Biography
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Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is an English actor of Indo-Guyanese and German descent.
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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Filmography
Cast Credits
Egg Timer
Character: Uncle Graham
MOVIE • 2025
Scoop
Character: Man in Toilet
MOVIE • 2024
Goldfish
Character: Bobby Persaud
MOVIE • 2022
My Beautiful Laundrette
Character: Papa / Zaki
MOVIE • 2020
London Unplugged
Character: Da'nish's Dad
MOVIE • 2018
Venus
Character: Papaji
MOVIE • 2017
A Nice Arrangement
Character: Trendy Youth
MOVIE • 1994
Virtual Murder
Character:
TV • 1992
A Fatal Inversion
Character: Shiva
MOVIE • 1992
The Pleasure Principle
Character: Policeman
MOVIE • 1992
Love Hurts
Character:
TV • 1992
London Kills Me
Character: Mr G.'s Assistant
MOVIE • 1991
Birds of a Feather
Character: Ranjith
TV • 1989
Young Toscanini
Character:
MOVIE • 1988
The Hospice
Character: Vincent
MOVIE • 1987
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Character: Tuza
MOVIE • 1986
Boon
Character:
TV • 1986
My Beautiful Laundrette
Character: Omar Ali
MOVIE • 1985
EastEnders
Character: Jabber Ahmed
TV • 1985
The Bill
Character:
TV • 1984