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Biography #2 (for The Transporter 2)

Jason Flemyng starred as 'Crazy Larry in Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut Layer Cake, starring Daniel Craig. Layer Cake was a working reunion for Flemyng and Vaughn, who respectively acted in and produced Guy Ritchie's directorial debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, co-starring Jason Statham. Flemyng's portrayal of the hapless 'Tom' in that film earned him international recognition and critical praise. He also worked with Ritchie, Vaughn and Statham on Snatch.

Flemyng co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, The Hughes Brothers' From Hell, and Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. Other feature film credits include Rock Star, Below, The Red Violin, Deep Rising, The Hollow Reed and Alive and Kicking.

Flemyng's television work includes roles in Alice in Wonderland, the BBC production A Question of Attribution directed by John Schlesinger, and For the Greater Good directed by Danny Boyle. Flemyng stars as 'Jim Corbett' in the BBC's The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, which tells the true story of Corbett's hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of colonial India in 1925.

Flemyng's theatre credits include several Royal Shakespeare Company (Barbican) productions, including Coriolanus, As You Like It, Moscow Gold, Barbarians, and All's Well That End's Well.

Bio courtesy Fox for "The Transporter 2" (04-Sep-2005)


Biography #3 (for The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

Jason Flemyng costarred last year as Jack the Ripper's cowed henchman in the acclaimed Hughes' brothers film From Hell with Johnny Depp and Heather Graham. He recently co-starred in Neil Jordan's The Good Thief starring Nick Nolte and Ralph Fiennes. After rising to prominence for his supporting roles in Guy Ritchie's hit crime capers Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, Flemyng starred in Lighthouse Hill and Anazapta and costarred in The Mean Machine and The Bunker. His other films include George Romero's Bruiser, The Red Violin, Deep Rising, Stealing Beauty, Rob Roy and Jungle Book. His next film project is The Return of James Battie.

Flemyng won the Best Actor Award at the Geneva Film Festival for his role in 1996's Alive and Kicking. He has appeared in several British television productions, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Double, Beck and ABC's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, directed by Simon Wincer. On stage, he has appeared with the RSC Barbican in Coriolanus, As You Like It and Moscow Gold.

Flemyng was raised in Putney, in southwest London, by a father who was a television director and a mother who was a social worker. He attended Richmond College, and then the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts before being accepted into the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in several productions at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Bio courtesy Fox for "The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (20-Jul-2003)