Vinnie Jones was born in Watford, England on January 5th 1965. He first came to public notice as a professional footballer, playing in the English Football League. Noted as one of soccer's hard men, he leapt to fame when a photographer at a match snapped him "marking" Newcastle United's Paul Gascoigne by grabbing his testicles. Vinnie played 384 league games and scored 33 goals in his soccer career, most of them with Wimbledon. He made his first acting appearance in the British comedy/thriller Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) at the age of 33, although he had previous presented a video on football's hard men (for which he was censured by the Football Association.) Vinnie recently made the top 10 of the UK soccer premiership’s sexiest players in Sky One’s recent poll, and his most recent film appearance was in X Men 3 as Juggernaut.