villa. He went on to make 52 total appearances for Chelsea, scoring 7 goals and receiving only 3 yellow cards.

Return to Wimbledon

After just one season at Stamford Bridge, he was back with Wimbledon in the early stages of the 1992–93 season, when the FA Premier League had just been formed. He helped Wimbledon equal their best ever league finish in 1993–94, when they finished sixth in the Premier League. Three seasons later, he contributed to another strong season for the club, who reached the semi-finals of both the F.A. Cup and the League Cup, and finished eighth in the Premier League. That season he scored the winning goal as Wimbledon won 1–0 against Arsenal at Highbury.[7]

Queens Park Rangers

His second exit from Wimbledon came when he became player/coach of QPR in early 1998, scoring on his debut against Huddersfield Town.[8] He announced his retirement from football in late 1998 at the age of 34.

International career

In December 1994 Jones was named in the Wales international squad, qualifying under FIFA rules via his Ruthin-born maternal grandfather.[9] He had previously sought to play for the Republic of Ireland due to eligibility through a grandparent. He made his international debut under Mike Smith for Wales on 14 December 1994, three weeks before his 30th birthday, in a 3–0 home defeat to Bulgaria in the Euro 96 qualifiers. When Smith was replaced as Wales manager by Jones’s former Wimbledon manager Bobby Gould a few months later, he remained a regular member of the Welsh national squad. The last of his nine caps came on 29 March 1997 in a 2–1 defeat to Belgium in a World Cup qualifier, also at Cardiff Arms Park.[10]

Jones' international call-up was however greeted with consternation by some and was even ridiculed by Jimmy Greaves, who said, "Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!".[11]

Playing style

Jones was known for his "hard man" image on the pitch.[12] He was sent off 12 times in his career, as well as holding the record for the quickest ever booking in a football match, being booked after just three seconds for a foul on the opposition player Dane Whitehouse in an FA Cup tie between Chelsea and Sheffield United in 1992.[13] In his autobiography, he recalls: "I must have been too high, too wild, too strong or too early, because, after three seconds, I could hardly have been too bloody late!"[14] In an incident in October 1987, Jones was famously photographed covertly grabbing Paul Gascoigne by his testicles during a league game for Wimbledon against Newcastle United.[15][16]

Controversies

He also was the presenter of the infamous Soccer's Hard Men video released in 1992, which featured archived footage of him and many other "hard men" of the game, and included advice for budding "hard men". After the release of the video, Jones was fined £20,000 and given a six-month ban (suspended for three years) for "bringing the game into disrepute". Wimbledon chairman Sam Hammam branded Jones a "mosquito brain". After this incident, Jones failed to stay out of trouble. After exceeding 40 disciplinary points that season, he was once again summoned to Lancaster Gate, the headquarters of The Football Association, but failed to appear. The FA banned Jones indefinitely. Jones explained that he had "mixed up" the date of the hearing, for which he received a four-match ban and was told by Football Association officials to "grow up".[17] Jones commented later: "The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch" – an obvious reference to the football hooliganism problem which had blighted the English game during the 1970s and 1980s.[18]

Other football activities

Jones made an appearance for Carlisle United, coming on as a second-half substitute in 2001 in a friendly against Irish team Shelbourne, teaming up with friend Roddy Collins who was manager at the time. In June 2010, he released a press statement stating that he was donating his 1988 FA Cup winners medal to the fans of AFC Wimbledon, wishing the club the best for the future. The medal is displayed at the club's stadium.[19] He briefly served as club president of non-league Soham Town Rangers.[20]

In 2020, Jones appeared on the ITV show Harry's Heroes, It featured former football manager Harry Redknapp attempting get a squad of former England international footballers back fit and healthy for one last game, vs a Germany Legends team. Despite playing for Wales during his professional career, Jones briefly took part in Season Two and played for the England legends in one of their warm up games against San Marino veterans.[21]

Acting career

In 1998, Jones made his film debut in Guy Ritchie's crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, in which he played a mob enforcer named Big Chris.[22] He has since been typecast in similar roles as criminals or villains, including the dapper gun-for-hire "Bullet-Tooth Tony" in Ritchie's 2000 follow up Snatch. Jones became known to American audiences in the 2000 film remake of Gone in 60 Seconds, in which he played Sphinx. Although this was a major role with significant screen time, he only had one line of dialogue because his character was a silent, tough brawler. He teamed up with director Dominic Sena again the following year for the thriller Swordfish, in which he played one of John Travolta's henchmen.

