Gordon Warnecke
Known for ActingBorn 1962-08-24London, England
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Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is an English actor of Indo-Guyanese and German descent.
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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.
Television credits include: Boon, Doctor Who (in the serial Mindwarp), Only Fools and Horses, Virtual Murder, Birds of a Feather, EastEnders and The Bill.
An experienced theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, and most recently returned to the stage with a national tour of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People for Tara Arts, and two new contemporary adaptations of Christmas productions at Trinity Theatre in Kent. He is currently filming the Welsh TV series The Cockle Farmer.
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Known for
Scoop
2024 · as Man in Toilet
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 · as Omar Ali
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986 · as Tuza
London Kills Me
1991 · as Mr G.'s Assistant
The Hospice
1987 · as Vincent
PINK
Venus
2017 · as Papaji
Young Toscanini
1988
A Fatal Inversion
1992 · as Shiva
My Beautiful Laundrette
2020 · as Papa / Zaki
A Nice Arrangement
1994 · as Trendy Youth
London Unplugged
2018 · as Da'nish's Dad
Goldfish
2022 · as Bobby Persaud
The Pleasure Principle
1992 · as Policeman
Egg Timer
2025 · as Uncle Graham
Rest Your Head