Vinnie Jones Biography

Fast Facts

• Played professional soccer from 1986-1999 for several English Football League teams, including Wimbledon, Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers
• Made his film debut in 1998 as a villainous debt collector in Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Wrote Vinnie: The Autobiography—Confessions of a Bad Boy? in 1999 and Vinnie: My Life in 2001
• Released a blues album titled Respect in 2002
• Elected president of the Hertfordshire Agricultural Society in 2005
• Came in third place on the seventh season of Britain's Celebrity Big Brother in 2010
• Actively supports the British Heart Foundation, which works toward preventing people from dying prematurely from heart disease