Jason Statham
☼ Born on26 janeiro 1967, in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
Biography:
Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge singer. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman and finally of course, actor. He received the audition for his debut role as Bacon in Um Mal Nunca Vem Só (1998) through French Connection, for whom he was modeling. They became a major investor in the film and introduced Jason to Guy Ritchie, who invited him to audition for a part in the film by challenging him to impersonate an illegal street vendor and convince him to purchase fake jewelry. Jason must have been doing something right because after the success of Um Mal Nunca Vem Só (1998) he t
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eamed up again with Guy Ritchie for Snatch - Porcos E Diamantes (2000), with co-stars including Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina and Benicio Del Toro. After Snatch - Porcos E Diamantes (2000) came Turn It Up (2000) with US music star Ja Rule, followed by a supporting actor role in the sci-fi film Fantasmas de Marte, de John Carpenter (2001), Jet Li's Força Explosiva (2001) and another screen partnership with Vinnie Jones in A Máquina (2001) under Guy Ritchie's and Matthew Vaughn's SKA Films. Finally in 2002 he was cast as the lead role of Frank Martin in Correio de Risco (2002). Jason was also in the summer 2003 blockbuster remake of Um Golpe em Itália (1969), Um Golpe em Itália (2003), playing Handsome Rob.
Throughout the 2000s, Statham became a star of juicy action B-films, most significantly Crank - Veneno no Sangue (2006) and Crank 2: Alta Voltagem (2009), and also Guerra (2007), opposite Jet Li, and O Golpe de Baker Street (2008) and Corrida Mortal (2008), among others. In the 2010s, his reputation for cheeky and tough leading performances led to his casting as Lee Christmas in Os Mercenários (2010) and its sequels, the comedy Spy (2015), and as (apparently) reformed villain Deckard Shaw in Velocidade Furiosa 6 (2013), Velocidade Furiosa 7 (2015), Velocidade Furiosa 8 (2017), and Velocidade Furiosa: Hobbs & Shaw (2019). Apart from these blockbusters, he continued headlining B-films such as Homefront: A Última Defesa (2013).
In 2017, he had his first child, a son with his partner, model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
In the role of actor
Missão Refúgio (09/03/2026)
Eu passei um bom tempo do filme Missão Refúgio revoltado com Jason Statham. Como pode, um dos mais notórios carecas do cinema, aceitar fazer um filme inteiro de touca? Como ficamos nós, os calvos, vendo nosso ídolo escondendo o topo de sua cabeça como se fosse uma demonstração de vergonha. Ele está na Escócia, o […]