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Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor, presenter, and former professional footballer. Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder from 1984 to 1999, notably for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chelsea, and Queens Park Rangers. He also played for and captained the Welsh national team, having qualified through a Welsh grandparent. Best remembered for his time at Wimbledon as a pivotal member of the famous "Crazy Gang", he won the 1988 FA Cup final with the London side, a club for which he played over 200 games during two spells between 1986 and 1998. He played 184 games in the Premier League, in which he scored 13 goals. Jones gained a reputation for being one of the hardest footballers in history, with his highly aggressive and physically uncompromising style of play, an image which has often led to him being typecast in his film career as violent criminals and thugs. As an actor, his film and television career began with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), for which he won an Empire Award for Best Newcomer. Then, for Snatch (2000), he won the Empire Award for Best British Actor. Other notable credits include Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Mean Machine (2001), EuroTrip (2004), Extras (2005), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), The Riddle (2007), The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Year One (2009), The Cape (2011), Fire with Fire (2012), The Musketeers (2014), MacGyver (2016), NCIS: Los Angeles (2019), The Big Ugly (2020) and The Gentlemen (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Vinnie Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Brian Braddock grew up as the middle child of a wealthy English family. When he was away at college he was informed that his parents had been killed by his father’s invention, the mastermind computer. Years later when he was working at the Darkmoor Research Centre, the assassin known as The Reaver and his men raided the facility and killed or kidnapped everybody there, Brian being the only to escape on his motorcycle. As Brian is making his escape he is tan off the road and begins to bleed to death but was saved when an old man and his daughter appeared before him, resurrecting him and bestowing upon him the power of Captain Britain, giving him the choice of the Amulet of Right or the Sword of Might, Brian chooses the Amulet, not seeing himself as a warrior. Brian then learns that the man was the wizard Merlyn, and his daughter Roma. Brian then goes on to become England’s hero Captain Britain, being adored by the people.
