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Vinnie Jones Vincent Peter Jones ( born 5 January 1965 ) is an English-Welsh actor , producer , singer , presenter , and former professional footballer . 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 . 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 ( 2006 ) and has recently completed filming on the new Savvas D . Michael feature film The Bezonians playing the role of Willard Greb . He has also appeared on television , namely as Sebastian Moran in Elementary and Brick in Arrow . Early life . 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 schools football team . Football 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 . 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 clubs victory at Wembley Stadium in the 1985 FA Trophy final . He combined playing football with working as a hod carrier on construction sites . 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 . 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 Wimbledons 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Jones international call-up was however greeted with consternation by some and was even ridiculed by Jimmy Greaves , who said , Well , stone me ! Weve 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! . Playing events . Jones was known for his hard man image on the pitch . 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 . 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 ! 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 . Controversy . He also was the presenter of the infamous Soccers 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 . Jones commented later : The FA have given me a pat on the back . Ive 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 . 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 clubs stadium . He is currently club president of non-league Soham Town Rangers . Acting career . In 1998 , Jones made his film debut in Guy Ritchies crime comedy Lock , Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , in which he played a mob enforcer named Big Chris . He has since been typecast in similar roles as criminals or villains , including the dapper gun-for-hire Bullet-Tooth Tony in Ritchies 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 Travoltas henchmen . Jones played Danny Meehan in Mean Machine , a 2001 British remake of the Burt Reynolds film The Longest Yard ( retitled Mean Machine for its UK release ) . 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 , , 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 ( Im the Juggernaut , bitch! ) was based on a pre-existing Internet parody . The same year , he was featured in another football film , Shes 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 . 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 Cuckoos Nest in there – and I was Jack Nicholson . 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 . 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 . 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 . The two had a son , who currently serves in the Blues and Royals regiment of the British Army . In November 2013 , Jones received treatment after finding signs of skin cancer below his eye . At some point , his wife was also diagnosed with skin cancer , which then spread to her brain by 2018 . Jones was at her bedside when she died on 6 July 2019 . He discussed her death during an appearance on Piers Morgans Life Stories in September 2020 , and said that he does not plan to remarry . In 1998 , Jones penned an autobiography called Vinnie : The Autobiography , which was later revised and reprinted to include information on his first film appearance . During his football career , he resided mainly in Dronfield , Derbyshire . He splits his time between Los Angeles and Petworth , West Sussex . 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 . He has been a fan of Tottenham Hotspur FC since childhood . Criminal charges . Jones was convicted in June 1998 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage against a neighbour in November 1997 . 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 and ordered to perform 80 hours of community service . As a result of the conviction Hertfordshire police revoked Jones firearms licence and seized the weapons listed on the licence . Honours . Club . Wealdstone - Alliance Premier League : 1984–85 IFK Holmsund - Division 3 Mellersta Norrland : 1986 Wimbledon - FA Cup : 1987–88 Leeds United - Football League Second Division : 1989–90 Filmography . 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 . Albums . - 2002 : Respect Singles . - Wooly Bully ( 1993 ) External links . - Vinnie Jones appearance on This Is Your Life