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Gordon Warnecke

Gordon Warnecke

Born: 1962-08-24 • London, England

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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
Egg Timer poster
Egg Timer
2025 • Uncle Graham
Scoop poster
Scoop
2024 • Man in Toilet
Goldfish poster
Goldfish
2022 • Bobby Persaud
My Beautiful Laundrette poster
My Beautiful Laundrette
2020 • Papa / Zaki
London Unplugged poster
London Unplugged
2018 • Da'nish's Dad
Venus poster
Venus
2017 • Papaji
A Nice Arrangement poster
A Nice Arrangement
1994 • Trendy Youth
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A Fatal Inversion
1992 • Shiva
The Pleasure Principle poster
The Pleasure Principle
1992 • Policeman
London Kills Me poster
London Kills Me
1991 • Mr G.'s Assistant
Young Toscanini poster
Young Toscanini
1988
The Hospice poster
The Hospice
1987 • Vincent
Doctor Who: Mindwarp poster
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
1986 • Tuza
My Beautiful Laundrette poster
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 • Omar Ali
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PINK
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Rest Your Head