Jones played Danny Meehan in Mean Machine, a 2001 British remake of the Burt Reynolds film The Longest Yard. He played a former captain of the England national football team, who is sent to prison and subsequently takes control of a team of inmates who play against the prison guards' team. In the 2004 Japanese film Survive Style 5+, he played a hitman from Britain. He played another football role as Mad Maynard, the leader of a Manchester United football hooligan firm, in the 2004 film EuroTrip. His next role was in the 2006 film, X-Men: The Last Stand, as the comic book villain Juggernaut. He said that he would like to play Juggernaut in a spin-off. One of his lines in the film ("I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!") was based on a pre-existing Internet parody.[23] The same year, he was featured in another football film, She's the Man, as the coach of the Illyria team. In 2007, he played McStarley in The Condemned, a film about death row inmates forced to fight to the death on a remote island.

Jones was a housemate on the reality television show Celebrity Big Brother 7 in 2010, and celebrated his 45th birthday while he participated.[24] He received loud cheers as he entered the house and was the favourite to win going into the house, but he did not maintain popularity with the public; the crowd chanted "get Vinnie out" on the final night and booed him as he left the house after he finished in third place. Speaking of his experience on the show, he said: "It was like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in there – and I was Jack Nicholson."[25]

Jones played a professional killer in the Kazakhstani film Liquidator in 2011. His character is an elite assassin invited to eliminate the main character. Producers of the film dealt with the Kazakh-to-English language barrier by writing Jones' character as a mute who does not speak. In the same year, he played Zed in the movie Blood Out. He played a role in the Hungarian film The Magic Boys in 2012. That same year, he voiced Freddie the Dog in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. He co-starred alongside Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action-thriller Escape Plan, released in 2013, and was featured with Danny Trejo in the 2014 horror-thriller Reaper.

In 2021, Jones competed in the third season of the Australian version of The Masked Singer as "Volcano". He was the first contestant eliminated.[26]

Personal life

Having met Tanya Terry when they were both 12 years old and next-door neighbours in Watford, Jones later married her in 1994. Tanya had a daughter by her first husband, footballer Steve Terry. Jones and Tanya had a son, Aaron Ellison-Jones, who in 2008 graduated from the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, Yorkshire, and then was going on to join the Blues and Royals regiment of the British Army.[27] In November 2013, Jones received treatment after finding signs of skin cancer below his eye.[28] At some point, his wife was also diagnosed with skin cancer, which then spread to her brain by 2018. Jones was at her bedside during her death of cancer on 6 July 2019.[29] He discussed her death during an appearance on Piers Morgan's Life Stories in September 2020,[30] and said that he does not plan to remarry.[31]

In 1998, Jones penned an autobiography called Vinnie: The Autobiography,[32] which was later revised and reprinted to include information on his first film appearance. During his football career, he resided mainly in Dronfield, Derbyshire.^{[citation needed]} He splits his time between Los Angeles and Petworth, West Sussex.[33] He is a supporter of the Conservative Party and once described himself as "very proud of being British, very pro the monarchy, and very conservative".[34]

Criminal charges

Jones was convicted in June 1998 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage against a neighbour in November 1997.[35]

Jones was convicted in December 2003 of assault and threatening behaviour on an aircraft for an air rage incident, during which he slapped a passenger in the face and threatened to murder the cabin crew while drunk on an aircraft. He was fined £1,100 (equivalent to £1,900 in 2021) and ordered to perform 80 hours of community service.[36] As a result of the conviction, Hertfordshire police revoked Jones' firearms licence and seized the weapons listed on the licence.[37]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[38][39][40][41][42]

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Wealdstone	1984–85	Alliance Premier League	12	0	0	0	—		0	0	12	0
	1985–86		26	2	1	0	—		0	0	27	2
	Total		38	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	39	2
IFK Holmsund (loan)	1986	Division 3 Mellersta Norrland	22	1	0	0	—		0	0	22	1
Wimbledon	1986–87	First Division	22	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	28	5
	1987–88	First Division	24	2	6	0	4	0	0	0	34	2
	1988–89	First Division	31	3	4	0	5	0	1[lower-alpha 1]	0	41	3
	Total		77	9	14	1	11	0	1	0	103	10
Leeds United	1989–90	Second Division	45	5	1	0	2	0	4[lower-alpha 1]	0	52	5
	1990–91	First Division	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	Total		46	5	1	0	2	0	4	0	53	5
Sheffield United	1990–91	First Division	31	2	1	0	4	0	1[lower-alpha 1]	0	37	2
	1991–92	First Division	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
	Total		35	2	1	0	4	0	1	0	41	2
Chelsea	1991–92	First Division	35	3	4	1	1	0	5[lower-alpha 1]	2	45	6
	1992–93	Premier League	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	1
	Total		42	4	4	1	1	0	5	2	52	7
Wimbledon	1992–93	Premier League	27	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	1
	1993–94	Premier League	33	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	35	2
	1994–95	Premier League	33	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	37	3
	1995–96	Premier League	31	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	36	3
	1996–97	Premier League	29	3	7	0	2	0	0	0	38	3
	1997–98	Premier League	24	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	28	1
	Total		177	12	15	1	9	0	0	0	201	13
Queens Park Rangers	1997–98	First Division	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	1
	1998–99	First Division	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	Total		9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	1
Career total			446	36	36	3	27	0	11	2	520	41

