ACTOR · BORN 1967
Jason Statham
- Born
- 26 July 1967, Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Known for
- Furious 7 (2015), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Snatch (2000)
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26 Interesting Facts About Jason Statham
- #001
Jason Statham spent 12 years on the British national diving team, competing on the 10-metre platform and 3-metre springboard. In 1992 he ranked 12th in the world as a platform diver.
- #002
Jason Statham is well trained in mixed martial arts and is proficient in kickboxing and jujitsu.
- #006
Statham performed almost all of his own stunts in The Transporter (2002), including car chase scenes, scuba diving scenes and fight scenes.
- #012
He enjoys wakeboarding, jet skiing, windsurfing and rock climbing.
- #014
Before The Transporter (2002), he already had a background in martial arts that allowed him to perform his own fight scenes.
- #016
He has trained in karate, Wushu, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and kickboxing.
- #019
He cites Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Lee, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood as his inspirations.
- #021
He became a father for the second time at 54 when his fiancée Rosie Huntington-Whiteley gave birth to their daughter Isabella James Statham on 2 February 2022.
- #025
His entry into the entertainment business came when an agent put him in an advertisement for the French Connection clothing company.
- #026
He is friends with actor Vinnie Jones and has worked with him three times: first on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), then Snatch (2000) and finally Mean Machine (2001).
- #027
He paid $10,625,000 to buy a 3,355-square-foot oceanfront house in the Malibu Colony in Malibu, California. In addition, since mid-2005 he has owned a 2,281-square-foot house in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, which he bought for $2.4 million.
- #029
He has played six different characters in recurring roles: Frank Martin (The Transporter), Chev Chelios (Crank), Deckard Shaw (The Fast and the Furious series), Arthur Bishop (The Mechanic), Lee Christmas (The Expendables) and Rick Ford (Spy).
- #032
In the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series, the Vulture's version of the villain in that series was designed by artist Mark Bagley to resemble Statham, on the instructions of writer Brian Michael Bendis.
- #034
He is a staunch supporter of Nottingham Forest Football Club.
- #035
Jason Statham was considered for the role of Deadshot in Suicide Squad (2016).
- #038
Jason Statham worked with Chris Evans and Jessica Biel twice, first on Cellular (2004) and then on London (2005).
- #040
Jason Statham appears briefly, for a little over a minute and a half, in the music video for the British group The Beautiful South's "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
- #041
Jason Statham was in a relationship with Kelly Brook from 1997 to 2004.
- #042
Jason Statham was initially set to play Private Cooper in Dog Soldiers (2002), but left to take a role in Ghosts of Mars (2001).
- #045
Jason Statham appeared in two films with Ray Liotta, Revolver (2005) and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007); in both he played the main character and Liotta played the antagonist.
- #048
According to a BBC News report, Jason Statham's film career from 2002 to 2017 generated an estimated 1.5 billion US dollars (1.1 billion pounds) in ticket sales, making him one of the film industry's most reliable stars.
- #050
Jason Statham appeared in two different films in a scene where his character talks to himself in an elevator in what appears to be a hallucination: once in Revolver (2005) and once in Crank (2006).
- #052
Jason Statham starred in three different films in which his character is attacked with an axe: The Transporter (2002), Transporter 2 (2005) and War (2007).
- #054
Jason Statham appeared in two films that feature The Stooges' song "I Wanna Be Your Dog": Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Transporter 3 (2008).
- #056
An article by Times Higher Education reported that Manchester University Press commissioned an academic study analysing Jason Statham's impact on the British and American film industries from his 1998 debut to 2018. According to the article, professors Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail intend to show "the changing face of British cinematic masculinity" as "one that embraces cinema across a wide range of projects, but one that also uses cross-textual media in his output".
- #058
In February 2017, during Super Bowl LI, Jason Statham appeared alongside Gal Gadot in a 30-second Super Bowl commercial for Wix.com. CNET reported that the ad reached 22 million user views.
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