Age: 69
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Raymond Andrew Winstone (born February 19, 1957) is an English television, stage, film, and voice-over actor with a career spanning five decades. Having worked with many prominent directors, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, he is perhaps best known for his "tough guy" roles (usually delivered in his distinctive London accent), beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum, and Will Scarlet in the cult TV adventure series Robin of Sherwood. His film résumé includes Fool's Gold, Cold Mountain, King Arthur, The Proposition, The Departed, Beowulf, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Edge of Darkness. He is known for starring in very profane and violent films such as Nil By Mouth, Sexy Beast and 44 Inch Chest. He has also branched out into film production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ray Winstone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In Tuscany, 1944, as bombs fall and Allied forces advance, young English soldier Ulysses Temper meets Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian salvaging beauty from the ruins of war. Their brief but profound encounter sparks a connection that shapes Ulysses’s life for decades. Back in postwar London, surrounded by the eccentric regulars of The Stoat and Parrot pub, Ulysses carries the memory of Italy with him—until an unexpected inheritance calls him back to the Tuscan hills. Still Life is a tender, humorous, and sweeping novel about love, art, and the families we create, celebrating beauty in even the darkest times.