International

Vinnie Jones' matches for the Wales national team[43]

Date	Location	Host team	Score	Away team	Competition	Goals scored
14 December 1994	Cardiff	Wales	0–3	Bulgaria	UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying	0
29 March 1995	Sofia	Bulgaria	3–1	Wales	UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying	0
26 April 1995	Düsseldorf	Germany	1–1	Wales	UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying	0
7 June 1995	Cardiff	Wales	0–1	Georgia	UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying	0
24 April 1996	Lugano	Switzerland	1–0	Wales	Friendly	0
9 November 1996	Eindhoven	Netherlands	7–1	Wales	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier	0
14 December 1996	Cardiff	Wales	0–0	Turkey	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier	0
11 February 1997	Cardiff	Wales	0–0	Ireland	Friendly	0
29 March 1997	Cardiff	Wales	1–2	Belgium	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier	0
Total		Appearances	9		Goals	0

Honours

Wealdstone

• Alliance Premier League: 1984–85

IFK Holmsund

• Division 3 Mellersta Norrland: 1986[44]

Wimbledon

• FA Cup: 1987–88

Leeds United

• Football League Second Division: 1989–90

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Big Chris
2000	Gone in 60 Seconds	The Sphinx
	Snatch	Bullet Tooth Tony
2001	Swordfish	Marco
	Night at the Golden Eagle	Rodan
	Mean Machine	Danny Meehan
2004	The Big Bounce	Lou Harris
	Tooth	The Extractor
	EuroTrip	'Mad' Maynard
	Survive Style 5+	Killer
	Blast	Michael Kittredge
2005	Slipstream	Winston Briggs
	Submerged	Henry
	Hollywood Flies	Sean
	Mysterious Island	Bob	TV film
2006	The Number One Girl	Dragos Molnar
	Johnny Was	Johnny Doyle
	She's the Man	Coach Dinklage
	The Other Half	Trainer
	Played	Detective Brice
	X-Men: The Last Stand	Cain Marko / Juggernaut
	Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	Rommel	Voice role
2007	The Condemned	Ewan McStarley
	7–10 Split	Roddy Nightengale
	The Riddle	Mike Sullivan
	Strength and Honour	'Smasher' O'Driscoll
	Tooth & Nail	Mongrel
2008	Hell Ride	Billy 'Wings'
	Loaded	Mr. Black
	The Midnight Meat Train	Mahogany
2009	(Untitled)	Ray Barko
	Year One	Sargon
	Assault of Darkness	Mr. Hunter
	The Heavy	Edgar Dunn
	The Ballad of G.I. Joe	Destro
	The Bleeding	Cain
2010	Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball	Finbar 'The Surgeon' McTeague
	Locked Down	Anton Vargas
	Inversion	Doug
2011	Kill the Irishman	Keith Ritson
	Age of the Dragons	Stubbs
	You May Not Kiss the Bride	Brick
	The Liquidator	Killer
	Blood Out	Zed
	Cross	Gunnar
	Not Another Not Another Movie	Nancy Longbottom
2012	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Freddie 'The Dog'	Voice role
	Hijacked	Joe Ballard
	Freelancers	Sully
	The Diamond Heist	Jack Varga
	Fire with Fire	Boyd
2013	Company of Heroes	Brent Willoughby
	Fractured	Quincy
	Armed Response	Tillinghast
	Escape Plan	Drake
	Extraction	Ivan Rudovsky
	Ambushed	Vincent Camastra
	Blood of Redemption	Campbell
2014	Redirected	Golden Pole
	A Certain Justice	Bennett
	Way of the Wicked	John Eliott
	Beyond Justice	Vincent De La Cruz
	Reaper	Rob
	Gutshot Straight	Carl
	The Calculator	Yust Van Borg
2015	The Enforcer	Renner
	Left to Die	Sarge
	Mercenary: Absolution	The Boss
	Rivers 9	Ray Kaplan
	Checkmate	Lu
	6 Ways to Die	John Doe
	Gridlocked	Ryker
	Bite	John 'Big John'
2016
	Kill Kane	Ray Brookes
	Decommissioned	Michael Price
	The Midnight Man	Pearl
2017	Cross Wars	Gunnar
2019	The Gandhi Murder	Sir Norman Smith
	Madness in the Method	Vinnie
	Cross: Rise of the Villains	Gunnar
2020	Ron Hopper's Misfortune	Ron Hopper	[45]
	I Am Vengeance: Retaliation	Sean Teague
	The Big Ugly	Neelyn	[46]
2021	Rise of the Footsoldier Origins	Bernard O'Mahoney
	The Bezonians	Willard Greb
2022	Death Pursuit	Temple
TBA	Overtown	Cutty	Delayed
	Hypnotized		Completed
	Cross 4	Gunnar	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Sean's Show	Himself	Episode: "Great Socks"
2003	Top Gear	Himself	Series 2, Episode 1, “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” segment
2005	Extras	Himself	Episode: "Ross Kemp & Vinnie Jones"
2010	Chuck	Karl Stromberg	Episode: "Chuck Versus the Three Words"
2011	The Cape	Dominic Raoul / Scales	6 episodes
2013	Elementary	Colonel Sebastian Moran	2 episodes
2014	Psych	Ronnie Ives	Episode: "Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire"
	The Musketeers	Martin Labarge	Episode: "The Challenge"
	Mind Games	Isaac Vincent	2 episodes
2015–2018	Arrow	Danny 'Brick' Brickwell	9 episodes
2015–2016	Galavant	Gareth	All 18 episodes
2016	MacGyver	John Kendrick	The Rising (MacGyver)
2018	Deception	Gunter Gastafsen	All 13 episodes
2019	NCIS Los Angeles	Rick Dorsey	Episode: "A Bloody Brilliant Plan"
2020	Harry's Heroes	Himself	1 episode
2021	Law & Order: Organized Crime	Albi Briscu	8 episodes
TBA	The Gentlemen	Geoff Seacombe	Main cast; Filming

