Jason Statham

Jason Statham (born July 26, 1967) is an English martial artist and an actor producer former diver. He is known for his roles in the films of Guy Ritchie crime Revolver Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He has also appeared in such films as The Death Race Crank Transporter The Italian Job The Bank war work and the Expendables movie series. Usually performed his own stunts and stage combat and is characterized by being typecast as an antihero.race 

While working as a model for French Connection was presented to British director Guy Ritchie budding was developing a film project and had to play the role of a rogue fraudster. After learning about the past of Statham as a black market dealer Ritchie cast him to play the role of "Bacon in 1998 the lock file and Two Smoking Barrels. The film was well received by critics and audiences, and helped catapult Statham into the public eye. Statham's second collaboration with Ritchie came in the 2000 film Snatch playing the role of 'Turkish.' cast alongside popular actors Brad Pitt Dennis Farina and Benicio del Toro, and with the movie earning more than $ 80 million in box office receipts Statham was able to break into Hollywood and appeared in two movies in 2001: Ghosts of Mars and the One. 

Statham was offered more film roles and in 2002 was chosen as the lead role of driver Frank Martin in the action movie The Transporter where he was responsible for his own stunts (Statham has made ​​this choice for all your movies) . He has studied Wing Chun kung fu karate and kickboxing. The film spawned two Transporter 2 (2005) and Transporter 3 (2008) sequels .He also played supporting roles in Mean Machine (2002) The Italian Job (2003) (in which he played Handsome Rob), and Cellular (2004) which played the main villain. In 2005, Statham was once again cast by Ritchie to star in his new project Revolver which was a critical and box office failure. He played a dramatic role in the independent film London in 2006 the same year he played the lead role as Chev Chelios in Crank action film that spawned the sequel Crank: High Voltage (2009).

In 2008, Statham starred in the British thriller The Bank Job and Death Race remake of Death Race 2000 (1975). American film critic Armond White hailed Statham's ascension as the leading international action film star. On the occasion of Death Race White defended 'best track record of any contemporary movie star.' Statham Later in 2008 White praised Statham's Transporter 3 as a great example of kinetic pop art. 

In 2009, Statham started to develop a new written by David Peoples and Janet Peoples (12 Monkeys) film. Statham stated "We've got a movie we're trying to make written by David Peoples and Janet Peoples in the vein of an old film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It's not a remake or anything, but it's a bit like that about relationships and how greed contaminates the relationships these three people have. The working title is The Grabbers. '

In 2010, Statham appeared alongside fellow action stars Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li and Mickey Rourke, among others in The Expendables. Statham plays Lee Christmas former SAS soldier and expert at close quarters combat using knives. In 2011, Statham starred in the remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson film The Mechanic and returned to British film in the police drama Blitz. 

He also starred in the action film Killer Elite. The film is based on real events that were the subject of the fiction novel Sir Ranulph Fiennes' The Feather Men. Statham played a murderer named Danny who comes out of retirement to save an old friend who was played by Robert De Niro. In August 2011 he began filming Parker for director Taylor Hackford; the film was released in January 2013 Statham criminal antihero previously played Parker played by Mel Gibson in Payback 1999 and Lee Marvin in Point Blank, 1967 (though their characters were given different names). 

His 2012 releases were The Expendables 2 wherein reprized his role as Lee Christmas and safe. Statham had a cameo in Fast & Furious 6 (2013) and Ian Shaw brother antagonist of the film Owen Shaw (Luke Evans. He will play the main antagonist in Fast and Furious 7 which will be released in April 2015 In 2013 he starred in the thriller film and British Homefront Humingbird. in 2014 he will return as Lee Christmas in the Expendables 3. 

Statham has advocated acrobats to be given its own category at the Oscars.