Jason Flemyng

Biography: Jason Flemyng

An actor who is equally adept at donning wigs and machine guns for period dramas and modern gangster films alike, Jason Flemyng is one of Britain's more versatile, unpredictable, and underrated performers. Born in London on September 25, 1966, Flemyng made his stage debut at the age of ten as the Tin Man in a school production of The Wizard of Oz. After studying drama at the National Youth Theatre and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, he was accepted into the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he stayed for three years. Flemyng broke into film and television in 1992, appearing in a number of made-for-TV movies and in John Schlesinger's Question of Attribution, an adaptation of Alan Bennett's play about the 1950s Burgess-Maclean-Philby spy scandal. Supporting roles and a lead in Indian Summer (1996), which cast him as a dancer with AIDS, followed, and in 1996, the actor garnered a measure of international recognition for his work in two films. One, Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, saw him sharing a scene with Liv Tyler, while the searing family drama Hollow Reed featured Flemyng as a white-collared child abuser who beats his girlfriend's young son. After a turn as an 18th-century composer in François Girard's The Red Violin (1998), Flemyng starred in perhaps his most internationally successful film to date, Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). An incredibly stylish crime comedy set in London's rough East End, the film -- which starred Flemyng as one of a group of friends trying to pull off a heist -- was a surprise hit in both the U.K. and overseas, which resulted in widespread attention for its director and cast. Flemyng re-teamed with Ritchie in 2000 for Snatch, another heist picture. That same year, he also had a number of other projects lined up, including Bruiser, a thriller about a put-upon magazine grunt who strikes back at everyone who has wronged him, and The Body, a religious drama in which he appeared alongside Antonio Banderas and Derek Jacobi. Gaining increasing exposure in such films as Rock Star and From Hell (both 2001), Flemyng would soon re-team with Snatch co-star Vinnie Jones in the The Longest Yard remake Mean Machine (2001) before taking the lead in the comedy Lighthouse Hill (2002) and gearing up to go schizophrenic as the malevolent Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde in the eagerly anticipated comic book adaptation The League of Extrodinary Gentlemen (2003). ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide less

Find videos of Jason FlemyngFree Jason Flemyng videos

Movies (18)
Web Video Search

Shifty (2008)
Cast: Francesca Annis Jason Flemyng Eran Creevy Daniel Mays Rizwan Ahmed
Tags: Crime Drama Drama Urban Drama
Length: 86min
Inspired by writer/director Eran Creevy's own teenage experiences, Shifty tells the tale of a man who returns to his old neighborhood on the outskirts of London, ostensibly to attend a party but more specifically to check up on an old friend. It's...
Find Videos

Telling Lies (2006)
Cast: Jason Flemyng Antara Bhardwaj Melanie Brown Jenna Harrison Kelly Stables
Tags: Psychological Drama Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 81min
Two female friends invent a stranger named "Vincent" in order to win back one of the girl's ex-boyfriends, only to find their ploy for jealousy entangled with a plot for murder after one of them is accused of actual homicide. When Faith and Eve...
Find Videos

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Cast: Brad Pitt David Fincher Cate Blanchett Julia Ormond Frank Marshall
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 167min
David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just...
Find Videos

A Woman in Winter (2005)
Cast: Susan Lynch Brian Cox Jason Flemyng Richard Jobson Julie Gayet
Tags: Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 100min
A man with a belief in travel between different realities encounters a woman who seems to be the living embodiment of his theories in this drama. Michael Seraph (Jamie Sives) is an astronomer and author who has a passionate interest in what he calls...
Find Videos

The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (2006)
Cast: George Clooney Steven Soderbergh Peter Berg Paddy Considine Radha Mitchell
Tags: Thriller Political Drama Crime Thriller
Length: 107min
First-time writer/director Scott Burns spins this suspenseful yarn about a nuclear technician who has a curious encounter with a notoriously violent Russian gangster (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). The year is 1995, and Timofey (Paddy Considine) is a nuclear...
Find Videos

Lighthouse Hill (2002)
Cast: Frank Finlay Jason Flemyng David Fairman Maureen Lipman John Sessions
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 94min
Devastated by the recent death of his best friend, a successful London publisher travels to the countryside determined to find true meaning in his life. Charlie (Jason Flemyng) is a thirty-something publisher with a high-paying job and a beautiful...
Find Videos

Aaltra (2004)
Cast: Aki Kaurismäki Jason Flemyng Benoit Delepine Gustave Kervern Benoît Poelvoorde
Tags: Drama
Length: 92min
Two irascible farmers find their bitter rivalry taking on epic tones in this pitch black comedy starring, written, and directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern. They may spend their days toiling the land, but these two tillers of the soil are...
Find Videos

The Bunker (2001)
Cast: Jason Flemyng Rob Green Charley Boorman Christopher Fairbank Jack Davenport
Tags: Horror War Psychological Thriller
Length: 91min
Rob Green makes his feature debut with this moody horror flick about war, paranoia, and unspeakable evil. As the Allies close in around the Nazis, pounding them with relentless air strikes, a band of Germans takes refuge from the onslaught in a...
Find Videos

The Body (2001)
Cast: Derek Jacobi Antonio Banderas John Wood Olivia Williams Vilmos Zsigmond
Tags: Drama Religious Drama
Length: 109min
In this religious drama concerning the struggle between science and faith, Olivia Williams plays Sharon Golban, an Israeli archeologist who discovers a skeleton within a tomb in Jerusalem. After an intensive study and the accumulation of more...
Find Videos

Rock Star (2001)
Cast: George Clooney Mark Wahlberg Timothy Spall Jennifer Aniston Stephen Herek
Tags: Drama Musical Drama
Length: 106min
Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor-turned-writer/director John Stockwell. Mark Wahlberg stars as Chris Cole, a wannabe rock star...
Find Videos

Jason Flemyng

Biography: Jason Flemyng

Searching for videos...

Related Clips

Share This Page

Video Search