Music videos

• Steve Aoki & LOOPERS - "Pika Pika" (2018)
  • Originally filmed for Steve Aoki & Knife Party - "Piledriver", but the original video was unreleased and the footage was re-edited and reused

Discography

Studio albums

• 2002: Respect

Singles

• "Wooly Bully" (1993)

References

External links

• Vinnie Jones at Soccerway
• Vinnie Jones at IMDb
• Vinnie Jones at National-Football-Teams.com
• Vinnie Jones discography at Discogs

На других языках

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[de] Vinnie Jones

Vincent Peter „Vinnie“ Jones (* 5. Januar 1965 in Watford, England) ist ein britischer ehemaliger Fußballspieler, der noch während seiner aktiven Zeit als Fußballprofi eine Karriere als Schauspieler begann.

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- [en] Vinnie Jones

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[es] Vinnie Jones

Vincent Peter Jones (Watford, Hertfordshire; 5 de enero de 1965), más conocido como Vinnie Jones, es un exfutbolista y actor británico. Durante su etapa como jugador de fútbol desempeñó la posición de centrocampista defensivo y destacó por un estilo de juego agresivo e intimidatorio, en ocasiones muy violento.[1][2][3]

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[fr] Vinnie Jones

Vincent Peter « Vinnie » Jones est un footballeur international gallois et acteur britannique, né le 5 janvier 1965 à Watford (Royaume-Uni). Professionnel entre 1983 et 1999, il est surtout connu pour avoir appartenu au Crazy Gang du Wimbledon FC. Il s'impose alors comme le bad boy le plus médiatique du football anglais des années 1990.

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[it] Vinnie Jones

Vincent Peter "Vinnie" Jones (Watford, 5 gennaio 1965) è un attore ed ex calciatore britannico, di ruolo centrocampista.

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[ru] Джонс, Винни

Ви́нсент Пи́тер (Ви́нни) Джонс (англ. Vincent Peter "Vinnie" Jones; род. 5 января 1965, Уотфорд) — британский актёр , в прошлом — футболист, выступавший на позиции полузащитника.

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